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     spider
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Username: spider
Post Number: 1043
Registered: 10-2002Rating: N/A
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| | Sunday, September 28, 2003 - 08:13 pm: |  
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Written by Catherine Davey, she is an Aussie.
I approached this book with some trepidation after my last ill fated journey into an Australian trading book.
(Please Catherine, don't yell at me. I've got enough authors gunning for me as it is).
This book is a pleasant surprise on several levels.
Not only is it an excellent intro to CFD trading, it is an excellent , no nonsense intro to trading.
You get to know a lot about the author. I found her story to be very interesting.
The book is a thinly veiled ad for Deal For Free, but it does not matter as the content is so good.
The psychology section is very good, with some very honest examples from the author.
Not very expensive................ if you are interested in CFDs, and you should be, then get a hold of this book, you will receive a lot more than you paid for.
P.S. This stopped me in my tracks!
One of the chapters deals briefly with a book written in the 30's by a dude named Gartley. Legend has it that this book sold for $1500 per copy then. About the cost of three small cars!
Check out the bit on "Gartley 222" which is a trading system based on page 222 in the book.
You will be stunned when you see the illustrations!
This will be of particular interest to 'uturn'.
spider.
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Never give in - never,
never, never, never,
in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in
except to convictions
of honor and good sense.
Never yield to force;
never yield to the apparently
overwelming might of the enemy.
- Winston Churchill: speech made October 1941
to the boys at Churchill's old public school, Harrow
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peterj
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Username: peterj
Post Number: 67
Registered: 05-2003Rating: N/A
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| | Sunday, September 28, 2003 - 11:44 pm: |
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Spider
I found two books of the same title but listed with different authors (& diff ISBNs)...
Does your copy of the Catherine Davey book mention David Trew at all???
Curious.
Cheers
peterj
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alsoran
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Username: alsoran
Post Number: 130
Registered: 02-2003Rating: 
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| | Monday, September 29, 2003 - 06:34 am: |
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Hi Spid, PJ...
"Catherine Davey is employed as a consultant to the CFD industry and Dealforfree. There are several early chapters detailing what CFDs are, how to set up an account and so on. The balance of the book deals with market analysis, mainly from a charting or technical view, and how you can apply this to CFD trading.
http://www.leveragemag.com.au/stories3/20031001/20283.asp
David Trew is director of CMC Group Plc Asia Pacific and former director of CMC Plc UK.
He was instrumental in the introduction of Contracts for Difference (CFD) trading to the Australian market in August 2002.
http://www.yte.com.au/march_seminar/david_trew.asp
So it appears that Trew's book has been re-badged, with Catherine Davey as the author ... perhaps she wrote a preface? As the resident T/A at Investorweb, with a reputation as an "independent" analysts, lending her name to the book does make it appear less of a spruik for CFDs.
Well, if you think its deceptive, need we be reminded this is the broking industry? 
cheers,
A.
P.S a google search for "0759500223"
http://www.google.com/search?q=0759500223+contracts+for+difference
returns links to the same ISBN and Title, but credits different authors??
Go figure.
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perthtraderoz
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Username: perthtraderoz
Post Number: 1
Registered: 07-2003Rating: N/A
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| | Monday, September 29, 2003 - 09:58 am: |
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What a crock! I've read the book, more like a CMC deal for free advertisment. Only really a couple of pages of interest. As mentioned above, it is ashame someone who is seen as an independent analyst would write this.
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mosaic1996
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Username: mosaic1996
Post Number: 237
Registered: 01-2003Rating: N/A
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| | Monday, September 29, 2003 - 10:16 am: |
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Has anyone read the original by David Trew. It would be interesting to see if David and Catherine have very similar c.v.'s, and/or similar TA examples.
Cheers,
Mosaic.
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spider
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Username: spider
Post Number: 1051
Registered: 10-2002Rating: N/A
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| | Monday, September 29, 2003 - 12:19 pm: |
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Easy fellas,
I'm the one usually bagging the author!
The book I read has an intro by Chris Tate, and one by David Trew.
But the writing style and personal stories are definitely by a woman.
To be fair, the book does not pretend to be anything more than a promo for DFF.
None the less, the information is good, it's well written, and the personal style is enjoyable.
I'll have to keep an eye out for Trew's version. I wonder if it is a cut and paste job or a different approach.
BTW, I don't care who writes these things ,as long as I get something out of them.
spider.
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I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
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williamat
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Username: williamat
Post Number: 120
Registered: 09-2002Rating: N/A
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| | Monday, September 29, 2003 - 01:10 pm: |
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Spider, Have a look at the title page and see if it states, Originally published et al, and/ or take the ISBN's to the library and ask them to identify the publisher from the second set of numbers in the isbn. Isbn consists of 4 parts, Language,pub.no.,book no. and check digit.
Libraries have a CD which will reveal all. Quite often Australian right are bought for overseas publisher and a new ISBN is generated for the same book, obviously the publisher no. will change and usually the Book No. also. Hope this helps. Bill.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowances for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor walk too wise;
Kipling's IF.........Verse 1. (to be continued)
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perthtraderoz
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Username: perthtraderoz
Post Number: 2
Registered: 07-2003Rating: N/A
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| | Monday, September 29, 2003 - 01:12 pm: |
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It's all a bit strange to write a book then so soon to have the author changed. Maybe she has been under some pressure from the trading public to remain independent and talk frankly about CFD's and Deal For Free, not plug them at every opportunity. I may have a collectors item on my hands, over to Ebay I think to see what I can get for her book. Any thoughts?
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andrewk
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Username: andrewk
Post Number: 7
Registered: 09-2003Rating: N/A
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| | Monday, September 29, 2003 - 02:39 pm: |
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Let me guess, Gartley 222 has something to do with Ws and Ms? 
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