The Big Book of Stock Trading Strategies Paperback – September 23, 2017

This book is a super-set of three individual copies you can buy separately. It brings together 3 strategies: Swing, Growth and Earnings. As the author asserts, you can become successful by mastering one strategy at a time. This book gives you three to tackle and they are fairly easy to learn, so you really can tackle all three simultaneously.Rubber Band Trading is akin to a Swing Trading strategy. The author gives you the required set up, entry and exit rules (profit and stop). He also suggests risk management. You can get going with this set up using freely available tools on the internet. Since has has laid out a complete system for you, this earns this section all 5 stars. However, when I back tested this strategy, using growth stocks it did not offer up too many opportunities, rarely did those stocks drop below the trigger signal. So you would need to find more cyclical/swing oriented stocks for this strategy. As a result, I will drop the rating to 4 stars.Rocket Stock Trading here the author lays out a well reasoned argument for trading these high growth stocks, the main issue I have is with liquidity of some of these, looking for small floats will whipsaw you around so you will need to be disciplined with your stop loss. Trading IPOs is higher risk and should only be undertaken once experienced or at least with only a very small allocation of your funds. Given the author has laid out the rules, I can give it 5 stars, with the caveat that I have not back tested this strategy.Day Sniper Trading is an interesting strategy for trading post earnings events. I have written a separate review in some detail for this book on Amazon. I have continued to assess the trading results. What I have experienced is that when the strategy works it really works well, so think about converting to a swing trade. Most of the time the trade gets stopped out, so you need to be very disciplined

I started investing in stocks in early 1960’s and have traded futures, options on futures, stocks and stock options. I am always looking for new methods or techniques to assist me in my investing or trading of stocks - you can never know it all.I can assure others that the author is knowledgeable in stocks and he has some great ideas. There is absolutely no fluff in the book. The methods he gives are succinct and to the point. The chart examples are clear and legible. Everything about the book is first class quality. He covers all bases for a trader to consider. The author uses candlesticks, but Hi-Lo Bar charts are equally effective.The terms and financial vocabulary he uses can only be from someone who has a lot of market experience. The best of the strategies in the book for me is the Rubber Band Stock Strategy. I used to Day Trade futures years ago and am not a fan of day trading so I can’t pass judgement on that section of the book.

PURCHASED: 11/05/2017.Fairly experienced trader here, but always looking for an edge... OK, despite the 1 & 2 star reviews, and other bashing, let's take a look at this $5.25 tome (or free in Kindle). It took me all of 90 minutes to read this book... OK, well, yes - it was hard read legibly, I agree with one reviewer about the pitifully and stupidly tiny charts printed in B&W on cheap newspaper-like type & paper. And 30 minutes of my time...someone has to pay me for that.The strategies are interesting...the author's use of Bollinger Bands, not bad, but why not go to Bollinger himself. If you're new to B-Bands, this may get you interested in learning more. Author's use of B-Bands is useful as a means to gain another trader's perspective on how he uses them for trading signals. Is it worth $5.25 and 30 minutes of my time?The "rocket" stocks strategy - another perspective by the author on using momentum strategy in his own way. Is it worth $5.25 and 30 minutes of my time?The author's "day sniper trading" strategy - interesting minute/hourly momentum & swing perspective. Is it worth $5.25 and 30 minutes of my time?$5.25 is peanuts. If the author's insights and perspectives gives me a $52.50 edge just one time, not a bad investment, eh? 30 minutes of my time? Well, I can't get 30 minutes of my life back, but those 30 minutes caused me to think of some past & current strategies. The author's own strategies have not directly contributed to my success, because I knew them already, but it opened a door to the author's views. It was an easy inexpensive gamble.If you're an experienced trader, give this book to the noobs you meet and see if they want more. Then give'em Murphy's books on Technical Analysis and McMillan's classics on Options. [If you're a noob to trading, you just got your first two hints.]The impermanence of the markets and the strategies we traders employ requires constant re-thinking.

This is the 3rd book of Matt's that I have bought. I like the way he simplifies trading set ups and explains why they should and do work plus there are charts. The best part is that you can actually find these set ups in the market and make a trade with confidence. I have been paper trading the Rocket stock strategy the last couple of weeks and it is has been doing well. Buying a stock at the 52 week high seemed counter intuitive until I started applying Matt's technique with volume and gaps etc. He goes into a few fundamentals the psychology behind buying stocks at the 52 week high and lays out the rules. I enjoy reading Matt's book, they are descriptive, informative and easy to read and understand. I have purchased and read, The Little Black Book Of Stock Market Secrets, Covered Calls Made Easy and this one The Big Book of Stock Trading Strategies. Tons of info and examples, especially for the price.

This book has some good advice on trading stocks with emphasis on using Bollinger Bands and moving averages, ignoring the multitude of other technical indicators. I would not use some of his suggestions, but look at other indicators, chart patterns and Candlesticks.