The fun and easy way to get started in currency trading

Want to capitalize on the growing forex market? This nuts-and-bolts guide gives you a step-by-step action plan for understanding and trading the forex market. It offers practical guidance and savvy tips in everything from comprehending currency quotes to using leverage, trading with fundamentals, and navigating technical analysis.

• Identify trading opportunities
• Understand what drives the market
• Choose a trading broker
• Execute a successful trade
• Minimize risk and maximize profit
• Analyze currency charts

This no-nonsense book takes a uniquely blunt look at the realities of trading. Filled with real-life examples and intended for use by both short- and long-term traders, it explores each aspect of successful trading.

The Ed Ponsi Forex Playbook offers a visual approach to learning specific trading strategies and identifying profitable trading opportunities in the Forex arena. Page by page, it skillfully describes strategies for long-term trading, swing trading, and day trading in a clear, easy-to-understand manner.

Written by the author of the hugely successful Forex Patterns and Probabilities, The Ed Ponsi Forex Playbook takes the entire concept of Forex education to a new level. The author raises the bar with this ambitious work, presenting fresh new strategies and concepts. Ponsi uses clever analogies and comparisons to make his explanations crystal clear.

• With Ponsi as your "coach", the book employs sports analogies to show you, his players, the way to victory on the Forex playing field
• Strips away the mystery, showing exactly how successful Forex traders make money
• Explains complex financial concepts in ways that the average person can understand
• Provides not only useful information, but actionable information to the Forex trader

The foreign exchange market is the most actively traded market in the world, and Ed Ponsi is world-renowned as one of the foremost educators in this field. With The Ed Ponsi Forex Playbook as your guide, you'll learn how to take advantage of the many opportunities found in the Forex arena.

JAMES CHEN, CTA, CMT (Montville, NJ) is Chief Technical Strategist at FX Solutions, a leading foreign exchange broker. An expert on forex trading and technical analysis, he is also a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Mr. Chen writes daily currency analysis, leads forex trading seminars, and has authored numerous articles on currency trading strategy and technical analysis for major financial publications. These include Forbes.com, Futures Magazine, Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities Magazine, and Stocks, Futures and Options (SFO) Magazine.

Just a decade ago, the Foreign Exchange was a market reserved for a select few. Now, anyone can actively trade in this profitable market—even those with no formal financial education. Enter James Dicks, a leading FOREX expert and educator who cut his teeth in this burgeoning market and wants to share his years of experienced wisdom with you.

FOREX Trading Secrets is a one-stop sourcebook packed with everything a trader needs to quick-start success in a 24-hour market. In addition to covering every fundamental aspect of the FOREX, this hands-on guide provides hard-won tools and strategies from a seasoned trader, who helps you minimize your exposure to the inherent risk in this unique market.

A useful volume you’ll turn to again and again, FOREX Trading Secrets features specific examples of proven trading strategies working in the real world, a simple and profitable technique for money management, and confidence-building skills for creating your own source of income.

If you have never traded the FOREX before, FOREX Trading Secrets is the place to start. It covers the essential basics, including all major currency pairs, the mechanics of trading, how to place a trade, and deciding what type of trader you are. Experienced traders gain expert insight into the fundamentals, as well as such advanced topics as creating a successful trading plan,managing risk, mastering your emotions, and building your portfolio. You will benefit from

• An insider’s clarification of the Carry Trade
• Seeing technical indicators and patterns through a master’s eyes
• The secrets to FOREX diversification
• A detailed explanation of the author’s personal trading approach
• A Trader’s Ten Commandments

There is no holy grail of FOREX trading, but with FOREX Trading Secrets, all you need is practice to build a powerful trading toolbox for wealth security in the world’s biggest financial market.

While the Foreign Exchange (Forex) market can be a very profitable place, you must have a firm understanding of how to operate within this environment if you intend on achieving any success.

That's why you need Getting Started in Currency Trading, Third Edition. This reliable resource-written for both newcomers and those with some Forex experience-puts trading world currencies in perspective, and shows you exactly what it takes to make it in this field.

• Guides you through the process of opening your own account as well as the actual placing and managing of currency orders
• Offers specific trading strategies and tactics
• A companion Web site will provide updates on brokers and FOREX services; an author's Blog will answer your questions about all aspects of trading
• Includes a new chapter on Forex trading platforms
• The often confusing FOREX calculations are reduced to handy computer-side tables

On the heels of the recent market crash, this fully revised Third Edition is filled with in-depth insights and practical advice that takes into account all of the recent changes in the currency market and shows you how to profit from them.

"A truly easy, unique, and enjoyable read! Rob has done it once again to teach us in the funniest way possible how not to make the most common trading mistakes. If you are tired of reading how-to books, this is perfect for you. I highly recommend this book to all traders. Everyone will learn something about themselves by reading this book."
—Kathy Lien, author, Day Trading the Currency Market, and Chief Strategist, www.dailyfx.com

"Adventures of a Currency Trader is a must read for anyone who has ever traded or is thinking about trading in the Forex markets. Rob Booker has a unique way of taking years of market knowledge and transforming it into an educational and entertaining experience. It has quickly become a cult classic in my trading library!"
—H. Jack Bouroudjian, Principal, Brewer Investment Group

"Brilliant! Rob's humor and humanity shine through in this parable about trading and life. Filled with wisdom and wit, it's an exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the peaks and valleys of the learning curve, with many valuable lessons learned along the way."
—Ed Ponsi, President, FXEducator.com

"Rob's fable of everyman 'Harry Banes' is destined to become a trading classic. This is both the missing piece and the foundation that comes before the strategies and methodologies. The search for the Holy Grail begins and ends in the heart and mind. The journey is authentic and real and if you're willing to take it with Rob, you will be rewarded in the end. Seldom has psychology and wisdom been so entertaining!"
—Raghee Horner, trader and author of Forex Trading for Maximum Profit and  Days of Forex Trading

"In a series of insightful and entertaining vignettes, Rob Booker teaches both the novice and the experienced trader some hard won truths about the currency market. It's a must read book written by a guy who survived the trenches and went on to prosper in the biggest and most competitive financial market in the world."
—Boris Schlossberg, Senior Currency Strategist, Forex Capital Markets LLC, and author of Technical Analysis of the Currency Market