Trading For Dummies, 5ed
Publication Year: 2025
Description
Trading For Dummies, 5e is a book for investors looking to take their portfolios to a higher level. Learn how to assume more risk, reap more benefits, and build a more aggressive portfolio through the methods of position trading, which involves due diligence, analyzing trends and key indicators, and a longer holding period than day trading or even swing trading.
Updates:
- How to trade in what will likely be a turn toward downward market during a recession, as well as how to prepare for the subsequent economic turn upward
- Update how to work with Stockcharts.com to match current charting interface
- Expand chapter on ETFs, which have become more popular trading vehicles during the turbulent market conditions
- Overview of various trading styles in current turbulent market conditions
Table of Contents
Part 1: Getting Started with Trading 5
Chapter 1: The Ups and Downs of Trading Stocks 7
Chapter 2: Exploring Markets and Stock Exchanges 19
Chapter 3: Going for Broke(r): Discovering Brokerage Options 31
Chapter 4: Putting Your Key Business Tool to Work: The Computer 47
Part 2: Reading the Fundamentals: Fundamental Analysis 63
Chapter 5: Fundamentals 101: Observing Market Behavior 65
Chapter 6: Digging Into Fundamental Analysis 83
Chapter 7: Listening to Analyst Calls 103
Part 3: Reading the Charts: Technical Analysis 117
Chapter 8: Seeing Is Believing: An Introduction to Technical Analysis 119
Chapter 9: Reading Bar Charts Is Easy (Really) 131
Chapter 10: Following Trends to Boost Your Probability of Success 151
Chapter 11: Calculating Indicators and Oscillators 167
Part 4: Developing Strategies for When to Buy and Sell Stocks 189
Chapter 12: Money Management Techniques: Building a More Robust Portfolio 191
Chapter 13: Combining Fundamental and Technical Analyses for Optimum Strategy 209
Chapter 14: Minimizing Trading Risks Using Exchange-Traded Funds 229
Chapter 15: Executing Your Trades 239
Chapter 16: Developing Your Own Powerful Trading System 257
Part 5: Risk-Taker's Paradise 277
Chapter 17: The Basics of Swing Trading 279
Chapter 18: The Basics of Day Trading 293
Chapter 19: Doing It by Derivatives 309
Chapter 20: Going Foreign (Forex) 327
Part 6: The Part of Tens 343
Chapter 21: More Than Ten Huge Trading Mistakes 345
Chapter 22: Ten Trading Survival Techniques 353