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A Profitable Trading Strategy That Fits Between Day Trading and Long-Term Investing

"If you think the fifty-year-old practice of buy and hold is passé, you might add Swing Trading to your tool kit for the next decade or two."
——Dean LeBaron
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"All traders know the power of a good idea, and Markman’s Swing Trading is loaded with great ideas. The profiles of successful traders and in-depth research studies can help you gain a fresh perspective and a trading edge."
——Price Headley
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"Jon Markman’s writing mirrors the characteristics you need to be a great trader: the precision of a scientist, the insights of a psychologist, and the wit and wisdom of a storyteller."
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In today’s fast-moving, nerve-wracking market how can investors find and execute profitable trades without establishing an around-the-clock vigil on their positions? The answer is swing trading–a proven strategy that fits between day-trading and buy-and-hold, guiding traders to stocks and indices that can be held profitably for weeks or months rather than days or years.

In Swing Trading: Power Strategies to Cut Risk and Boost Profits, bestselling author and fund manager Jon Markman zeroes in on intermediate-term swing trading methods, and details the tools that will help you play and win at a game once dominated by professionals.

There are many ways to find success as a swing trader and this book explains some of the best through interviews with successful veterans of the craft. In each chapter you’ll meet the traders, learn their favorite swing set-ups, and discover their approaches to position management. You’ll be introduced to a variety of wily, thoughtful pros and their techniques, including:

Hedge fund manager and research publisher Terry Bedford, and the numerous chart patterns he uses to find entries and exits for swing trades–as well as an explanation of the fundamentals of swing trading
Private trader and research publisher Bert Dohmen, and how he keeps cool when the technical indicators on his charts are flying low and fast
Options trader George Fontanills, and his unique approach to finding multi-month short sales of crashing companies

But that’s not all. You’ll also receive an up-close look at author Jon Markman’s own successful swing trading techniques and strategies. He’ll show you how to find stocks to hold for a month or more by leveraging online tools, including the StockScouter rating system at MSN Money, as well as his own HiMARQ stock seasonality metrics.

Filled with practical advice from seasoned veterans, real-world examples, and historical perspectives, Swing Trading provides a very comprehensive look at intermediate-term swing trading. This valuable book offers clear, step-by-step guidance that will allow you to apply the swing trading methodology to any portfolio–without making it a full-time job.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Wiley (January 17, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471206784
ISBN-13: 978-0471206781
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #368,708 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars S.O.S., March 12, 2003

By	Benjamin Tse (Holbrook, NY United States) - See all my reviews

To the previous reviews regarding the work of Alan Farley, it is much like this book; Complete and utter tripe. Beginners will enjoy the chapters by Bradford and Eherlinger. They seem to be the only chapters of any worth. Jon Markman's slick presentation seems to be another advertisement for msn money's web site and their "screener". Gimme a break, there's a myriad of books on Technical Analysis saying all the same things....moving averages, oscillators, neural nets, support and resistance, and whatever other topics they decide to drudge up. Books like this are much like the field of economics; filled with information, yet have no consistent predictive value. If you want a solid book on TA or swing trading, read Edwards and Magee or Conway and Behle. Other than that, you can skim this book at your local Borders.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Swing Trader Lite, March 5, 2003

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If you want to dabble in swing trading without any scientific discipline, then this is the book for you. This book has none of the muscle of Alan Farley's Master Swing Trader or other books that contain far more information about swing trading, which seems so simple on the surface but in fact is a difficult, if not impossible, profession. This is just a very late attempt to capitalize on a fad, but which fails to deliver any additional insight on the subject.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Home Run Swing, March 14, 2003

By	Brett Steenbarger (Naperville, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I came to this book with positive expectations, and I wasn't disappointed. Jon Markman is a market researcher and a professional trader, so he has the all-too-rare advantage among writers of trading texts of actually knowing his subject matter. Equally important, however, he is an accomplished financial journalist whose contributions have regularly graced the MSN Money/CNBC site. Having worked with Jon on a number of columns for the site, I can vouch for the seriousness and integrity of his commitment to financial journalism. Before reading Swing Trading, I knew that it would be refreshingly free of hype, self-promotion, and the kinds of misleading presentations so common in the trading world.

