Event trading

by Ben Warwick

As experienced traders can attest, news events often mark the beginning or culmination of major trends. Event trading is a new and exciting technique to trade the financial and commodity markets, and represents a third major approach to trading, distinctly different from the fundamental or technical methodologies. Designed to capture profits from market reactions to news events, event trading provides a systematic approach for exploiting a variety of market-moving events such as economic reports, interest rate changes and surprises in corporate earnings. By understanding how markets respond to the news, traders can reap consistent profits. Event Trading is the first book on this subject and is sure to generate great interest among active traders and investors. Specific topics include: origins of event trading; upside and downside breakouts; and creating an event-traded portfolio. As most traders know, finding a profitable trading strategy is only one step on the path to success. The de