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 Hi All - thanks very much for all the 
suggestions! 
  
Chuck - that really sounds like a great idea, 
doesn't it?   In fact, I had the same exact thought a couple of months 
ago when I stumbled across the MTA website while searching for something or 
other.  Before buying, I went to Amazon to read the user reviews for the 
whole set, and was very surprised to find that most of the MTA's required 
reading was not regarded very highly by most of the people who felt strongly 
enough to bother posting a review. Many recommend what they considered to be 
"better" books covering the same material. It left me at a loss to explain 
it - maybe the reading was too difficult, or maybe it was geared towards 
academia rather than actual trading in the trenches - I don't really know, 
because I gave up on the idea after reading so many negative reviews. It was a 
good thought anyway - perhaps some CMT's in the group would care to 
comment? 
  
Patrick, I like your suggestion - rave reviews 
on Amazon, all 5-stars except for one 4-star. I think I will combine it with 
Covel's trend following book ( thanks Dick! ) - it appears that the 
former advocates base-hits over home runs while the latter advocates 
swinging for the fences, yet both garnered great reviews and apparently made 
good money for readers following thier systems - should be interesting to 
compare/contrast the two. Actually, I have 
been trying out some of my work on weekly bars recently, and 
my impression to date is that swing-trading and trend-following 
methods often now result in very similar trades because weekly bars seem to be 
generally smoother and have more "well defined" pivots than daily 
bars. Any thoughts on this? 
  
OK, thanks again to everyone - I checked out all 
suggestions and added many to my "wish list" - your help is much 
appreciated! 
  
Steve 
  
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  Subject: Re: [amibroker] OT: Any good 
  book recommendations? 
  
  
  Why not give the "boxed set" -- the complete list 
  of required reading for the CMT exam?  Not 
  light reading, but also not shlock.....  
    
  
    
  chuck 
  
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    Subject: RE: [amibroker] OT: Any good 
    book recommendations? 
    
  
    has your work with Goslin's approach been 
    "fruitful"? 
      
    d  
    
      
      
      Chick Goslin's "Trading Day by Day" - easily one of the 
      best I've read for a while.  His approach - at least the technical 
      bits, can easily be programmed in Amibroker.  Email me if you do read 
      the book - I'd be happy to share some of my work with Goslin's 
      approach. Cheers, Lal Steve Dugas 
      <sjdugas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
       
        
        
        Hi, 
          
        Well, it's Christmas again and people are 
        asking me what I want but I can't come up with much, so I thought I 
        might ask for a couple of trading books. Anyone read anything 
        lately that you learned something new or valuable from and would care to 
        recommend? All suggestions welcome - thanks very much! 
          
        Steve  
        
          
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