We consider the following books to be essential reading on trading in the currency markets, and encourage you to consider them as such, regardless of your level of experience.
Trading the FOREX Market: The Best Kept Secret Off Wall Street by Raghee Horner
Forex Made Easy : 6 Ways to Trade the Dollar by James Dicks
An Introduction to Foreign Exchange & Money Markets by UK London Reuters Limited
Forex for Small Speculators by Noble Drakoln
A Foreign Exchange Primer by Shani Shamah
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets : A Comprehensive Guide... by John Murphy
Technical Analysis Applications in the Global Currency Markets by Cornelius Luca
Trading in the Global Currency Markets 2nd Edition, July 2000 by Cornelius Luca
Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets by Ari Kiev
The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes by Mark Douglas
The Psychology of Technical Analysis... by Tony Plummer
Street Smarts; High Probability Short Term... by Laurence A. Connors, Linda B. Raschke
Market Wizards: Interviews With Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager
The New Market Wizards : Conversations With America's Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager
Technical Analysis from A to Z, 2nd Edition by Steven B. Achelis
The Encyclopedia Of Technical Market Indicators, Second Edition by Robert W. Colby
Currency Trading by Philip Gotthelf
What Drives Currency Markets by Brian Kettell
The Foreign Exchange and Money Markets Guide by Julian Walmsley
Intermarket Technical Analysis by John J. Murphy
Currency Strategy by Callum Henderson
Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading by Alexander Elder
Japanese Candlestick Charting by Steve Nison
Trading the FOREX Market: The Best Kept Secret Off Wall Street
by Raghee Horner
An in-depth how-to look at Forex trading using the methods, analysis, and insights of a renowned trader, Raghee Horner.As the fate of the dollar against foreign currency generates both anxiety and opportunities, currency trading has been drawing much interest and a growing following among traders in the United States. The Forex market is particularly attractive for investors because it trades with no gaps and has unlimited guaranteed stop-losses. The liquidity of the Forex market and worldwide participation makes for more reliable and longer lasting trends as well. Raghee Horner has become legendary not only as a top Forex trader but as a master teacher of trading systems and techniques. Drawing on her winning tools and methods, including classic charting techniques, this book enables a trader or investor of any skill level to understand how the Forex operates and lays out a blueprint for getting starting in this little-understood but high-potential trading vehicle. Raghee Horner (Pompano Beach, FL) is an accomplished trader with more than fifteen years in the markets. She is the cofounder and lead trader of the EZ2 Trade Institute and an educator teaching her style of technical analysis and charting strategies to students all over the world. Raghee has written more than 100 articles on investing, has been a regular on the MoneyWatch Radio Network, is featured at eSignal's "Trading with the Masters," and is a regular contributor to Trader's magazine. Her chart analysis and commentary have appeared on TradingMarkets, JAGNotes, StockCharts.com, and FXStreet. She is also a sought-after speaker who has conducted seminars throughout the U.S., Canada, Caribbean, and Asia.
Forex Made Easy : 6 Ways to Trade the Dollar
by James Dicks
This is a low level introduction to the foriegn exchange markets and the way to trade them. He starts out by explaining what the foreign currency exchange market is. He talks about the 6 currency pairs and explains why that simplicity is in the traders favor. He gives plenty of reasons why to trade in this market early on so as to get the reader involved. He does a very good job of giving enough examples to clarify his point for a novice. That is the most impressive part of his narrative. Jamie does an excellent job of slowly getting the reader into the material. He doesn't talk down to the reader but he does speak to them in an easy and natural language. All the other books on the market are very technical. The book does move to technical analsis early. By the 3rd chapter the author is going into some base level detail of how to use technial analysis to their advantage. He does so in as non-mathematical a way as possible and quickly ties its use back to the monetary benefits. As mentioned, he introduces the topic in the 3rd chapter then returns to it in the 8th because of its importance to the success of the trader. The author takes the novice through such basic things as how to set up your work station for effective electronic trading. This is the competitive advantage of the book. There is even a brief review/introduction of basic trading skills no matter the product. In addition the author goes through most of the economic indicators that a forex trader would care about. He only gets into the detail that would affect a regular trader.
An Introduction to Foreign Exchange & Money Markets
by UK London Reuters Limited
A new concept in financial education training - The Reuters Financial Training Series: An Introduction to Foreign Exchange & Money Markets, will guide novices through the intricacies of the world's wealthiest capital exchange markets. This book sets out to give a clear understanding of how and why these markets function, and explains the associated jargon. Readers will be able to take a more detailed look at Money Market and Foreign Exchange instruments and will be able to examine, in particular, the parameters which must be defined in order to place a value on these instruments, together with basic valuation techniques.
