Forex For Ambitious Beginners: A Guide to Successful Currency Trading

This book is not necessarily a reference book but i definitely use it for one. I will occasionally go back through it if I forget something forex related.

good starter book a lot of good information, but I feel that there is a good bit more to know

Jelle does a great job of showing you the territory and giving you a good idea of where to start and exactly what to do. I'm a beginner but I read most of the book before I started a practice account and it helped tremendously. I tried the author's suggestions and they work. You make a huge mistake unless you set TP and SL with every trade. The review of technical trading, range, and trend trading was very good without weighing you down with too much information. I will say that the one deficiency of the book was that it didn't give you enough real time trading information sources; i.e., where to find Federal Reserve, EU, and economic source information, but that comes naturally. Good read on a tough subject. Thanks Jelle.

Great beginner course with some clear insight to what the FOREX market is all about and how to prepare yourself to trade. Covering the basics without fluff or going on about a subject once the point is made. A good read for any and all beginners

This is my first book on Forex trading, so I have nothing to compare it to. So this review is for the book contents and what I like or hated about it. The book covers the basics as implied by its tittle. Don't expect in-depth analysis or fancy detailed trading strategies. The book is properly paced and not boring -at least if you're interested on learning. The language is clear enough for beginners, but the author makes a big mistake that is consistent throughout the book: tries to explain topics using jargon that is at best latter on explained on the book. So you have to go to the internet and figure out the words or concept we fails to explain earlier as it should be. I must say that while this is a big pitfall as a writer, it's good for you as reader as it forces you to spend several hours (given you have the time) on the internet reading the overwhelming amount of information found there, which helps you to diversify what you are reading on the book. I gave it 3 stars mostly for the lack of figures/graphics that would help to understand the concepts he tries to come across. The quantity of figures is extremely short and makes your imagination soar figuring out how things look like. The author failed to understand than since most interesting concepts about forex trading are closely related with the charts, these are of paramount importance to explain clearly and succinctly. It's a shame the book is so short of graphics coz otherwise would be a great book. At last, it's unbelievable that the author, the editor and however proofread the book (if somebody ever did that) failed to notice the basic arithmetics errors on the examples used to explain EVP. The bottom line: the book is worth it if you're a beginner and feel overwhelm by the information found on the internet.

great book

Very informative book! I think it could have included more actual trading examples with information about the results of the trades.

Excellent beginner text or review. Well written. Best forex book I have read so far!!

Un livre bien documente. Croustillant de details. Somme toute, un livre sur le Forex bien pense et bien fait par un auteur dont l'experience du monde boursier et du Forex se ressent au fil de la lecture.

Well written and good book - straight forward without the waffles. Easy to understand and follow the strategy - and easy to use it as a reference once you have read the book and may like to read it - good to keep it handy if you are going trade in forex. This book is for begginers but is execelt for intermidiate and experts who can pick things from this book to become better.

From page 15: "Now, chances are that you've already heard some great stories about how easy it is to make money trading on the forex. Maybe you heard a story about a beginning trader just like you, who started out with just a couple of hundred bucks and with this or that simple strategy and made tens of thousands of dollars in profit in only a few months. Yeah, that's not gonna happen. I don't want to burst your bubble or anything, but it's better to start out with your feet firmly planted on the road to riches and not have your head filled with fantasies." Right, so much for AMBITIOUS BEGINNERS then. The book DOES make for a really good read though. Once you see past the highly annoying use of a comma instead of a decimal point (an odd thing to see in a book about money! And the reason why it doesn't get five stars) then there is a lot of plainly-written common sense which serves as a primer for any subsequent training and reading you're going to follow it up with. Each aspect of Forex is dealt with, and there's even a few book recommendations in the text and in the Bibliography to extend your knowledge still further, which is just what you need once your enthusiasm and interest has been stirred. I strongly recommend this book. It's aimed at beginners without being in the least bit patronising. It's short enough and written comprehensively enough to be read all in one go, yet packed with detail. There's even a test at the end to see how much has sunk in, although you'll want to read it again in three months, just to brush up on things. There's enough here to make every Forex article and book you read, and every Forex YouTube video you watch, to suddenly start making a lot more sense. Books like this? They aren't an expense - they are a worthy investment.

I bought this a while ago and I’ve been reading it through very carefully, I thoroughly enjoy this book, if you read it your not going to become a trader but I can imagine reading it through 2/3 times and taking notes it will fill the gaps in forex knowledge, very easy read and I enjoyed reading it, I wouldn’t rely souly on this single book but none the less it’s a brilliant and accurate book, a must have when learning how the foreign exchange works! I will be keeping this book and reading it over and over for a long time!

Positives: +friendly, easy to read +chapters on history of forex, background behind major currency pairs, technical analysis and trading strategies included +does not bore you with excessive theory; immediately introduces you to the practical side of forex +affordable price Negatives: -charts show up poorly and low resolution in the Kindle version -couple of typos noticed and decimal points in the wrong places, but nothing too major -working not clear for some calculations, and are a bit cramped in the paragraphs