Money Never Sleeps

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The Candlestick Course

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Steve Nison revolutionized the world of technical analysis when his two bestselling books introduced Japanese candlestick charting techniques to the western world. "Candles," he discovered, can signal shifts in trends and price patterns with amazing accuracy, and these "storyteller" charts also contain powerful applications for today’s volatile short-term markets.

In The Candlestick Course, Nison breaks new ground once again. From the basics through the more complex stages of pattern recognition, each chapter includes specific learning objectives, key terms, clear-cut instruction, and practical applications. Plus, each end-of-chapter quiz allows readers to perfect their charting abilities before moving on. This book is the ideal training tool for newcomers, and perfect for veterans looking to refine and hone their skills.

Focused on the needs of today’s active traders and investors, Nison:

* Provides a solid foundation to candlestick charts–reinforcing key skills as you go
* Reveals how to pinpoint critical market opportunities as they arise, by recognizing key candle signals
* Tests your ability to accurately analyze and interpret candle charts
* Demonstrates how candlestick concepts can trigger potent decision-support tools that can confirm–or enhance–buy/sell signals
* Includes a valuable "progressive charting" case study
* Ties all the aspects of candlesticks together through interactive examples and visual tests

Whether viewed as a supplement to Steve Nison’s other books and courses, or as your introduction to candlestick charting, this course book will familiarize you with the intriguing world of The Morning Star, The Hammer, The Dark Cloud Cover–and the many other powerful and precise patterns Nison shares with fellow traders and investors.

Not just a one-time read, The Candlestick Course can be used as a valuable reference source, and quick refresher course, time and again.

http://rapidshare.com/files/186921792/The_Candlestick_Course-Steve_Nison.pdf

[Smashvibe]

Hmmm very interesting

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Why Are There So Many Banking Crises?

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Among economists' explanations are moral hazard, ill-judged capital adequacy rules and the incompetence of supervisors. Jean-Charles Rochet, a leading authority on banking, argues the real problem lies with politicians who too often insist on rescuing insolvent banks for short-term reasons of their own. [W]hatever the verdict on the policy proposals, the book makes interesting reading in current circumstances.

http://rapidshare.com/files/188001149/Why_Are_There_So_Many_Banking_Crises.pdf

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Bond Markets - Analysis and Strategies

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This comprehensive reference on bonds takes a practical real-world approach to the subject. It contains detailed presentations of each type of bond and includes a wide range of products. Extensive discussions include not only the instruments, but also their investment characteristics, the state-of-the art technology for valuing them, and portfolio strategies for using them. Chapter topics include pricing, measuring yield, price volatility, municipal securities, non-U.S. bonds, performance measurement and evaluation, and interest-rate options. For portfolio managers and analysts in their quest for sound investments, and for individuals seeking to become more knowledgeable investors.


http://www.filefactory.com/file/a06317c/n/FRANK_J_FABOZZI-BOND_MARKETS_ANALYSIS_AND_STRATEGIES_pdf

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ETF Strategies and Tactics

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In just a decade, the exchange-traded funds (ETFs) market has grown from one billion dollars to more than half-a-trillion dollars.

While previous books have provided introductions to and listings of ETFs, ETF Strategies and Tactics offers practical guidance on how to invest in these funds and use them to balance your portfolio.

Written by a powerhouse authorial team, ETF Strategies and Tactics thoroughly covers the ins and outs of ETFs, detailing how they work, their distinctive characteristics, who trades them, who owns them, and their advantages and disadvantages compared with other investment vehicles. As markets evolve, new ETFs come and go. This authoritative reference will keep you on top of your game by providing focused decision-making techniques that help determine the viability of any ETF, including its value in sector and international investing.

http://rapidshare.com/files/189020903/ETF_Strategies_and_Tactics_-_007149734X.PDF

[abhay]

Nice collection brow! Do you have RICHDAD collection?

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I'm not sure.

Let me check my archive.

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Trading Without Gambling

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Many people perceive trading as nothing more than a gamble. But there are still people who consistently make money trading. How do they do it? They've learned to separate gambling from trading. And the way they do this, says author Marcel Link, is by developing a proper plan. In Trading Without Gambling, Link shows how to create and use a sound game plan to improve every aspect of trading–including finding trades, timing, knowing how much to trade, where to exit, and how to adjust risk–while leaving very little to gambling.

http://rapidshare.com/files/189491619/Trading_Without_Gambling.pdf

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Candlestick Charting Explained

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Japanese candlesticks are one of the most important technical tools used in the market. Candlestick Charting Explained demonstrates how candlestick charts can be used to identify and anticipate price patterns in the financial and commodity markets. A comprehensive and authoritative overview, Candlestick Charting Explained describes how to combine candlestick charts with other technical tools to identify profitable trades. Clearly written and illustrated, this is a superb book for any trader who wants to master this powerful trading system.

Specific topics include:

* Candlestick charts versus bar charts
* Philosophy of candlestick pattern recognition
* Reversal and continuation pattern recognition
* Reversal and continuation patterns using candlesticks
* Trading with candlesticks

http://rapidshare.com/files/190946395/GREG_L_MORRIS-_Candlestick_Charting_Explained.pdf

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Instant Income

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In her first solo book, entrepreneur Switzer (co-author, with Jack Canfield, of The Success Principles) offers practical insights for business owners in a fast-paced text jam-packed with useful information and tricks of the marketing trade. Designed to bring in customers and cash, Switzer's guide builds on small business basics and provides authoritative strategy in an impressive number of areas: customers, joint-ventures, advertising, prospecting, sales, the internet, apprenticeships, negotiating deals and "earning extra income whenever you need it." Switzer is a firm believer in research, promoting the theory that the best marketing campaigns gather as much knowledge as possible about potential customers-their problems, needs and goals-in order to avoid the "customer complaints, returns, and refunds" generated by "selling prospects something they don't need." Packed with advice on everything from "Writing ads that make the phone ring" to "Launching a viral report" to "Going into business with the boss," as well as endorsements from Switzer's satisfied advisees, this book is a valuable resource for anyone who owns a small business or is interested in making some extra money; media-savvy consumers may also find this book useful in navigating the marketing forces that bombard them daily.

http://rapidshare.com/files/191887286/Instant_Income.pdf

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To Hell and Back

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One of the first titles to arise from the ashes of the stock market, CFP-financial analyst Stern's book is based on personal experience. He boils down the fundamentals of investing into nuggets of easy-to-grasp information. One example is a simple yet thorough explanation of the economy and the business cycle, along with key indicators. Another is his stock-picking tips, from comparisons (the right way) to classic mistakes. Yet another is information on spotting the trends, accompanied by checklists and a few stellar recommendations. He's quick to add two caveats: he advocates disciplined investing (e.g., review holdings once a month), and he insists that no one individual, no one company, can predict with 100 percent accuracy the inevitability of a recession or business contraction. Written with humility and humor--a rare combination.

http://rapidshare.com/files/192318064/To_Hell_and_Back.pdf

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Trading Strategies for Capital Markets

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In order to succeed in the capital markets, professional traders and investors must understand that markets aren't mathematical abstractions, but dynamic, real-time reflectors of the world we live in. You need to know how the capital markets work in practice, what the drivers are, how to recognize them, and how to develop and implement effective trading strategies.

Written by Joseph Benning, a Moody's Vice President and former Senior Economist at the Chicago Board of Trade, this vital financial resource provides examples of successful trading strategies, guidance on when and why to use them, and revealing discussions of trading psychology and risk management.

With his trademark lively and engaging style, Dr. Benning cuts through the complexities of the capital markets, making them accessible, practical, interesting, and easy to understand. He also organizes Trading Strategies for Capital Markets into three sections for maximum depth and clarity that cover

* The historical development of capital markets, the modern market, and drivers such as pricing, policy, and volatility
* Main instruments of capital markets, including debt, treasury and federal securities, corporate and municipal bonds, equity securities, hybrid securities, and options. This part also covers trading strategies such as Carry Trade, Tactical Yield Curve Trading, Treasury Basis, and Synthetic Yield Curve--and offers expert accounts of ETFs and equity indexes
* Insightful information on risk management, behavioral finance, trading psychology, and position risk

Trading Strategies for Capital Markets equips professional traders and investors with a complete, one-stop reference for all aspects of today's complex capital markets that includes winning trading strategies for taking advantage of current market realities.

http://rapidshare.com/files/192758482/Trading_Stategies_for_Capital_Markets__Benning_.pdf

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The Bible of Options Strategies

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Guy Cohen is the master when it comes to taming the complexities of options. From buying calls and puts to iron butterflies and condors, Guy explains these strategies in a clear and concise manner that options traders of any level can understand. His chapter on options and taxes is especially welcomed (and needed). The Bible of Options Strategies is a straightforward, easy-to-use reference work that should occupy a space on any options trader's bookshelf. " --Bernie Schaeffer, Chairman and CEO, Schaeffer's Investment Research, Inc. "The author delivers clarity, insight and perception making learning about options a joy, and practicing the art of making money that much easier: truly a bible from a guru.

http://rapidshare.com/files/193205038/The_Bible_of_Options_Strategies.pdf

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What Works on Wall Street

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Investors -- be they aggressive or conservative, self-directed or professionally managed -- are always on the lookout for an edge. And in James O'Shaughnessy's What Works on Wall Street: A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time, they'll find a solid one: authoritative analysis of popular practices from the past. The author examines three decades of stock market data to show how 15 of the most common investment tactics have fared over time

http://rapidshare.com/files/193644753/What_Works_on_Wall_Street.pdf

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MESA and Trading Market Cycles

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THE PIONEER OF MESA RETURNS TO UPDATE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL APPROACH TO TRADING THE MARKET USING CYCLES

In this highly anticipated second edition of MESA and Trading Market Cycles, MESA pioneer John Ehlers updates his theories and makes them even more accessible to the entire trading community. Completely revised to reflect the most current developments in MESA–a well-known computerized analysis tool designed to trade market cycles–this Second Edition reveals more of the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of MESA, while showing you how to successfully apply it in the stock, options, and futures markets.

Topics discussed include:

* The Sinewave Indicator and the Instantaneous Trendline
* Making standard indicators adaptive: Commodity Channel Indicator (CCI), Relative Strength Indicator (RSI), and Stochastic Indicator
* Developing highly effective automatic trading systems using MESA-measured cycles
* Stock market systems
* EasyLanguage programming code that allows you to make the leap from theory to practice with ease
* And much more

If you are looking for a proven strategy to increase your chances of correctly predicting trends and making successful trades, look no further. MESA and Trading Market Cycles, Second Edition provides the expert knowledge, tools, and guidance that will enhance your probability of successful trades and increase your bottom line.

http://rapidshare.com/files/194093671/John_F_Ehlers_-_MESA_and_Trading_Market_Cycles.pdf

[psp786]

Thanks

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The Symmetry Wave Trading Method

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This book is an alternative to Elliott Wave theory. It is objective where as Elliott Wave theory is subjective. That is Elliott Wave changes its labeling of the price swings as the swings change. Whereas, Symmetry Wave being objective does not change its labeling of the price swings. It is a revolutionary idea that clusters correction of smaller sizes together to bring clarity to the price swings. Michael is the first person, publicly, to use Average True Range (ATR) for protective stop and profit target. I love using ATR as the stop method, because it uses the current volatility of the market to help me decide the profit target and the protective stop.

http://rapidshare.com/files/194534878/The_Symmetry_Wave_Trading_Method.pdf

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Investment Performance Measurement

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Investment performance measurement is the quantification of the results achieved by an investment program. Understanding performance measurement is vital for anyone who participates in the investment process. Investment Performance Measurement is a comprehensive and integrated survey of the steps taken to measure performance as well as a reference guide to the calculation and interpretation of the various risk and return statistics commonly encountered by anyone responsible for selecting, monitoring, and evaluating the performance of investment managers.

Written in a clear and accessible style, with each concept developed through fully worked examples, this book is a valuable guide that provides you with critical insights into many areas of this important step in the investment management cycle.

