Trend Trading for a Living

[Carr: Trend Trading for a Living /0-07-154419-4; ][back cover]Trade the trend and you can trade for a livingIf you're going to play the stock market, play to win by using a key strategy of most hedge fund managers-trend trading. InTrend Trading for a Living, the trading coach and hedge fund manager known on Wall Street as "Dr. Stoxx" shares his personal strategies for analyzing markets, picking stocks, and knowing when to buy and sell.This step-by-step book offers a practical road map to get yourself familiarized with the stock market and into the driver's seat of your financial future. In five progressive parts,Trend Trading for a Livinghelps you: Configure your platform: set up your home computer to trade online with the best brokers Learn the basics: understand trend trading, select stocks to watch, and interpret market signs Get in the game: select the most profitable bullish and bearish stocks and pick your entry and exit prices Leverage your portfolio: learn how to trade with options to increase your financial rewards Turn pro: with patience, determination, and a strategy grounded in technical analysis, you can "trade for a living"[flaps]InTrend Trading for a Living, author and founder of Befriend the Trend Trading, Dr. Thomas Carr, gives you all the technical skills, market-trend knowledge, and trading confidence you need to "trade for a living." A self-made trader himself, Carr walks you through every step of the process, from selecting the right online broker and choosing the best supporting software to "eyeballing" real setups on stock charts and leveraging your portfolio with options.Trend Trading for a Livingis like having a mentor by your side when you trade. Through highly illustrative explanations, Carr guides you through determining the nature and strength of a stock's trend by using just four critical input sources-price patterns, moving averages, technical oscillators, and Japanese candlesticks. This technical approach strips away the emotional influence that causes many traders to fail and enables you to use concrete facts to accurately determine which way a stock is trending and gain insight into short-term buying and selling opportunities.Carr has been around Wall Street long enough to know the lay of the land, and along with his trend trading strategies, he provides preliminary screening parameters for identifying stocks that trade well in his various systems. With the focused direction and supportive encouragement of a coach, Carr develops your understanding of trend trading step by step in order for you to: Cultivate the trader's mindset Read sophisticated stock charts Target stocks poised to make explosive moves Maximize your risk-to-reward ratio on every trade Interpret market trends like a professional analyst Leverage your portfolio with options Profit from big moves made during earnings seasonRegardless of your education, trading experience and fluency with numbers,Trend Trading for a Livingcan help you learn to trade for a living.Thomas Carris founder and general partner of Carr Capital Management and hedge fund manager of the Befriend the Trend Fund. He is founder and CEO of Befriend the Trend Trading, where he conducts trading seminars and offers private coaching. He has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal and US News & World Report for his insights into trading psychology, and is a contributing author to Stocks and Commodities Magazine.Carr, Thomas K. is the author of 'Trend Trading for a Living', published 2007 under ISBN 9780071544191 and ISBN 0071544194.