Timing Techniques for Commodity Futures Markets: Effective Strategy and Tactics for Short-Term and Long-Term Traders
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Timing Techniques for Commodity Futures Markets: Effective Strategy and Tactics for Short-Term and Long-Term Traders presents a method for assessing trade timing across commodity and financial futures. Alexander’s emphasis is on using several forms of evidence together to judge direction, entry, and exit.
The book begins with trends, price action, and candlesticks, then examines indicators including MACD, moving averages, stochastics, RSI, and Bollinger Bands. It adds chart patterns, support and resistance, cycles, seasonal tendencies, and Commitments of Traders data to the analysis.
Alexander brings these tools together in entry and exit checklists. Chapters on stops and worked gasoline and copper trades show how the analysis is applied to both long and short positions. Separate chapters address techniques for short-term trading.
The book is intended for traders with a basic understanding of futures who want a structured way to assess potential trades. Its examples also give experienced traders a framework for reviewing how signals interact across timeframes.
✅ What You’ll Learn
- Identify trend direction using price formations and chart behavior.
- Apply price rules and candlesticks when assessing an entry.
- Interpret MACD, moving averages, stochastics, RSI, and Bollinger Bands together.
- Locate potential barriers and targets using gaps, chart patterns, and support and resistance.
- Examine cyclical, calendar, and seasonal influences on futures markets.
- Interpret Commitments of Traders data in its market context.
- Use entry and exit checklists to review a prospective trade.
- Set protective stops and assess reasons to remain in or leave a position.
💡 Key Benefits
- Organizes multiple technical tools into a practical trade assessment process.
- Covers both longer-term positions and short-term trading decisions.
- Uses long and short case studies to show the method in application.
- Makes exit planning and risk control part of trade selection.
- Encourages traders to screen out marginal setups before committing capital.
👤 Who This Book Is For
- Beginner to intermediate futures traders who already know the market basics.
- Commodity traders seeking a structured approach to timing entries and exits.
- Day traders and position traders comparing signals across timeframes.
- Technically oriented traders incorporating seasonal and positioning data into chart analysis.
📚 Table of Contents
- Industry Background
- Defining Direction: An Established Trend Keeps Going
- The Building Blocks for Charts
- Price Rules
- Candlesticks: A Useful Tool
- Moving Average Convergence/ Divergence (MACD)
- Moving Averages for Direction and Support and Resistance
- Stochastics and the Relative Strength Index (RSI): Overbought/Oversold Indicators
- The Magic of Gaps: Three Bars Open and Go!
- Support and Resistance: Horizontal Barriers
- Diagonal Support and Resistance
- Bollinger Bands
- Chart Patterns That Work
- Cycle Theory: Time-Based, Cyclical, and Seasoned Forces
- Commitments of Traders: Who Trades What and How Much?
- Stock Indexes: The Prime Vehicle for Day Traders and Position Traders
- The Entry Checklist
- Stops: Theory and Practice
- Getting Out of the Market: The Exit Checklist
- Case Study: Buy
- Case Study: Sell Short
- Short-Term Trading Techniques
- Final Thoughts
Timing Techniques for Commodity Futures Markets: Effective Strategy and Tactics for Short-Term and Long-Term Traders By Colin Alexander
| Author(s) | |
|---|---|
| Product Type | Ebook |
| Format | |
| Skill Level | Beginner to Intermediate |
| Pages | 287 |
| Publication Year | 2008 |
| Delivery | Instant Download |
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Maddox Wyatt (verified owner) –
If you are new to TA and/or futures trading, this book should endow you with the basic knowledge about most of the “popular” TA tools including patterns, moving averages, trends, Candlestick, MACD, RSI, Stochastics etc etc., with sound discussion on trading rules and market psychology. However, that deserves at most 3 stars. The extra one is rewarded for 1) the entry/exit checklists (quite long and detailed indeed, implicitly reflecting how sophisticated a good trading system and how demanding profitable trading can be), 2)many market wisdom seldom mentioned in other trading books, 3)the author’s respect to the pioneers in this discipline. In short, quite useful and well written. Recommended to be any new comers’ first or second book on the topic.
Tomas Ahmed (verified owner) –
Nothing new, though the author points out that the book does not repeat other works.
A few examples with charts make it difficult to follow the author’s ideas.
It is better to read Jack Schwager.
Genesis Phelps (verified owner) –
great overview of all technicals and also examples. it is my commodities “bible”. would I buy it again? certainly.
Solomon Goodwin (verified owner) –
Timing Techniques by Colin Alexander is one of two books that have the most influence on my trading tactics. As a multiple time frame position trader, I use a confluence of indicators to identify a high probability low risk trade setup and execution in both stocks and commodities. He also shares indicator techniques that improves timing and lowers risk. I particularly appreciated his insights on the first round of spikes (2004 – 2006) in commodity’s bull market and the pricing/indicator behaviors at those extremes. The entry/exit checklists was a nice addition to my plan and will help me avoid omissions in my analysis. With the advent of high-frequency computerized trading and the gradual disappearance of Pit-Traders, position trading will prove more profitable with less psychological pressure for Traders. I highly recommend this book and if you believe Bollinger Bands, MACD,STOCH and RSI are still viable tools especially when combined together then this is the book for you. And if you combine a multi-frame approach as I have, then purchase this book with Robert Miner’s High Probability Trading Strategies. Both books are modern improvements on Philippe Cahen’s Dynamic Technical Analysis.
Jolie Hicks (verified owner) –
not finished yet. a few typos, slim technical analisys info. hoping later techniques get better.
Laney Barber (verified owner) –
This book was reviewed in Futures Magazine as being well worth the cost and written by a knowledgeable trader. I have found it to be one of the best, particularly the correlation of price with indicators, and the better indicators to use for your time frame. No one “thing” will ever be the Holy Grail, but this book gives you an in-depth use of the trading tools available. I have been a FX trader for over 3 years and an equity trader for over 25 years. I would highly recommend it for newbies. There is substance in this book you can use without self promotion.