TOOLS, TRADING

Dr. Alexander Elder

Trader and Author,

The New Trading for a Living

Author of the World Best-Seller: The New Trading for a Living
Barron’s Book of the Year Award Winner
Featured in the book The KGB Wanted List

About Dr. Alexander

Alexander Elder, MD, is a professional trader and a teacher of traders. His books, including The New Trading for a Living, now published in 17 languages, are international best-sellers among private and institutional traders. Dr. Elder worked as a psychiatrist and served on the faculty of Columbia University. Now he is a full-time trader but helps run SpikeTrade.com, a club whose members compete for the best trade of the week.

Dr. Alexander's Videos

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Principles for Success in Any Market Environment

There is a set of rules that are essential for survival and success in trading. Ignoring or violating them leads to failure. In this rare public appearance, Dr. Elder will share with you these rules and show you how to follow them. There is nothing intellectually complicated about trading, but it places enormous demands on your personal discipline. Psychology, technology, and risk management are the key themes that Dr. Elder will address to help you with your development as a trader. At the completion of his talk, he’ll answer participants’ questions.

Dr. Alexander Elder

TRADING

47:18

Trading False Breakouts

Professionals and amateurs handle breakouts differently. Beginners expect breakouts to carry on and they jump in, while the pros know that most breakouts fail, and trade against them. Dr. Elder will show the tools he uses to tell true from false breakouts and share his trading methods. He will show trading examples and answer questions.

Dr. Alexander Elder

TRADING

40:21

Like Auto Headlights: The New High - New Low Index Lights Up the Road Ahead

The new highs are the leaders of strength, the new lows the leaders of weakness on the stock exchange. Their patterns tend to change ahead of the broad market trends. Dr. Elder, who writes New High - New Low reports for SpikeTrade.com, will share with you some of his techniques and rules for using this powerful indicator. NH-NL is a tool that can help you gain an edge in the battle for market success.

Dr. Alexander Elder

TRADING

41:25

The New High - New Low Index: The Best Leading Indicator of the Stock Market

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TECHNICAL

30:46

Dr. Alexander's Books

Dr. Alexander Elder

The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management

The New Trading for a Living updates a modern classic, popular worldwide among both private and institutional traders. This revised and expanded edition brings time-tested concepts in gear with today's fast-moving markets, adding new studies and techniques for the modern trader.

Dr. Alexander Elder

Study Guide for The New Trading for a Living

You may read the best trading book, but how much of that knowledge will you retain a week later? This is why you need this Study Guide for The New Trading for a Living. It'll give you a firmer grasp of the essential trading rules and skills. This Study Guide, based on the bestselling trading book of all time, was created by its author to help you master the key points of his classic book.