How I Made $1,000,000 Trading Commodities Last Year

by Larry R. Williams

Book Overview

This fascinating book is loaded with practical information designed to help you in the commodity market. The author's method...proven by his million dollar success...does not involve complicated math or subjective evaluation. There are two completely systematic methods; %R and Momentum. The essence fo these methods is that they tell you if the super powers are long or short; when the super powers expect a major move to start; what commodities are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930233107
• ISBN13: 9780930233105
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Windsor Books/Probus
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best!!

This book is one of the best books written on trading. I bought this book years ago and the things I learned then I am still using today. And now that we are in a bull market for commodities I think anyone reading this book will be able to put the lessons in this book to some good use. The book is easy to read and shows some charts and graphs so anyone can follow along and understand. Commercials and Open Interest are two very big factors in picking successful low risk entry points and this book tells you how to use them. Larry Williams is a trading pro and I have read most of his books. Most are good but this one I think is the best. It is not for system traders but more for trend followers or discretionary traders. The other thing it doesn't take a computer to trade this stuff, although I would recomend it. It is subjective but it does work. There are no tests that show you what percentage of trades will work because this is more of an intuitive type of trade that can be learned and applied with accuracy. This will teach you the setups to help you find the big moves before they happen.

This is a great book.

I have been trading futures for 11 years. ... In all that time I have rarely seen an investment guru as humble as Larry Williams. His love of the markets is evident in this book, as well as many others.This book chronicles his meteoric rise and claim to fame when he singlehandedly turned $10,000 into $1 million in a controlled tournament environment.There is a lot of good information in this book and much of it will be very useful to today's trader. Technically and inspirationally this book is a sound buy for today's investor.

Classics can't be ignored

This was the first book I bought about futures when I was 16. A whole new world open up before my eyes, and the credibility couldn't be paralleled turnin $10,000 into over 1.1 million in real time, no one has topped.Three years later I sat and passed my Series 3 commodities broker license. I still kept this book with me and used some of the practical approaches detailed in the book to help my clients trade more successfully.Now after being involved with futures for 11 continuous years as a broker, an investor, and the author of three futures books I still find myself referencing Larry Williams material. Unfortunately, others have a hard time accepting his methodologies and ideas. But if you have read MarketWizard by Schwager, none of those traders were alike. They traded with their own style, with their own risk tolerance, and most importantly with their own goals.That's why Williams' information should be used solely as a base for your own trade development and not as the gospel. Because of the few things mentioned above, and many other personal traits that individual traders bring to the trading experience, there are no "futures gurus" that can tell you exactly how to trade day to day.So you have to decide for yourself what is most important being told how to trade or discovering how to trade for yourself. That's what this book, my books, and many other books can realistically do for you.Good luck and God's speed.

oh yeah? trade this!

Take the sections on price structure and open interest - throw the rest out if you like. You'll still have the most valuable trading book I've seen written to date. I see ten other reviews here, and only a couple mention OI's significance - mostly in passing. Very sad. Open interest's relationship with price action on a few levels deserves at least a few years of study, although it won't take you nearly that long for you to at least appreciate its importance the way it's presented in this book. This was the first market book I paid for as a market newbie in May '88. I still have fond memories of this basic OI move for OJ may 88, COP aug 88, PA oct 88, CT fall 88, COF dec 88, HO and HU summer 89. Try telling me again how worthless this book is...quit criticizing and study harder. The answers exist and much of it is humanly achievable. You're given a small morsel of it here and yet I see nothing but a ho hum response. That in itself is an interesting market lesson.

Classical Commodity Trading Manual

The simplest stuff that works. This manual includes methods for trading the trend. Furthermore, it shows how to use fundamental data that is freely available to the small trader. That data is spread data, open interest data and committment of traders data. In addition to good fundamental information, the manual has technical trading methods and money management guidelines. Highly recommended