Reviews for Dow Jones-Irwin Guide to Commodities Trading

The average rating for Dow Jones-Irwin Guide to Commodities Trading based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-12-09 00:00:00 Dr. Richard Romer A sad indictment of the academic community's attempts to illuminate the workings of modern financial markets. You could be forgiven for naively thinking that a book like this should be in some way useful to the practitioner in the field, but you'd be wrong -- damn wrong. My advice to anyone working in finance thinking this might provide some useful insight: forget it. My advice to anyone working in academia who may find this book useful in their research: either (a) go and research something worthwhile, or (b) stop dancing around the sidelines and go get a real finance job -- in your current vocation you aren't really helping anyone. The working thesis that emerges from my efforts to plow through this book (which I abandoned after chapter 2): the one job more parasitic and unhelpful to society than working in the finance industry is being an academic trying to study what goes on in financial markets.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-14 00:00:00 Christopher Muscarella For the time this book came out, it was extremely forthright in disproving institutional methods of viewing the markets. This book did an incredible job at introducing the concept of nonliterary and conveyed the paramount importance of adopting more modern systems into analyzing markets. Although some information is outdated, this still serves as an excellent book at teaching complex aspects of the market, even in our modern world.