Market Indicators: The Best-Kept Secret to More Effective Trading and Investing - Hardcover

by Richard Sipley (Author)

A smart trader needs to know what other traders are thinking and doing. Professional traders and investors use a wide range of indicators--some well-known, some not so well-known--to gauge the state of the market.

Market Indicators introduces the many key indicators used by professional traders and investors every day. Having stood the test of time, these indicators will alert the trader to market situations that offer the best chance to trade profitably.

Richard Sipley is a portfolio manager for Boston Private Bank and Trust Company, responsible for trading millions of dollars of assets. Sipley uses these indicators every day in his trading and investing, and he draws on that experience to explain what they are, how they work, and how to use them.

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"In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine." --Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

From the player who fiddles with his chips when he's bluffing to another who whistles when she has a good hand, the game of poker is full of "tells"--and so are the financial markets. In Market Indicators, Richard Sipley unveils the signals that can help observant investors better their odds of success in the financial markets.

Sipley, a senior portfolio manager at Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, uses clear prose, charts, and resource lists to explain how individual investors can find, understand, and employ the market information of greatest interest to professional traders. Deriving clues from sources that include the options market, institutional traders, insiders, the financial press, relative value models, the bond markets, and the mysterious world of futures trading, Sipley initiates readers into time-tested methods that can reveal what other traders are doing and suggests ways to take advantage of that information.

Market Indicators will dramatically improve understanding of the financial markets, for both new investors as well as experts seasoned in managing a portfolio.

Author Biography

RICHARD SIPLEY is a senior portfolio manager at Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, where he manages investment portfolios for individuals and institutions. Sipley has more than fourteen years of experience as a senior portfolio manager. He holds an MBA with concentrations in finance and economics from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He was certified as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) in 1998. He lives in Andover, Massachusetts.

The author can be reached at rsipley@gmail.com.