"Ex-videogame designer cracks the code of the financial markets!"

waiting hours in front of your monitor for an opportunity, only to miss it during a five-minute break;

setting your alarm clock to the wee hours of the morning to check your open positions;

seeing huge fees and commissions decrease your profits or increase your losses;

sustaining extra costs to buy accurate intraday quotes from professional data provider;

trading a single, selected financial instrument or nothing;

dissipating money and time to buy and master expensive and complicated trading applications;

trade through complex hardware and software configurations, requiring broadband access, often not working behind corporate firewalls;

updating your financial database every few hours, perhaps manually;

overloading your computer on a daily basis to select the best instrument to trade;

studying price charts for long hours, in search of obscure technical analysis patterns;

chasing forever after the settings of your "perfect" technical analysis indicator;

having to resign from your day job because you don't have enough time to trade;

watching "stray" microtrends, lasting a few minutes, stop or prevent you from opening a position;

trade only at a preset time of the day, depending on the financial instrument you choose, for less than ten minutes;

insert your entry, stop loss and take profit orders at the same time, then forget about it for the rest of the day;

process data only at closed markets, when the price is not moving, taking all the time you want to ponder your options;

close the day completely flat, protecting your equity from "morning surprises";

reduce the number of positions opened, saving on broker fees and commissions;

set in advance the risk and reward parameters you are comfortable with, based on simple statistical analysis;

use only daily OHLC quotes, freely downloadable from the main Internet portals;

choose your favorite trading instruments from the countless possibilities available on the stock, bonds, derivatives, FOREX and ETFs markets;

support your trading decisions with only popular and well-known spreadsheet software;

trade from every part of the world covered by a 56k Internet connection or a mobile phone network;

drop 95% of the technical analysis jargon and arbitrariness;

keep your day job, spend more time with your family or do whatever you want with your newfound freedom;

minimize the impact of the stray intraday microtrends on your positions.

Some of my friends kept me asking about it, and I promised them that I would have written an eBook explaining it in full detail. So finally here it is.

The markets are not like the Lotto game, where at every drawing there's only a fixed amount of money to be shared among the winners, so that when they get more numerous their shares decrease.

In this game, everyday there is potentially half of the participants that wins or draws, and the other half loses, depending on the overall price direction. The goal of my method is to put me (and you) as often as possible in the winning half.

Even if someday, by some remote chance, the majority of the world traders and investors will all use my affordable trading course, there will always be a small percentage of contrarians who'll stay on the other side of the fence, buying when you sell and selling when you buy.

Because of the self-fulfilling prophecy effect, the more people use my method, the more it becomes effective, since a larger number of traders using it would drive the price even more towards the predicted scenario.

I am an admirer of some other authors' trading and investing programs, and I wanted to give my personal contribution to this fascinating field with my personal trading course.

My trading strategies are covered in full detail in this Adobe Acrobat PDF eBook, containing more than 100 pages in color of step-by-step explanations, tables, figures, charts, examples and case studies, that you can download right away and easily read with the free Adobe Reader or other PDF readers.

This affordable trading course is written for traders of all levels of experience, from the beginner to the pro, so it also contains a section explaining the basic tenets of the financial markets and the services provided by the online brokers, which will get even the less experienced trader up and running in no time. It comes with three ready-made trading systems on selected tickers that you can use today to start making money online with an investment as low as $200, and it's also pre-formatted to be fully or partially printed on paper, if you prefer to read in the traditional way.

• Chapter 1 introduces my experience as a videogames designer and Information Technology professional and how I applied these skills to the financial markets in the past years to discover the trading solutions that I present in this course.
• Chapter 2 presents a summary of the four main financial markets accessible to the modern traders, explaining the types of order and modalities by which you can trade their instruments, their common and distinctive factors, their strengths and weaknesses, and the different equity levels required to operate on them. This section will particularly benefit the beginner traders, giving them all the operative tools they need from the get go.
• Chapter 3 talks about the price dynamics, highlighting the six most important parameters to be taken into account when creating a trading system, especially when choosing the entry, stop loss and take profit price rules.
• Chapter 4 discusses the several time frames on which the trader can operate and demonstrates with statistical considerations what is the single time frame yielding the higher profits in the overwhelming majority of the cases.
• Chapter 5 explains what are the six input factors that we can control when building a successful trading system, and what are the seven output parameters from which to tell a good trading system from a bad one.
• Chapter 6 is fully dedicated to the money management strategies, one of the most overlooked elements in the trading arena which, if properly executed, can make all the difference between a successful trader and a struggling one.
• Chapter 7 is where all the pieces of the puzzle finally fit together to form the everlasting strategy which will allow you to build and pick your winning trading systems on any instrument, at any time and in any market condition. It also contains five case studies, from which there are three real-world trading systems ready for use that you can apply starting from today to make real money on the Forex.
• Chapter 8 lists the eight most common trading mistakes and the countermeasures to be taken in order to avoid them.
• Chapter 9 and 10 close the eBook with a quick recap and some final thoughts, plus a handy glossary of the terms and acronyms used in the previous chapters.

Basic math skills

There's no need to be an engineer like me, after all this is not rocket science. My method doesn't require that you master complex differential equations, but let's face it, trading is a commercial activity and all of them, even running a little drugstore, require at least the arithmetic knowledge to keep a set of account books.

If you are able to add, subtract, multiply, divide and fill your own income tax return, you will be able to fully master my method and put it to good use.

A good knowledge of any spreadsheet software

The bad news is that all the successful participants in the financial markets are more or less computer-aided, so thinking of outsmarting them armed only with pencil and paper is overly optimistic.

The good news is that you won't need to buy expensive software, but a simple knowledge of popular spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel, Star Office or Open Office, preferably with macro programming skills, will put you in condition to unleash my method to his full power.

Access to the historical daily quotes of the instruments you want to trade

Internet is full of many good free financial data sources, for example almost every big portal has a finance section that allows you to download at least the daily historical quotes of hundreds of financial instruments in a spreadsheet format, free of charge. That's all you'll need. Of course the more accurate the quotes are, the better your results will be.

The willingness to do the effort

Though I compared trading to a game - and sometimes this is the best psychological approach to it - there are many professionals in the world who make a living exclusively from this activity and they put a lot of serious work and research in the field, trying to polish their skills on a daily basis and to explore new ideas at every occasion.

If you want to reach their level and compete with them on the same ground, you must be willing to follow their footsteps and realize that trading is a job, a high-paying job if you know how to do it, a goal that this affordable trading course will help you achieve.