Trading Commodities and Financial Futures by George Kleinman offers updated coverage of electronic trading, the latest contracts, and state-of-the-art trading techniques you won’t find in any competing book.
Course Overview
In this book, one of the world’s most experienced traders introduces a new step-by-step methodology built on more than twenty-five years of success. George Kleinman begins with the basics—including a complete primer on how futures and options trading works, how traders’ psychology impacts the markets, and how to avoid the pitfalls that trip up so many traders.
Course Outline
Copyright
FINANCIAL TIMES Prentice Hall
Financial Times Prentice Hall Books
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Basic training: a futures primer
- Futures markets and the futures contract
- It is as easy to sell short as to buy long
- Margin and leverage
- Delivery months
- Brokers and commissions
- The players
- A hedging example
- The Exchange, ‘open outcry’ and the clearinghouse
- The regulators and regulations
- How to place an order
- Conclusion
The intermediate futures trading course (or just enough knowledge to make you dangerous!)
- Zero-sum game
- Money management
- Contrary opinion theory
- Spreads straddles and switches
- Normal or inverted?
- The “Voice from the Tomb”
A diabolical story
The options primer
- What is an option?
- How options work
Advanced options strategies
- Buying options to protect futures
- Writing options as a hedging strategy
- Covered option writing
- Option spreads
- Straddles and strangles
- Butterfly spreads
- Ratios
Eight winning options trading rules
- Stay away from deep in-the-money options
- Stay away from deep out-of-the-money options
- Trade slightly out-of-the-money, at-the-money, or slightly in-the-money options
- There is a time for all seasons
- Covered call writing is a good strategy for what appears to be a bullish environment, and covered put writing is generally good for what looks like a bear
- In “normal” markets, write straddles and strangles
- Look for opportunities to back spread
- Use options to hedge a profitable futures position
How to analyze the markets fundamentally
- Fundamental analysis
- Technical analysis
- Which is the best way to go?
- Financial futures
- Currencies
- Energy
- Agricultures
- Meats
- Metals
The advanced futures trading course (or how to analyze the markets technically)
- Does technical analysis really work?
- Charts
- Gaps
- Open interest
- Point and figure charts
- Japanese candlestick charts
- Spread trading—a valuable forecasting tool
- Why technical analysis makes sense
The most valuable technical tool (TMVTT)
- Bottom pickers versus trend followers
- A moving picture
- A moving average primer
- The simple moving average
- How many days should you use in your moving average?
- Bottom line
How I use “TMVTT”
- Step 1
- Step 2
- Additional rules for maximum success
A day trader’s secrets
- Your nine essential day trader’s rules
- The trend reversal day trading system
Your state of mind (trader’s psychology)
- Motive
- Six hurdles to successful trading
- Money management
- If you don’t feel right, you won’t trade right
- Your advantage
Twenty-five trading secrets of the pros
- Secret 1
- Secret 2
- Secret 3
- Secret 4
- Secret 5
- Secret 6
- Secret 7
- Secret 8
- Secret 9
- Secret 10
- Secret 11
- Secret 12
- Secret 13
- Secret 14
- Secret 15
- Secret 16
- Secret 17
- Secret 18
- Secret 19
- Secret 20
- Secret 21
- Secret 22
- Secret 23
- Secret 24
- Secret 25
Jesse’s secret
- The secret to making the big money is to maximize the big move
- Jesse Livermore
- Those who can be right and sit tight
World futures and options exchanges
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- India
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Korea
- Malaysia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Singapore
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States
Index
George Kleinman
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