Trading Bookshelf

Anyone looking for a good introduction to options trading faces a crowded field of books. Most are atrocious get-rich-quick books targeted to unsophisticated individual investors. Fortunately for professionals, there are a few gems. If you are new to options trading, Natenberg's Option Volatility & Pricing should be the first book you read. It is practical, insightful, and will get you started in the right direction. It is also surprisingly sophisticated for an introductory text. I've been in this business many years, but Natenberg was still able to teach me a thing or two.

In the New York Times bestseller The Roaring 2000s, Harry S. Dent, Jr., forecast a booming market that will continue to rise through the first eight years of the twenty-first century. Now in The Roaring 2000s Investor, Dent turns his uncanny ability to see our economic future to the specific strategies you can use to get the life you want now and for the rest of your days.

In clear and concise terms, author and chartered market technician Bruce Kamich explains the basics of charting and analysis and how, by using the technical analysis approach, investors can identify trends, buy at the bottom, sell near the top. Written for today's volatile market, kamich offers a tested approach to technical analysis that can be used as a timing tool, a selection tool, and, most important, a risk management tool.

Traditional Western methods for chart analysis (the basis of all technical analysis) use bar or points and figure charts. Yet over 100 years before these methods originated, the Japanese were using their own style of technical analysis for use in the rice futures market.