Review The Commitments of Traders Bible: How To Profit from Insider Market Intelligence
by STEPHEN BRIESE
Description
This book, authored by a leading expert on examining Commitments of Traders data, shows the importance of the COT report in analyzing future market movements. This book demonstrates the predictive power of COT data and interpreting it on the reader’s analysis of the market. In this way, success in investing is achieved.
The COT report may be complex for some people, or that they have a hard time interpreting it. This book, in itself, evaluates how to interpret this data and turn it into an advantage in trading. It delves into the center of COT reports, which is the price movement and what causes it. It illustrates how to spot shifts in trend and the trading choices to do once this happens. Briese delves deep into the complexities of COT and trading itself, and explains it in a clear way, allowing readers to reap insight from the book.
About the Author
STEPHEN BRIESE is an expert on analyzing the data of Commitments of Traders as published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She is the publisher of the Bullish Review newsletter, which started in 1988. She wrote several articles for industry publications and spoke at various conferences.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One. Introduction
Chapter 1. The COT —Assorted History
Chapter 2. COT Reports —Counting 1, 2, 3 …
Chapter 3. Player Introductions
Chapter 4. Fading Small Speculators And Other Half-Baked Schemes
Chapter 5. Net Positions
Chapter 6. The COT Index
Chapter 7. COT Movement Index
Chapter 8. View From The Gallery
Chapter 9. View From The Pits
Chapter 10. Chart Pattern Validation
Chapter 11. Getting Technical
Part Two. Breaking Down The COT Report
Chapter 12. Crossing Currencies
Chapter 13. Taking Stock
Chapter 14. Test Of Metal
Chapter 15. Oil’s Slick
Chapter 16. Interest In Rates
Chapter 17. Bean Counting
Chapter 18. Moonlighting
Chapter 19. Seedless Oranges
Chapter 20. Now You CIT, Now You Don’t
Epilogue
Appendix A. Alternate Net Position Formulas
Appendix B. Dodging The Pitfalls In COT Data
References
Glossary
About The Author