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Mathematical Techniques in Financial Market Trading

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The present book contains much more materials than the author's previous book The Science of Financial Market Trading. Spectrum analysis is again emphasized for the characterization of technical indicators employed by traders and investors. New indicators are created. Mathematical analysis is applied to evaluate the trading methodologies practiced by traders to execute a trade transaction. In addition, probability theory is employed to appraise the utility of money management techniques. The book: identifies the faultiness of some of the indicators used by traders and accentuates the potential of wavelets as a trading tool; describes the scientific evidences that the market is non-random, and that the non-randomness can vary with respect to time; demonstrates the validity of the claim by some traders that, with good money management techniques, the market is still profitable even if it were random; and analyzes why a popular trading tactic has a good probability of success and how it can be improved.

http://rapidshare.com/files/195402721/Mathematical_Tech._in_Market.pdf

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The Trading Game

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Clear, concise, and practical, The Trading Game shows you how to harness the power of money management for any trading method "The goal of most futures traders is to make a million dollars as fast and as painlessly as possible. Unfortunately, few traders achieve this goal. In The Trading Game, Ryan Jones demonstrates how the proper application of his new money management strategy, Fixed Ratio Trading, can enable an average trading system to earn spectacular profits. My advice? Don’t trade until you’ve spent as much time and effort on money management as you’ve spent on developing your entry and exit rules

http://rapidshare.com/files/195821622/RYAN_JONES_-THE_TRADING_GAME.pdf

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Steidlmayer on Markets: A New Approach to Trading

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A complete guide to Steidlmayer's new approach to markets, especially the futures markets. Part I provides background information based on Steidlmayer's experiences as a commodities trader, showing how he developed his ideas and learned to apply them to futures trading. Part II outlines his theory of markets, explains factors that determine prices, and describes the Market Profile and Liquidity Data Bank systems. Part III provides detailed applications, showing how to read market activity, recognize both fundamental and technical factors underlying price movements, and make sound investment and trading decisions.

http://rapidshare.com/files/196223818/J_Peter_Steidlmayer_-_On_Markets_-_A_New_Approach_To_Trading.pdf

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Good job done

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Currency Trading and Intermarket Analysis

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As head FX strategist at CMC Markets–one of the world's leading forex/commodity brokers–Ashraf Laidi understands the forces shaping today's currency market and their interplay with interest rates, equities, and commodities. And now, with Currency Trading and Intermarket Analysis, he shares his extensive experiences in this field with you. Throughout the book, Laidi outlines the tools needed to understand the macroeconomic and financial nuances of this dynamic field and provides you with insights that are essential to making the most of your time within it.

http://rapidshare.com/files/196651082/Currency_Trading_and_Intermarket_Analysis.pdf

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Stock Market Crash of 1929

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On October 29, 1929, more than 16 million stock shares were sold at the New York Stock Exchange, and by the end of November investors had lost more than $100 billion in assets. With the crash, the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties came to a close and a dark era of financial despair dawned in the United States. "The Stock Market Crash of 1929" is a revealing look at the events that helped usher one of the grimmest periods in American history.

http://rapidshare.com/files/197059935/Stock_Market_Crash_of_1929_-_0791093549.PDF

[dorismovie]

impressive collection u have ..... thanks a lot

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The Strategic Electronic Day Trader

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Anyone with a computer can day trade, but day trading clearly isn't for every one. In fact, as Robert Deel makes clear in The Strategic Electronic Day Trader, only a very few who try it will survive and prosper. Deel, who has trained thousands of traders in the last decade, says 92 percent will lose money in the first two years, and only 2 percent will make money on a consistent basis. He compares the challenge to war: "Most battles are won or lost in the preparation stage, long before the first shot is fired. Trading is high-tech warfare. Never underestimate your opponents. Remember, if you are not the marksman, you are the target."

The first six chapters explain what every day trader needs to know: how to read the NASDAQ level-two screen; order routing, execution methods, and rules; and trading through the Electronic Communications Networks (ECNs). Included are sections on charting and technical indicators with specific advice for adapting these to very short-term trading strategies. Deel shows how to create screens and filters to identify high probability/profitability trades, and he discusses the best times of the day to trade and when and how to go short. Also included is a section on recommended hardware configurations and proper setup of the trading environment.

In final chapters, Deel describes "the biomechanical trader" who prepares for battle through an intense process of mental training and conditioning that includes biofeedback, meditation, visualization, and hypnosis. This is a practical, easily understood presentation of what it takes to be one of the few who will succeed as marksmen. --Scott Harrison

http://rapidshare.com/files/197464775/ROBERT_DEEL_-_The_Strategic_Electronic_Day_Trader_pdf_.pdf

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Profitable Candlestick Trading

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Profitable Candlestick Trading

Pinpointing Market Opportunities to Maximize Profit

Misunderstood by investors for years, Japanese Candlestick charting and analysis has been described as too complicated to learn and too labor-intensive. Now, Candlestick trading expert Stephen Bigalow dispels these notions and demystifies the process of this valuable and successful technical analysis tool in Profitable Candlestick Trading: Pinpointing Market Opportunities to Maximize Profit.

In accessible and easy-to-understand language, this book bridges the gap between past wisdom and contemporary practice to give any level of investor a complete understanding of this proven, profitable, and time-tested investing technique.

http://rapidshare.com/files/197884545/Profitable_Candlestick_Trading.pdf

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Getting Started in Bonds

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A complete guide to understanding everything about Getting Started in Bonds
SECOND EDITION

Thinking of getting your feet wet in the world of bonds, but don’t know where to begin? The Second Edition of Getting Started in Bonds will help you better understand and invest in fixed income securities (bonds). Packed with new material, dozens of real-life examples, and up-to-the-minute facts and figures, Getting Started in Bonds, Second Edition is an informational as well as entertaining primer written in a fun, conversational voice, not as a lecture.

* Covers a variety of bonds you have to choose from–U.S. Government, Municipal, Corporate, Convertible, and much more
* Helps you identify a good bond
* Reveals factors that can affect a bond’s value and help you forecast future interest rates
* Shares a number of valuable bond investing and portfolio strategies

http://rapidshare.com/files/198248865/John_Wiley___Sons_.Getting_Started_in_Bonds__2nd_Edition..pdf

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Market Neutral Strategies

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An inside view of what makes market neutral strategies tick and how they can be implemented

Market neutral strategies have gained attention for their potential to deliver positive returns regardless of the direction of underlying markets. As these strategies have built a record of good performance in recent years, their benefits have become apparent. Market Neutral Strategies draws on the wisdom and experience of professional practitioners to describe strategies that are being utilized by some of today's leading institutional investors. This book provides readers with an insider's view of what makes these strategies work and how they can be implemented successfully. Topics covered include long-short equity and convertibles, fixed income and merger arbitrage; the tax and ERISA implications of market neutral investing; and the failure of two notorious "market neutral" ventures, Askin Capital Management and Long-Term Capital Management.

Bruce I. Jacobs (Florham Park, NJ) and Kenneth N. Levy are cofounders and principals of Jacobs Levy Equity Management, in Florham Park, New Jersey. They are coauthors of Equity Management: Quantitative Analysis for Stock Selection. Bruce Jacobs holds a PhD in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of Capital Ideas and Market Realities: Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes.

http://rapidshare.com/files/198634260/Marketneutral_strategies.pdf

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Trade to Win: Proven Strategies to Make Money

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Divided into three comprehensive parts, Trade to Win explains the fundamental elements of author Thomas Busby's proven trading approach–which deals with the significance and use of time, key numbers, and market indicators. Along the way, you'll find strategies for trading stocks, options, futures, and other financial products, and go beyond the numbers to learn about a few of the often overlooked aspects of trading–including risk management, money management, and the impact of emotions on your trading.

http://rapidshare.com/files/199042107/Trade_to_Win.pdf

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Managing Your Money All-In-One For Dummies

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Want to take control of your finances once and for all? Managing Your Money All-in-One For Dummies combines expert money management with personal finance tips. From credit cards and insurance to taxes, investing, retirement, and more, seven mini-books show you how to improve your relationship with money — no matter your age or stage of life.

This easy-to-understand guide shows you how to assess your financial situation, calculate debt, prepare a budget, trim spending, boost your income, and improve your credit score. You’ll find ways to run a money-smart household, reduce waste, and cut medical and transportation expenses as you tackle your debt head-on and develop good saving habits. You’ll even get help choosing the right mortgage and avoiding foreclosure, saving for college or retirement, and determining your home-, car-, and life insurance needs. Discover how to:

* Take charge of your finances
* Manage home and personal finances
* Lower your taxes and avoid tax audits
* Plan a budget and scale back on expenses
* Deal with debt and negotiate with creditors
* Save and invest safely for college or retirement
* Protect your money and assets from fraud and identity theft
* Ensure a comfortable retirement
* Plan your estate and safeguard a will or trust

Managing Your Money All-in-One For Dummies brings you seven great books for the price of one. Can you think of a better way to start managing your money wisely?

http://rapidshare.com/files/199444895/Managing_Your_Money_All-In-One_For_Dummies.pdf

[RGG]

Great Sharing

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Point & Figure Charting: The Essential Application for Forecasting and Tracking Market Prices

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Today's investment industry is filled with a variety of new strategies that can be used to evaluate market price movements, but many of these methods never seem to deliver on what they promise. There is one approach to investment analysis, however, that has proven itself in all types of markets, and it's called Point and Figure Charting.

In the Third Edition of Point and Figure Charting, the world's top Point and Figure charting expert, Tom Dorsey returns to explain how traders and investors alike can use this classic technique-borne out of the irrefutable laws of supply and demand-to identify and capitalize on market trends. Within these pages, Dorsey describes, step-by-step, how to create, maintain, and interpret your own Point and Figure charts with regard to markets, sectors, and individual securities. He then explains how to use these findings to track and forecast market prices and develop an overall investment strategy.

http://rapidshare.com/files/199838684/POINT_AND_FIGURE_CHARTING.pdf

[NewRad]

If I was a trader this thread would be perfect! But i'm not ^_^
anyway thanks for the uploads I have gotten some good stuff out of here so far!

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The Little Book That Makes You Rich

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Self confessed numbers geek Navellier has developed what he claims is an effective and durable system to beat the stock market, long thought a money-loser by financiers due to its self-correcting nature. Rather than focus on one or two indicators, Navellier has weighted a basket of eight variables ("earnings revisions," "operating margins," "free cash flow," etc.), a quantitative strategy he shares in complex detail and happily accessible prose. Looking into the hows and whys of stock performance, Navellier lays open the complex economic environment and explicates his eight indicators in depth, showing how they relate to the market and the real world. Though he relates choosing stocks to everyday activities such as household budgeting and sports ("Never fall in love with your second baseman or your stocks"), his precise "by the numbers" approach is far removed from emotional interference. Still, he does take into account investors' personal preferences and predicament-risk level, stress, age, tax situation and so on. Providing numerous successful examples of his system's past performance, one can't help but wonder how long this system will continue to yield results; still, this good-natured guidebook will help anyone new to investing or interested in learning a new way to look at the market.

http://rapidshare.com/files/200220034/The_Little_Book_That_Makes_You_Rich.pdf

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Candlestick Charting Explained

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The classic Japanese candlestick reference, updated with all-new insights and tools to improve your predictive accuracy

Candlestick Charting Explained takes the subjectivity out of Japanese candlestick analysis by providing you with standardized, straightforward coverage of 89 powerful candlestick patterns. Inside you will learn what they indicate about current trader behavior and how you can use each to instantly improve your market knowledge and analytical precision.

In this revised and expanded third edition, candlestick expert Greg Morris updates his influential guidebook with valuable new material and patterns to give you:

* Thorough coverage of candlestick patterns to allow instant analysis of investor attitude and probable market direction
* Methods for integrating candlesticks with traditional Western charting analysis for enhanced signal verification
* Completely new section by Ryan Litchfield dedicated to "Trading with Candlesticks"
* Current insights into trader psychology, and how it impacts interactions between buyers and sellers

Its in-depth exploration of traditional as well as all-new candlestick charts, Candlestick Charting Explained will show you how to make candlestick charting a logical, understandable, and profitable component of your current trading program.

http://rapidshare.com/files/200628594/Greg_Morris_-_Candlestick_Charting_Explained_pdf_.pdf

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Strategic Investment: Real Options and Games

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Strategic Investment: Real Options and Games provides a powerful synthesis of modern corporate finance and corporate strategy. Its arrival could not be more timely for the practice of strategic management. Cumulative developments in finance science and innovations in financial technology over the past three decades have had a profound impact on financial markets and financial institutions globally. However, their influence on the practice of strategic corporate finance has been far more limited. That is changing and as a consequence one can anticipate significant opportunities for innovation in strategic advice and its implementation in the impending future. Who better to prepare us for it than Han Smit and Lenos Trigeorgis, with their combined experiences as serious academic researchers, skilled consultants, and seasoned teachers? Their carefully constructed text uses actual case settings and hypothetical situations to exemplify the power of combining real options and game theory to clarify and quantify strategic analysis of the firm. Whether MBA student or seasoned professional, the reader is in for a treat: Bon Appetit!

http://rapidshare.com/files/201010271/Strategic_Investment_Real_Options_and_Games.pdf

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Digital Day Trading; Moving from One Winning Stock Position to the Next

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Within the subject of investing, the big buzz is over day trading. A day trader is someone who establishes a market position at some point during the day but who exits the position before the close of day. Day traders make money by making a lot of trades that take advantage of even small fluctuations in price. They also have the benefit of not having to worry about events that take place after the market closes that may have an effect on prices. The volatility of the market and the ready market access afforded by online trading accounts have made day trading an attractive option. Abell is an executive with the Innergame Division of Rand Financial Services, a Chicago-based futures clearing member. His advice assumes a basic knowledge of the technology necessary for online investing. He provides step-by-step guidance on getting set up and describes various trading strategies and tactics. Abell emphasizes the need for a personal strategy and a business plan, stressing that no system is perfect. David Rouse

http://rapidshare.com/files/201417374/Digital_Day_Trading.pdf

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The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers

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Skousen, author, editor, and academic, tells the story of the development of economic thought, describing his approach as " . . . a candid, irreverent, passionate, sometimes humorous and often highly opinionated account of the lives and theories of famous economists from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman." The author's unique view compares the development of economic thought to the construction of a building, designating Adam Smith's 1776 Wealth of Nations as the foundation. He contends that Smith's philosophy of natural liberty and the invisible hand was a sound foundation that created a new era of wealth and economic growth spanning two centuries. With the inclusion of photographs, diagrams, commentaries, and even appropriate music selections, each chapter is devoted to a major economist and his theories, showing how he added to or detracted from Smith's positions. Skousen ends on an optimistic note even as fighting continues over which economic policies to pursue in times of crisis, uncertainty, and globalization.

