Target Market: Fixed Income Securities Courses or Bond Markets Courses
Fabozzi's, Bond Markets, prepares students to analyze the the bond market and use the tools for managing bond portfolios.

Many texts on the market are far too theoretical, Fabozzi is quite the opposite. This text covers Bonds, analytical techniques for valuing bonds and quantifying their exposure to changes in interest rates, and portfolio strategies for achieving a client’s objectives.

With instant electronic market access and powerful financial tools at their disposal, today's "technician"—one who practices the art of technical analysis—has more opportunities than ever before to profitably trade in a variety of markets. But in order to truly excel, you need a method that will allow you to identify market moves, and strategies that will allow you to make the most of those moves.
John Person has been in the trading business for almost thirty years—as a broker, a trader, and a teacher of traders. During this time, he's refined his trading skills and, by using candlestick formations in conjunction with pivot points, developed a reliable methodology that will help you make smarter trades with less risk.
In his first book, A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics, Person introduced traders to the concept of integrating candlestick charting with pivot point analysis. Now, in Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading Triggers, he goes a step further and shows you how to devise your own setups and triggers—in the stock, forex, and futures markets—based on a moving average approach.
Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this comprehensive guide:

• Examines the methodology of pivot point analysis and how it can be applied to different markets
• Shows you what to look for when reading candlestick charts and why you should rely on price rather than indicators
• Discusses how to find certain setups and explains what triggers a call to trading action
• Walks you through the various types of stop orders, including when and where to place them
• Illustrates how back testing your methods can help uncover the strengths and weaknesses of your system

Person also fully discloses some of his proprietary setups, such as the high close doji, the low close doji, and the jack hammer pattern, complete with rules on the entries and exits to help you identify high probability trades.
With the tools and techniques outlined in this book—which includes a companion CD-ROM that contains Person's own Pivot Point Calculator and an instructional presentation on how to use it—you'll be able to put together a trading plan that consistently helps you yield profits.

Date Published: 2005
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Schooled in mathematics, statistics, and computer programming, Floyd Upperman entered the semiconductor industry out of college in 1987. His computer programming talent quickly earned him the nickname "Whiz Kid." After receiving some shares of company stock, he became interested in the market, and his interest quickly bloomed into a consuming passion. During this time, he learned two things: working for someone else would never earn him the financial independence he craved; and none of the available charting software and pricing systems were sophisticated enough to give him an edge as a trader.
Applying his statistical and programming talents to the task of analyzing mountains of market data, Upperman discovered something remarkable: there is an underlying order in the commodity markets not?found in the historic price movements of individual stocks. Further, he found that specific patterns in?commodity prices are highly correlated to the positions?held by participants in the commodity markets. These realizations led to his developing a unique trading and tracking system that exploits an obscure source of readily available but widely neglected data: the weekly U.S. government Commitment of Traders (COT) report.
Now a full-time trader, a registered commodity trading advisor, and the acknowledged leading analyst of COT data, Floyd Upperman makes available—for the first time in book form—his exclusive, phenomenally successful trading system based on a proprietary forward-looking indicator, Individual Market Participant Analysis (IMPA).
In Commitments of Traders, he will show you:
• Why merely "following the money" can lead you astray
• How to identify the turning points
• Common—and costly—misconceptions about the COT
• The seven steps of an IMPA setup trade
• How to achieve an optimum stop
• "Plunger patterns" and how to use them
• How to apply the "fading system"
Commitments of Traders will teach you why the trading activity of commercial institutions—as evidenced in the COT report—is so valuable in analyzing particular markets. And you will learn how to leverage the COT with technical and fundamental analysis. A priceless moneymaking tool, Commitments of Traders is essential reading for anyone trading in the lucrative futures market.

Date Published: 2006
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Time-tested analysis for today’s stock and commodities traders
Now in its 40th anniversary edition, the Stock Trader’s Almanac is regarded as the industry resource for practical investment tools and a wealth of information organized in a calendar format. New to the Almanac suite of products is the Commodity Trader’s Almanac, which provides the same level of vital information and analysis for commodity traders. These two guides alert readers to little-known market patterns and tendencies that help them forecast trends with accuracy and confidence.
With the Stock Trader’s Almanac 2007 and the new Commodity Trader’s Almanac, traders, money managers, and savvy investors will have at their fingertips all the updated patters and indicators they can’t find anywhere else.
Yale Hirsch (Old Tappan, NJ) a trading industry veteran had the vision to provide recurring market patterns to investors in a calendar format. He first published The Stock Trader’s Almanac in 1968.
Jeffrey A. Hirsch (Nyack, NY) is President of the Hirsch Organization and Editor of the Hirsch Organization flagship newsletter, the Almanac Investor.
The Hirsch Organization (Nyack, NY) first published The Stock Trader’s Almanac in 1968 and fulfilled Yale Hirsch’s vision of providing historical information to investors. Published continuously for thirty-nine years, the Almanac has become one of the most respected and widely referenced investment resources.
Scott Barrie (Portland, OR) is a former Chicago Futures Exchange member and has done consulting work for major banks, brokerages, clearinghouses, and commodity pool operators in the area of risk management and market research. He has written numerous articles for Stocks & Commodities, Active Trader, and Futures magazines.