Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies [Paperback]

Michael D. Archer (Author)

Book Description

Series: Getting Started In..... | Publication Date: November 9, 2007

A Highly Visual Guide To Developing A Personal Forex Trading Strategy

Getting Started In Forex Trading Strategies

"A great next step to read for the beginning trader. It contains practical advice and resources on trading FOREX that only come with experience."
-Derek Ching, President, Hawaii Forex

"We have members from over 125 countries on our Web site and plan to make Getting Started in ForexTrading Strategies a 'must read' for those looking to trade the FOREX market. It is good to see a book that emphasizes the importance of other elements, such as money management, which are crucial to master if one is to stay in this game. Well done!"

-Jay Meisler, cofounder, Global-View.com

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies is a highly visual guide to foreign exchange trading that introduces you to the Codex Method-a proven process that allows you to tailor a trading strategy to your own personal preferences.

Divided into four comprehensive parts, this reliable resource opens with a brief overview of traditional FOREX strategies. From here, author Michael Duane Archer outlines his own personal codex-as he guides you through the process of developing yours-and reveals how to use this approach to make, monitor, and exit a trade. Along the way, Archer reveals the best ways to implement your strategy and discusses the importance of consistently keeping trading records.

In his previous book, Getting Started in Currency Trading, Archer set a solid foundation for trading the currency market by illustrating how it operated. Now, with Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies, Archer goes a step further by showing you how to cultivate a personal trading strategy that will allow you to succeed within this dynamic environment.

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A Highly Visual Guide To Developing A Personal Forex Trading Strategy

Getting Started In Forex Trading Strategies

"A great next step to read for the beginning trader. It contains practical advice and resources on trading FOREX that only come with experience."
—Derek Ching, President, Hawaii Forex

"We have members from over 125 countries on our Web site and plan to make Getting Started in ForexTrading Strategies a 'must read' for those looking to trade the FOREX market. It is good to see a book that emphasizes the importance of other elements, such as money management, which are crucial to master if one is to stay in this game. Well done!"

—Jay Meisler, cofounder, Global-View.com

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies is a highly visual guide to foreign exchange trading that introduces you to the Codex Method—a proven process that allows you to tailor a trading strategy to your own personal preferences.

Divided into four comprehensive parts, this reliable resource opens with a brief overview of traditional FOREX strategies. From here, author Michael Duane Archer outlines his own personal codex—as he guides you through the process of developing yours—and reveals how to use this approach to make, monitor, and exit a trade. Along the way, Archer reveals the best ways to implement your strategy and discusses the importance of consistently keeping trading records.

In his previous book, Getting Started in Currency Trading, Archer set a solid foundation for trading the currency market by illustrating how it operated. Now, with Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies, Archer goes a step further by showing you how to cultivate a personal trading strategy that will allow you to succeed within this dynamic environment.

About the Author

Michael Duane Archer has been an active commodity futures and FOREX trader for over thirty years. He has worked in various advisory capacities, notably as a commodity trading advisor and an SEC-registered investment advisor. Archer operates www.fxpraxis.com and is a professional FOREX money manager. He is also the coauthor of Getting Started in Currency Trading, The Forex Chartist Companion, and Charting the Major Forex Pairs, which are all published by Wiley.

Product Details

• Paperback: 190 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (November 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470073926
• ISBN-13: 978-0470073926
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #622,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book and support from the author, February 12, 2008

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Mark Twain "developerx1" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies (Paperback)

I found this book to be the missing link in my trading. I've long been struggling to find a framework with which I could understand and develop a complete trading strategy. The author does an excellent job with the codex approach in both explaining his framework and providing an example using his Goodman Swing trading system (in addition he also shares this system for those would like to use it). The book also provides very good insight into all the components of a complete trading strategy, how they work together and why they must be complimentary, thus allowing the strategy to evolve or adapt. The author was very prompt in responding to my email asking for some clarifications, and in fact provided me with more information than I asked for. The book is well written and edited, there was very little that was not clearly explained and very understandable. Thanks again to Mr. Archer and his editors for what I believe is one of the best books on trading system/strategy development available today.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written basic guide, May 4, 2008

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Alwayslearning - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies (Paperback)

Looking at the system only, rather than the psychological aspects of trading, I can't say I am impressed. The instructions on how to build a swing chart do not match the diagrams and are therefore confusing. The expanation on what to do if it is NOT a 50% retracement are very unclear to say the least. The book could have done with a thorough edit before publication. Much of the material is available on the authors website but the explanations are no clearer.

The author talks about how he is not a fan of technical indicators (one of the reasons I bought this book) and then goes on to talk about wave theory as a type of technical indicator! Patterns (for me) are way too subjective to use in trading and this is really all about pattern recognition.

Where are the examples of trading that failed (way more instructive than pattern success)? Where are the 'difficult' patterns to call and the mistakes made?

The author recommends using high leverage with 'beer accounts' like $500 which is a sure fire way to blow the account. He recommends that you use 10:1 leverage with this size of account and 5:1 leverage with $10000 account. These levels willl blow the account sooner or later particularly with his stop loss 'strategy' of tight stops based around risk ratio.

The trader psychology part is fine but can be found in many other trader books but I give it two stars because of this.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Where is the beef?, February 17, 2008

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ForexGuy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies (Paperback)

The "meat" of the book is a system that uses "waves" to determine buy/sell points, the rest is just 99% filler. The author does not explain much, one or two pages and absolutely no clear examples. There are absolutely no charts with clear buy here/stop here/take your profit here/ signals. After reading the book you are left wondering what to do next.

And of course ZERO backtest ! Oh no, those forex authors have never heard of testing software like Trade Station or Metatrader ! It's always the same story with these guys : Here is my little unproven, untested trading system, hand me your money for the book and bye bye !!

I give this book 2 stars only because the system may have some merit. Still, it is one of these books you want to quickly forget after you read it.