Beating the Wolves of Wall Street

Most individual retail investors are like sheep being led to the slaughter by the wolves of Wall Street. They believe that successful trading and investing is simply learning chart patterns or the "old school" fundamental analysis that no longer work effectively in our current markets. But, retail investors must learn how the markets actually work! The book will discuss: Two basic types of traders on Wall Street: the institutional traders who move the markets and the uneducated retail traders who are at their mercy.How the markets are essentially a zero sum game. Daily market action is the transfer of monies from the accounts of retail traders to institutional traders.The Buy and Hold strategies that are advantageous for the financial institutions but not the retail investors following the advice of their financial advisors.By combining the experience and wisdom of 50+ professional instructors/professional traders on the Online Trading Academy (OTA) faculty and a dozen in-depth interviews, this book will teach readers the common key elements of trading that successful traders have in common to help them beat the market.