http://rapidshare.com/files/201825588/The_Making_of_Modern_Economics.pdf

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Memory Skills in Business

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Improve your organizational effectiveness by learning proven ways to improve your memory. This book explains how memory works, along with techniques to make your memory work better. Improve your ability to remember names, numbers, procedures, and more.

http://rapidshare.com/files/202246464/Memory_Skills_In_Business_-_Madelyn_Burley_Allen.pdf

[Dr. Cola Light]

This thread is so good... Thank you for this :)

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The ART of Trading: Combining the Science of Technical Analysis with the Art of Reality-Based Trading

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An expert in the field of finance reveals his proven trading system

As a trading coach and financial advisor, Bennett McDowell has used his own proprietary trading system--Applied Reality Trading or ART to enhance the performance of his clients' portfolios. Now McDowell outlines the unique benefits of his system and makes the case for trading the reality--not the fantasy--of financial markets. Readers will discover the importance of simplicity in a trading approach; how to develop "The Trader's Mindset;" how to use ART(r) technical analysis software; and much more. The ART of Trading will enlighten readers in how to use reality to enrich both their financial portfolio and their own financial psychology.

http://rapidshare.com/files/202649511/Art_of_Trading.PDF

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Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders

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Newcomers to Jack Schwager's series on top traders, as well as fervent fans of his first two entries Market Wizards and The New Market Wizards, will find that Stock Market Wizards offers another revealing look at a wide spectrum of trading styles through the eyes of 15 extraordinarily successful individuals. Transcripts of incisive Q&A sessions between Schwager and traders--including Michael Lauer, Dana Galante, Alphonse "Buddy" Fletcher Jr., and Claudio Guazzoni--examine the ways each approaches their specialty, whether it be value stocks, mutual funds, short selling, options trading, or other market niches. After brief but interesting introductions that place the subjects' trading practices into perspective, Schwager coaxes from them penetrating observations on setting goals, finding opportunities, learning from mistakes, and operating on a day-to-day basis. While some participants refuse to divulge proprietary practices, and Anthony admits that many traders' activities hold little relevance to individual investors, the basic doctrines nonetheless contain nuggets of wisdom that can be applied by many nonprofessionals. And, in the final "Wizard Lessons" chapter, Schwager details the 65 overarching principles (such as Trade Your Personality, Be Willing to Take a Loss, and The Importance of Setting Goals) he culled from these extensive conversations.

http://rapidshare.com/files/203054429/Jack_D._Schwager_Stock_Market_Wizards.pdf

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Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets

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This new edition of Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets assumes that the reader has a firm grounding in the key principles and methods of understanding volatility measurement and builds on that knowledge to detail cutting-edge modelling and forecasting techniques. It provides a survey of ways to measure risk and define the different models of volatility and return. Editors John Knight and Stephen Satchell have brought together an impressive array of contributors who present research from their area of specialization related to volatility forecasting. Readers with an understanding of volatility measures and risk management strategies will benefit from this collection of up-to-date chapters on the latest techniques in forecasting volatility.

http://rapidshare.com/files/203465553/Forecasting_Volatility_in_the_Financial_Markets.pdf

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How I Trade for a Living

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Gary Smith was bitten by the trading bug at the age of fourteen, and ever since he’s thought of little else other than how to make a fortune as a home-based trader. He bought his first stock in 1966, when he was just a college sophomore, and then spent the next two decades unsuccessfully chasing his childhood dream. Finally, in 1985, nearly bankrupt and ready to quit, Gary Smith had an epiphany that changed everything—and since then he hasn’t had a losing year and rarely even a losing month. His trading account has mushroomed from $2,200 to nearly $1 million. What did Gary discover on that fateful day in 1985? How did he achieve his phenomenal fifteen-year winning streak and earn an international reputation as one of the most successful home-based traders ever? Find out in How I Trade for a Living. What you won’t find in How I Trade for a Living are knotty mathematical formulas, complex technical indicators, heavy charts, or elaborate software demands. What you will find is a simple, straightforward approach to home-based trading that can be used by virtually anyone, anywhere. Unlike most "experts" writing today, Gary Smith has actually made it as a home-based trader. Step by step, Smith outlines his low-risk trading strategies and explains how to use them to trade stock index futures and mutual funds—his preferred vehicles—as well as individual stocks, options, futures, and junk bonds. He acquaints you with his favorite indicators and tells you how to get the most out of them. He offers a wealth of tips on recognizing market trends and riding them for all they’re worth. You’ve heard what the "experts" have to say about trading the markets. Now find out how it’s really done from a consummate pro in How I Trade for a Living.

http://rapidshare.com/files/203871995/HowITradeLiving.pdf

[ngnm]

do u have any books on the basics of treasury management?

thanks in advance

[Chuwil]

Corporate Raider,
I have not even got all the way thru your post yet. You posted a lot of what I have been looking for. In short, your post is absolutely freaking fantastic!! Thanks so much.

[Corporate Raider]

Essentials of Managing Treasury

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Treasury is the financial hub of an organization-a hub with many spokes. This concise reference describes each functional area within treasury and includes guidelines for best practices and revelant technologies. With tips and techniques, it provides a practical overview of treasury and its relationship to every part of an organization.

http://rapidshare.com/files/204058290/Essentials_of_Managing_Treasury.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Awakening the Entrepreneur Within: How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies

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Dream • Vision • Purpose • Mission

These words have been defining the life of Michael Gerber, bestselling author and international small business guru. He created E-Myth Worldwide in 1977 to transform the way that small business owners grow their companies. Now he's created In The Dreaming Room as a place where entrepreneurs and future entrepreneurs come to discover how to make their dreams a reality.

And he has done it. In Awakening the Entrepreneur Within you are invited into the Dreaming Room, where your own entrepreneurial dreams will come alive and become reality. Michael will help you shape your dream into a viable, economically successful company! As he writes: “It is time to dream. It is time to care about something bigger than you. It is time to imagine something sorely needed in the world—the world you live in—that somebody would pay to have. It is time to look around you and ask yourself, 'What's missing in this picture?'”

If you see something missing in your world, it's time to start dreaming. Let Michael Gerber welcome you to the Dreaming Room.

http://rapidshare.com/files/204249234/Awakening_the_Entrepreneur_Within_-_How_Ordinary_People_Can_Create_Extraordinary_Companies.pdf

[ngnm]

Essentials of Managing Treasury

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Treasury is the financial hub of an organization-a hub with many spokes. This concise reference describes each functional area within treasury and includes guidelines for best practices and revelant technologies. With tips and techniques, it provides a practical overview of treasury and its relationship to every part of an organization.

http://rapidshare.com/files/204058290/Essentials_of_Managing_Treasury.pdf

many thanks !!!!

[theonewayroad]

Thank you very much indeed.

[Corporate Raider]

The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives, Illustrated Lessons From Financial Cycles and Trends

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On the surface, Wall Street always seems to be changing. But if you dig a little deeper, you'll quickly see that while events and curious phenomena enter and exit the scene almost daily, nothing really important has changed over the years. In fact, much of what happens in the financial world today has been played out in history many times before and has been captured in the cycles and trends of financial charts created over time. Understanding the movements within these charts provides a clearer perspective of today's market and can help you make the best possible investment decisions tomorrow.

As a successful money manager and respected financial columnist, Ken Fisher understands the importance of this information and now, with a revised and updated edition of The Wall Street Waltz, he brings it to life through 90 of the most revealing and provocative financial charts ever assembled. Many of the charts in this reliable resource are snapshots of modern financial markets—which reveal how stocks relate to sales, earnings, dividends, cash flows, and assets—while others include early twentieth-century originals, and new charts of even older events. In each case, Fisher provides what he calls a visualization, in which he analyzes each chart according to its origin, historical significance, and most importantly, its relevance to today's market.

http://rapidshare.com/files/204658419/The_Wall_Street_Waltz_90_Visual_Perspectives.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Business the Richard Branson Way: 10 Secrets of the World's Greatest Brand Builder

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Is there anything new to say about the four high-profile corporate executives featured in this series? The work of Dearlove and Crainer, two British business writers, suggests that there is not. Their texts consist of quotes from previous books and articles held together by statements that appear to have little to legitimize them. The authors give no indication of the source of their opinions, facts, and speculation. For each executive, there are ten "secrets" on which the analysis of his management style is based. Although the other three executives are referred to in each book, there is no attempt at comparative analysis. For example, for Murdoch, ruthlessness is cited as a secret of success, with the belief that "nice guys finish second." But Branson's common touch with customers and staff alike is the key to his popularity and success. Go figure. The quality of the writing is uneven and frequently repetitious, but there is an easygoing approach that makes all four books appealing for a quick read. Undergraduate term-paper writers and casual readers who have heard these names may appreciate the one-stop biography/management style content. Graduate students, businesspeople, and other specialists will pass on these books in search of more solid content

http://rapidshare.com/files/205081552/Business_the_Richard_Branson_Way_3ed.pdf

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Stocks for the Long Run : The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-Term Investment Strategies

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Given the daily and sometimes extreme fluctuations in the stock market, it takes an investor with both nerve and patience to build and maintain a long-term portfolio. But Siegel, a Wharton School professor of finance who directs the Securities Industry Association Institute, argues that, historically, stocks are safer and more productive, over the long run, than most other forms of investment. He explains how to calculate stock returns and examines some of the more technical aspects of analyzing stocks. Siegel also discusses the relationships between the economy, politics, and the stock market, offers basic trading rules, and lays out guidelines for building a portfolio. Though he covers some of the more sophisticated aspects of investing, Siegel targets a general but informed investing public.

http://rapidshare.com/files/205480030/Stocks_For_The_Long_Run.pdf

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Technical Analysis & Options Strategies

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This book takes 17 of the most popular options strategies and shows how and when to use them depending upon market conditions. It shows traders the particular options position to take given a specific technical situation. More than just knowledge, this book imparts a system, providing traders with the means by which they can understand and apply each of the strategies duscussed. Furthermore, actual market conditions are used to demonstrate strategies, not "after-the-fact" examples. In addition, this book offers analysis and detailed charts for each of the strategies, as well as discussions on how and when to adjust them.

http://rapidshare.com/files/205904641/KENNETH_SHALEEN_TECHNICAL_ANALYSIS_AND_OPTIONS_STRATEGIES.pdf

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101 Ways to Boost Your Business

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From the author of the bestselling 101 Ways to Market Your Business comes a book full of advice to help you guide your business on the road to success.

INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF SURVIVAL BY READING THIS BOOK

Running a business is difficult and demanding at the best of times. The trick to surviving is avoiding the common hazards that all business operators face along the way. These 101 practical survival tips will show you how you can successfully navigate your way through these hazards, and help your business to reach its full potential. Each survival tip is based on years of experience and sound advice from successful businesses around the world.

SAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS BY AVOIDING COMMON BUSINESS MISTAKES

Choose and apply a new tip each week or use this book as a source of inspiration and guidance when setting up a new business. There are tips to help you build better relationships with your suppliers, your staff and your customers as well as financial, legal, marketing and personal survival tips. All are designed to highlight common problems and to give you a clear course of action that will increase your chances of business survival.

http://rapidshare.com/files/206312095/101_Ways_to_Boost_Your_Business.pdf

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High Probability Trading Strategies: Entry to Exit Tactics for the Forex, Futures, and Stock Markets

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In High Probability Trading Strategies, author and well-known trading educator Robert Miner skillfully outlines every aspect of a practical trading plan–from entry to exit–that he has developed over the course of his distinguished twenty-plus-year career. The result is a complete approach to trading that will allow you to trade confidently in a variety of markets and time frames. Written with the serious trader in mind, this reliable resource details a proven approach to analyzing market behavior, identifying profitable trade setups, and executing and managing trades–from entry to exit.

http://rapidshare.com/files/207013326/High_Probability_Trading_Strategies.pdf

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Financial Lexicon: A Compendium of Financial Definitions, Terminology, Jargon and Slang


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Financial Lexicon is intended as a comprehensive financial reference book that explains the formal and informal terminology of finance. Structured as a dictionary, the book will contain clear and detailed explanations of common banking, finance and investment terms. It will include formal corporate business terms alongside the jargon that has entered business life. Terms defined in TFL will be drawn from all of the major sectors in the international capital markets and the financial industry.

http://rapidshare.com/files/207433975/Financial_Lexicon.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

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Risk management, which assumes that future risks can be understood, measured and to some extent predicted, is the focus of this solid, thoroughgoing history. Probability theory, pioneered by 17th-century French mathematicians Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, has made possible the design of great bridges, electric power utilities and insurance policies. The statistical sampling methods invented by dour Swiss scientist Jacob Bernoulli undergird diverse activities such as the testing of new drugs, stock-picking and wine tasting. Bernstein (Capital Ideas) animates his narrative with a colorful cast of risk-analyzers, including gambling addict Girolamo Cardano, 16th-century Italian physician to the Pope; and John Maynard Keynes, whose concerns over economic uncertainty compelled him to recommend an active, interventionist role for government. Bernstein also traces the development of business forecasting, game theory, insurance and derivatives, and surveys recent advances in risk forecasting made possible through chaos theory and by the development of neural networks.

http://rapidshare.com/files/207802134/Against_the_Gods-The_Remarkable_Story_of_Risk.pdf

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Beyond Candlesticks: New Japanese Charting Techniques Revealed

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From the "Father of Candlesticks"—penetrating new Japanese techniques for forecasting and tracking market prices and improving market timing Steve Nison has done it again. The man who revolutionized technical analysis by introducing Japanese candlestick charting techniques to Western traders is back—this time with a quartet of powerful Japanese techniques never before published or used in the West. Stunningly effective on their own, these new techniques pack an even greater wallop when teamed up with traditional trading, investing, or hedging strategies, and Steve Nison shows you how to do it. Beyond Candlesticks provides step-by-step instructions, detailed charts and graphs, and clear-cut guidance on tracking and analyzing results—everything you need to pick up these sharp new tools and take your place at the cutting edge of technical analysis.

http://rapidshare.com/files/208209349/steve_nison-_beyond_candlesticks.pdf

[kayanat]

i have recently become interested in the financial market and would like to understand it better as i aspire to be a stockbroker when i am older. but i dont know where to start. its all so confusing, i try to read the finance sections in the papers but it doesnt make much sense to me.(well i do understand bits and pieces). where do u recomennd i start?
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The Fast Forward MBA in Business Planning for Growth

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The Fast Forward MBA in Business Planning for Growth gives you a strategy for success!

