Beat the Odds in Forex Trading is written by the prominent Forex trader Igor Toshchakov, who is better known under his nickname L.A Igrok and the similarly named trading method by his authorship. The presented book is dedicated to detecting and benefiting from the high-percentage currency market patterns. The proposed method employs the short-term technical analysis and the special money management techniques. Upon introducing the basics of the method developed by him, Igor proceeds to the actual systems and strategies that can use this method as the basement for their rules. The offered short-term and intraday strategies are thoroughly described with all the applicable rules and conditions — both for entries and exits. In the final chapter of the book, the author gives out some templates that can help with the proposed technical trading systems.

Optimal Trading Strategies is a book about the trading strategies — be it a Forex market or stocks. Optimal trading strategies have several things in common and for you not to wonder what are these things, how to find them and how to develop them in some other strategies, this book will show you in details why some strategies are better and what trading strategies work where others fail. Definitely not an easy read with almost 400 pages, «Optimal Trading Strategies» uncovers everything related to optimizing the strategies — starting from the transaction costs involved into the trading (spread for the Forex market) and finishing with the advanced trading techniques that involving dozens of math formulas that can really help all the traders that understand their profession at a very high level.Note: this book is in DJVU format — you’ll need WinDjView to read it.

21 Candlesticks Every Trader Should Know is both the learning book and the handbook in one. First, it will teach you how to interpret the Japanese candlestick charts, where to spot anticipation patterns, why it works at all and the basic rules of trading with the patterns. Second, it thoroughly describes 21 candlestick patterns that allow Forex (and not only Forex) traders to perform profitably on any type of markets — ranging, trending or a sideways saw. It starts off with the easy and popular chart patterns — such as doji stars and inverted hammers and finishes with some rather exotic candlestick patterns as black crows or harami. The exceptionally good thing about this book is that it doesn’t contain any extra information, it’s not very long and you can always keep it somewhere near your trading workplace to consult it when you spot some interesting chart pattern.

Forex Wave Theory (A Technical Analysis for Spot and Futures Currency Traders) is a Forex technical analysis book about the wave cycles written by James L. Bickford. The purpose of this book is to answer the most important questions of the technical analysis — where and when. Where one wave starts and another finishes? Where are the critical points for setting of the stop-loss and take-profit levels? When is the right time to enter a position and when is the best time close it? Wave theory isn’t something fundamental and monolithic — there are many theories, many authors and many followers of different wave analysis practices. This book tries to research the most prominent of the theories and offer the practical methods of trading based on these theories. The wave cycles of various periods, length, and depth are described in details throughout the main part of the book. The final chapters are dedicated to the advanced parts of trading with the waves and dives into the theory of fractals.

Selective Forex Trading promises to teach the trading technique that allows long winning streaks in Forex without losing a position. This technique was developed by the author of this book and is called S90/Crossover, which name refers to the author’s last name and 90% winning probability. Not that I am huge believer in the trading systems with the high accuracy expectations, but this Forex book has something interesting to offer. It provides a whole trading strategy based on the candlestick chart, River Oscillator Indicator (ROI), Fibonacci retracement levels and the basic line drawing. The author states that this system should be used alone without mixing with some other trading methods or previous strategies of the trader that wants to succeed with this new «selective trading». It’s quite an easy trading system and if you are newbie at Forex I really recommend it as your first one to start with.