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The Master Swing Trader: Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities [Hardcover]

Alan Farley (Author)
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December 13, 2000
Swing trading is gaining popularity as a powerful method to increase returns—and potentially lower risks—by profiting from short-term price moves. The Master Swing Trader explains how traders can use technical analysis, charting, and market sentiment to make trades that hold through price fluctuations and noise with wider stops. This complete, practical guide to making profitable short-term trades—based on the author’s popular “Mastering the Trade” online course—uses dozens of charts and graphs to illustrate proven swing trading concepts and strategies. Experienced day, position, and online traders will benefit immediately from: - The 7 Bells – unique tools to uncover promising short-term prospects - Techniques to profit from low-risk short sales - The 4 repeating cycles for perfectly timed trades

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From the Back Cover

Powerful Strategies to Slip Between Day Traders and Long-Term Investors—and Grab Hidden Trading Profits!

Located in the gray area between the lightning-fast day trader and the endlessly patient buy-and-hold investor, the modern swing trader executes intermediate positions that offer highly lucrative results with less volatility. The Master Swing Trader contains a wealth of practical insights and information for using this powerful trading method to profit from short-term price moves often missed by other market participants. After beginning with a detailed background on Pattern Cycle applications and the trend-range axis, The Master Swing Trader presents:
* Dozens of specific trading strategies and setups that include precise reward, risk, and stop-loss considerations
* Concrete tips, tactics, and workflows to make informed choices at each stage of short-term trade evolution
* The 7 Bells – unique tools to uncover high-probability short-term trading prospects

With more than 200 charts and dozens of proprietary setups that illustrate both classic and highly original short-term tactics, The Master Swing Trader doesn’t leave your trading profits to chance. Coldly analytical and backed by real-time trading results, this proven course for short-term traders will help you improve your bottom line, lessen your risks—and increase your confidence in building solid profits in today’s volatile markets!

Biased news stories spun by insiders to manipulate options prices…Questionable stocks pushed by analysts so their trading departments can unload bloated inventories … Quick-trigger day traders chasing the latest chat room buzz …

Today’s top market players understand that our "efficient" markets are actually highly inefficient, driven by insiders with hidden agendas and an irrational pack mentality that has little to do with underlying value. Fortunately, this constant imbalance generates repeated, high-probability trade setups—and Alan Farley’s The Master Swing Trader reveals how you can find and profit from these difficult-to-spot opportunities before they disappear.

Farley’s innovative system is based on Pattern Cycles—shifting market stages that repeat in an orderly, predictable process through all price charts and time frames. These classic Pattern Cycles:
* Describe the machine language within market opportunity
* Reveal the origin of the trade setup
* Explain how to capitalize on inefficiency through every bull and bear phase
* Show exactly where to uncover consistent profit opportunities
* Offer natural methods to shift tactics quickly as conditions change
* Predict the impact of the emotional crowd on trend, range, and price development

The Master Swing Trader will help you apply Pattern Cycles to your advantage, over and over again. By encompassing virtually all market action, and revealing how price moves in a highly predictable manner, its powerful tools will give you the edge you need to take other people’s money before they take yours.

In today’s lightning-fast markets, open information makes profit opportunities decidedly more difficult to spot and capitalize upon—with the investing herd becoming far more skilled at spotting inefficiencies and closing them up quickly. The Master Swing Trader will teach you to recognize these trade setups one step ahead of the crowd, dive in for solid profits, and close out your position before the majority has even caught on.

Pattern Cycles are not easy or automatic; they require concentration, discipline, and skilled execution. But the payoff of these classic strategies is virtually unlimited. Turn to page 1 of The Master Swing Trader now, and open a new world of trading possibilities and profits—the world of the master swing trader!

About the Author

Alan S. Farley is publisher and editor of the Hard Right Edge web portal (www.hardrightedge.com), a well-respected resource for short-term trading that provides thousands of traders and investors with free educational materials covering technical analysis, short-term trading tactics, and more. An accomplished private trader and nationally recognized educator on technical analysis and short-term trading tactics, Farley has been featured in Barron’s, SmartMoney, Tech Week, Active Trader, MoneyCentral, Los Angeles Times, Online Investor, and TheStreet.com.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 443 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 13, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0071363092
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071363099
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.7 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (288 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #326,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Alan Farley is a private trader and publisher of Hard Right Edge http://www.hardrightedge.com, a comprehensive resource for trader education, technical analysis, and short-term trading techniques. He is author of the McGraw-Hill best-seller "The Master Swing Trader", and popular columnist for The Street.com. Alan has been on the market scene for well over a decade as a trader, adviser, and author. He is a powerful lecturer on swing trading, including the original strategies and tactics found at Hard Right Edge.