Is your company at a standstill, or is it growing but without the focus and strategy it needs for sustained and continued growth? Do you have an idea for a business but no idea where to start? Business planning is vital to the growth and survival of any company, but only an action-oriented plan can give your business the steady growth it needs to survive and succeed in today's business world.

Whether your company is large or small, this hands-on, step-by-step guide will walk you through the process of creating a business plan that ensures growth and profitability. Drawing on more than 35 years of experience, Philip Walcoff shares the tools and techniques he has developed managing his own business as well as working with over 70 companies of all sizes. Walcoff avoids the pitfalls of the standard business plan which focuses only on raising capital, or the strategic plan, which sits on the shelf gathering dust. He shows how your business can:

* Identify and resolve key issues that are roadblocks to your company's growth
* Develop the strategies and tactics that foster growth and profitability
* Design a process for managing the plan to success.

From the creators of the bestselling Portable MBA series comes The Fast Forward MBA . . .

* A quick way to brush up on new ideas
* An easy-to-use format that fits in any briefcase
* Real-world information that you can put to use now!

http://rapidshare.com/files/208593474/FastForwardMBA-BusinessPlanning.pdf

[onizuka25]

good job man ! save my time and money to get all these books from the shelves ! thanks a lot. :D

[Corporate Raider]

Hedge Funds Demystified

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Hearing a lot about hedge funds lately but feel like you're in the weeds when it comes to understanding how they work? Learn all about these highly profitable and largely unregulated funds in Hedge Funds Demystified.

Financial expert Scott Frush first explains the basics of hedge funds and how they are different from mutual funds. He then provides you with methods for evaluating hedge funds, strategies for low-, moderate-, and high-risk investing, and the steps you need to take to incorporate hedge funds into your portfolio. Featuring end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam, this straightforward guide gives you the inside edge for investing in hedge funds.

This fast and easy guide offers:

* Explanations of the risks and benefits of hedge funds
* Coverage of event-driven, tactical, relative-value, and hybrid hedge funds
* Tips for evaluating hedge funds and building your portfolio
* Strategies for selecting the right manager
* A review of management tools and tactics including selling short, employing leverage, and trading derivatives

Simple enough for a novice but in-depth enough for a seasoned investor, Hedge Funds Demystified is your shortcut to capitalizing on these profitable funds.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KCCXF0MG

[ngnm]

Hedge Funds Demystified

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Hearing a lot about hedge funds lately but feel like you're in the weeds when it comes to understanding how they work? Learn all about these highly profitable and largely unregulated funds in Hedge Funds Demystified.

Financial expert Scott Frush first explains the basics of hedge funds and how they are different from mutual funds. He then provides you with methods for evaluating hedge funds, strategies for low-, moderate-, and high-risk investing, and the steps you need to take to incorporate hedge funds into your portfolio. Featuring end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam, this straightforward guide gives you the inside edge for investing in hedge funds.

This fast and easy guide offers:

* Explanations of the risks and benefits of hedge funds
* Coverage of event-driven, tactical, relative-value, and hybrid hedge funds
* Tips for evaluating hedge funds and building your portfolio
* Strategies for selecting the right manager
* A review of management tools and tactics including selling short, employing leverage, and trading derivatives

Simple enough for a novice but in-depth enough for a seasoned investor, Hedge Funds Demystified is your shortcut to capitalizing on these profitable funds.

http://rapidshare.com/files/208992366/Hedge_Funds_Demystified.PDF

thanks!!!

[Corporate Raider]

Ultimate Trading Systems

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Master Trader, David Jenyns, has put together a Stock Trading "Recipe" that can be easily adapted to the situation of any trader, whether a beginner or a Wall Street veteran.

The "Ultimate Trading Systems" can use used by anyone for consistently generating steady streams of trading profits no matter what you like to trade, how much experience you have or what kind of budget you have to trade with.

David's system overcomes the most common shortcoming of most Stock Trading Manuals/Guides - lack of adaptability.

After each lesson's activity is explained in full detail you'll get a homework assignment, suited to you, and resources for that lesson to make sure you stay on track.

http://rapidshare.com/files/209260162/ultimate-trading-systems.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Limited Liability Companies For Dummies

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What is a limited liability company? How is an LLC different from a corporation? Should you form an LLC for your business? Limited Liability Companies For Dummies, answers all of your questions about LLCs and demystifies the formation and management of these increasingly popular business entities.

This clear, concise guide explains the pros and cons of LLCs and shares insider insights on everything from choosing your members and your company name to creating and filing your Articles of Organization, to the day-to-day operation of your LLC. You'll also find valuable tips on creating your Operating Agreement, saving on taxes, and avoiding bankruptcy and fraud. You'll discover all the information you need to:

* Decide if an LLC is right for you
* Get the help you need to from your LLC
* Form your LLC in or out of your own state
* Lower LLC costs and fees
* Convert an existing company to an LLC
* Comply with state and local licensing issues
* Use your LLC to protect your assets
* File annual reports and research franchising fees
* Issue membership shares
* Dissolve or extend an LLC
* Control LLC assets and debt
* Keep your LLC intact

Packed with winning strategies for streamlining your business, protecting your assets, and passing your estate on to your heirs, Limited Liability Companies For Dummies gives you the power and the knowledge to take full advantage all the benefits your LLC has to offer.

http://rapidshare.com/files/209375051/Limited_Liability_Companies_For_Dummies.pdf

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The Secret Science of Price and Volume: Techniques for Spotting Market Trends, Hot Sectors, and the Best Stocks

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In The Secret Science of Price and Volume, leading market timer Tim Ord outlines a top-down approach to trading—identifying the trend, picking the strongest sectors, and focusing on the best stocks within those sectors—that will allow you to excel in a variety of markets. With this book as your guide, you’ll quickly become familiar with Ord’s proven method and discover how it can be used to make more profitable trading decisions.

http://rapidshare.com/files/209759103/The_Secret_Science_of_Price_and_Volume.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Trading For A Living In The Forex Market


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Forex – What is it? The international currency market Forex is a special kind of the world financial market. Trader’s purpose on the Forex to get profit as the result of foreign currencies purchase and sale. The exchange rates of all currencies being in the market turnover are permanently changing under the action of the demand and supply alteration.

The latter is a strong subject to the influence of any important for the human society event in the sphere of economy, politics and nature. Consequently current prices of foreign currencies, evaluated for instance in US dollars, fluctuate towards its higher and lower meanings.

http://rapidshare.com/files/210169809/Trading_For_A_Living_In_The_Forex_Market.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

The Millionaire Next Door

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How can you join the ranks of America's wealthy (defined as people whose net worth is over one million dollars)? It's easy, say doctors Stanley and Danko, who have spent the last 20 years interviewing members of this elite club: you just have to follow seven simple rules. The first rule is, always live well below your means. The last rule is, choose your occupation wisely. You'll have to buy the book to find out the other five. It's only fair. The authors' conclusions are commonsensical. But, as they point out, their prescription often flies in the face of what we think wealthy people should do. There are no pop stars or athletes in this book, but plenty of wall-board manufacturers--particularly ones who take cheap, infrequent vacations! Stanley and Danko mercilessly show how wealth takes sacrifice, discipline, and hard work, qualities that are positively discouraged by our high-consumption society. "You aren't what you drive," admonish the authors. Somewhere, Benjamin Franklin is smiling.

http://rapidshare.com/files/210558424/The_Millionaire_Next_Door.pdf

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The Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds: 5-Star Strategies for Success

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No wonder mutual funds have become the investment staple for tens of millions of individual investors: Mutual funds offer instant diversification, and there are mutual funds available to suit any investment style or budget. Yet the decision to invest in mutual funds is only the first of many you must make. You still have to determine which funds are best for your risk tolerance and how to combine funds in a portfolio that’s suitable for your goals. With thousands of funds on the market, where do you begin?

Let Morningstar® Guide to Mutual Funds put you on the right path to building a sound, satisfying, and profitable mutual fund portfolio. This straight-talking guidebook gives you the information you need to make intelligent mutual fund choices, all in the independent, easy-to-understand style that has made Morningstar the most trusted and respected name in investment research and information.

Regardless of your investment experience or expertise, Morningstar® Guide to Mutual Funds will show you how to look beyond flashy advertising and often equally flashy (and unsustainable) performance figures to find the funds to fit your needs today and well into the future.

http://rapidshare.com/files/210935181/Morningstar_s_Guide_to_Mutual_Funds_5-Star_Strategies_for_Success.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

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Investing is all about common sense. Owning a diversified portfolio of stocks and holding it for the long term is a winner’s game. Trying to beat the stock market is theoretically a zero-sum game (for every winner, there must be a loser), but after the substantial costs of investing are deducted, it becomes a loser’s game. Common sense tells us—and history confirms—that the simplest and most efficient investment strategy is to buy and hold all of the nation’s publicly held businesses at very low cost. The classic index fund that owns this market portfolio is the only investment that guarantees you with your fair share of stock market returns.

To learn how to make index investing work for you, there’s no better mentor than legendary mutual fund industry veteran John C. Bogle. Over the course of his long career, Bogle—founder of the Vanguard Group and creator of the world’s first index mutual fund—has relied primarily on index investing to help Vanguard’s clients build substantial wealth. Now, with The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, he wants to help you do the same.

Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing will show you how to incorporate this proven investment strategy into your portfolio. It will also change the very way you think about investing. Successful investing is not easy. (It requires discipline and patience.) But it is simple. For it’s all about common sense.

http://rapidshare.com/files/211296976/Wiley_The_Little_Book_of_Common_Sense_Investing.pdf

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Investing Online for Dummies

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Everybody talks about it—how much you can save , and earn, when you start an online investment program. If you’ve decided you’re ready to find out what all the excitement’s about, you’re in luck. Investing Online For Dummies has been completely revised and updated with the latest tools, Web sites, rule changes, and tips that can make online investing easy and profitable.

To be a successful online investor, you need to know your way around the Web and you also need to understand something about investments. Investing Online For Dummies can help you make sound financial decisions by:

* Outlining basic investment fundamentals
* Explaining how stock options work and helping you determine the value of your employee stock option plan
* Pointing out costly traps and ways to avoid them
* Directing you to resources that provide information you need and helping you make sense of it
* Showing you how to use the Internet to become a savvy investor


http://rapidshare.com/files/211688055/KATHLEEN_SINDELL-For.Dummies.Investing.Online.For.Dummies.5th.Edition.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

101 Small Business Ideas for Under $5000

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Cheap and easy ideas for starting a small business

101 Small Business Ideas for Under $5,000 offers practical, real-world advice for turning ideas and skills into a successful small business. The book presents great ideas for simple small businesses that readers can undertake either full-time or in their spare time and covers all the issues readers need to know -startup costs, legal issues, accounting, taxes, and everything else. Once readers decide what business is right for them, the authors provide sensible business plans for making it happen. They show wannabe entrepreneurs how to get started, find funding, and build a sales and marketing program. Legal, zoning, and insurance requirements are provided for each business idea, as well as advice on expanding the business-and the profits. Future business owners who don't know where to start will find everything they need here.

http://rapidshare.com/files/212038150/101_Small_Business_Ideas_for_Under__5000.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of Irrationality

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Everyone from journalists to market pros are turning to behavioral finance to explain, analyze, and predict market direction. In contrast to old-school assumptions of cool-headed rationality, the new behavioral school embraces hot-blooded human irrationality as a core feature of both individuals and financial markets. The 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to scholars of this new scientific approach to irrationality. In Mean Markets and Lizard Brains, Terry Burnham, an economist who has a proven ability to translate complex topics into everyday language, reveals the biological causes of irrationality. The human brain contains ancient structures that exert powerful and often unconscious influences on behavior. This "lizard brain" may have helped our ancestors eat and reproduce, but it wreaks havoc with our finances. Going far beyond cataloguing our financial foibles, Dr. Burnham applies this novel approach to all of today's most important financial topics: the stock market, the economy, real estate, bonds, mortgages, inflation, and savings. This broad and scholarly investigation provides an in-depth look at why manias, panics, and crashes happen, and why people are built to want to buy at irrationally high prices and sell at irrationally low prices. Most importantly, by incorporating the new science of irrationality, readers can position themselves to profit from financial markets that often seem downright mean. Mean Markets and Lizard Brains skillfully identifies the craziness that is part of human nature, helps us see it in ourselves, and then shows us how to profit from a world that doesn't always make sense.

http://rapidshare.com/files/212415454/mean_markets_and_lizard_brains-profiting_from_the_science_of_irrationality.pdf

[vijansi]

Dear Corporate raider,

Excellent work by you , keep it up .