Forex for Small Speculators
by Noble Drakoln
"This book was my first introduction to forex trading. I needed something I could wrap my mind around, that would give me the basic information, without going overboard. This book did just that. Written by an actual trader, it proved useful to me to understand the terminology, how to get started, as well as what kind of mindset I will need to have in order to succeed. From my experiences in trading stocks and futures I learned a long time ago not to look for a holy grail. Just give me good solid information on what it is I am dealing with and I can handle the rest. This is what this book did for me! And the great part about it I didn't have to read for days on end, the book was brief enough for me to gain some fundamentals. I definitely recommend it to anyone new to Forex trading."
A Foreign Exchange Primer
by Shani Shamah
The foreign exchange market is the largest in the world, with an estimated USD1.6 trillion average daily turnover. This book sets out to introduce the novice to the practical skills necessary to understand the foreign exchange market today. A Foreign Exchange Primer provides a clear understanding of how this market functions, from the main products through to the techniques used, coverage of the main participants, details of the various 'players' and an understanding of the 'jargon' used in everyday dealings. This concise, highly accessible primer is ideal for anyone new to or wanting to become involved in the foreign exchange market, from a dealing room or sales perspective through to the novice investor.
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets : A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications.
by John Murphy
John J. Murphy has now updated his landmark bestseller Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets, to include all of the financial markets. "If one could read only one book on technical analysis, this should be the one." --Knight-Ridder Financial Products and News (on the first edition, Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets, 0-13-898008-X)
This outstanding reference has already taught thousands of traders the concepts of technical analysis and their application in the futures and stock markets. Covering the latest developments in computer technology, technical tools, and indicators, the second edition features new material on candlestick charting, intermarket relationships, stocks and stock rotation, plus state-of-the-art examples and figures. From how to read charts to understanding indicators and the crucial role technical analysis plays in investing, readers gain a thorough and accessible overview of the field of technical analysis, with a special emphasis on futures markets. Revised and expanded for the demands of today's financial world, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in tracking and analyzing market behavior.
"One way to get started in technical analysis is to read a good book on the subject. One of my favorites is Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications by John J. Murphy. It's an easy read." Ralph J. Acampora, CMT, Managing Director, Prudential Securities Inc.
Technical Analysis Applications in the Global Currency Markets
by Cornelius Luca
Now updated and revised with all new charts and key information on the euro. The introduction of the euro and the recent explosion of electronic trading has changed the outlook of the foreign exchange market dramatically. Global currency trading offers staggering rewards for those with the knowledge to capitalize on it.
This updated guide provides an easy-to-follow roadmap for beginners and experienced traders alike on how to use technical analysis-with revised charts and graphs-to cash in on these enormous opportunities.
The only guide of its kind to focus solely on all aspects of technical analysis, Luca explains and illustrates:
* The fundamentals of technical analysis and how it applies to foreign exchange What one must learn about trends and trend patterns
* How the major players in foreign exchange analyze their charts
* The quantitative methods of analysis-including all types of moving averages, oscillators, and other indicators
This book provides a thorough, yet easy-to-grasp explanation and analysis of point and figure charting, candlestick charting, the Gann methods, and the Elliot Wave principle. Also included is an updated CD-ROM that lets readers test the methods presented and apply them to real trading-and quickly increase proficiency in charting and chart analysis.
Trading in the Global Currency Markets
by Cornelius Luca
An in depth look at the tremendous potential of this vital market with expert advice from one of the foremost authorities. The foreign exchange market is the world's largest and fastest growing financial terrain. Despite its high trading volume, it is also a market little understood and little regulated. This definitive resource brings the universe of foreign exchange within reach of every investor. The revised edition includes complete comprehensive coverage of the euro and the latest historical and economic changes in the market.
Cornelius Luca, a renowned authority on international investing, draws on the insights of leading experts in diverse fields of specialty to explain every crucial aspect of foreign exchange. He provides investors with an arsenal of trading weapons, many on the cutting edge of technology. Demystifying the intricacies of these markets, the book includes:
Analysis of the mechanics of the market, the major players and markets, the pertinent risks, corporate trading, and methods of trading execution.
A thorough overview of foreign exchange instruments and major option strategies, with clear explanations of why currencies are traded and how to forecast currency behavior. An in-depth look at the three types of analysis: fundamental, technical, and econometric. Featuring 200 charts and graphics, TRADING IN THE GLOBAL CURRENCY MARKETS is an indispensable guide to a daunting yet promising financial playing field.
Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets
by Ari Kiev
Buy low, sell high. Sounds simple? Hardly. As most traders will tell you, finding the right entry and exit points in a market is too often a stressful and even gut-wrenching experience. Ari Kiev, author of Trading to Win, wants to change all that. Kiev spent five years with a group of professional traders at SAC Capital Management, a $500 million hedge fund, studying the psychological and emotional aspects of what makes for a successful trader. Kiev found that what hinders many traders is ego, fear, emotion, and "false beliefs about yourself and the markets." Gaining mastery as a trader means seeing "the market as it is, not as a reference point for your own existence." Kiev advocates a disciplined, Zen-like approach to the markets that begins with articulating a specific goal then committing oneself to attaining that goal in the most objective way possible, overcoming the emotional baggage that too often leads to poor decision-making. Trading to Win is for professional and amateur traders of every stripe who are looking for insight into their own behavior and approach to the markets. --Harry C. Edwards.
The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes
by Mark Douglas
With rare insight based on his first-hand commodity trading experience, Mark Douglas demonstrates why the beliefs learned to function effectively in society are often formidable psychological barriers in trading. "The Disciplined Trader" helps you join the elite few who have learned how to control their trading behavior by developing a systematic, step-by-step approach for winning -- week after week, month after month. In a comprehensive and logical manner, Mark Douglas shows you how to examine and limit your trading behavior -- how to develop the mental discipline possessed by the small minority of winners who make money consistently. Mark Douglas is President of Trading Behavior Dynamics, Inc. A successful commodities trader himself, Mark has drawn on his own experiences - as well as observations of countless other traders in his consulting business to identify and develop methods for overcoming counterproductive trading behaviors. He conducts his own seminars and workshops for leading commodities and brokerage organizations as well as being an invited speaker at numerous investment conferences around the world.
The Psychology of Technical Analysis: Profiting from Crowd Behavior and the Dynamics of Price
by Tony Plummer
This book explains how emotions drive the financial markets and demonstrates how technical indicators can be used to forecast market turning points. This edition includes a trading system and provides practical advice on how to profit from changes in crowd psychology. Specific topics include: The "logic" of the crowd; Techniques for forecasting crowd behavior; The mathematical basis of price movements; Price patterns at turning points; The mechanics of trading success.
Street Smarts; High Probability Short Term Trading Strategies
by Laurence A. Connors, Linda B. Raschke
Published in 1996 and written by Larry Connors and "New Market Wizard" Linda Raschke. This 245 page manual is considered by many to be one of the best books written on trading futures. Twenty-five years of combined trading experience is divulged as you will learn 20 of their best strategies.
Among the methods you will be taught are:
* Swing Trading - The backbone of Linda's success. Not only will you learn exactly how to swing trade, you will also learn specific advanced techniques never before made public!
* News - Among the strategies revealed is an intra-day news strategy they use to exploit the herd when the 8:30am economic reports are released. This strategy will be especially appreciated by bond traders and currency traders.
* Pattern Recognition - You will learn some of the best short-term set-up patterns available. Larry and Linda will also teach you how they combine these patterns with other strategies to identify explosive moves.
* ADX - In our opinion, ADX is one of the most powerful and misunderstood indicators available to traders. Now, for the first time, they reveal a handful of short-term trading strategies they use in conjunction with this terrific indicator.
* Volatility - You will learn how to identify markets that are about to explode and how to trade these exciting situations.
* Also, included are chapters on trading volatility, trading Crabel, trading the smart money index, trading gap reversals, a special chapter on professional money management, and many other trading strategies!
Market Wizards: Interviews With Top Traders
by Jack D. Schwager
This classic bestseller delves into the minds and methodolgies of some of the world's most successful traders. Gain insight into how each of these trader's methods triumphs through chaos and personal doubt, how they learned valuable lessons and most importantly, how different the roads to success was for all of them.
If you don't already have the trading bug, this entertaining read will light a fire under you and encourage you to get going.
The New Market Wizards : Conversations With America's Top Traders
by Jack D. Schwager
In one of the most popular finance books ever written, Jack Schwager introduces us to some of today's most successful and fascinating supertraders. Get the story behind Stan Drukenmiller--who runs Soros' Quantum Fund. Meet Bill Lipschutz , the former architect who became Salomon Brothers' most successful currency trader. Trace the fascinating roots of the now legendary circle of traders known as the Turtles.
In this sequel to the bestselling Market Wizards, Schwager taps into the minds of today's top financial wizards and reveals the secrets of their astonishing success. "Provides unique insight into the arcane world of currency trading as well as other fast-moving markets".--U.S. News & World Report
Technical Analysis from A to Z, 2nd Edition
by Steven B. Achelis
Millions of traders participating in today's financial markets have shot interest and involvement in technical analysis to an all-time high. This updated edition of Technical Analysis from A to Z combines a detailed explanation of what technical analysis is and how it works with overviews, interpretations, calculations, and examples of over 135 technical indicators--and how they perform under actual market conditions. Enhanced with more details to make it easier to use and understand, this book reflects the latest research findings and advances.
