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Traders Library

Welcome to the CFOS traders library. Here you will find a collection of our recommended books to improve your trading skills and market understanding.

If there is a book you don't see here or a subject you would like more information about, contact us and we will try to help you.


A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets

A must-have, A-Z resource for trading futures. Barrons says Schwager takes "you on a virtually complete and entertaining guided tour of the risks and shocks of trading commodity futures." Focuses on the most commonly asked trading questions, chart analysis, trading rules, market do’s & don’ts, money management and risk control from the famous "Market Wizards" author.

Fundamental Analysis

The most comprehensive guide to using fundamental analysis exclusively for futures traders. In-depth guide covers every aspect of fundamental analysis techniques and strategies from seasonality to regression analysis as a tool for price forecasting. A full 13 chapter section applies methods and tactics to individual market sectors.

Getting Started in Technical Analysis

An industry expert presents the perfect technical anlysis primer. Introduces investors to oscillators, price and time charts, on-line charting applications, deciphering chart patterns and much more. The best hands-on guide you'll find.

Technical Analysis 101 (60 Min Audio)

Based on the basic law of supply and demand, learning how to read the chart provides you with the ability to understand what a stock is going to do before it happens. This video will introduce you to technical analysis and show you techniques for recognizing the trends stocks inherently follow.

Martin Pring's Introduction to Technical Analysis

The top expert gives you a one-on-one course in every aspect of technical analysis. This interactive guide explains how to evaluate trends, highs & lows, price/volume relationships, price patterns, moving averages, momentum indicators, and more. It’s the user-friendly way to master technical analysis from an industry icon. (CD-ROM is IBM compatible only--not compatible with Mac Computers)

Investment Psychology Explained

Pring steers your trading away from greed, fear and knee-jerk reactions, back to proven methods of common sense, patience and discipline. His hands-on approach teaches you to overcome emotional and psychological impediments that distort decision making. Learn to resist fads that drain trading accounts, stay with your system in good or bad times & tactics for saying ‘no’ to brokers.

Trading to Win

Even the best trading "system" can prove disastrous if the trader doesn’t have the ability to stick to his strategy. Featuring real-life case studies, Trading to Win presents a step-by-step, goal-oriented approach to trading that emphasizes ways to keep emotions in check, overcome self-doubt, and focus clearly on a winning strategy. Written by a trader who is also a psychiatrist, it gives a realistic perspective all traders can benefit from.

Innergame Trading (Paper)

To trade with total confidence, be upbeat after losses or stay calm and focused despite the market’s ups and downs - you need this book. Two top traders interviewed the trading elite to learn their methods for mastering emotions, then developed a step-by-step program that teaches you how to replace losing behaviors with winning attitudes of the world’s best. Keep fear, greed and anxiety at bay and become a cool, successful trader.

Exceptional Trading: The Mind Game

Exceptional Trading: The Mind Game is a trader’s manual for developing the necessary attitudes to trade consistently and to win. The book gives traders a personal winning edge and also outlines remarkable methods for developing internally the mental skills essential to high profit trading.

The Intuitive Trader

Traders often use "feel" or intuition to determine when to "pull the trigger" because logic can actually inhibit trading performance. Now, use these extensive exercises to help you develop the intuitive skills needed to "override your acquired knowledge" and use intuition to improve trading performance. You'll learn to rely on your own instincts instead of turning "gurus" & searching for "fool-proof" systems.

The Tao of Trading: Discovering a Simpler Path to Success

See how Zen and Taoist teachings are adapted to trading, and how these principles have been used successfully by supertraders like Leo Melamed and Patrick Arbor. Discover simple pathways for .Overcoming the fear of loss - Developing the psychological skills of winning - Centering your trading strategy around who you are at the core - Expecting the best from yourself - and other methods to help you achieve peak performance as trader.

Trading for a Living

Top notch book integrates three major areas of trading; psychology, trading tactics and money management into a coherent framework for success. Unique approach combines the author's trading success with his decades of experience as physician and psychiatrist.

How I Trade for a Living

Quickly becoming the new bible of the trading industry it’s the first new work to show a new generation not only key trading strategies but what it takes to successfully trade from home, and for a living. Now at a great price from a 15-year veteran.