Warm regards

Vijansi:)

[Corporate Raider]

Sell and Sell Short

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Selling is the hard part of trading. If the stock we buy rises, when do we take profits? If our stock falls, when do we bite the bullet and exit the trade? If our stock stagnates, when do we say enough is enough and move on to another opportunity? Every serious trader must make these decisions.

Beginners and amateurs invest the bulk of their time in looking for new trades. Many become pre-occupied with finding some magic combination of indicators that will always identify good stocks. They assume that if they get the entry right, the trade will take care of itself. Professionals, on the contrary, understand that monitoring the reward-to-risk ratio of an open position and exiting at the right price and time is absolutely fundamental to their success.

If perfection is possible anywhere, it is certainly not in trading. No one can consistently pick the absolute tops and bottoms. Good trading means taking reasonable profits and limiting losses. Reaching for extremes is not a viable long-term strategy. Leaving some money on the table is a normal and even positive thing. When it comes to profits in trading, the power word is "enough." A mature trader knows when to exit.

In Sell and Sell Short, Dr. Alexander Elder explains how to set profit targets and stop-loss orders prior to entering any trade. He shares real-world examples that show how to manage your position by adjusting your exit points as the trade unfolds.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=35IPP0FW

[Corporate Raider]

Getting an Investing Game Plan: Creating It, Working It, Winning It

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Over the years, countless investors have lost far more than they should have during a variety of market downturns. Events such as the bursting of the tech bubble and the wave of corporate scandals have led to investor woes, but it’s the absence of an investing game plan that has made things even worse. This lack of personal financial guidance leaves many investors scrambling to figure out what they should do after the fact, instead of planning ahead of time.

But exactly what is an investing game plan and how can you go about getting one? In Getting an Investing Game Plan, Certified Financial Planner Vern Hayden answers these and other important investment questions, guiding you through a ten-step process that will help you clarify your goals, create a game plan, and stay the course.

In a straightforward and accessible manner, Getting an Investing Game Plan explains why you need a game plan for both wealth creation and wealth preservation, and clearly outlines the components of a successful investing game plan. Shaped from the experiences gained in the mud of the marketplace as well as stories of real investors, these proven steps will help you get your investing house in order–whether you’re starting fresh or starting over.

http://rapidshare.com/files/213210964/Getting.An.Investing.Game.Plan.Creating.It.Working.It.Winning.It.pdf

[koyyalagunta]

Hi Corporate Raider. Thank you very much for great books. Any clue on Investing by the Stars: Using Astrology in the Financial Markets by Henry Weingarten
or by other authors on Financial Astrology.

Thanks again

[Corporate Raider]

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life, First Edition

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In this look at financial luck, hedge fund manager Taleb (Dynamic Hedging) addresses the apparently irrational movement of money markets around the world. Using his own investing experience and examples of others' successes and disappointments, he discusses theories like Monte Carlo math (easy; considered cheating by purists) and the concept of Russian roulette. Taleb tells interesting, well-wrought stories about individual behavior: "While Nero has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, both personally and intellectually, he is starting to consider himself as having missed a chance somewhere." While serious investors and mathematics enthusiasts will be intrigued, readers looking for practical investment strategies will be disappointed by this rambling intellectual discourse. Tables. 40,000-copy first printing; $150,000 marketing budget.

http://rapidshare.com/files/214037361/Taleb___Nassim_-_Fooled_by_Randomness.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Stan Weinstein's Secrets For Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets

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Reading this book will tell you a simple, effective way to trade on charts. No nonsense, no complex indicators, no sigma notation mathematical sequences, just basic, effective trading techniques.

It is for longer term trading, perhaps 3 months or more, depending on how long the stock trends upward. This is probably the best longer term trading method I have seen. It is so basic you may already know most of it (unless you are just starting), but this book puts chart reading into a simple, practical method that can be mastered. One of the problems I had with CANSLIM was when to sell. Reading this book will give what I consider a good answer on when to take profits. And, like the book says, go short.

I wouldn't say Weinstein's methods are "secrets," they are just 100% common sense, and very effective. CANSLIM investors may find this a very useful book on expanding charting knowledge.

http://rapidshare.com/files/214445668/Stan_Weinstein_-_Secrets_For_Profiting_In_Bull_And_Bear_Markets.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Risk Management and Value Creation in Financial Institutions


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Increased competition among banks as well as pressure from shareholders for superior returns have forced financial institutions to focus on managing their value. But the idea of viewing risk management activities in banks from a risk-return perspective–and hence in the context of value creation–has not been analyzed on an industry or bank level until very recently.

Risk Management and Value Creation in Financial Institutions offers a close look at this subject by exploring both the theory and practice of corporate risk management in financial institutions. Author Gerhard Schroeck lays the foundations for developing a model that would allow banks to identify comparative advantages, examining where they should concentrate their risk management activities and how they should structure them. The book’s valuable insights provide financial intermediaries with a detailed analysis of the link between risk management and value creation, and will help them build economic value.

Schroeck starts with an investi-gation of this link by defining and discussing value maximization and risk management within a banking context. He also addresses whether there is empirical evidence that may connect the two. Schroeck then explores different financial theories on risk management and value creation, and shows you how to create a framework that encompasses both of them.

http://rapidshare.com/files/214783167/Wiley_Finance_.Risk_Management_and_Value_Creation_in_Financial_Institutions.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading

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With instant electronic market access and powerful financial tools at their disposal, today's "technician"—one who practices the art of technical analysis—has more opportunities than ever before to profitably trade in a variety of markets. But in order to truly excel, you need a method that will allow you to identify market moves, and strategies that will allow you to make the most of those moves.

John Person has been in the trading business for almost thirty years—as a broker, a trader, and a teacher of traders. During this time, he's refined his trading skills and, by using candlestick formations in conjunction with pivot points, developed a reliable methodology that will help you make smarter trades with less risk.

In his first book, A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics, Person introduced traders to the concept of integrating candlestick charting with pivot point analysis. Now, in Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading Triggers, he goes a step further and shows you how to devise your own setups and triggers—in the stock, forex, and futures markets—based on a moving average approach.

http://rapidshare.com/files/215175209/Candlestick_and_Pivot_Point_Trading_Triggers_0471980226.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

How I Became a Quant: Insights from 25 of Wall Street's Elite

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The "quants"——Wall Street's disciples of quantitative analysis——have become the mar-ket's new superstars. Their mathematical models are now the basis for such financial market innovations as exotic derivatives, structured investment products, quantitative trading strategies, and portfolio selection.

What brought about this path-breaking investment revolution? Some cite the beginning of trading in exchange-listed equity options in 1973, while others credit the arrival of desktop computing around 1980. But perhaps the most important factor was the dramatic increase in the volatility of prices. It was this aversion to increasing uncertainty experienced by financial market participants——real, living, breathing people—that led to the quant revolution. So who are these people who develop the mathematical models that create new ways to allow people to modify their exposure to risk? How do they do what they do? Where did they come from? In How I Became a Quant, you will find firsthand accounts direct from the people who were swept into, and then helped fashion, today's "quant-driven," dynamic world of finance.

These unlikely superstars of Wall Street now provide the intellectual horsepower to fulfill the dream of unlimited ability to manage risks through trading financial instruments. These are the stories behind their careers.

http://rapidshare.com/files/215577640/How_I_Became_a_Quant_Insights_from_25_of_Wall_Street_s_Elite.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Chart Reading for Professional Traders

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This book is a complete, comprehensive study on reading charts, forecasting the market, time cycles, and trading strategies. It explains reversal of trends, when to expect them and how to know the trend has changed. Shows you how to forecast with great reliability how long the new trend will last and its price target. As does his first book, Geometry of Stock Market Profits, this book discusses in-depth the Gann techniques of time and price. There is a progression to the very advanced concepts of day trading off of circular arc segments and calculating final high and low price targets. Each principle is demonstrated with numerous chart illustrations and real world applications. The information found in this book is unique with many of the techniques discovered personally by Mr. Jenkins and are found nowhere else!

http://rapidshare.com/files/216010755/Chart_Reading_for_Professional_Traders.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Double Your Money in America's Finest Companies: The Unbeatable Power of Rising Dividends

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Making your money work for you ought to be fun, easy, safe, and sure. You shouldn't have to be a professional or spend every waking moment studying the markets. And you shouldn't have to take a lot of time from your own career and personal life. Investing, says Bill Staton, isn't voodoo or hocus-pocus. To invest means to put money to work today so that it will earn more money for the future. Staton, a successful financial advisor and money manager for almost four decades, has helped thousands of people invest wisely—just by following a few simple guidelines.

In Double Your Money in America's Finest Companies®, he shares his simple, time-tested way to make your money grow at an above-average rate with sub-stantially reduced risk. His investment philosophy is straightforward and uncomplicated: invest in well-run, profitable companies with long histories of rising annual dividends and/or earnings, and watch the profits grow.

http://rapidshare.com/files/216410619/Double_Your_Money_in_America_s_Finest_Companies.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

The Art of M&A

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Authoritative and completely up-to-date, the Fourth Edition of The Art of M&A is an unsurpassed, one-stop guide to every facet of mergers and acquisitions that enables you to make winning deals with complete confidence.

This definitive resource retains its popular Q&A format, offering quick access to all the changes that have occurred in the field since the merger wave of the 1990s. The book explores every key aspect of winning M&A transactions, and presents advice on avoiding common M&A pitfalls.

The Fourth Edition of The Art of M&A features vital information on:

* Getting Started in Mergers and Acquisitions --learning the basic M&A process, requirements, negotiating skills, and objectives
* Planning and Finding --deciding what to buy and then locating it
* Valuation and Pricing -- using multiple valuation methods to discover the true value of an acquired company or unit
* The Art of Financing and Refinancing -- mastering funding sources and issues
* Structuring M/A/B Transactions -- managing general, tax, and accounting considerations
* The Due Diligence Inquiry -- looking into the past, present, and future risks of the business to be purchased
* Negotiating the Acquisition Agreement and the Letter of Intent-- understanding two vital documents in the M&A process
* Closing -- synchronizing the many individual items to produce a harmonious transaction
* Postmerger Integration and Divestitures -- following through after the M&A deal to capture the economic value of synergies
* Special Issues for M&A in Public Companies_examining the unique legal and business considerations of public entities
* Workouts, Bankruptcies, and Liquidations -- handling specific financial problems that arise in M&A transactions with entities in the zone of insolvency
* Structuring Transactions with International Aspects -- developing the necessary skills and knowledge to do M&A deals across national borders

Filled with detailed examples and case studies, this updated classic also includes discussion of purchase accounting, Section 404, new legal cases with M&A implications, and more

http://rapidshare.com/files/217189726/The_art_of_M___A.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Planetary Stock Trading

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A compilation of 1000 first-trade charts, which is a chart set for the moment a stock is first traded on the NYSE. Unlike incorporation charts, first trade charts show the ups & downs of trading (ie, stock prices), rather than the ups & downs of the corporation behind the stock (makes sense to us). This is the book to use if you want to be a day trader. Find a chart that's about to be hit with a lot of transits all at once (go to the appendix, grab yor ephemeris) & either buy & watch the price go up, or borrow & short sell them. Tips & techniques, many sample charts, lots of analysis. Among the 1000 charts are the complete Dow Jones & many S&P, OTC & NASDAC stocks, as well as charts of selected mutual funds, foreign funds (NYSE) & the FTSE (London). Also included are charts for the various exchanges themselves. Meridian & Alphee Lavoie of A.I.R. Software have written a computer trading program (not included), the price of that is around $1000. The book is a lot cheaper, & it's the best ever book on astrology & investments. Valuable book for traders, written by one who knows.

http://rapidshare.com/files/217576236/Bill_Meridians_-_Planetary_Stock_Trading.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Investment Risk Management

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Recent market boom-busts have happened, and will continue to happen partly because apparently reputable institutions oversell risky or worthless investments.

Following Enron, Worldcom, Equitable Life and other scandals it is apparent that a new investment methodology is required to protect investors. Rather then relying on market reputation, investors need to be able to look past the sales hype to discover the true situation.

Operational risk management and a forensic investigation of investment provide the groundwork for such a methodology. Investment Risk Management explains

* why market boom-busts occur in the trade of worthless stocks
* why regulators react slowly to investment scams
* when pension funds fail to protect their investors
* when investors pay for worthless 'professional' services
* how companies pay too much for management 'stars'
* whether Basel II and IAS accounting rules protect the investor

http://rapidshare.com/files/217958985/The_Wiley_Finance_Series_-_Investment_Risk_Management.pdf

[koyyalagunta]

Thanks Corporate Raider for Bill Meridian's Planetary stock Trading book. I am going to do some experiments with guidelines provided in this book :) . Thanks again.