The Encyclopedia Of Technical Market Indicators, Second Edition
by Robert W. Colby
Encyclopedic format provides an alphabetical and up to date listing of hundreds of today's most important indicators. This book explains the philosophy behind the indicator, and its greatest importance. As well, it will provide easy to understand guidelines for using it in day to day trading.
Currency Trading
by Philip Gotthelf
The first and last word on trading within currency markets. Expert trading veteran Philip Gotthelf provides the first comprehensive guide to currency speculation aimed toward the average investor. Combining fundamental and technical analysis, this book teaches traders how to take advantage of fluctuations within the currency markets and capture enormous gains. Currency Trading takes the latest developments in the FOREX market and provides readers with a complete trading plan.
What Drives Currency Markets
by Brian Kettell
Provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the complex world of foreign exchange markets, and expectations about the impact of indicators, combined with the concept of market sentiment.
The Foreign Exchange and Money Markets Guide
by Julian Walmsley
This updated, totally revised, and expanded edition of finance expert Julian Walmsley's popular classic is the one book you'll need. Practical and easy-to-understand, this unique reference provides guidance on every important market around the world, including closely related money markets such as the commercial paper and Eurocommercial paper markets, national money markets, interest rate options markets, and numerous related instruments.
Intermarket Technical Analysis
by John J. Murphy
Trying to trade stock, bond, commodity and currency markets without intermarket awareness is like trying to drive a car without looking out the side and rear windows-very dangerous. In this guide to intermarket analysis, the author uses years of experience in technical analysis plus extensive charts to clearly demonstrate the interrelationshps that exist among the various market sectors and their importance. You'll learn how to use activity in surrounding markets in the same way that most people employ traditional technical indicators for directional clues. Shows the analyst how to focus outward, rather than inward, to provide a more rational understanding of technical forces at work in the marketplace.
Currency Strategy
by Callum Henderson
Currency Strategy develops new techniques and explains classic tools available for predicting, managing, and optimizing fluctuations in the currency markets. Author Callum Henderson shows readers how traditional macroeconomic theory has repeatedly failed in the face of practical experience in these markets and develops a new approach based on experience. He draws on the technical expertise of his bank to develop mathematical models to assist in the prediction of crises and gives practical advice on how to use these and other tools successfully.
Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading
by Alexander Elder
You can become a successful trader. It has been done before, and it is being done right now, today, by people around the world. If you enjoy learning, if you are not scared of risk, if the rewards appeal to you, and if you are prepared to put in the work, you have a great project ahead of you. In Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading, Dr. Alexander Elder takes you far beyond the three M's (Mind, Method, Money) of his international bestseller Trading for a Living. He teaches you to manage your money and time, as well as strategy, so that you can enter the markets with confidence and exit with profits. This essential book educates the novice and gives more power to the professional through expert advice, proven trading methods, and something entirely unique a visit to Dr. Elder's own trading room. You get to follow him through several actual trades, whose entries and exits illustrate many of the key concepts of this book. Come Into My Trading Room offers: A complete introduction to trading essentials An overview of trading psychology, both individual and mass psychology of the markets A practical overview of technical analysis, including new indicators and systems A step-by-step guide to risk control and money management Exact instructions for keeping records and organizing your time A visit to Dr. Elder's private trading room, reviewing several of his recent trades Be sure to work through the companion volume to this book Study Guide for Come Into My Trading Room before you risk a dollar in the markets. The Study Guide features 100 questions and answers and almost 50 charts to test your knowledge. Grade yourself to make sure you know enough about the nine key areas of trading. Work through eight case histories, select entry and exit points, and find out how well you understand what needs to be done in every trade. Use Dr. Elder's Study Guide to make sure that you can measure up to your competitors and surpass them. Come Into My Trading Room will help you master a new way of trading stocks, futures, options, and currencies. Unparalleled depth and a wide range of coverage give you the best chance to become the trader you've always wanted to be.
Japanese Candlestick Charting - Second Edition
by Steve Nison
Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, 2nd Edition, provides an in-depth explanation of candlestick plotting and analysis, conveying to the reader, in easy-to-understand language, the author's years of practical experience in this increasingly popular and dynamic approach to market analysis. It includes hundreds of examples that span the equity, futures, fixed-income, and foreign exchange markets and shows how candlestick charting techniques can be used in almost any market. It includes everything from the basics, such as constructing the candlesticks and learning the patterns, to advanced topics, such as the rules of multiple technical techniques. Whether you are new to candlestick charts or a seasoned pro-the reward will be immediate and long lasting.