Product Description

Have you ever wondered how the top City traders make big profits from share trading? Do you know why the best investors know exactly when the market is going to rise or fall? And do you wish you could do the same?

By following 20 hard and fast rules,Trading Secrets shows you how you can make the same high returns as experienced investors and traders. Using historical, economic and technical trend analysis from the last fifty years, it identifies the ways for you to capitalise on such events as the clocks going back or moving forward, religious holidays, major sporting events and even the US presidential election.

Written for both experienced investors and also those with little knowledge of the stock market, Simon Thompson’s practical investing guide offers trading strategies that you can use over the short-term or the long-term. For instance, do you know how daylight changes affect how the stock market performs and, more importantly, how to make big gains by trading on this knowledge? Or do you know which sector has massively outperformed the market in the first quarter of the year – posting a quarterly return of 12 per cent – in all bar four years in the past three decades?

Trading Secrets uncovers all and more importantly explains why these trends occur, so that you can be confident your investments will pay off, even when the market is falling.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #68842 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Review
"A quick note to short-term traders looking for an edge. Don't miss Trading Secrets by Simon Thompson" - FT 24 Jan 09

From the Back Cover

Have you ever wondered how the top City traders make big profits from share trading? Do you know why the best investors know exactly when the market is going to rise or fall? And do you wish you could do the same?

By following 20 hard and fast rules,Trading Secrets shows you how you can make the same high returns as experienced investors and traders. Using historical, economic and technical trend analysis from the last fifty years, it identifies ways for you to capitalise on such events as the clocks going back or moving forward, religious holidays, major sporting events and even the US presidential election.

Written for both experienced investors and also those with little knowledge of the stock market, Simon Thompson’s practical investing guide offers trading strategies that you can use over the short-term or the long-term. It covers economic and stock market cycles so that you can be confident in your trading strategies, even when the market is falling.

Armed with Trading Secrets, investing will not only be enjoyable, but highly profitable too.

“Simon Thompson is arguably one of the best stock-pickers of his generation, and the consistent results produced by his strategies put professional fund managers to shame. He’s one of few financial journalists who can make investment analysis a gripping read!” 

Matthew Vincent, Personal Finance Editor, Financial Times

“He is always insightful and concise with an enviable track record of correctly identifying trends. Anyone who has listened to his advice will have weathered the downturn comfortably and will be ready to profit whatever the market conditions.”

Dr Stephen Barber, Head of Research, Selftrade

About the Author

Simon Thompson has been Companies Editor of Investors Chronicle, the UK’s leading magazine for private investors, since August 2000 and a finance journalist with The Financial Group in London over 10 years. His weekly Companies column for the Investors Chronicle is read by 35,000 online and magazine subscribers every week and is one of the most read sections of the magazine.

Simon has an excellent track record at market timing, including calling the top of the Dow Jones Industrial Average within four days of the index hitting an all-time high in July 2007. His bearish view of the stock market has proved spot on with the four index short trades recommended in his Companies column producing an average profit of 44 per cent in 2008.

Simon also has an outstanding record at stockpicking. Between 2004 and 2007 he gave 67 stock and index recommendations in his companies column in the Investors Chronicle of which 90 per cent showed a profit and an average gain of 33 per cent. In 2005, Simon had a 100 per cent track record with all sixteen of his recommendations in his column that year recording a profit.

Customer Reviews

Valuable addition to stock market traders' library
A book focused on market timing rather than individual stock picking. The author, drawing on research from Investors Chronicle, where he is companies editor, dissects historical, technical and economic data to find lessons for future investing. The book gives valuable insight into how the stock market works, its seasonal impact, when bull and bear markets are likely to start and end, and the times of the year when it is best to buy or sell, including in specific sectors. There is a lot of focus on technical indicators. I welcome this book not because it contains the wholly grail for stock market traders (no book does) but because it provides usable trading ideas and, more importantly, a comprehensive analysis of how the stock market has reacted to events, seasonal pressures and trends, and the historical odds that they will continue to do so.

A nice read
A nice and interesting read, based on a considerable amount of research. One could argue that some of the recommendations are pretty much a case of "crystal ball polishing".
An unconventional read...

Excellent read
This book is very well written and is done so in a very engaging style.

The book looks at the historical perfomance and trends of the main UK and US share indices around certain calendar events such as the US Presidential cycle, St Patricks Day, Yom Kippur etc , with each chapter ending with an easy to follow strategy. Given the current economic downturn, I particularly liked the way that he explained link between the average length of a bear market and how the ending of a bear market is relatively closely followed by a country coming out of recession.

Along with the statistical facts, the author attempts to also explain the underlying rationale as to why the markets have behaved in this trending manner and why it is likely they will continue to do so in the future. His one caveat of course is that in very turbulent bear markets, all statistical bets are likely to be off......so we may have to wait a year or two to put some of his strategies to the test.

All in all a very good, informative read and a book which would give stock traders of all levels some useful insights to improve their performance.