Recommended Spread Betting Books

    Inter Market Analysis

  • Intermarket Analysis

    Praise for "Intermarket Analysis": 'John Murphy has done it again. He dissects the global relationships between equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities like no one else can, and lays out an irrefutable case for intermarket analysis in plain English. This book is a ...(Read More)


    • Technical Analysis

  • The Visual Investor

    Praise for THE VISUAL INVESTOR

    "John Murphy is one of a rare breed: an expert technical analyst who can actually write. This combination of skills helped make his Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets a classic. Now John has written the perfect overview ai...(Read More)


  • Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets

    In the late 1980s John J. Murphy's massive Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets created an uproar when it burst upon the scene. The most comprehensive, yet easy-to-follow guide to the concepts of technical analysis and their applications to the futures markets, it ...(Read More)


    • Introductions to trading

  • Trading for a Living

    Trading for a Living Successful trading is based on three M’s: Mind, Method, and Money. Trading for a Living helps you master all of those three areas:

    • How to become a cool, calm, and collected trader
    • How to profit from reading the behavior of the market ...(Read More)


  • Come Into My Trading Room

    Come Into My Trading Room
    A Complete Guide to Trading

    You can become a successful trader. It has been done before, and it is being done right now, today, by people around the world. If you enjoy learning, if you are not scared of risk, if the rewards appeal to...(Read More)


    • Developing trading systems

  • Beyond Technical Analysis

    A technical analysis classic, newly updated to help traders develop and forward-test a high-performance trading system for today's markets In trading, a winning system is everything. While it is theoretically possible to buy a "canned" trading system, most experts agree...(Read More)


  • Business One Irwin Guide to Trading Systems

    The Business One Irwin Guide to Trading Systems provides in one easy-to-understand volume the most comprehensive and authoritative description of the theory, creation and use of mechanical trading systems ever published. Whether or not you have previous commodity future...(Read More)


    • Trading issues such as position sizing

  • Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom

    This title presents the bestselling holy grail of trading information - now brought completely up to date to give traders an edge in the marketplace. "Sound trading advice and lots of ideas you can use to develop your own trading methodology." - Jack Schwager, author of...(Read More)


    • Psychology and trading

  • Trading in the Zone

    In Trading in the Zone, Douglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistently profitable trades and helps traders overcome the deep-rooted mental habits that cost money. Douglas takes on the myths of the market and exposes them, one by one, teaching traders t...(Read More)


    • Interviews, autobiographies, biographies

  • Stock Market Wizards

    This decade has witnessed the most dynamic bull market in US stock history, a collapse in commodity prices, and dramatic failures in some of the world's leading hedge funds. How have some traders managed to significantly outperform a stock market that,until recently, mo...(Read More)


  • The New Market Wizards

    Like its predecessor "Market Wizards", this book offers practical advice on investing from some of the most prestigious Wall Street professional in a personal, anecdotal style. With inside stories of both the brilliant successes and the self-inflicted failures experienc...(Read More)


  • Market Wizards

    How do some of the world's most successful traders amass millions of dollars in a year - or sometimes in hours? Are they masters of a priceless wizardry or simply the very lucky winners in a random market lottery that allows only a few players to become fantastically we...(Read More)


  • The New Market Wizards

    Praise for THE NEW MARKET WIZARDS

    "Jack Schwager simply writes the best books about trading I′ve ever read. These interviews always give me a lot to think about. If you like learning about traders and trading, you′ll find that reading this book is tim...(Read More)


  • Stock Market Wizards

    This decade has witnessed the most dynamic bull market in US stock history, a collapse in commodity prices, and dramatic failures in some of the world's leading hedge funds. How have some traders managed to significantly outperform a stock market that,until recently, mo...(Read More)


    • Specific techniques

  • How I Made $2 Million in the Stock Market

    How I Made $2 million in the Stock Market is an extraordinary book. It tells one of the most unusual success stories in the history of the stock market. Darvas was not a stock market professional trading on inside information. He was one half of the highest paid danc...(Read More)


  • Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

    "Although Reminiscences...was first published some seventy years ago, its take on crowd psychology and market timing is a s timely as last summer's frenzy on the foreign exchange markets." -Worth magazine "The most entertaining book written on investing is Reminiscences...(Read More)


  • New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems

    New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems presents six original and definitive technical trading systems plus the renowned Relative Strength Index which is charted daily for each market by most chart services in the US. The book is based on the premise that no single...(Read More)


  • Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques

    Traditional Western methods for chart analysis (the basis of all technical analyses) 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...(Read More)


  • Bollinger on Bollinger Bands

    This is the first comprehensive traders' guide to using Bollinger Bands from the man who created them. It includes a handy Bollinger Bands reference card. Over the past two decades, thousands of veteran traders have come to view Bollinger Bands as the most representativ...(Read More)


  • The Definitive Guide to Point and Figure

    Point and Figure charts are one of the great secrets of the Technical Analysis world. Highly sophisticated and with a thoroughbred pedigree, they can, however, be overlooked by traders today. This should change with the long-awaited publication of this book. Jeremy du P...(Read More)


@pryormalcolm

  • S&P500 index up 12 on the day to 1324, following the 4 down closes in a row. Lot of selling in the last 45 minutes, from days high at 1330.
    01 Feb
  • 4 lower closes in a row for S&P500 index but new swing low in place (low of 2nd day below lows of 1st and 3rd day) - tentative support
    31 Jan
  • Link to first part of my interview in Australian based magazine Your Trading Edge available at http://t.co/8csyrQ1E
    26 Jan
  • Many US stocks were in negative territory early Wednesday but a persistent rally pushed S&P index to new 6 month high
    26 Jan
  • In UK, 7 out of 38 sectors both in an up trend and out performing the overall market, for details go to http://t.co/8csyrQ1E
    21 Jan
  •  Follow Malcolm