Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits

Despite reports of its demise, short-term trading­­ or swing trading ­­continues to be practiced by millions of investors. Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits explains how to learn the ropes­­and lay the necessary foundation­­to become a successful short-term trader. Sidestepping the costly trial-and-error learning process that has forced many traders to leave the arena prematurely, before they truly understood the rules, this timely book provides specific, practical guidelines and strategies for integrating short-term trading into an overall portfolio and financial plan.

Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits acts as a solid bridge between the volatile world of day trading and the more traditional world of the long-term, buy-and-hold investor. Providing every tool the short-term trader needs­­from specific strategies for momentum trading and short selling to fundamentals of economic and market environment­­it is the first book to effectively, honestly shorten the time frame for learning to be an effective short-term trader.

Contents

• Ackowledgments
• Introduction

• Classic investment theory
• Trading basics
• The what and when of technical analysis
• Fundamental analysis

• Strategies : the overnight trading system
• A smorgasbord of trading strategies
• Level II day trade
• Learning to think like a trader
• Financial planning
• Apendixes
• Index