The art of the trade: what I learned ( and lost) trading the Chicago futures markets

The Art of the Trade is a searing portrait of the futures and options industry as seen through the eyes of someone who has participated in this arena for more than twenty years. On one level, it?s a brutally honest, no-punches-pulledlook at the individuals and institutions that comprise this unique community.On another level, The Art of the Trade is a personal story of the challenges author Alan Jankovsky faced as he battled the markets, the brokerage industry,and his own early penchant for self-destruction. Jason Alan Jankovsky is a twenty-plus year veteran of leveraged transaction trading. Trading extensively in futures, options, and FOREX since 1986, first as a customer and then as a registered broker, he is self-taught and self-educated. Working in almost all facets of the business, he has authored several trading systems, trained other successful traders and has been published in many industry periodicals; his numerous articles on global cash FOREX have appeared in TraderSavvy, The Perspective, SFO Magazine, and other industry publications. He is the author of Trading Rules that Work: The 28 Essential Lessons Every Trader Must Master (Wiley), an Amazon top-100 bestseller in the category of futures. He has focused on the psychology of trading as the key component toa successful trading methodology and teaches a six-week course on trading psychology every quarter to traders around the world. Jankovsky appears regularlyas a guest speaker at many public and private trading forums and has been invited to speak at round-table discussions offered by the Orlando Money Show andothers. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Jankovsky is an avid sailor andprivate pilot. INDICE: Read Me First.Foreword.Introduction.Chapter 1: The Early Years.Chapter 2: The Day I Bought the Low.Chapter 3: Technical Analysis.Chapter 4: Adversity.Chapter 5: The Meaning of Life.Chapter 6: The Trading Police.Chapter 7: The Last Word.Chapter 8: In Conclusion.Appendix A: For Traders Only.Appendix B: Insight into the Person of “ Trader X”More from the Author.Postscript.Notes.Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-13899-1
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 208
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés