The Big Book of Stock Trading Strategies Paperback – September 23, 2017

This book is a super-set of three individual copies you can buy separately. It brings together 3 strategies: Swing, Growth and Earnings. As the author asserts, you can become successful by mastering one strategy at a time. This book gives you three to tackle and they are fairly easy to learn, so you really can tackle all three simultaneously.Rubber Band Trading is akin to a Swing Trading strategy. The author gives you the required set up, entry and exit rules (profit and stop). He also suggests risk management. You can get going with this set up using freely available tools on the internet. Since has has laid out a complete system for you, this earns this section all 5 stars. However, when I back tested this strategy, using growth stocks it did not offer up too many opportunities, rarely did those stocks drop below the trigger signal. So you would need to find more cyclical/swing oriented stocks for this strategy. As a result, I will drop the rating to 4 stars.Rocket Stock Trading here the author lays out a well reasoned argument for trading these high growth stocks, the main issue I have is with liquidity of some of these, looking for small floats will whipsaw you around so you will need to be disciplined with your stop loss. Trading IPOs is higher risk and should only be undertaken once experienced or at least with only a very small allocation of your funds. Given the author has laid out the rules, I can give it 5 stars, with the caveat that I have not back tested this strategy.Day Sniper Trading is an interesting strategy for trading post earnings events. I have written a separate review in some detail for this book on Amazon. I have continued to assess the trading results. What I have experienced is that when the strategy works it really works well, so think about converting to a swing trade. Most of the time the trade gets stopped out, so you need to be very disciplined

PURCHASED: 11/05/2017.Fairly experienced trader here, but always looking for an edge... OK, despite the 1 & 2 star reviews, and other bashing, let's take a look at this $5.25 tome (or free in Kindle). It took me all of 90 minutes to read this book... OK, well, yes - it was hard read legibly, I agree with one reviewer about the pitifully and stupidly tiny charts printed in B&W on cheap newspaper-like type & paper. And 30 minutes of my time...someone has to pay me for that.The strategies are interesting...the author's use of Bollinger Bands, not bad, but why not go to Bollinger himself. If you're new to B-Bands, this may get you interested in learning more. Author's use of B-Bands is useful as a means to gain another trader's perspective on how he uses them for trading signals. Is it worth $5.25 and 30 minutes of my time?The "rocket" stocks strategy - another perspective by the author on using momentum strategy in his own way. Is it worth $5.25 and 30 minutes of my time?The author's "day sniper trading" strategy - interesting minute/hourly momentum & swing perspective. Is it worth $5.25 and 30 minutes of my time?$5.25 is peanuts. If the author's insights and perspectives gives me a $52.50 edge just one time, not a bad investment, eh? 30 minutes of my time? Well, I can't get 30 minutes of my life back, but those 30 minutes caused me to think of some past & current strategies. The author's own strategies have not directly contributed to my success, because I knew them already, but it opened a door to the author's views. It was an easy inexpensive gamble.If you're an experienced trader, give this book to the noobs you meet and see if they want more. Then give'em Murphy's books on Technical Analysis and McMillan's classics on Options. [If you're a noob to trading, you just got your first two hints.]The impermanence of the markets and the strategies we traders employ requires constant re-thinking.

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This book explains three different strategies based on three differentprinciples: profiting from mean reversion when a stock trades below itsfair market value, profiting from continued growth of a high growth stockgauged by moving cross-overs and profiting from gap-ups or gap-downs onnews reports. This is a great 3-part exposure to the market, becauseunderstanding the differences between these three techniques and theprinciples behind them enables you to develop a good understanding of themarkets as a whole. Not every possible strategy is explored in this book.For example, the day-trading section focuses on opportunities ininstances when large institutional investors acquire a stock. But if youabsorb the principles in the three different areas explored in the book,you can think for yourself to apply the principles as you see fit. Theauthor seems to understand that the point is not to drown a reader incontent but to provide carefully-selected content which is as actionableas possible and enables the reader to develop her own expertise. Highlyrecommended.

This book has some good advice on trading stocks with emphasis on using Bollinger Bands and moving averages, ignoring the multitude of other technical indicators. I would not use some of his suggestions, but look at other indicators, chart patterns and Candlesticks.