[firewalker]

The amount of information in this forum is amazing. I've only had a look in a dozen threads, but I'm already fascinated. I was wondering if those with experience in the field would be able to provide a shortlist of the best available resources available on the topic.

I take it the seminal work most people turn to is Mind over Markets, but I must admit I'm not really informed on the matter. My experience with MP is restricted to being in a trading room once (about 10 months ago) with a guy who automated his strategy based on MP charts. I didn't think much of it at that time, mainly because his "automated strategy" failed miserably.

To prevent any miscommunication, I'm not looking to overhaul my approach to trading, but it seems the talk of the town are concepts like "value area" and "point of control"... so why not add that to my summer literature

[firewalker]

I'll start by contributing some books I found myself. Are there any general works on "auction market theory" perhaps?

CBOT Market Profile handbook (free e-book)

Mind over Markets: Power Trading With Market Generated Information (1999)
by James F. Dalton, Eric T. Jones, and Robert Bevan Dalton)

Markets in Profile: Profiting from the Auction Process (2007)
by James F. Dalton, Robert Bevan Dalton, and Eric T. Jones

Steidlmayer on Markets: Trading with Market Profile (2002)
by J. Peter Steidlmayer

These are all rather recent books though, but surely the underlying idea exited long before these publications? I'd appreciate any pointers towards "classic works", although by now Dalton's work seems like "classic" already.

[DbPhoenix]

Here's a good overview of auction market theory from three years ago: AMT

[gassah]

I'm partial to Tom Alexander's work: http://www.alexandertrading.com/home/index.asp

[gassah]

www.balancetrader.com has to be added to the list. I'm halfway through the course and it's very good so far. He leaves out much of the MP jargon looking to past balance areas for support/resistance much like Db does, and offers sound looking strategies for a fair $97, IMO.

[Kiwi]

Plus Frank will support you "forever" gassah. Something that you don't normally get with a $97 book.

I use a simplified version of Frank's work to determine intraday trend (although I trade ma bounces) and have found it keeps me on the right side of the market.

[hanz]

$97?

i dont see $97 on balancetrader website?

[fifty2aces]

Originally Posted by hanz »

$97?

i dont see $97 on balancetrader website?

Pretty sure $147 is the price - it may have risen. For what it's worth, I think it's decent value - don't expect a holy grail, but there are some interesting perspectives on market profile. It is very discretionary in nature though, so may not suit everyone.

If you're doubting whether it's worth signing up for, there's a blog at http://my.wallst.net/referral/fbutera101/Blogs which is free, as well as a couple of free lessons on the site.