Advanced Cycle Trading: Cutting Edge Techniques for Profiting from Market Tops and Bottoms [Paperback]

Al Gietzen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1995

This breakthrough book demonstrates how to combine price, trading volume and volatility into a single indicator that identifies tops and bottoms with amazing accuracy. The indicator, called "market reactivity," enables traders to predict major market turns before they happen. Complete with example from actual trading, Gietzen demonstrate precisely how to apply "market reactivity" to uncover profitable trades. Specific topics in this book include: technical concepts of cycles; combining volume and volatility into price cycles; how to set up the trading system; money management; and trading the system.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (June 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557388881
• ISBN-13: 978-1557388889
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,222,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars surprisingly good., July 19, 2000

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This review is from: Advanced Cycle Trading: Cutting Edge Techniques for Profiting from Market Tops and Bottoms (Paperback)

Frankly, I ordered this on a lark, being interested in market cycles and generally trying to collect any literature on the subject. But, hey! I found the book to be darn good. The writing style was very readable. The ideas presented were clear, logical and not over my head. All in all, very useful and worthwhile. A very nice introduction to market cycles and how to discern and use them.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Way Over my head !, January 16, 2006

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This review is from: Advanced Cycle Trading: Cutting Edge Techniques for Profiting from Market Tops and Bottoms (Paperback)

This book is useless to those who dont understand algebra. I tried to learn some of the concepts just by reading and found myself nodding out. What irritated me the most was the author was "kind" enough to offer to sell you an excel spreadsheet program to figure out all his calculations...........at $195.00 each commodity! And another $29.00 for the historical data. Seems like an infomercial to me. I mean if you cant use the book by itself, why not just sell it as a course with everything included. Not to say his methods do not work but it just turned my off. I am currently working on several trading methodolgies requiring programming knowldge and if anyone can help me with this, we can bypass all this other stuff. Contact me at:mince38 @ yahoo.com I al also putting together a global think tank of trading ideas of cutting edge thinkers all over the world.

Marc

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5.0 out of 5 stars Contents, September 12, 2009

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Contents
list of figures
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: laying foundations
1.1 is this Investing or gambling
1.2 the products and prices
1.3 should trade commodities
1.5 learning by experience
1.5 the basic premise
1.6 using the cycles
1.7 some psychology
1.8 whose method is right
Chapter 2: the technical concepts
2.1 the importance of the time factor
2.2 the real momentum
2.3 a jump ahead
2.4 the many uses of averages
2.5 Detrending-finding the cycles
2.6 the reactivity factor
2.7 monitoring money flow
2.8 additional indicators for stock index futures
Chapter 3: the application
3.1 what markets to trade
3.2 Detrending
3.3 setting up the trading Ray
3.4 the rules and checklists
Chapter 4: managing your money
4.1 where, when, and how much
4.2 limiting your losses
4.3 computing the stop-loss point
Chapter 5: simulated real trading
5.1 Chicago wheat
5.2 live hogs
5.3 Copper
5.4 cotton
5.5 Eurodollars
5.6 beware, the trap
Chapter 6: windmills of the mind or trader psychology
6.1 knowing and believing
6.2 commitment
6.3 practice trading
6.4 stress builders
6.5 choices and responsibility
6.6 billion with losses and profits
6.7 conscious versus subconscious-who is in control
Appendix A.: the workings of the commodity markets
Appendix B.: generalized mathematical formulations
index