| FundVision Books Related to TA and Trading
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The Visual Investor
(by John J. Murphy)
An excellent primer for getting an investor up and running with TA. Mr Murphy starts of gently, slowly explaining the basic concepts and then takes the readers to new 'heights' of TA. Initial chapters describing 'Trend' and the various chart patters are very informative. The 'indicators' are coverered well, though I thought that if Mr Murphy would have covered a few more, it would have been better. Later chapters Linkages, Sectors and Rotation give in-depth insights that are very useful for a trader.
Section 4 of this books concentrates on MFs are conclusions drawn at the end of section sum-up the feelings of Mr Murphy about MFs well.
The book used to contain a CD for software Wall Street Analyst SE and 1 month subscription for Dial-Data. This CD really got me going. The Chapter 'Resources' describes wide selection for the indivusial investors well. All in all I'll say this is a 'must-read' for anyone starting TA.
This book has found a permanent front position on my book-shelf.
(Trivia: The name FundVision has its roots in Mr Murphy's calling TA as 'Visual Investing'.)
- Salil V Gangal (July 4, 1999)
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Technical Analysis Explained
(by Martin J. Pring)
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Trading for a Living
(by Dr. Alexander Elder)
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Getting Started in TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
(by Jack D. Schwager)
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How I Trade For A Living
(by Gary Smith)
A good book written by an ex-fundvisionary !
In this book, Gary offers his simple trading rules. (I like to look at those as 'rules-of-thumb'.) Some of them involve watching for some simple things such as the 'True Selling Day', 'The Rydex Asset Level' and trading based on it and guestimating what the market will do next.
Chatpter 11 'Monthly Seasonality', gives various seasonality patters. Chapter 14 and 15 concentrate on trading Mutual Funds and Junk Bond Funds, somthing that's central to FundVision.
Gary has written (page 230) 'I'm hopeful that many of the ideas and strategies presented in this book will enable you to bypass the number of years it took me to reach my trading goal.'. IMO this book indeed satisfies this purpose.
- Salil V Gangal (November 13, 1999)
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The New Market Wizards
(by Jack D. Schwager)
Too often, perhaps ad-nauseum, we hear that 'Market Timing is a Loser's Game' and that the 'Best way to invest is Passive/Indexing' from some of the theory-oriented money managers. So this book is like refreshing music for the ears tired of hearing the above lines.
'New Market Wizards' is a collection of interviews with America's top traders. The interviews are conducted by Mr Schwager, himself a top trader. It gives success stories of the real-life traders who have made it big. If one want to draw some inspiration/motivation, then this book IMO is a 'must-read'.
The most important 'lesson' (if you will) I derived from this is that one can be taught to become a superior trader. The living examples of these are the 'Turtle Traders', who basically were 'ordinary' folks without any trading carrier and who were taught by Mr Richard Dennis, to become superior traders.
The interview with Mr Gil Blake is especially relevant for the folks who do trading/timing using mutual funds as Mr Blake exclusively uses Mutual Funds for his trading. Also, Mr Blake prides himself as someone who is an 'outsider' to Wall Street.
- Salil V Gangal (July 4, 1999)
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The Disciplined Trader
(by Mark Douglas)
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Technical Analysis from A to Z
(by Steven B. Achelis)
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