The Master Swing Trader

Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities

By: Alan S. Farley

Narrated by: Chris Ryan

Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's summary

Swing trading is gaining popularity as a powerful method to increase returns - and potentially lower risks - by profiting from short-term price moves. The Master Swing Trader explains how traders can use technical analysis, charting, and market sentiment to make trades that hold through price fluctuations and noise with wider stops. This complete, practical guide to making profitable short-term trades - based on the author's popular “Mastering the Trade” online course - discusses proven swing trading concepts and strategies. Experienced day, position, and online traders will benefit immediately from:

• The seven bells - unique tools to uncover promising short-term prospects
• Techniques to profit from low-risk short sales
• The four repeating cycles for perfectly timed trades

©2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (P)2001 McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio

Somewhat useful, less than other books on trading.

The book seemed very dated for a book published 2020. There’s other authors that have given me more useful information and a occasional ah ha moment.

It's like listening to a theatrical dissertation

As a swing trader, was really excited to read/listen to this for some time. Book came recommended by a trading mentor, had been on my reading list.

Yes there are certainly nuggets of valuable information sprinkled throughout the text. But many of these are spun as idioms of trading advice, which is really unnecessary for a trading book. Example: how many times can "neophytes" be used repeatedly in a trading context?

Don't expect a ton of "actionable" advice, instead you'll get a ton of verbose content. After a while it gets a bit exhausting.

And there in lies the issue at the core of the book: it just comes off as if the author was just trying too hard to write an eloquent (?) book about swing trading. Which is completely unnecessary for the content.

As an audiobook, the theatrical performance of the narrator only highlights the unfortunate writing style even further - just listen to the "sample" to get a sense.

Caught myself feeling like I was listening to a highschool English teacher who just loved their job a little too much, and it only grew to make you dislike the content even more.

Was genuinely excited to read/listen to this book, but felt the need to warn others of what to expect.

This thing needs to be edited to either be written like a formal textbook, and then go ahead and use all the antiquated verbage you'd like; or cut back on the overcompensating wordage and turn it into a (great) straightforward trading book - which it could be.