The Swing Traders Bible: Strategies to Profit from Market Volatility

Matthew McCall · Mark Whistler

Dec 2008 · John Wiley & Sons

About this ebook

The Swing Trader's Bible provides traders with different strategies to capitalize on market fluctuations. The majority of the time, most markets move sideways, with no discernible long-term up or down trend. The key to making money in these kinds of markets is to sell when the market is near the top of its range and buy when it's near the bottom of its range. The authors explain how to use fundamental stock analysis and technical analysis to spot swing trading opportunities. They then provide very specific techniques for entering and exiting the market, including: channel analysis; momentum indicators; stock sector leaders/followers; market cycles; overbought/oversold indicators; trading volume; and money flows. The authors explain how to swing trade by taking outright positions in stocks or by using various options strategies. Most of the book is devoted to swing trading using individual stocks, but the authors also explain swing trading opportunities in stock indexes and in exchange-traded funds.

About the author

Matthew McCall, MBA, is founder and President of Penn Financial Group LLC, an investment advisory company that provides sophisticated advice to individual investors using the firm's proprietary research model. He publishes two newsletters: The ETF Bulletin and The PFG Bulletin, both of which provide buy/sell recommendations for individual stocks and ETFs. McCall has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, SmartMoney, and the Christian Science Monitor. He regularly writes for Investopedia.com and has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg, and BNN. McCall can now be found on Fox Business Network as a guest co-host as well as a regular contributor on Fox News Channel's number-one-rated business block on Saturday mornings.

Mark Whistler is the Senior Market Strategist for TradingMarkets.com, while also heading the Forex Force trading service. He is the founder of WallStreetRockStar.com and is also a columnist for traderdaily.com and Investopedia.com. Whistler has written two books, Trade with Passion and Purpose and Trading Pairs, both published by Wiley. In addition, he also coauthored Profit from China and Profit from Uranium, both published by Investment U/Wiley. Whistler also occasionally appears on CNBC. As a Forex expert, Whistler presents educational trading Webinars through FXStreet.com twice each week.