Trade Like A Casino: Find Your Edge, Manage Risk, And Win Like The House(ISBN=9780470933091)

Praise for Trade Like a Casino

"The good news is, you can trade for a living; the bad news—not everyone can do it. Richard Weissman provides technical and psychological tools to help you move into the winning group."— Dr. Alexander Elder author, Trading for a Living

"Discipline, risk, and psychology...to fully understand these concepts is to fully understand your trading potential. This indispensable book is a must-read for traders, from the aspiring to the professional."— Douglas Janson System Design Support Specialist and Trader, CQG, Inc.

"I highly recommend this book to anyone considering a career in trading. It was a fun read while providing insight on how to gain an edge toward being a successful trader!"— Jabree Brooks, Associate Oil Controller

"Richard Weissman does it again. Like no one else, he pinpoints key aspects of a trader's day-to-day thinking and activities, expanding on basic yet crucial principles like patience and discipline. His analysis is backed by extensive hands-on experience trading in numerous markets. Richard goes the extra mile giving both aspiring and well-seasoned traders precise tips and methodologies to keep their minds focused, alert and their eyes on the ball."— Frederic Bettan CEO, Managing Partner, Swing Capital Inc.

"This book gives you all you need. Richard Weissman brilliantly navigates through the various aspects of risk management to help the reader create and mend a speculative discipline."—James Shelton Chief Currency and Commodity Analyst, A-Live Quotes Inc.

While trading is a difficult endeavor, it's still possible to make money doing so in today's markets. The real question is: how can you achieve this goal?

What is required is adapting a successful existing business model to this speculative arena. The model that makes most sense is the "casino paradigm" and nobody understands it better than author Richard Weissman—a professional trader with over fifteen years of experience consulting and training traders and risk managers.

And now, with Trade Like a Casino, he reveals how successful traders tend to operate like a casino in that they develop a method that gives them "positive expectancy" and then unflappably implement their approach in the face of changing, and oftentimes volatile, market conditions. Page by page, this reliable resource explores the intricacies of methodology, mental control, and flexibility that allow traders to develop and maintain a casino-like edge. It also addresses some of the more complex issues that surround this model of successful speculative trading.

Divided into three comprehensive parts, Trade Like a Casino skillfully:

• Introduces the casino paradigm of trading with respect to the development of positive expectancy models, price risk management, and trader discipline

• Reveals the best-kept secret in trading, the cyclical nature of volatility, and offers insights on the tools needed to measure it

• Discusses the importance of timeframe analysis and one of the most important tools associated with it—time frame divergence

• Highlights a wide array of positive expectancy trend-following and mean reversion trading models

• Covers common trading pitfalls and how to transcend them as well as a wide variety of techniques for analyzing and improving trader performance

• Examines the psychological mindset required to succeed with a positive expectancy model

Successful traders don't need luck, since they consistently play the probabilities and manage risk. That's how casinos win, and with this book as your guide, that's how you'll learn to win in today's dynamic markets.

Richard L. Weissman is a trader, trading system developer, and educator on trading and risk management. As senior associate with the Energy Management Institute, he holds seminars and webinars for professionals on trading and risk management. Weissman is a former member and trader at the New York Futures Exchange. He has written articles on trading and technical analysis for a variety of industry publications and provides independent consulting services to traders and risk managers on technical analysis, derivatives, and trading system development. Weissman is also the author of the Wiley title Mechanical Trading Systems.