Alan is a frequent contributor to CNBC. He has also been featured in Fidelity Outlook, Forbes, Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, Barrons, Smart Money, Futures Magazine, Tech Week, Active Trader, MSN Money, Technical Investor, Bridge Trader, Online Investor, America-Invest, the Los Angeles Times, and Trading Markets.

Customer Reviews

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436 of 453 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I realize there are many people who are very passionate about this book, but I am not one of them.

I bought this book when it first came out and have tried multiple times to get something out of it. I just can't. It is an impressive looking book to flip through, though. There are complicated looking charts throughout, and the natural first thought is how exciting it will be to be able to utilize these charts and the tools behind them. I kept reading and reading, waiting for him to get to his point. It just never comes. And the book is written in this almost sing-song like tone. I wish I was an English major so I could better describe it. It's almost like reading an endless string of fortune cookies. Here's a random example from a random page I just opened up to (all of the writing in the book is just like this): "Modify personal style frequently as skills grow. Experience awakens fresh tactics. Trading rules should not strangle fresh ideas. Update them to incorporate your trading evolution. Decide where to place focus at the beginning of each market day. Choose wisely and setups will explode as predicted." Picture over 400 pages of this kind of writing and you have this book.

I realize I will get panned by those who are, for some reason, really into this book. I am writing this review to try to appeal to those who can be objective. There is a common thread among the negative reviews for this book. Pay attention to it. It is not just a coincidence.

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129 of 138 people found the following review helpful
Wrong Title August 9, 2005
Format:Hardcover
After reading this book, I thought that the author is extremely dishonest, and that the book should be named as

"Swing Rambling On Specially Selected Stock Charts By A Random Mind".

If there is anything that could be called "new" in this "book", it is the dishonesty of the writer who made such "tardemark-claim" on the so-called "seven bells". Yet there is nothing, not a single "bell" is defined in any way, even not defined loosely. That's only useful for the writer: since nobody could test it, or claim whether or not they actually work. Sound familiar? Uh!!! It reminded me the infamous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

I would like to give the writer a second chance: If he could define a single thing out of the "7 bells" on this board, I will be more glad to tell him what is wrong with his "work."
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64 of 66 people found the following review helpful
Didn't even Finish the Book February 19, 2005
Format:Hardcover
This book was too abstract for a trading book and didn't have much substance. There really isn't much you can use in this book to actually make trades with. Farley is basically a legend in his own mind I think. If you want a good book that has a lot of substance and will actually teach you how to trade, get 'how to profit in bull and bear markets' by stan weinstein, I consistantly make money from the techniques and ideas in that book. Take care, Bob.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Don't waste your money on this book!
This book is poorly written, piled up with a lot of junk orderlessly.

I could not find anything useful in the entire book. It wasted my money. I trashed my copy! Read more
Published 2 days ago by L. Yang
Curiously, it both is and is not what it seems
Folks criticizing this book don't seem to understand that momentum and volume will vary from endpoint to endpoint, and manifestation to manifestation. Read more
Published 1 month ago by listen440hz
Good book
very good book. the best of them . I really expect to be able to apply everything that ive learned.
Published 2 months ago by THIAGO
The scholar who loves to listen to himself.
Doctor Von Babbling does a good job of writing in superb English but does a lousy job of giving you anything of value to use in the field. Read more
Published 14 months ago by M. A. Belanger
I smell a rat
Something tells me all those five star reviews were written by the same person. The big question is (All you Sherlock Holmeses out there): who?
Published 14 months ago by S. Stepanyan
If you told how to make money in stocks, no one would believe you.
That sums up this book. Hidden in this tomb are the secretes to trading success. But the as seen from the many negative reviews, the average person will not even recognize... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Dene
Swing trading basics
I found this book to be very helpful in my trading education. Adam Farley's perspective on the "herd" mentality opened my eyes to how important it is to understand the public... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Arley R. Bedillion
The Swing Trading Masterpiece !
I know there are a lot of negative reviews for this book.
I have to admit that the first time I read it, I didn't understand anything and put it away. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Jerome I.
A Must-Have....
Even though the cost of a new book is kind of spendy, if you are a student of the markets, this is one of those books that is a must-have for your library. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Eddie K
A spaghetti mess of "good information"...
I have to agree with the some of the other reviews I've seen on this book. There is
a lot of good content and ideas presented, but I found it very difficult to extract... Read more
Published 17 months ago by CShort
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Swing traders must compete against the best-informed crowd in history. Read the first page
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many swing traders, personal trading plan, swing tactics, most swing traders, double top failure, parabolic rallies, master swing trader, relativity errors, central tendency tools, charting landscape, deep pullback, promising setups, directional price movement, trend leg, chosen holding period, major selloff, rob profits, new short sales, intraday setups, profitable setups, lower time frame, major moving averages, continuation gap, candlestick reversal pattern, short sale opportunity
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