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Book Review: The Secrets of Economic Indicators by Bernard Baumohl

July 22, 2013 by John Leave a Comment

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It’s taken me about a year, but I’ve finally gotten around to having a look through the 3rd edition of Bernard Baumohl’s book The Secrets of Economic Indicators. Now that I’ve done so, I really which I’d dug in sooner.

This book answers the question a lot of new and developing traders have in terms of what economic indicators are important and where to go to get information about them. It comprises only 6 chapters, despite being over 400 pages long in print format. They are as follows:

Chapter 1 – The Lock-Up, which looks at how indicators are released and lays the groundwork for what’s to come.

Chapter 2 – A Beginner’s Guide: Understanding the Lingo, which is a brief look at what does into economic data and the interpretation of releases.

Chapter 3 – The Most Influential US Economic Indicators is the bulk of the book (over 300 pages). It goes through each of the major releases (and not so major) with a quite thorough discussion. That starts with a quick reference on

  • Market Sensitivity
  • What Is It?
  • Most Current News Release on the Internet
  • Home Web Address
  • Release Time
  • Frequency
  • Source
  • Revisions

That is then followed by discussion sections

  • Why Is it Important?
  • How Is It Computed?
  • The Tables: Clues on What’s Ahead for the Economy
  • Market Impact

Lots of information here, for sure.

Chapter 4 – International Economic Indicators: Why Are They So Important? follows a similar pattern to Chapter 3 in looking at the major non-US data releases.

Chapter 5 – Best Websites for U.S. Economic Indicators is several pages worth of useful websites to find fundamental information and news.

Chapter 6 – Best Websites for International Economic Indicators is the same as with Chapter 5 for international data.

I can’t imagine a better, more complete resource on the subject of economic indicators. If you’re looking at using fundamentals in your trading, you’ll definitely want to give The Secrets of Economic Indicators a look.

Make sure to check out all my trading book reviews.

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