[Corporate Raider]

M&A Titans: The Pioneers Who Shaped Wall Street's Mergers and Acquisitions Industry

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This book focuses on the 11 men, lawyers and bankers, who are responsible for the creation of Wall Street's merger industry. It specifically concentrates on the events and personalities who dominated Wall Street during the takeover battles of the 1970s and 1980s. Lawyers Joe Flom and Marty Lipton, the godfathers of modern M&A, educated bankers on takeover laws and regulations as well as tactics. Flom and Lipton were also superlative businessmen who built their own firms to become Wall Street powerhouses. The two men drew into their orbit a circle of bankers. Felix Rohatyn, Ira Harris, Steve Friedman, Geoff Boisi, Eric Gleacher and Bruce Wasserstein were close to Lipton. Robert Greenhill and Joe Perella were close to Flom.

M&A Titans provides insight into the culture of the different investment banks and how each of the bankers influenced the firms they worked in as they became more powerful. Some such as Gleacher, Harris, Wasserstein, Perella and Greenhill clashed with the men running their firms and left. Others such as Friedman and Boisi stayed and profoundly influenced how the firm did business. The career of Michael Milken, perhaps the notorious name on Wall Street in the 1980s, is also examined as well as the actions and tactics of his firm, Drexel Burnham Lambert. Milken and Drexel paved the way for the growth of private equity and helped popularize attacks on management by investors such as Boone Pickens and Carl Icahn.

http://rapidshare.com/files/218347591/Titans_Acquisitions_industry.pdf

[loopi]

I haven't seen the book "Your Money or Your Life" here. The one by Joe Dominguez. It's one of the best money books I've ever read.

[Corporate Raider]

Just One Thing: Twelve of the World's Best Investors Reveal the One Strategy You Can't Overlook

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Whether from business-focused cable TV channels, newspapers, magazines, Web sites, or friends and family, investment advice comes these days from every corner. The nagging question for conscientious investors remains, though: how to separate good advice from bad? In a world of squawking television commentators and garish headlines, who and what should we trust? With Just One Thing, veteran investment writer John Mauldin offers his answer: take just the best advice, from the best investors, and discard everything else. Mauldin has solicited 12 leading investors for what each considers his most valuable insight or lesson over a long and illustrious investment career--the "one thing" he considers most important to investing--and gathered the tips for future generations of investors to learn.

The lessons which Mauldin has compiled in this thin, readable volume range widely. Some readers may enjoy the folksier tone of hedge fund manager Andy Kessler's piece, which analogizes investing to a hike up New England's Mt. Washington, on a foggy day. Other may prefer the approach of bond investor Gary Shilling, who argues for finding and developing a consistent and long-term narrative (or "story" about a market) around which to build investment picks. Yet others may find it most comforting to go with financial analyst Rob Arnott, who runs a multi-billion dollar fund for Pimco and who anchors his market analysis in deep skepticism and extensive quantitative analytics.

http://rapidshare.com/files/218745931/JOHN_MAULDIN-Just_One_Thing.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Leadership Lessons from West Point (J-B Leader to Leader Institute/PF Drucker Foundation)


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With Leadership Lessons from West Point as a guide, leaders in the business, nonprofit, and government sectors can learn leadership techniques and practices from contributors who are teaching or have taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and have served in positions of leadership that span the globe. These military experts cover a broad range of topics that are relevant to any leadership development program in any sector. The articles in this important resource offer insight into what leadership means to these experts—in both war and peacetime—and describe their views on quiet leadership, mission, values, taking care of people, organizational learning, and leading change.

http://rapidshare.com/files/219143234/Leadership_Lessons_from_West_Point.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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This book succeeds at analyzing sociological developments in a way that is entertaining because Steven Levitt, an economist who strays from convention, has a knack for unpeeling layers and layers of assumptions and myth and showing the real causes behind trends. He shows, to name some examples, how our names affect our career paths; how abortion and the crime rate are related; how a man used his cunning to humiliate the Klu Klux Klan rather than rely on conventional methods; how easy it is to identify the role of public school teachers when they help their students cheat on standardized tests; why drug dealing is only lucrative for the dealers at the top of the pyramid; the myth that real estate agents are looking for our best interests.

The book, co-authored by Stephen J. Dubner, is breezy and anecdotal, which is an effective format for presenting a lot of sociological trends without being dry or losing the scintillating reportage in dense prose.


http://rapidshare.com/files/219931630/Freakonomics_-_A_Rogue_Economist_Explores_the_Hidden_Side_of_Everything.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Hedges on Hedge Funds: How to Successfully Analyze and Select an Investment

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A just-in-time guide to hedge fund investing
Today, access to hedge funds is increasingly available to average investors through "funds of hedge funds" and other registered products. These vehicles allow investors to invest as little as $25,000 to start. Hedges on Hedge Funds provides an overview of hedge fund investing and delves into the key investment strategies employed by hedge fund managers. This comprehensive resource directs people to proper fund selection and allocation, but most importantly, it helps investors avoid the potential pitfalls associated with the industry by discussing transparency, size vs. performance, and other important issues associated with selecting and profiting with hedge funds.
James R. Hedges, IV (Naples, FL), is recognized as a pioneer in the hedge fund industry for his efforts to monitor and review funds and fund managers for performance and transparency. He is the founder, President, and Chief Investment Officer of LJH Global Investments-an investment advisory firm that helps clients select and invest in hedge fund

http://rapidshare.com/files/220303869/hedges_on_hedge_funds.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing

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This indispensable investment guide asks the question: How can an individual invest successfully when the majority always fails? Charles Ellis, one of today's most brilliant investment writers, has updated his influential book to include: Ways to escape the ravages of taxes and inflation How to successfully pass your estate to your heirs (not the taxman!) Common investing mistakes and painless strategies to avoid them

http://rapidshare.com/files/220656046/Winning_the_Loser_s_Game_Timeless_Strategies_for_Successful_Investing.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance


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In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this field—analyzing the incompatible personas of traders and quants, and discussing the dissimilar nature of knowledge in physics and finance. Throughout this tale, he also reflects on the appropriate way to apply the refined methods of physics to the hurly-burly world of markets.

http://rapidshare.com/files/221078477/my_life_as_a_quant_reflections_on_physics_and_finance.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Knowledge Retention: Strategies and Solutions

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As the baby boomer generation approaches retirement age, many organizations are facing the potential crisis of lost knowledge. Devised to help those organizations who are dependent on the accumulated knowledge of stakeholders, this book details a proactive approach to knowledge retention. Written by Jay Liebowitz, one of the most sought after knowledge management experts, this text explains how to identify at risk knowledge areas, and then demonstrates how to keep those areas from becoming knowledge vacuums. To reinforce his points, the book contains case studies from The Aerospace Corporation, Chevron, and Knowledge Harvesting Inc., which have become models for the implementation of knowledge retention strategies

http://rapidshare.com/files/221486031/Knowledge_Retention__Strategies_and_Solutions.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Electronic Trading "TNT" Gorilla Trading Stuff

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Electronic Trading 'TNT' I - Gorilla Trading Stuff. This explosive trading manual teaches electronic stock traders how to make money in the markets. You will learn powerful chart reading techniques and methods for identifying winning and profitable trading opportunities. You learn about the "Trader's Trick", a masterful technique that lets you get into a trade ahead of the crowd and beat the market makers at their own game. You've heard that you should manage each trade so as to maximize profits and let them run while simultaneously keeping losses at an absolute minimum; this manual shows you exactly how to do it. Markets follow a definite law never before exposed in a trading manual. You will learn about this law, called the "Law of Charts", and understanding it will put you light years ahead of the crowd. When is a trend a trend? From the material in this manual you will learn unique trend-finding methods that will put you in ahead of everyone else and make you into a market-timing expert. You will learn the essentials of controlled trading, and learn how to implement strategies that professional traders are using to make huge profits in the market. You learn to carefully manage your trading and become a winner in the markets. This dynamite manual is for day traders and position traders - all traders, both new and experienced. 299 pages loaded with information. Profusely illustrated.

http://rapidshare.com/files/221906574/Joe_Ross_-_Electronic_Trading_-_TNT_I_Gorilla_Trading_Stuff_pdf_.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

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Perkins spent the 1970s working as an economic planner for an international consulting firm, a job that took him to exotic locales like Indonesia and Panama, helping wealthy corporations exploit developing nations as, he claims, a not entirely unwitting front for the National Security Agency. He says he was trained early in his career by a glamorous older woman as one of many "economic hit men" advancing the cause of corporate hegemony. He also says he has wanted to tell his story for the last two decades, but his shadowy masters have either bought him off or threatened him until now. The story as presented is implausible to say the least, offering so few details that Perkins often seems paranoid, and the simplistic political analysis doesn’t enhance his credibility. Despite the claim that his work left him wracked with guilt, the artless prose is emotionally flat and generally comes across as a personal crisis of conscience blown up to monstrous proportions, casting Perkins as a victim not only of his own neuroses over class and money but of dark forces beyond his control. His claim to have assisted the House of Saud in strengthening its ties to American power brokers may be timely enough to attract some attention, but the yarn he spins is ultimately unconvincing, except perhaps to conspiracy buffs.

http://rapidshare.com/files/222684441/John_Perkins_-_Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hitman.pdf

[NewRad]

I can't believe this thread is still going.... Corporate Raider is from heaven! :D

[Corporate Raider]

The Well Timed Strategy: Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage

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Most companies ignore one of their best opportunities for honing competitive advantage: proactively managing the business cycle and broader macroeconomic turbulence. In The Well-Timed Strategy, Peter Navarro reveals why the business cycle is an even more powerful P&L driver than you may realize, and demonstrates how it can be profitably managed.

Navarro distills a set of clear and compelling strategies and tactics for managing economic upswings and downswings, oil price spikes, currency crises, trade wars, and other severe macroeconomic shocks. Navarro’s "Master Cyclist" management principles address everything from inventory, production, and supply chains to marketing, pricing, acquisitions, and long-term capital investment. Navarro presents examples and case studies from around the globe, ranging from high tech to heavy industry, from Broadcom, Micron, and Cemex to Paccar and Xilinx, from Chinese entrepreneurs to large multinationals.

Clear, concise, and exceptionally readable, The Well-Timed Strategy makes complex business cycle strategy and tactics easy to understand–and even easier to act upon.

http://rapidshare.com/files/223102153/the_well-timed_strategy.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Electronic Trading "TNT" II How - To Win Trading Stuff

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Electronic Trading 'TNT' II - How-to- Win Trading Stuff. This utterly unique trading manual teaches the electronic trader how to deal with the psychological hang-ups that cause traders to lose in the markets. As you read through it, you will find a description of yourself. Hopefully, you will be able to laugh with the authors as they take you apart at the seams, expose all your weaknesses, and then put you back together as an explosive and profitable trader. You learn about the realities and truth of actual trading and how to become a true winner in the markets. You learn clever ways to manage your trading so that you extract profits from it on a regular basis - a skilled craftsman happily trading for much more than just a living. You learn how to plan your trades, and plan your trading business. You learn how to set goals and trade with objectives. You learn to control your emotions. Revealed in this manual is a marvelous way to control your trading so that you are trading only when you have the highest and best probability of winning. There is a time when you should not trade and you will learn the secret of how to know exactly when that is. Staying out of the market at the appropriate time will absolutely minimize any chance of losing and greatly increase the trading time you spend actually winning in the market. This manual has won the highest praises from experienced professional traders around the world. 284 pages of explosive information that no trader can afford to be without. Contains secrets that no stock trader has seen before. Illustrations of all pertinent features.

http://rapidshare.com/files/223442218/Joe_Ross_-_Electronic_Trading_-_TNT_II_-_How-to-win_Trading_Stuff_pdf_.pdf

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Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy


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You already know about the devastating recession we're in. Jobs are being cut by the tens of thousands. Real estate values are plummeting. Retirement plans and 401ks are going up in smoke. And then there's rising inflation. And whether we like it or not, higher gasoline prices again are right around the corner.

Then there's the ever-present confusion and dips in the stock market, and, whether we want to admit it or not, the fact that the world is finally beginning to run out of essential raw materials, such as silver, titanium, and, of course, oil.

Yes, the economy is definitely a wreck. Even worse, according to most experts, our problems are not going away soon. We're going to be in serious financial trouble for a long time.

So . . . are you ready for some good news?

As you will discover in GAME OVER, bestselling author and investment advisor Dr. Stephen Leeb shows you how to not only survive in the current economic maelstrom but actually find a way to thrive.

Dr. Leeb first tells you just how bad things are by exposing the basic suppositions of our institutions, and how quickly outdated they've become. Warning bells are sounding especially for Americans looking forward to a relaxing retirement and living off their savings, investments, Social Security, and Medicare. The time to sit up and take action is now.

Dr. Leeb provides a clear-cut and well-crafted financial road map to protect every investor in the years to come. Specifically, he reveals which key investments will steadily rise . . . the best ways to hedge surging inflation . . . and which sectors will boom.

Many will lose their savings, watch their investments shrink, and never fulfill their financial dreams. But with Dr. Leeb's advice, you can make sure yours come true.

http://rapidshare.com/files/223845332/game_over_by_stephen_leeb.pdf

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Stock Patterns for Day Trading

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This book describes the trading strategies used by a professional stock trader in his own trading. The ideas come both from friends who are successful traders as well as his own experience with SOES trading. The collection of trading patterns described represents one of the first full-fledged books of instruction on short term, swing and day trading in individual stocks. The author's intraday trend trading approach and his scalping method are both described in detail. He uses the setups daily in his own trading. This manual should prove valuable to the thousands of short term stock traders who seek to make their living from speculating on short term price swings. It is a toolbox for finding high probability trades for success as you trade the stock market. The technical ideas are primarily crafted around the personality of the NASDAQ market but may also be implemented in New York trades.

http://rapidshare.com/files/224287468/Barry_Rudd_-_Stock_Patterns_For_Day_Trading_And_Swing_Trading.pdf

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Guide to Analysing Companies

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The definitive guide to how to analyze and assess the strengths and weaknesses of any company.

