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  • Copyright 2013
  • Edition: 1st
  • eBook (Watermarked)
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-344406-6
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-344406-3

A brand new collection of high-profit commodity trading techniques and insights

All the knowledge you need to start earning consistent profits in commodities trading!

You can make huge profits by trading commodities – if you know how. You must know how these markets work, how they’re different, where the risks are hidden, and how to avoid the mistakes too many beginners make. You need realistic, up-to-the-minute strategies, skills, and knowledge from experts who trade commodities every single day. This unique 2 book package delivers all that. In A Trader’s First Book on Commodities: An Introduction to the World’s Fastest Growing Market, Second Edition, Carley Garner offers specific and current guidance on accessing commodity markets cost-effectively, and systematically improving your odds of successful, profitable trades. Garner covers new trading platforms, contracts, fees, and strategies, and offers a clear-eyed look at today’s realities, including the scandalous failures of MF Global and PFG Best. Drawing on extensive experience teaching traders, Garner shows how to calculate profit, loss, and risk in commodities; and choose the best brokerage firm, service level, data sources, and more. She demystifies the industry’s colorful language, helps you clearly understand every trade you make, walks you through the entire process, and illuminates everything from logistics to psychology. Next, in Trading Commodities and Financial Futures, A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Markets, Fourth Edition, George Kleinman introduces powerful new trend-based techniques for identifying trades that fit right into your “sweet spot” for profits. You’ll learn how these markets have changed—and how to successfully use discipline to avoid today’s “shark-infested waters.” Building on 30+ years of success, Kleinman offers updated coverage of electronic trading, new contracts, and advanced techniques, including his exclusive Pivot Indicator approach. You’ll learn how to develop the deep discipline that characterizes all winning commodities and futures traders, as you gain critical knowledge about each leading market, including agricultural commodities, energy, metals, soft commodities, and financials. Kleinman helps you master today’s most valuable technical analysis tools for trading commodities, and even reveals 25 indispensable trading secrets of the pros.

From world-renowned commodities trading experts George Kleinman and Carley Garner

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Table of Contents

Trading Commodities and Financial Futures: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Markets, 4/e

Introduction    1

Chapter 1: The Four Essentials    5

Chapter 2: How to Become a Successful Trader    11

Chapter 3: A Diabolical Story    17

Chapter 4: The Futures Primer    21

Chapter 5: The Options Course    45

Chapter 6: The Intermediate Trading Course (Or Just Enough to Be Dangerous!)    75

Chapter 7: Algorithms Eliminating People    115

Chapter 8: The Advanced Trading Course    127

Chapter 9: The Moving Averages Primer    193

Chapter 10: GK’s Pivot Indicator    205

Chapter 11: And Finally    219

Appendix: 25 Trading Secrets of the Pros   229

Index    241

A Trader's First Book on Commodities: An Introduction to the World's Fastest Growing Market, 2/e

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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