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by Alpesh Patel (Author)
Front Jacket
"Most traders keep their secret recipes under lock and key. In The Online Trading Cookbook, Alpesh, a trading legend, serves his up on a plate!"
Clem Chambers, CEO, ADVFN.com
"Simply laid out, fantastically explained and easy to follow. An essential companion for the online trader, this latest one from Alpesh, The Online Trading Cookbook lays out clearly how (just like observing a recipe), the right systems and technology should be used to trade online for success. Given the correct ingredients both in the kitchen and in trading, with a little effort, one can sit back and relax and hopefully enjoy the fruits of success!"
Sapna Kandakuri, Wealth Management, Coutts Bank
"The Online Trading Cookbook pulls off a near impossible task. Not only does it demystify a notoriously opaque subject but actually makes it entertaining. The lid of the traders' black box has finally been well and truly removed."
John Watson, Co-Chairman, CNBC Arabiya
"At last someone brave enough to explain trading clearly - we can't all read a trading manual - but we can all read a recipe."
Justin Urquhart Stewart, Co-Founder 7 Investment Management
"Markets have evolved significantly over time led by globalisation, technology, higher volumes and innovative instruments. However, the most important aspect of investment has remained unchanged - the human emotion of greed and fear. As a result, the same patterns of price behaviour are repeated over and over. Alpesh's new book provides an invaluable guide to trading using charts illustrating these price patterns in a unique and easy to understand recipe format."
Jayesh Manek, CEO and Investment Manager, Manek Investments
"Alpesh provides as ever as the leading authority in his field clear and concise guide to making profits from proven trading strategies."
Gaurav Saraf, CEO, Epiphany Ventures (an LM Mittal invested fund)
Back Jacket
The Online Trading Cookbook is a unique resource for busy online traders of all levels, addressing the need amongst the growing number of those trading and investing from home for solid, low risk trading strategies which they can incorporate into a busy lifestyle. Suitable for all levels of retail trader and is supplemented by useful advice on the best trading tools, websites and brokers, the different markets available to trade, tips on risk and money management.
The book is divided into sections based on levels of complexity and contains specific strategies used by profitable hedge funds as well as strategies used by other professionals, all of which can be implemented by private investors. The opening chapter discusses the professional tools traders will need, from multi-screen hardware, best websites, trading software, data services, brokers, trading products and the types of traders suited to each type of trading. The following chapters give concise novice, intermediate and advanced strategies for short and long term traders.
The cookbook format is one of the most popular for teaching complicated subjects. Trading skills are presented and learnt as simply as recipes. This book provides exactly that from trading strategies to risk and money management. Each page presents as ingredients what the trader needs to do, the tools and the preparation with successful examples illustrated on the facing page. Both the proven format and its simplicity are compelling and unique in their application to trading.
Written by two celebrated experts in the field, The Online Trading Cookbook is the perfect starting point for anyone wishing to learn to trade or for advanced traders wishing to further their knowledge.
Author Biography
Alpesh Patel launched asset management company Praefinium Partners in 2004. He is a former Visiting Fellow in Business and Industry at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. He has written 13 books on trading, translated into 8 languages. For Bloomberg TV he co-presented shows for three years as their in-house online trading specialist. He has had over 200 columns on trading published in the Financial Times through his Diary of an Internet Trader column. He is the founder of investingbetter.com which is an online trading education company and has his own investment software in partnership with Sharescope.
Alpesh has lectured on trading from Beijing and San Francisco to Guatemala and from Spain to India, Singapore and Hong Kong. Alpesh is also the founder of TraderMindMarkets.com, an online trading portal and alpeshpatel.com offering FX education as well as eglobaltrades.com, an online FX broker. He writes the TheTraderFather.com blog.
Paresh Kiri has vast experience as a floor trader on the world's second largest derivatives exchange LIFFE and as a Portfolio Manager. He is an FSA regulated investment manager.
Starting his career on the LIFFE floor in 1993, Paresh was one of the first traders to embrace screen trading, through the LIFFE online trading platform APT (Automated Pit Trading). Paresh was one of the founders of Kyte Securities. Since leaving Eden Financial in 1999, Paresh has been managing private client and institutional money, and developing very specific operational services going back to Kyte Group to assist the development of an Index Options Desk, and seeking ways of bringing the strategies he developed to the wider public audience by structuring managed accounts services using on-line trading platforms. Paresh regularly coaches and holds private seminars on trading the markets. He sits on the Advisory Board of Sterling Group.