How do you tell how well run a company is and how well it is doing? Which ratios and benchmarks should you use to assess performance? What can be done to massage company results? How do you recognize danger signs on the corporate horizon? How do you compare companies operating in different sectors or even different countries? All these important questions as well as many more are answered in this clear and comprehensive guide aimed at anyone who wants to make sense and practical use of a company's annual report, measure a business against its competitors, and assess the investment potential of a company or put a value on a company.

http://rapidshare.com/files/224647618/Guide_to_Analysing_Companies.pdf

[plopsy]

Nice collection of books here Raider , has anybody got :

"Electronic Trading TNT III - Technical trading stuff" by Joe Ross

it's the only one I haven't been able to find (I have a german version , but I can't read German :)) , if anyone wants it shout out , or Book IV (english))

[luckiwan]

Thanks for all these great books. Do you have High Probability Trading available?

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The Game Plan: Your Guide to Mental Toughness at Work


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Mental toughness goes hand in hand with success and yet it is often misunderstood. True mental toughness is about preparation, resilience, control, risk management and above all execution. So, how do you utilise this elusive but critical attribute? By starting with a “game plan.”

The Game Plan is about winning. More importantly, it’s about you winning. It’s about how you can create a personal performance environment that enables you to deliver at the crucial times. The Game Plan explores different types of mental toughness and examines how each one can give you the platform for significantly increased levels of self–confidence and resilience. Learn the easy–to–apply lessons that have created an environment of success for a host of world–beating performers in the business world and beyond. Imagine being able to apply a winning performance mindset to everyday work situations such as:

* Making presentations razor sharp
* Wowing new clients
* Being in control during performance appraisals
* Staying cool during even the most hectic and pressurized days
* Maintaining your self–belief even when things go wrong
* Making the right decision at the right time.

Read and learn from The Game Plan and you will have at your fingertips a robust strategy to give you the edge over your closest competitors and the very best chance of success.

http://rapidshare.com/files/225458464/The_Game_Plan_Your_Guide_to_Mental_Toughness_at_Work.pdf

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Entries & Exits: Visits to 16 Trading Rooms

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Dr. Alexander Elder leads you into 16 trading rooms where you meet traders who open up their diaries and show you their trades. Some of them manage money, others trade for themselves; some trade for a living, others are on the semi-professional level. All are totally serious and honest in sharing their trades with those who would like to learn. You will meet American and international traders who trade stocks, futures, and options using a variety of methods. All are normally very private, but now, thanks to their relationships with Dr. Elder, you can see exactly how these traders decide to enter and exit trades. Each chapter illustrates an entry and an exit for two trades, with comments by Dr. Elder. With this book as your guide, you can get closer to mastering the key themes of trading—psychology, tactics, risk control, record keeping, and the decision-making process.

The companion Study Guide is filled with striking insights and practical advice allowing you to test your knowledge and reinforce the principles outlined in Entries & Exits.

http://rapidshare.com/files/225812853/Alexander_Elder_-_Entries_And_Exits.pdf

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Making M&A Deals Happen

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Making M&A Deals Happen provides a practical businessperson's approach to making M&A deals that withstand the test of time. The book presents complete guidance on how to source, negotiate, and close mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, discussing each stage of the deal process and highlighting the critical elements, risks, and opportunities of each.

Bob Stefanowski, who has overseen more than $8.7 billion in M&A deals, equips readers with expert information on the M&A environment… developing a company strategy on M&A…financial modeling and final valuation…bidding strategies…structuring the deal…legal and regulatory issues…and much more.

Filled with easy-to-use tools, techniques, and resources, Making M&A Deals Happen features:

* Proven M&A strategies and tactics that increase value for the company
* In-depth case studies of Tyco, Conseco, and Time Warner, showing where firms have gone wrong_and how to avoid similar pitfalls
* Detailed negotiation do's and don'ts and troubleshooting techniques
* A wealth of tables, charts, and examples that illustrate key methods
* Sample due diligence audit programs and information requests

Based on a renowned course the author teaches at UPENN - Wharton Making M&A Deals Happen now offers a winning blueprint to all professionals actually involved in the M&A process_ whether in the planning, due diligence, or integration phases.

http://rapidshare.com/files/226174972/Making_M_A_Deals_Happen.pdf

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Hello..

Its a true slogan "money never sleeps"..
We give all value to the money because money is a thing in which you can get anything in exchange of money..
If money is not in the world then it creates some problem..
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Stock Investing for Dummies

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Stock Investing For Dummies, 2nd Edition covers all the proven tactics and strategies for picking the right stocks. Packed with savvy tips on today’s best investment opportunities, this book provides a down-to-earth, straightforward approach to making money on the market without the fancy lingo. Soon you’ll have the power to optimize your returns by:

* Recognizing and minimizing the risks
* Gathering information about potential stocks
* Dissecting annual reports and other company documents
* Analyzing the growth and demand of industries
* Playing with the politicians
* Approaching uncertain markets
* Using corporate stock buybacks to boost earnings
* Handling the IRS and other obligations

With a different strategy for every investor—from recent college grad to married with children to recently retired—this valuable reference is a must-have. It also features tips and tricks on how to tell when a stock is on the verge of declining or increasing, how to protect yourself from fraud, and common challenges that every investor must go through, along with resources and financial ratios.

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Trading by the Book

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Trading by the Book contains 376 pages of explicit information on futures trading. Included are discussions of how and when to really use Fibonacci techniques, how to recognize congestion, how to set and trail stops, how to get in step with a market, how to select trades, and how to conduct your trading on a businesslike basis. Trading by the Book is loaded with charts. In it you will see an entire year's trading of a protfolio of seven commodities. Illustrations and examples of every single concept are shown, in an easy to read, easy to understand format.

http://rapidshare.com/files/226978573/Joe_Ross_-_Trading_Futures_by_the_book.pdf

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Niall Ferguson - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it’s the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it’s the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What’s more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.

Through Ferguson’s expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. Suddenly, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the world’s first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer.

With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? What’s the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do?

This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market can’t provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Perhaps most important, The Ascent of Money documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the world’s biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generation—an economic transformation unprecedented in human history.

Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble bursts—sooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And that’s why, whether you’re scraping by or rolling in it, there’s never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.

From Bookmarks Magazine
Niall Ferguson makes a strong, compelling case for the development of money and banking as a catalyst for the advancement of civilization. Yet while some critics praised his clear, comprehensible writing, punctuated with anecdotes and historical details, others were nonplussed by his explanations and narrative detours. Several critics also bemoaned the book's choppy and uneven structure—an echo of the episodic, six-part television series it was meant to accompany. So it seems the UK critics liked the book less because they had seen the show. Though perhaps best suited to readers with a fundamental understanding of financial terms and theories, Ferguson's latest work provides valuable insight into the inner workings of the global economy, past and present. For interested readers, it demonstrates how our current fiscal meltdown fits into the bigger historical picture and laments humanity's perennial inability to learn from this history.

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[edmacd]

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, Greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind".

Where greed is - goodness is not. Greed is simply insecurity, the dire need to use others, to use things as a means to uphold & define self. Greed is vile & totally unnecessary. Greed does not clarify by nullifies, it limits & binds. Greed is a destructive force which enslves both the greedy & the weak. Take another look.

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Financial Analysis Tools and Techniques: A Guide for Managers

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Concepts and tools for making sound business decisions

Financial Analysis Tools and Techniques, a business-focused revision of Erich Helfert's perennial college bestseller Techniques of Financial Analysis, is a quick, easy read for nonfinancial managers and an excellent refresher and reference for finance professionals. This practical, hands-on guide provides a new introductory chapter that gives context to today's valuation turmoil and helps professionals understand the economic drivers of a business and the importance of cash flow.

The book's overriding theme is that any business should be viewed as a dynamic, integrated system of cash flows**one that can be activated and managed by investment decisions. Topics, discussed in clear, comprehensive, and easy-to-understand detail, include:

* Increasing shareholder value through value-based management (VBM)
* Interpreting pro forma financial statements

http://rapidshare.com/files/227390138/financial_analysis_tools_and_techniques_a_guide_for_managers.pdf

[edmacd]

Hello..

Its a true slogan "money never sleeps"..
We give all value to the money because money is a thing in which you can get anything in exchange of money..
If money is not in the world then it creates some problem..
Without money no one can live because on exchange of money you can buy anything like food, clothes, cars, house bla bla bla, you can get anything from money..
Thats why we said that money never sleeps..

That's what the system wants you to believe. How about a little simple co-operation. We're all in this together & if we realise that fact then we realise that we co-exist interdependently as well as independently.

Money is an external power which controls, money dictates how your life has to be lived. Money is not the root of all evil but it certainly is a problem & there can never be equality when there is any form of money.

We've got to see that we could have a far better life all round by moving on & stop being controlled by an impersonal & inhumane system. By co-operating we can have greater technology, better food production, better housing, better everything & most of all greater freedom.

Money is the limiting factor which is a cause of unnecessary suffering, exaggerated egotism. The simple fact is that no one can own anything. That is a serious delusion & one which the bankers & governments perpetuate. All the resources of this planet are our resources & our responsibility.

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When the Market Moves, Will You Be Ready? - Navaro Peter



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Interactive exercises and trading guidelines for using today's most strategically advanced "event-trading" technique High-profile events and announcements can cause tremendous swings in stocks and sectors, and often point out tremendous opportunities to investors who know how to read them. When the Market Moves, Will You Be Ready? is a "how-to" for knowing which events matter versus which are meaningless, and how to take advantage of the former for consistent trading success.
Emphasizing the practical side of trading, When the Market Moves, Will You Be Ready? features exercises, Q&As, and checklists for using investing techniques in day, swing, value, or virtually any other trading or investing style.
This hands-on book explores:


Techniques for finding the best stock in a given sector
Methods for profitably combining technical and fundamental analysis
Ways to continually assess market and sector trends

[plopsy]

Tips, Tricks, Strategies and Tactics for Traders - Joe Ross



http://rapidshare.com/files/228035191/Ross_Joe_-_Tips__Tricks__Strategies_and_Tactics_for_Traders.pdfThere are a few copies of this on the net , which are either, only 50% complete or have missing Chapters. I've reassembled the above book and it's now complete, with no missing chapters or pages.
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It is a 2002 reprint of the book :

Electronic Trading "TNT" IV Tips Tricks and Other Trading Stuff

Electronic Trading 'TNT' IV Tips-Tricks and Other Trading Stuff. This manual, will, when combined with Electronic Trading 'TNT' I, II, and III, constitute a complete course in electronic trading for both day traders and position traders. Tips-Tricks and Other Trading Stuff will bring together some of the greatest trading strategies and tactics ever assembled in one manual. You will learn how the insiders operate and how to beat them at their own game. You will learn how to combine chart reading with unique indicator settings to get an edge on the competition. You will learn how to use a special indicator (widely available) to keep you in a trend longer than most traders would dare to stay. You will learn how to properly scalp a market for quick profits. You will be shown trading tips that will place your trading at the level of a professional, and if you are already a professional, you will learn some new tricks that will take your trading to new hei! ghts. Over 380 pages that will blast your trading to ever greater levels of success. Profusely illustrated.

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thanks for all these post....you are the man!

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Salomon Smith Barney Guide to Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Securities

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Mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) and asset-backed securities (ABSs) are the largest sector of today’s bond market, with billions of dollars of securities traded every day. They constitute a core holding of almost all U.S. institutional fixed income investors. The authoritative Salomon Smith Barney Guide to Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Securities assembles recent research conducted by analysts at Salomon Smith Barney–as well as insightful analysis of this research–to provide a comprehensive, sophisticated, and unambiguous examination of today’s MBS and ABS markets.

