Trading Secrets 20 hard and fast rules to help you beat the stock market

by Thompson, Simon

• ISBN13: 9780273722090
• ISBN10: 0273722093
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-18
• Publisher: Ft Pr

Summary

Lifts the lid on inside trading knowledge and shows you how to make the same eye watering profits as the smartest City traders and professional investors. Explicit aim: It will increase the readers' chances of making money on the stock market.Highly practical: More than just another business book, it uniquely shows how any investor can turn complex investment theories and trend analysis into real profits. It explains when to buy, when to sell, and what shares to pickProven research: Based on years of expert trend analysisThe author: Simon Thompson is one of the most respected journalists in the financial community and a very experienced equity market strategist.

Author Biography

Simon Thompson has been Companies Editor of Investors Chronicle, the UK’s leading magazine for private investors, since August 2000 and a finance journalist with The Financial Group in London over 10 years. His weekly Companies column for the Investors Chronicle is read by 35,000 online and magazine subscribers every week and is one of the most read sections of the magazine.

Simon has an excellent track record at market timing, including calling the top of the Dow Jones Industrial Average within four days of the index hitting an all-time high in July 2007. His bearish view of the stock market has proved spot on with the four index short trades recommended in his Companies column producing an average profit of 44 per cent in 2008.

Simon also has an outstanding record at stockpicking. Between 2004 and 2007 he gave 67 stock and index recommendations in his companies column in the Investors Chronicle of which 90 per cent showed a profit and an average gain of 33 per cent. In 2005, Simon had a 100 per cent track record with all sixteen of his recommendations in his column that year recording a profit.

 

 

Table of Contents

Authors' acknowledgements	p. ix
Publisher's acknowledgments	p. xi
About the author	p. xii
List of figures and tables	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xviii
Bull market tops	p. 1
Bear market bottoms	p. 17
Daylight robbery	p. 31
Built on solid foundations	p. 40
Seasonal investing and seasonal affective disorder	p. 49
Federal Reserve's rate-cutting cycles	p. 60
US presidential cycle	p. 71
Summertime blues	p. 85
Predictive powers	p. 89
Santa Claus rally	p. 96
Religious holidays	p. 104
Extreme market movements	p. 110
Playing footsie	p. 115
Days like these	p. 122
S&P 500 dog effect	p. 126
Dogs of the FTSE All-Share Index	p. 136
Budgeting for profit	p. 141
Sporting chance	p. 147
History lessons	p. 151
Triple witching effect	p. 160
References	p. 170
Index	p. 173
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