Description
Carley Garner's A Trader’s First Book on Commodities, Second Edition is today's most practical and realistic introduction to profitable commodities trading. More than any other primer, it recognizes that the most important trading decisions are made long before the first trade is executed. Drawing on years of dealing with retail traders from all walks of life, experience levels, and amounts of risk capital, Garner answers the most pressing questions newcomers ask -- and the questions they haven't realized they need to ask.
This extensively updated Second Edition reflects major changes in the market over the past three years, including new trading challenges, platforms, tools, data resources, and risks. Garner presents a hard-eyed look at the collapses of MF Global and PFGBEST, their failure to honor the sanctity of “Customer Segregated Funds” accounts, the implications for investors, and techniques for mitigating these new risks. She has added new charts and example trades throughout, as well as new coverage of:
- Commodity impacts arising from recent events in Europe
- Technological improvements and new competitive intraday position margin standards that provide greater market access to retail traders
- Higher-quality, lower-cost tools
- Important information on the continuing slow death of open outcry trading, and more
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Boom and Bust Cycles of Commodities...and Now Brokerage Firms 1
Chapter 1: A Crash Course in Commodities 19
Chapter 2: Hedging Versus Speculating 43
Chapter 3: The Organized Chaos of Open Outcry and the Advent of Electronic Trading 51
Chapter 4: Account Access, Trading Platforms, and Quote Vendors 59
Chapter 5: Choosing a Brokerage Firm 77
Chapter 6: Finding a Broker That Fits and Choosing a Service Level 99
Chapter 7: Order Types and How to Use Them 113
Chapter 8: Making Cents of Commodity Quotes 131
Chapter 9: Figuring in Financial Futures—Stock Indices, Interest Rates, and Currencies 157
Chapter 10: Coping with Margin Calls 193
Chapter 11: The Only Magic in Trading—Emotional Stability 201
Chapter 12: Trading Is a Business—Have a Plan 211
Chapter 13: Why You Should Speculate in Futures 229
Chapter 14: Futures Slang and Terminology 239
Index 259
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Trader's First Book on Commodities, A: An Introduction to the World's Fastest Growing Market, CourseSmart eTextbook, 2nd Edition
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$19.99 | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-324895-1
