Trading the Measured Move Hardcover - 2013 - 1st Edition

If you are an individual retail trader, you are competing with traders who have access to massive amounts of capital allocated by algorithms designed by brilliant mathematical minds and running on the ultrafast computers of the world's largest financial institutions. These traders have changed the rules for the foreseeable future and have placed you at an unprecedented disadvantage. Trading the Measured Move offers individual retail traders a big-picture understanding of today's market, plus the necessary details of how to trade fearlessly and profit in such a competitive marketplace.

With Trading the Measured Move, investing expert David Halsey--founder of the popular website EminiAddict.com--outlines a new and unique approach to investing success that draws on Fibonacci retracements (Fibs) within a series of measured moves across multiple time frames. Based on years of research and Halsey's own experience, Trading the Measured Move identifies a set of trading rules commonly used by quants and unveils the personalities of a wide range of trading instruments--each created by the movement of substantial amounts of institutional capital every trading day. The book offers a step-by-step blueprint for creating a trading plan built upon a dynamic framework of fundamental principles flexible enough to support an individual's trading personality. Once mastered, Halsey's powerful method can help any trader successfully navigate this new and previously uncharted trading environment.

In addition to the technical explanations of his winning process, David Halsey includes compelling sidebars where he talks about personal experiences that led to specific discoveries and the "aha!" moments in the development of this proven methodology. Written to be an accessible resource, this clear and precise guide can be used by both novice and seasoned traders.

Trading the Measured Move offers traders at all levels a new method for riding the coattails of massive amounts of institutional money and will put them in a better position to make substantial profits along the way.