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The Complete Guide to Futures Trading: What You Need to Know about the Risks and Rewards
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The Complete Guide to Futures Trading: What You Need to Know about the Risks and Rewards

by Lind-Waldock
June 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
312 pages
7h 38m
English
Wiley
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Foreword

As its title suggests, this landmark book makes futures trading accessible to mainstream individual investors. The determination of whether futures are right for your portfolio remains with each individual, but The Complete Guide to Futures Trading can serve as an expert advisor to help you make informed decisions about how to participate in the exciting derivatives markets.

Written by experienced industry practitioners, the book answers the questions a newcomer to futures and commodities trading might have about what it takes to establish an account and make a commitment to trading.

This is not a book about trading futures, however. It does not offer tips about a particular technical or fundamental approach to the markets. Instead, it serves as a bridge between having an interest in futures—yet knowing little about how to go about acting on that interest—and placing a trading order in your futures account. After reading it, you will know what questions to ask yourself and your brokers and other industry professionals when getting ready to establish a futures trading account.

Readers who are new to futures trading will be interested in the range of topics covered, because it will answer questions about how to get started trading commodity futures:

  • Which type of account is best for me?
  • What should I know about risk, leverage, and margin?
  • Is my comfort level with risk in line with what futures trading provides?
  • What questions should I ask when looking for a brokerage relationship? ...
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