Trading Commodities and Financial Futures: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Markets

It's really great reading for a novice, interesting stories, useful basic knowledge of futures and options, including how to trade them in different ways, like you can trade the spread with lower risks, blablabla. I also benefited from the technical tools, especially the GK's own ones, like SNI and pivot indicator. What tells me the most is the traits or personalities that a successful trader should possess. I really like this book and I will read it again and again to find out more and more useful things.

Informative and insightful. I actually just read it again for the second time and picked up this 4th Edition. I read the third edition at the end of 2006, and probably didn't need to upgrade to the 4th Ed. All your looking for is different signs the market makes, but I wanted to see how the 2008 downturn reflected in his latest edition. It's a book I continue to return to and worth the read, in my opinion.

Solid book.

Wow! Wasn't this a nice surprise. What a great book on trading all together. If you are starting out or just sharpening the knife - this book is a must. It should be in the line up of every trader.Commodities are in many ways the purest of the trades. The author does a great job of talking about the "nice to know's" and comparing those with the "must know's".Great job!

This is a great read for all traders. The lessons are timeless, and Mr Kleinman makes some complicated concepts and trades easy to understand and fun to read. There are a lot of lessons, concepts, and strategies packed into this book, if you have even mild interest in trading, you will not put it down once you get started. WH

George Kleinman lays out the details simply and logically.Huge amount of information of the realities of trading both Commodities and FuturesIncludes the very basics of costs per trade, profits per trade and how the system works

The book was mostly on charting, not a detailed description of individual futures. I was interested in learning about the financial futures and there was little or no information. For instance there was no information on the relationship of individual futures and their corresponding ETF's. If you are interested in learning about charting, there are better books than this and if you are interessted in financial futures, there has to be a better book.

Id say this is a great book for someone starting out with no knowledge of the markets, options, or futures. Its an easy read and has chapters punctuated by memorable recounts of interesting stories from the authors past. If you are looking for a very advanced book on trading strategies, this book might start off too slowly and at too basic of a level to maintain your interest.