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Gold trading boot camp : how to master the basics and become a successful commodities investor /

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This book combines personal reminiscences, economic analyses and trading know-how. Gregory T. Weldon tries with some success to balance these three important elements, but readers are likely to be most interested in his trading advice. To convey it in detail, the book relies heavily on charts. One a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weldon, Gregory, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, ©2007.
Series:Business book summary.
Subjects:
Gold.
Gold > Purchasing.
Commodity exchanges.
Gold > United States.
Gold > Purchasing > United States.
Commodity exchanges > United States.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine derived contents note: Table of Contents
  • Part I: Evolution of a Trader
  • 1. Trial by Fire
  • 2. Neophytes and Neanderthals
  • 3. The Show
  • 4. The Firm
  • 5. Character
  • Part II: Evolution of a Macro-Monetary Era
  • 6. ?Top-Down?, It Starts at the Top
  • 7. The Golden ?Bull?
  • 8. Bretton Woods and the ?System?
  • 9. Seniorage
  • 10. The Gold Bug is Born
  • 11. The Emperor with No Clothes
  • Part III: Welcome to My Boot Camp: Looking Inside the Market: Top-Down
  • 12. Welcome to My Boot Camp
  • 13. The Tape tells a story? Intermarket Analysis
  • 14. Who?s on first? Know the Players.
  • Part IV: Boot Camp: Looking Inside the Market: Technically
  • 15. Reading the Tea Leaves? Technical Analysis
  • 16. Charts
  • 17. Moving Averages
  • 18. Oscillators
  • 19. Rate-of-Change Indicators
  • 20. Fibonacci Retracements
  • 21. Historic Volatility and Volatility Bands
  • 22. Volume, OBV, and Money Flow
  • 23. The COT Report.
  • Part V: Boot Camp: Looking Inside the Market: Macro-US
  • 24. Again, Everything MATTERS!
  • 25. US Monetary Fundamentals and the Fed
  • 26. Energy Market Fundamentals
  • 27. Global-Macro Trade and the US Consumer
  • 28. US Macro-Fiscal Fundamentals
  • 29. Macro-Inflation and Labor Market Fundamentals
  • 30. Macro-US Housing and the Consumer
  • Part VI: Trend Identification and Momentum Trading
  • 31. WHY ? Trend Identification ?
  • 32. Trend Identification Techniques ? Momentum, Timing, and Trading the Trend.
  • 33. Countertrend Trading ? Divergence, Saturation and Exhaustion
  • 34. The ?TIMID? Matrix
  • Part VII: Defining and Managing Risk
  • 35. Defining Overall ?Risk?
  • 36. Diversity
  • 37. Position Leverage
  • 38. Trade Risk
  • 39. Correlated Risk
  • 40. Sector and Portfolio Risk
  • 41. Psychological Risk
  • Part VIII: Putting it All Together
  • Chart Library
  • 42. Putting it ALL Together
  • 43. Global Supply-Demand Fundamentals: The Mining Industry, Gold Consumption, Gold Holdings, and Central Banks
  • 44. Chart Library
  • Appendix: Precious Metals: A Secular-Macro Overview.