A detailed picture of what electronic direct access trading (E-DAT) means and how individual traders can capitalize on it, Understanding Direct Access Trading explains the fundamental differences between online trading and E-DAT. The book tells traders how and where to get started, and discusses how to adapt current styles of trading to the fast-action E-DAT marketplace. From opening an E-DAT account to obtaining the best possible price on every trade, investors looking to go the next level will want to read this information-packed book.

Mastering Direct Access Fundamentals walks the reader through the terms, resources, and skills required to excel as an E-DAT trader. Covering the basics simply—yet with sufficient detail to eliminate confusion—it explains how to use the keyboard; techniques to understand and interpret the colors, number, blips, and symbols flashing across the screen; strategies to analyze a position at the end of the trading day, and more. A key addition to The Direct Access Trader Series, it is the essential resource for becoming an E-DAT success story.

More than any other, the direct access trader depends on a keen knowledge of technical analysis—charts, oscillators, price, and volume—to determine optimal entry and exit points. Technical Analysis introduces basic charts, screens, and analysis, and covers popular analytic systems including price, volume, and volatility; support and resistance; and relative strength and trends. It also explains how to combine technical and fundamental analysis for taking advantage of the best aspects of each.

The electronic direct access method of trading doesn't mean that traders can simply click a mouse button and watch the profits roll in. Trading strategies are still needed to make the right trade at the right time. Electronic direct access trading can use many of the same strategies and techniques that have been successfully used by traders for decades. However, because this is a slightly different medium for trading, trading strategies must be altered to fit this new trading format.

Harness the power of today's financial technologies -- whether you make 2 trades per year or 2000 Tools for the Direct Access Trader shows you how to outfit yourself for success and acquire the speed, functionality, and information access that puts you on the same level as institutional traders – but with maneuverability and flexibility that larger, bulkier traders can't touch. You get a detailed look at the computer hardware and software, news retrieval services, data suppliers, and other resources you need to survive in this ultra-competitive, take-no-prisoners arena. From its complete checklist for home trading to author Alicia Abell’s psychological strategies for avoiding information overload, this is the one book you must have on your trading desk. Before you risk money in the live market, let this guide tell you which direct access tools are available, what each of them does, and how to use them in the fast-action, high-stakes world of E-DAT.

Direct access trading means a whole new world of trade execution. Gone are the tradition-bound days of calling a broker, who called a broker, who called the floor of the exchange, where the order was written by hand and delivered by a runner to the floor broker. This was a time-consuming, tedious task that almost certainly guaranteed poor fills. Now, direct access traders can place an order with the click of a mouse button and be filled within seconds, eliminating the middleman and lowering commissions and reducing the infamous spread.