Best books on currency trading

Discussion in 'Forex' started by Daal, Jan 27, 2017.

  1. mlawson71

    mlawson71

    I had never heard about that, thank you for the recommendation.
     
    #11     Feb 4, 2017
  2. what particular topic are you eyeing for?
     
    #12     Feb 6, 2017
  3. doggyfx

    doggyfx

    Advanced trading techniques. Programming HFT? or I'm asking too much?? :)
     
    #13     Feb 6, 2017
  4. truetype

    truetype

    'Advanced trading techniques' usually means 'spreads,' i.e. twice the risk for half the profit. :sneaky:
     
    #14     Feb 6, 2017
  5. don't know webinars about that, the webinars i knew were about the financial news, that covers market forecast and learn how to trade and take advantage of the upcoming reports.
     
    #15     Feb 7, 2017
  6. Xela

    Xela


    I offer a personal perspective only, on the above observation (in the knowledge that some, here, will disagree with it): I would avoid such "webinars" like the plague, myself, and stay well away from "trading the news", for two main reasons ...

    1. Jumping in ahead of news is gambling. What you're asking about here is a way of stacking the deck even further against yourself in a field of endeavour which has very low overall success-rates to start with. "News" is both one of the most difficult and one of the most dangerous approaches (each for various different reasons which unfortunately need quite a lot of experience to appreciate), for aspiring traders.

    2. Webinars, collectively, tend to be very unreliable sources for "information", and there are reasons for that. Online, anyone can publish anything, with no quality control or peer review at all, and look authoritative. I found it very helpful, when initially learning, to stick to reading well-recommended, well-established, mainstream, orthodox trading textbooks, published by well-recommended, well-established, mainstream, orthodox publishers (i.e. "peer-reviewed" and "quality controlled") and avoiding internet "information".
     
    #16     Feb 8, 2017
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  7. doggyfx

    doggyfx

    I see thanks for your opinion basically I was the same views on them.
    What books on financial analysis can you recommend (if you are familiar with any of course)
    Thanks
     
    #17     Feb 8, 2017
  8. Xela

    Xela


    "Financial analysis" not so much; sorry (that has very little to do with how I trade, and my degrees were unrelated to business or finance).

    (The list of books I found most helpful, myself, in learning to trade profitably, is in this post.)
     
    #18     Feb 8, 2017
  9. xandman

    xandman

    Is there a book/author that has become the authority on carry strategies?
     
    #19     Feb 8, 2017
  10. Xela

    Xela


    As far as I know, the "recognised authority" book on the subject is by Howard Corb (and called something like "Interest-Rate Swaps & Derivatives"). Amazon will find it for you.
     
    #20     Feb 8, 2017
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