Beating The Financial Futures Market

Download or read book Beating the Financial Futures Market written by Art Collins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beating the Financial Futures Market provides you with a straightforward, historically proven program to cut through the noise, determine what bits of information are valuable, and integrate those bits into an overall trading program designed to jump on lucrative trading opportunities as they occur. It will help you improve both your percentage of winning trades and the bottom line profitability of those winning trades.

Download or read book Following the Trend written by Andreas F. Clenow and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During bull and bear markets, there is a group of hedge funds and professional traders which have been consistently outperforming traditional investment strategies for the past 30 odd years. They have shown remarkable uncorrelated performance and in the great bear market of 2008 they had record gains. These traders are highly secretive about their proprietary trading algorithms and often employ top PhDs in their research teams. Yet, it is possible to replicate their trading performance with relatively simplistic models. These traders are trend following cross asset futures managers, also known as CTAs. Many books are written about them but none explain their strategies in such detail as to enable the reader to emulate their success and create their own trend following trading business, until now. Following the Trend explains why most hopefuls fail by focusing on the wrong things, such as buy and sell rules, and teaches the truly important parts of trend following. Trading everything from the Nasdaq index and T-bills to currency crosses, platinum and live hogs, there are large gains to be made regardless of the state of the economy or stock markets. By analysing year by year trend following performance and attribution the reader will be able to build a deep understanding of what it is like to trade futures in large scale and where the real problems and opportunities lay. Written by experienced hedge fund manager Andreas Clenow, this book provides a comprehensive insight into the strategies behind the booming trend following futures industry from the perspective of a market participant. The strategies behind the success of this industry are explained in great detail, including complete trading rules and instructions for how to replicate the performance of successful hedge funds. You are in for a potentially highly profitable roller coaster ride with this hard and honest look at the positive as well as the negative sides of trend following.

Download or read book The Man Who Solved the Market written by Gregory Zuckerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award The unbelievable story of a secretive mathematician who pioneered the era of the algorithm--and made $23 billion doing it. Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. No other investor--Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George Soros--can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissance's signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percent. The firm has earned profits of more than $100 billion; Simons is worth twenty-three billion dollars. Drawing on unprecedented access to Simons and dozens of current and former employees, Zuckerman, a veteran Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, tells the gripping story of how a world-class mathematician and former code breaker mastered the market. Simons pioneered a data-driven, algorithmic approach that's sweeping the world. As Renaissance became a market force, its executives began influencing the world beyond finance. Simons became a major figure in scientific research, education, and liberal politics. Senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency, placing Steve Bannon in the campaign and funding Trump's victorious 2016 effort. Mercer also impacted the campaign behind Brexit. The Man Who Solved the Market is a portrait of a modern-day Midas who remade markets in his own image, but failed to anticipate how his success would impact his firm and his country. It's also a story of what Simons's revolution means for the rest of us.

Download or read book Outperform the Dow written by Gunter Meissner and published by . This book was released on 2000-10-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outperform the Dow presents not only fascinating statistics about the performance of the Dow itself but also how to beat that performance with nearly four dozen different methods, from the basic to the sophisticated. You won't often find strategies involving futures and options included in this type of discussion, but this practical guide shows how they can be used to boost your returns in simple, safe ways you might never have considered." -DARRELL JOBMAN, CoAuthor of The Complete Guide to Electronic Futures Trading The Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely followed equity index in the world, and the benchmark against which most U.S. investors measure their investment returns. Outperform the Dow outlines strategies and techniques that many investors have used to consistently beat this benchmark-and pump up their portfolio values. Outperform the Dow goes beyond simply discussing these strategies to provide solid, statistical evidence of their consistent superiority in up, down, and sideways markets. Learn here how you can profit from Dow-beating strategies that include: * Last Year's Winners n Smooth Risers * Tuesday Opportunity * Triple-Witching Days n Fool's Forecast * Semi-Monthly Analysis * January Momentum * Covered Call Writing * October/June Straddles * Exotic Options The objective of investing is to supply companies with capital and for the investor to gain profits. History shows that over time, certain techniques and strategies have consistently allowed savvy investors to gain exceptional profits. Discover the secrets of successful investors, climb down off the "buy-and-hold" bandwagon, and learn how to really make your money work for you with Outperform the Dow. Please visit our Web site at www.wileyfinance.com

Download or read book Beating the Market, 3 Months at a Time written by Gerald Appel and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2008-01-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The authors have created a simple, systematic plan that gives investors a long-term edge with minimal effort and reduced risk. They’ve done all the work for you, and it’s rewarding and easy to follow.” –Bob Kargenian, President, TABR Capital Management “There are diamonds in them thar hills’ — but to find investment grade diamonds it pays to have experienced guides. Gerald and Marvin Appel provide a simple but powerful plan for the often complex world of investment opportunities.” –Dr. Alexander Elder, Author of Come Into My Trading Room and Trading for a Living A Complete Roadmap for Investing Like a Pro That Requires Only 1 Hour Every 3 Months The easy way to build a winning portfolio–and keep winning Reduce risk, increase growth, and protect wealth even in tough, volatile markets Absolutely NO background in math or finance necessary! You can do better! You don’t have to settle for “generic” investment performance, and you needn’t delegate your decision-making to expensive investment managers. This book shows how you can quickly and easily build your optimal global portfolio–and then keep it optimized, in just one hour every three months. Top investment managers Gerald and Marvin Appel provide specific recommendations and simple selection techniques that any investor can use–even novices. The Appels’ approach is remarkably simple and requires only one hour of your time every 3 months, but don’t let that fool you: it draws on state-of-the-art strategies currently being used that really work. www.systemsandforecasts.com www.appelasset.com www.signalert.com If you know what to do, active investing can yield far better returns than “buy-and-hold” investing. But conventional approaches to active investing can be highly complex and time-consuming. Finally, there’s a proven, easy-to-use approach: one that’s simple enough for novices, quick enough for anyone, requires no background in math–and works! Gerald and Marvin Appel show you how to identify, and give you specific recommendations for, the best mutual funds, ETFs, bond funds, and international funds. They do not stop there. They demonstrate how you can quickly and easily evaluate each investment’s performance every 3 months, and how to make adjustments to continually optimize the performance of your portfolio. Using their easy to implement strategies, you can achieve better capital growth while reducing risk; profit from new opportunities at home and abroad; make the most of innovative investment vehicles; and protect your assets even in the toughest markets. Improving rates of return while you also reduce risk Setting intelligent investment targets and implementing strategies to meet them Identifying today’s most profitable market sectors... ...and those that will continue to lead Short-term vs. long-term bonds, mature vs. emerging markets What to choose now, and when to switch

Download or read book Money Management Strategies for Futures Traders written by Nauzer J. Balsara and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1992-04-16 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distills complex theories for the benefit of the average trader with little or no background in finance or mathematics by offering a wide range of valuable, practical strategies for limiting risk, avoiding catastrophic losses and managing the futures portfolio to maximize profits. Numerous topics are explored including: why most traders lose at the futures game most of the time; why most mechanical trading systems are apt to fail; the probabilistic approach to trading; how to make stop-loss orders work for, rather than against you; the pros and cons of options versus futures trading; and how to limit risk through diversification.

Download or read book Beat the Market written by Edward O. Thorp and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: