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Spread Trading: Low-Risk Strategies for Profiting from Market Relationships [Hardcover]

Howard Abell (Author)

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Publication Date: June 1997

"Spread Trading" explains the opportunities afforded by this hedge technique for beating the market by capitalizing on recognized relationships in the commodity and financial markets. Abell analyzes historical spread relationships, then details time-proven strategies Pub: 6/97.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 197 pages
Publisher: Dearborn Trade Pub; illustrated edition edition (June 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0793124255
ISBN-13: 978-0793124251
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces

Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Money, June 14, 2003

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This review is from: Spread Trading: Low Risk Strategies for Profiting from Market Relationships (Paperback)

The book was written 1997, do not get confused with the publishing date of 2003. The printed daily line charts are from 1997 without hardly any description. The same almost applies to the numerous useless pages filled with tables of historical spread trades that (maybe) could have been done between 1981 and 1996. This book neither contains stategies nor addresses risk at all. Furthermore the book is full of sentences of the following kind: "Computer generated Numbers. Most traders have a library of proven computer numbers. They may be applied with success in spread trading. The only caveat however, is that they usually are not self-contained systems and should be used along with the several other devices I have spoken about."
My advice: Walk away from this trade!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Title is misleading...., December 18, 2000

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This review is from: Spread Trading: Low-Risk Strategies for Profiting from Market Relationships (Hardcover)

The title is very misleading due to the fact that this book contains no trading strategies. It does, however, do a good job of talking about the psychology of trading (one of the most important aspects). The interviews are good but contain no real practical knowledge. In my opinion, save the money and go for another, perhaps more advanced book if you're concerned with trading strategies. I will not even recommend this book to the beginner for it requires a broad knowledge of how the trading floor works. This book mentions little about value (the MOST important thing about legging and trading spreads). As far as spread trading goes, this isn't the one. Dan Vassallo (New York Cotton Exchange).

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1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, January 4, 2002

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If I had wanted a psychology book I would have bought one! Mr. Abell is obviously obsessed with the subject as there is almost nothing in this book that gives the nuts and bolts of spread trading. 45% deals with the psychology of trading, 45% of it are interviews with "successful" spread traders, and the remaining 10% if you discount the charts deals with spreading. Save your money.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Book is mistitled....
Some valuable if readily available advice on psychology of trading, but the inerviews are basc and reveal nothing new, and the pages and pages of reprints from Moore Reasearch... Read more

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2.0 out of 5 stars You should probably pass....
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Published on January 10, 2005 by Yisterwald

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Money
The book was written 1997, do not get confused with the publishing date of 2003. The printed daily line charts are from 1997 without hardly any description. Read more

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Spread trading in one sense is exactly like outright trading and in another sense is distinctly different: the psychological component of spread trading requires all the internal rigor, commitment, and discipline of an outright long or short position. Read the first page

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average historical profit, historical daily return, current market fundamentals, outright trader, table equates, outright trading, spread trading, outright position, spread traders, lean hogs, spread relationships, trade maintenance, historical consistency, live hogs, winning trades, resourceful state, spread differentials, feeder cattle, full carry, live cattle, grain complex, trade strategies, spread strategy, top traders, front month

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Buy Dec, Sell Mar, Buy Jun, Sell Sep, Buy Sep, Average Profit, Average Loss, Percentage Correct, Protective Stop, Ave Pft Per Day, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Deutsche Mark, Average Net Profit Per Trade, Moore Research Center, Sell Jul Wheat, Buy Apr Live Cattle, Buy Mar Wheat, Leo Melamed, Buy Jul Wheat, Sell Jul Pork Bellies, Sell Jun Live Cattle, Sell Nov Soybeans, Buy Aug Live Hogs, Buy Nov Soybeans, Sell Feb Lean Hogs

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