1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457255803321

Autore

Masover Hal

Titolo

Value investing in commodity futures [[electronic resource] ] : how to profit with scale trading / / Hal Masover

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : John Wiley, c2001

ISBN

1-280-36471-8

9786610364718

0-471-43804-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Wiley trading advantage

Disciplina

332.63/28

Soggetti

Commodity futures

Futures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

VALUE INVESTING IN COMMODITY FUTURES; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; Introduction; PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO A BETTER METHOD OF TRADING; Chapter 1 Scale Trading: Elegance in Trading; Chapter 2 How to Know When to Start Scale Trading; Chapter 3 Why Is Scale Trading Better Than Other Types of Trading?; PART II LEARNING THE FUNDAMENTALS; Chapter 4 Fundamentals the Right Way; Chapter 5 Grain Market Fundamentals; Chapter 6 Livestock Market Fundamentals; Chapter 7 Metals Market Fundamentals; Chapter 8 Energy Market Fundamentals; Chapter 9 Softs Market Fundamentals

Chapter 10 Using Seasonal Information the Right WayPART III SCALE TRADING IN ACTION; Chapter 11 How to Construct a Scale; Chapter 12 Taking Profits; Chapter 13 The Dreaded Contract Rollovers; Chapter 14 Options; Chapter 15 Don't Skip This Chapter: Choosing a Broker; Appendix I Getting a Handle on Commodity Futures: A Primer for Beginning Traders; Appendix II Other Possibly Profitable Methods; Appendix III How to Construct a Scale on Your Computer; Glossary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The only complete guide to an increasingly popular approach to futures



trading This book outlines a highly successful alternative approach to trading commodity futures, specially tailored to today's low-priced commodities markets. Unlike technical analysis, which uses statistics to inform trading decisions, scale trading is a form of fundamental analysis in which a trader slowly buys prices as they reach bottom and sells them as they climb back up. Hal Masover describes scaling techniques that work in every commodity market, including metals, energies, utilities, and agriculture. And

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813504003321

Titolo

Domestick privacies : Samuel Johnson and the art of biography / / edited by David Wheeler ; contributors, James L. Battersby [and seven others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1987

©1987

ISBN

0-8131-5916-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

828/.609

Soggetti

Biography as a literary form

Poets, English - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. [167]-184.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction, the uses of Johnson's biographies / David Wheeler -- Johnson's beginnings / Lawrence Lipking -- Life, art, and the Lives of the poets / James L. Battersby -- Dr. Johnson's solemn response to beneficence / John A. Dussinger -- Johnson's portraits of Charles XII of Sweden / James Gray -- Johnson, Imlac, and biographical thinking / Catherine N. Parke -- The contexts and motives of Johnson's Life of Milton / Stephen Fix -- Johnson's Lives and modern students / William R. Siebenschuh -- Johnson and biography / Michael Stuprich.

Sommario/riassunto

Biography was Samuel Johnson's favorite among literary genres, and his  Lives of the Poets is often regarded as the capstone of his career. The central place of biography in his oeuvre is explored in this collection of



nine original essays by leading Johnson scholars. Varied in their focus and approach, the essays range from a philosophical overview of Johnson's notion of the relation between life and art, to a detailed reading of the  Life of Milton, to a speculation on the value of the  Lives in the classroom.Emerging clearly in the essays are the dual concerns -- artistic and intellectual -