How to Become a Real-Time Commodity Futures Trader (From Home): Living the Ultimate Entrepreneurial Dream

At last, a practical guide and reference source for every commodity broker, novice trader, professional or any investor anxious to learn how to intelligently trade from home. It's an indispensable resource that covers it all. Vendor/broker selection, intraday market timing, money management, expert trading methods, and more. All the "must have" information and answer to the most frequently asked questions, sets you on the road to independence.

How I Made $1,000,000 Dollars Trading Commodities Last Year

A concrete proven method for telling when the pros and long or short expect a major move, when to buy and when to take profits. Here's your chance to learn a systematic approach to trading.

The New Option Secret - Volatility: The Weapon of the Professional Trader and the Most Important Indicator in Option Trading

Discover how option volatility indicates market tops/bottoms, which strategy is to use, how it indicates whether options should be bought or sold & how it can be used to take advantage of premium "disparity" between option strike prices. You'll also learn to exploit option market inefficiencies and methods that help determine seasonal factors in volatility.

Commodity Options: Spectacular Profits with Limited Risk

A to Z primer gives complete descriptions of the 12 most popular commodity option strategies. Learn about time value, premium, option pricing and best trading months for each commodity. See how to use options in conjunction with futures for risk abatement and profit enhancement. Great for getting started or refining techniques.

Trading Systems and Methods

This book the most current, cutting-edge material and a hands-on look at the features of most trading techniques and systems. From successful indicators, programs, algorithms and systems to new developments in equipment and methods for trading, Kaufman’s work remains the single best source for creating or choosing a successful trading system.

Design, Testing, and Optimization of Trading Systems

Hands-on guide to building, refining and trading your computerized system. Learn how to choose the right indicators to suit different risk tolerances and profit goals. Learn to combine a wide range of analysis methods and indicators to compliment each other. Pardo, a pioneer in system testing and development concludes with actual testing and enhancement criteria for any system.

Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets

From how to read charts to understanding indicators and the crucial role of technical analysis in investing, you won’t find a more thorough or up-to-date source. Revised and expanded for today’s changing financial world, it applies to equities as well as the futures markets.

Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional

As professional traders approach the 21st century, accelerating technological change from global plug-n-play software threatens to make conventional technical studies and indicators ineffective. To compete, you need new combinations of indicators to keep their competitive edge. This book arms today's professional trader with new unique formulas.

Martin Pring on Market Momentum

Learn the secrets to using all the price momentum tools (RSI, MACD, Stochastics) and volume/breadth indicators (McClellan, OSC & Summation Index). Discover what these indicators are, how to use them for increasing your profits. Plus, learn Pring’s own KST indicator. A real winner.

Magic of Moving Averages

After years testing scores of futures trading systems, Lowry found the moving average method one of the most practical approaches to successful trading. In fact, it’s so simple it’s overlooked by most traders. It’s uncomplicated, not time consuming and has no difficult formulas to understand - and Lowry’s exhaustive research shows this is an extremely profitable approach to trading in the futures markets.

Fibonacci Ratios with Pattern Recognition

I have no word to describe Pesavento's book (Fibonacci Ratios and Pattern Recognition). It's truly amazing. This in a nutshell is the only education I [have] been looking for in my trading.

Power of Oscillator/Cycle Combinations

Learn to use cycles in any timeframe to spot tops and bottoms. See "combination strategies" that pair several popular oscillator techniques including RSI, Stochastic, MACD and more with cyclic concepts of market behavior. Overcome the problem of filtering out the bad trading signals so common with traditional oscillator analysis by considering cyclic market indications.

Profit Magic of Stock Transaction Timing

Big money in the market comes from compounding profits on short term trades, and this price forecasting technique predicts price turns with 90% accuracy, while producing a high average net profit per month.

Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading

Short-term trading offers the greatest financial payoffs, but it also presents the greatest challenges. Find out if short-term trading is for you!

Fibonacci Trading Course: Money Management and Trend Analysis & Trading with DiNapoli Levels

Fibonacci Trading Course: Money Management and Trend Analysis & Trading with DiNapoli Levels

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