Customer Reviews

Single Stock Futures

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
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1 star:		(5)

 

 

The book gave a solid, basic background and explaination about this investment. I like that it didn't try to be tricky or complicated. It just taught me what this thing was about,and then showed me how to go about trading in it. I like the part of the book about setting up for trading over the internet too, I thought it contained some nice insight.

Bottom line from me, a traditional stock investor, it was a clear and helpful education.

Although this book contains an overview of the new product, it is pretty basic for intermediate to advanced traders and investors. Basically, I think the book was released too soon before many of the rules and regulations were finalized concerning the product (the book even states this in the preface), so as a result it only paints half the picture. I was surprised that there were only about 70 out of 250 or so pages in total having to do with single stock futures, the rest of the book covered fairly basic technical analysis. It is more like a technical analysis book with a little info on single stock futures. I am going to go with one of the books being released later in the year as I feel they may have more info on the product.

Good: Great introduction for a new trader trying to get up to speed with this investment. Author uses clear, basic approach to describing and teaching.

Bad: There could have been more information on how to spread trade with these investments. There's also a lot of basic techinical analysis overviewed (but I suppose this would be helpful to inexperienced tech traders.) And, the book is not real long and goes a little too quick.

Overall, I recommend the book

I was interested in learning more about single stock futures for trading and hedging my portfolio, but found that this book did not have much content overall since it was published before the product began trading. There is a good review of basic futures trading but the info on single stock futures is limited and I am going to look to read more about the topic in other texts. This book offers mostly basic overview of the new product and not detail on how to use it to protect portfolios or apply to trading.

Good introduction to trading with futures. I appreciated the trading indicators and methods shared by the author. Knowing what stock futures are and knowing how to actually trade them are two different things, and this book does a valuable service in sharing good trading strategies with us. Thank you!

I think the book does a good job explaining the topic. I've traded stocks, but am new to futures investing and so I appreciated the time the book took to explain the basics for stock futures before getting into all the trading strategies and technical stuff.

Don't bother buying this book. It is so general and vague it's not worth the money. It rehashes tech analysis etc., that most would already know. It sheds no light into the world of SSF at all.

This book is so out of date it is a joke. There is really nothing about single stock futures here. What is here is basic technical analysis. The book should never have been called Single Stock Futures. It should have be titled Basic technical analysis. It is a good buy for $1 more than that is a waste. It is heavy enough to use as a paper weight and that is the best use you can get out of it. Anyone that disagrees is related to the author.

This book was obviously written for the novice trader. There doesn't appear to be anything in the book that one couldn't read in the NFA's publication, "Security Futures: An Introduction to Their Uses and Risks", which is available free of charge.

With no clear date as to when Single Stock Futures will start trading, the shelf life of this book will be limited, especially given the current state of the stock market.

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A GREAT BOOK, VERY INFORMATIVE. I DO NOT HAVE ALOT OF EXPERIENCE IN THIS FIELD AND THIS BOOK REALLY GAVE ME A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUTURES STOCK MARKET. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!