Market Timing For Dummies
1st Edition
Published on 12. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-0-470-38975-1 (ISBN)
Description
The tools and techniques you need for market-timing success
Want to apply timing methods to your overall investment strategy and send your returns soaring? This completely practical guide is packed with expert advice on increasing your profits and limiting your risk. It takes the guesswork out of market timing and provides tools you can use to forecast, prepare for, and take advantage of market changes.
* Understand how Wall Street really works - grasp the psychology behind market timing and the basics of the method
* Recognize the tools of the timer - analyze your finances, use the right software and equipment, and define your market and trading style
* Anticipate and prepare - use technical analysis to identify trends and reversals, catch key turning points, and limit risk
* Time the stock market with the seasons - track general market trends and the impact of holidays
* Time with feeling - use the pulse of the market to know when a particular trend is vulnerable to change
* Execute a successful timing trade - seize the moment, choose a strategy, execute the trade, and review the results
* Expand your horizons - apply your timing strategy to stock, bond, foreign, and commodities markets
Open the book and find:
* Tips on timing strategies and choosing a market
* Technical analysis how-to's for market timing
* Advice on using economic reports to anticipate market trends
* Proven techniques for rising, falling, and sideways trends
* Strategies for successful timing trades
* Guidelines on timing sector investments
* Secrets of timing interest-rate-sensitive sectors
* Rules for staying solvent in difficult times
Want to apply timing methods to your overall investment strategy and send your returns soaring? This completely practical guide is packed with expert advice on increasing your profits and limiting your risk. It takes the guesswork out of market timing and provides tools you can use to forecast, prepare for, and take advantage of market changes.
* Understand how Wall Street really works - grasp the psychology behind market timing and the basics of the method
* Recognize the tools of the timer - analyze your finances, use the right software and equipment, and define your market and trading style
* Anticipate and prepare - use technical analysis to identify trends and reversals, catch key turning points, and limit risk
* Time the stock market with the seasons - track general market trends and the impact of holidays
* Time with feeling - use the pulse of the market to know when a particular trend is vulnerable to change
* Execute a successful timing trade - seize the moment, choose a strategy, execute the trade, and review the results
* Expand your horizons - apply your timing strategy to stock, bond, foreign, and commodities markets
Open the book and find:
* Tips on timing strategies and choosing a market
* Technical analysis how-to's for market timing
* Advice on using economic reports to anticipate market trends
* Proven techniques for rising, falling, and sideways trends
* Strategies for successful timing trades
* Guidelines on timing sector investments
* Secrets of timing interest-rate-sensitive sectors
* Rules for staying solvent in difficult times
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Joe Duarte, MD, (www.joe-duarte.com), is a leading independent analyst focusing on intelligence, energy, and geopolitics and their effect on the financial markets. One of CNBC's original "Market Mavens," Dr. Duarte has been writing about the financial markets since 1990.
Content
Introduction.
Part I: Stepping into the World of Market Timing.
Chapter 1: Becoming a Market Timer.
Chapter 2: Peering Inside the Mind of a Market Timer.
Chapter 3: Preparing Yourself and Your Finances for Timing.
Chapter 4: Charting Your Course: The Market Timer's Edge.
Part II: Market Timing's Methods and Strategies.
Chapter 5: Timing with the Reports That Move the Markets.
Chapter 6: The Seasons and Cycles That Infl uence the Markets.
Chapter 7: Digging In to Trends, Momentum, and Results.
Chapter 8: Timing with Feeling: Making Market Sentiment Work for You.
Part III: Applying Timing to the Markets.
Chapter 9: Timing in the Real World: Examining a Sample Trade.
Chapter 10: Timing the Stock Market.
Chapter 11: Timing the Bond Market.
Chapter 12: Timing Foreign Markets.
Chapter 13: Timing the Metals, Heavy or Not.
Chapter 14: Timing Commodities: Making Money Down on the Farm.
Chapter 15: Timing Currencies and Related Markets.
Part IV: Timing the Sectors.
Chapter 16: The Timer's Dream: Sector Investing.
Chapter 17: Timing Financial Service Stocks.
Chapter 18: Timing the Technologies.
Chapter 19: Timing the Energy Sector.
Chapter 20: Timing the Health Care Sector.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 21: Ten Game Savers to Know and Trust.
Chapter 22: Ten-Plus Awesome Resources.
Index.
Part I: Stepping into the World of Market Timing.
Chapter 1: Becoming a Market Timer.
Chapter 2: Peering Inside the Mind of a Market Timer.
Chapter 3: Preparing Yourself and Your Finances for Timing.
Chapter 4: Charting Your Course: The Market Timer's Edge.
Part II: Market Timing's Methods and Strategies.
Chapter 5: Timing with the Reports That Move the Markets.
Chapter 6: The Seasons and Cycles That Infl uence the Markets.
Chapter 7: Digging In to Trends, Momentum, and Results.
Chapter 8: Timing with Feeling: Making Market Sentiment Work for You.
Part III: Applying Timing to the Markets.
Chapter 9: Timing in the Real World: Examining a Sample Trade.
Chapter 10: Timing the Stock Market.
Chapter 11: Timing the Bond Market.
Chapter 12: Timing Foreign Markets.
Chapter 13: Timing the Metals, Heavy or Not.
Chapter 14: Timing Commodities: Making Money Down on the Farm.
Chapter 15: Timing Currencies and Related Markets.
Part IV: Timing the Sectors.
Chapter 16: The Timer's Dream: Sector Investing.
Chapter 17: Timing Financial Service Stocks.
Chapter 18: Timing the Technologies.
Chapter 19: Timing the Energy Sector.
Chapter 20: Timing the Health Care Sector.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 21: Ten Game Savers to Know and Trust.
Chapter 22: Ten-Plus Awesome Resources.
Index.