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Trade Like a Casino: Find Your Edge, Manage Risk, and Win Like the House

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Product Description A detailed look at the common characteristics found in most successful traders While there are a variety of approaches to trading in the financial markets, profitable traders tend to share similar underlying characteristics. Most have a methodology that they believe will prove profitable over the long run and are willing to endure short-term setbacks. If you're looking to make the most of your time in today's markets, you need to understand what separates the best from the rest. And with Trade Like a Casino, you'll gain the knowledge needed to excel at this challenging endeavor. Engaging and informative, this reliable guide identifies and explains the key techniques and mental processes characteristic of successful traders. It reveals that successful traders operate very much like a casino in that they develop a method that gives them "positive expectancy" and they unflappably implement the method in the face of changing, and oftentimes volatile, market conditions. Page by page, the book explores the intricacies of methodology, mental control, and flexibility that allow traders to develop and maintain the casino-like edge. Reveals how many successful traders tend to follow the same general principles, even if their approach to trading may differ Explores how to account for the risk of being wrong and the market moving against you Discusses how to develop an approach that combines trade selection with sound risk management, avoids emotional attachment to positions, exploits volatility cycles, and focuses on market action Regardless of how you approach markets, the insights found here will help improve the way you trade by putting you in a better position to distinguish the differences between successful and unsuccessful traders. From the Inside Flap Trade Like a Casino 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. From the Back Cover Trade Like a Casino While trading is a difficult endeavor, it's still possib