The format of the book calls to mind Jack Schwager's classic Market Wizards books, as each chapter is devoted to an exemplary practitioner of swing trading. There the analogy ends, however. While the chapters do include interesting personal details about the traders, they are not transcripts of interviews. Rather, they are attempts to capture the swing trading styles of each of the subjects, describe the styles in down-to-earth terms, and illustrate them with copious examples. The result is a fascinating potpourri of approaches to trading the markets over periods ranging from days to months.

The potpourri includes charting methods from Terry Bedford, trend-following techniques from Bert Dohmen, momentum-based strategies from George Fontanills, Markman's own work with the StockScouter ranking system and HiMARQ seasonality patterns, Richard Rhodes' macroeconomic approach, and the sentiment-based work of Phil Erlanger. Each chapter attempts to show readers how they can duplicate the traders' work for themselves using readily available web-based charting and screening tools. The chapters also summarize trading rules from the pros that capture useful advice for both rookie and seasoned traders.

It is this practical aspect of the book that makes it stand out from its peers. The chapter on Bedford, for example, not only delineates chart patterns, but details methods for determining profit targets and setting stops to reduce losses. In the Fontanills chapter, Markman details how to zero in on high momentum stocks using MSN Money charts and Excel spreadsheets. His own chapter contains very useful hints on combining parameters in the StockScouter system, such as sector strength and market cap, to identify strong and weak stocks over short swing periods. Any of these ideas is more than you'd get from the average high-priced trading seminar.

If I have one reservation about Swing Trading is that we don't hear more from Markman-the-journalist at the end of the book. A final chapter, integrating the material and drawing common themes from the book's subjects, would have be informative and useful for readers who want to adapt the material to their own trading styles. My sense is that the common threads are present: each of the traders profiled has immersed themselves in market patterns, researched these thoroughly, and found ways of framing trades as hypotheses based upon these patterns. By firmly grounding each trade in a well-defined pattern, the traders readily recognize when positions are not yielding expected results and exit without undue damage to their equity.

Reading this book for the methods of entry but also the risk management and exits will yield insights even for more active, intraday traders. Swing Trading is a worthy complement to Markman's equally useful book Online Investing.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not very useful
This book seems more interested in promoting screening tools and stock picking web sites and newsletters than it is in informing a stock trader.

Published 3 months ago by R. Williams

3.0 out of 5 stars Its a good start! But its not enough
I have purchased and read this book and therefore this review is written by someone who has actually experienced it! Read more

Published 15 months ago by Tian Jhen Hao

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to understand
This is a great book in that it teaches concepts you hear about all the time, but it takes the time to spell them out, and provide examples. Read more

Published on October 13, 2007 by Harry A. Hartley

4.0 out of 5 stars Lives up to its title.
Brilliant!Apart from chapter 3 and 4 of this 6 chapter book where 3 is weighed down by one mans seemingly complicated approach to stock selection and 4 being a plug for anothers... Read more

Published on September 28, 2007 by M. Shane G. Hanson

4.0 out of 5 stars lots of ideas here
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Published on February 28, 2005 by Dave P

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for Beginners!
Wonderful book! The very first chapter by Terry Bedford is an excellent, easy to read, chapter on technical analysis applied to the top 10 or most common technical patters that... Read more

Published on December 27, 2004 by C. D. HOYT

1.0 out of 5 stars Title is misleading!
This book will not teach to how to become a swing trader or improve your swing trading skills. Of all the books on trading that I have seen, there is only one that truly addresses... Read more

Published on September 11, 2004 by Steven Phillips

1.0 out of 5 stars Swing trading - really?
This book claims to be about swing-trading, that place in-between day-trading and long-term investing. Read more

Published on September 5, 2004 by R. Baird

5.0 out of 5 stars Great and Excellent Book for the novice trader
I am new in the Stock Market and in the process of getting information to invest. I must say I really enjoyed this book. The techniques explained, were very useful to me. Read more

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