Organized sequentially, with self-contained chapters that can be read on their own to eliminate the confusion so often found in other books of its type, this invaluable guide is an ideal training tool and resource for investment professionals, institutional investors, pension funds, hedge funds, and all others looking for clear, concise, and complete treatment of this multifaceted subject. Look to this guide for information on topics including:

* A general framework for modeling of prepayment rates on residential mortgage loans–critical in estimating security cashflows and investment characteristics
* How the Internet is changing the mortgage origination process, and the resulting implications for prepayment patterns
* Option-adjusted spreads–the standard valuation methodology that combines prepayment and term structure models
* Collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), one of the largest sectors of today’s market
* Nonmortgage-related ABSs, including up-to-date innovations in credit card ABSs
* MBS and collateralized mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) markets in the United Kingdom, and the rapidly growing MBS market in Australia
* Appendices that include a glossary of common terms, a guide to investor resources including Web sites, information on risk-based capital standards, and basic mortgage mathematics

http://rapidshare.com/files/228520912/Salomon_Smith_Barney_Guide_to_Mortgage-Backed_and_Asset-Backed_Securities..pdf

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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street


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As described by Lewis, liar's poker is a game played in idle moments by workers on Wall Street, the objective of which is to reward trickery and deceit. With this as a metaphor, Lewis describes his four years with the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers, from his bizarre hiring through the training program to his years as a successful bond trader. Lewis illustrates how economic decisions made at the national level changed securities markets and made bonds the most lucrative game on the Street. His description of the firm's personalities and of the events from 1984 through the crash of October 1987 are vivid and memorable. Readers of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities ( LJ 11/15/87) are likely to enjoy this personal memoir. BOMC and Fortune Book Club selection.

http://rapidshare.com/files/228920077/Liar_s_Poker.pdf

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International Economic Indicators and Central Banks - Picker Anne



http://rapidshare.com/files/229611588/Picker_Anne_-_International_Economic_Indicators_and_Central_Banks.pdfWhether you're doing business overseas or seeking to diversify your portfolio through international investments, tracking global economic events as they occur is essential. One of the smartest ways to do this is by following the movement of international economic indicators and understanding how the decisions of foreign central banks can affect market behavior.
Author Anne Dolganos Picker is an international economist who began monitoring global market conditions long before it became fashionable. She's familiar with the investment implications of international indicators and central banks, and now, with this book, she provides insightful analysis that will help you make more informed investment decisions as you venture into foreign markets.
Divided into two comprehensive parts, International Economic Indicators and Central Banks offers detailed coverage of the primary indicators that major industrial countries—from Canada, China, Japan, and Australia to Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom—use to evaluate economic performance, and examines how their central banks create and carry out monetary policy. The European Monetary Union is also included in this discussion, since it is the umbrella organization for the three European countries covered here.
International Economic Indicators and Central Banks opens with a brief description of the bond, stock, and foreign exchange markets—since this is where investors respond to the news of central bank activities and the direction of economic indicators. Following this market introduction, Part I moves on to provide you with an eye-opening overview of central bank functions, and then hones in on the individual central banks of the countries previously mentioned. Here, you'll discover how these central banks operate, and why they influence economies and your investments.
Part II of the book deals with the nitty-gritty of market-moving international economic indicators—from where to find them and what they mean to when they're released. With each chapter devoted to a different country, you'll become familiar with indicators that are reliable gauges of a country's economic growth and discover how similar indicators may differ across geographical borders. Some of the indicators addressed include the United Kingdom's Gross Domestic Product statistics, Canada's Labour Force Survey (LFS), and Japan's Tankan Survey.
If you're not an economist, interpreting economic data and news can seem daunting. But with International Economic Indicators and Central Banks as your guide, you'll quickly learn how to do this and much more as you search for potentially profitable investment opportunities around the world.

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How to Make Profits In Commodities - Gann W. D.


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W.D. Gann is considered to be the greatest trader of all time. This book reveals how to make profits on the commodities exchanges. It combines theory and practice, and through its straightforward, logical approach, Gann presents an excellent case for making money in commodities. The book to which Mr. Gann claimed he gave the best years of his experience, How to Make Profits In Commodities is the favorite of among Gann-fan commodity traders and stock traders worldwide!

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The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing: Morningstar's Guide to Building Wealth and Winning in the Market

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Over the years, people from around the world have turned to Morningstar for strong, independent, and reliable advice. The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing provides the kind of savvy financial guidance only a company like Morningstar could offer. Based on the philosophy that "investing should be fun, but not a game," this comprehensive guide will put even the most cautious investors back on the right track by helping them pick the right stocks, find great companies, and understand the driving forces behind different industries--without paying too much for their investments.

Written by Morningstar's Director of Stock Analysis, Pat Dorsey, The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing includes unparalleled stock research and investment strategies covering a wide range of stock-related topics. Investors will profit from such tips as:
* How to dig into a financial statement and find hidden gold . . . and deception
* How to find great companies that will create shareholder wealth
* How to analyze every corner of the market, from banks to health care


Informative and highly accessible, The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing should be required reading for anyone looking for the right investment opportunities in today's ever-changing market.


http://rapidshare.com/files/230077698/PAT_Dorsey_-_The_5_Rules_For_Successful_Stock_Investing_-_A_MORNINGSTAR_GUIDE.pdf

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The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought

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For the last decade a movement for providing workers with a living wage has been growing in the US. This book describes how great thinkers in the history of economic thought viewed the living wage and highlights how the ideas of the early economists such as Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill support the idea of a living wage and contrast with the ideas of more recent free-market economists who do not. The lessons we can learn from the contrasting ideas of both the early and recent economists will help us to think more clearly about the issues surrounding whether, how and why workers should be paid a living wage.

The book reviews the history of economic ideas related to the idea of the living wage. It presents a debate between two ideologies, the moral economy and the market economy, as captured by the need to sustain the workforce, enhance its capability and avoid the externality effects of low wages. It is unique in that it applies these concepts exclusively to labor. The book also breaks new ground by presenting Adam Smith as a moral economist who anticipated many of the arguments set forth by modern day advocates of the living wage. It shows how successive economic thinkers added to Smith's arguments for a living (subsistence) wage or found fault with those arguments. Throughout the book Donald Stabile draws out the lessons that this history of the economic thought about adequate wages has for the modern living wage movement.

Economists interested in the history of economic thought and labor issues will find this book a compelling read, as will academics and community groups advocating for a living wage.

http://rapidshare.com/files/230463886/The_Living_Wage.pdf

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Post pics with the books if you're going to contribute to the thread! :)

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Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders

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Only nineteen years old at the time-the youngest Turtle by far-Faith traded the largest account, making more than $30 million in just over four years. He takes you behind the scenes of the Turtle selection process and behind closed doors where the Turtles learned the lucrative trading strategies that enabled them to earn an average return of over 80 percent per year and profits of more than $100 million. You'll discover
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* . How the Turtles made money-the principles that guided their trading and the step-by-step methods they followed.
* Why, even though they used the same approach, some Turtles were more successful than others.
* How to look beyond the rules as the Turtles implemented them to find core strategies that work for any tradable market.
* How to apply the Turtle Way to your own trades-and in your own life.
* Ways to diversify your trading and limit your exposure to risk.

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Offering his unique perspective on the experience, Faith explains why the Turtle Way works in modern markets, and shares hard-earned wisdom on taking risks, choosing your own path, and learning from your mistakes.

http://rapidshare.com/files/230822743/Way_of_the_Turtle.pdf

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Essentials of Financial Risk Management

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A concise introduction to financial risk management strategies, policies, and techniques
This ideal guide for business professionals focuses on strategic and management issues associated with financial risk. Essentials of Financial Risk Management identifies risk-mitigation policies and strategies; suggestions for determining an organization's risk tolerance; and sources of risk associated with currency exchange rates, interest rates, credit exposure, commodity prices, and other related events. Examples illustrate risk scenarios and offer tips on an array of management alternatives, including changes in the way business is conducted and hedging strategies involving derivatives.

http://rapidshare.com/files/231215539/Essentials_of_Essentials_of_Financial_Risk_Management.pdf

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Dynamic Trading: Dynamic Concepts in Time, Price & Pattern Analysis With Practical Strategies for Traders & Investors

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Learn Dynamic Price Projection Techniques and how to project, well in advance, the specific price zones for support, resistance and trend termination.

Learn Dynamic Time Projection techniques including Projected Turning Point Periods, Time Rhythm Zone and Trend Vibration projections, which allow you to project days and weeks in advance the specific time zones for trend reversal.

Learn Elliott Wave Made Practical. Quickly determine if a market is in a trend or counter-trend position.

Learn low-risk and low-capital exposure trade entry strategies including trend-reversal and trend-continuation entry and stop-loss techniques.

Learn how to develop and stick to a trading plan.

Learn how to maintain a structured, patient and disciplined approach to technical analysis and trading strategies.

Learn a Consistency of Approach to trading.

Learn how to Trade Market Behavior, Not Market Forecasts.

http://rapidshare.com/files/231572843/Dynamic_Trading_by_Robert_Miner.pdf

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Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Finance and Banking

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The Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Finance and Banking is a practical reference of proven techniques, strategies, and approaches. It covers virtually all important topics dealing with multinational business finance, money, investments, financial planning, financial economics, and banking. In addition, it explores the application of computers, quantitative techniques and models, and economics to international finance and banking. You get Clear definitions and explanation so Step-by-step instruction so Statistical data, Charts, exhibits, and diagram so Checklist so Practical Applications Shim presents the most current information, offers important directives, and explains the technical procedures involved in this dynamic field. This reference gives you the tools you need to diagnose and evaluate the financial situations you face on a daily basis and answers every question you may have. It provides real-life examples and suggestions for handling everyday problems.WHAT THIS BOOK WILL DO FOR YOU More than a dictionary, more than an encyclopedia, this working guide will help you quickly pinpoint What to look for How to do it What to watch out for How to apply it in the complex world of business What to do You'll find ratios, formulas, examples, applications, exhibits, charts, and rules of thumb to help you analyze and evaluate any multinational financial decision. You will find this Encyclopedic Dictionary practical, comprehensive, quick, and useful. In short, this is a veritable cookbook of guidelines, illustrations, and how-tos. Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Finance and Banking is the resource you will reach for again and again.

http://rapidshare.com/files/232719550/Encyclopedic_Dictionary_of_International_Finance_and_Banking.pdf

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Confessions of a Street Addict

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Cramer, famous for appearing on CNBC as the "wild excitable guy [with]... a big mouth and lots of passion talking authoritatively about how you could make money by getting on the Net," recounts his turbulent dual career as hedge fund manager and media pundit. Cramer tells of his lifelong obsession with the market, beginning with childhood scenes of poring over daily stock listings. The story kicks into high gear once he starts juggling his law school course load so he can spend as much time as possible trading (over the phone, in the pre-Internet '80s). After that, the narrative's pace never relents from depictions of Cramer's early days at Goldman Sachs through the launch of his own fund, which led to magazine columns, a near-constant presence on TV, and TheStreet.com. Cramer's description of the financial news Web site's launch is ruthless, not just toward the executives whose scheming and mismanagement, he says, undermined TheStreet.com's success, but toward himself for hiring them and temporarily destroying his long-standing friendship with publishing fixture Marty Peretz. Cramer is equally self-recriminating about the effect his fanatical trading had on his personal life, but clearly still loves to linger over every major deal of his career (and a lot of the minor ones), even perhaps especially if they blew up in his face. This is a lively, informative portrait of the highest levels of finance and media in the last decade

http://rapidshare.com/files/233134814/confessions_of_a_street_addict.pdf

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Quick Steps to Financial Stability

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Quick Steps to Financial Stability

Find money you didn't think you had

Deal with your debt

Make the most of tax breaks

Boost your investment returns

Get your kids through college

Ditch the job and retire

Choose the right loan

Save time and money by using our easy-to-follow templates

No time to figure it all out on your own? Let Quick Steps to Financial Stability be your guide.

http://rapidshare.com/files/233500318/Quick_Steps_to_Financial_Stability.pdf

[xcortman]

Thanks buddy, excellent stuff..

Keep it up...

X

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Stop and Make Money: How To Profit in the Stock Market Using Volume and Stop Orders

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Richard Arms is one of the world’s most respected stock market technicians. His expertise in this field is unparalleled, and now, with Stop and Make Money, he reveals how to profit from short-term price movements in the stock market—whether you’re buying or selling short—by accurately interpreting price/volume information and effectively employing stop orders to enter and exit positions. With this book as your guide, you’ll quickly discover how to anticipate short-term stock market moves and improve your overall trading activities.

http://rapidshare.com/files/234234879/Stop_and_Make_Money.pdf

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Valuation for M&A: Building Value in Private Companies


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There is too much mystery about what companies are worth. And there are too many bad investment and operational decisions made as a result. The problem is especially acute in the case of a private company that lacks the guidance of a stock market price. But accurate valuations are possible, and M&A deals can succeed for both buyers and sellers.

The authors of this book have provided valuation advisory services to hundreds of companies and thousands of corporate executives. Through their experience, they have developed techniques to accurately measure and successfully build value in companies. In Valuation for M&A: Building Value in Private Companies, they provide owners and managers of private companies and their prospective buyers with the tools to determine what their company’s value is, what drives that value, and how to enhance that value during an M&A and in daily operation–even when no stock price exists.

Written for business appraisers, CPAs, investment bankers, venture capitalists, and consultants, as well as for investors and managers of nonpublicly traded entities, this book is a toolkit of solutions for valuation and return on investment questions. It is also a road map to building value when operating a company and selling or buying one. Senior managers in most public companies focus on value every day, for their performance is reflected in the daily scorecard of their stock price. But private companies lack this market feedback. As a result, many private companies lack direction and underperform.

Valuation for M&A lays out the steps for measuring and managing value creation in nonpublicly traded entities, and helps investors, executives, and their advisors determine the optimum strategy to enhance both market value and strategic value and maximize return on investment. It provides a detailed guide for sellers and buyers to prepare for the sale and acquisition of a firm, spelling out how to identify, quantify, and qualify the synergies that increase value to strategic buyers.

http://rapidshare.com/files/234633816/Valuation.for.M_A.Building.Value.in.Private.Companies.pdf

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Managing Investment Portfolios: A Dynamic Process

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As part of the CFA Institute Investment Series, the Third Edition of Managing Investment Portfolios has been designed for a wide range of individuals, from graduate-level students focused on finance to practicing investment professionals. This book, valuable for self-study as well as for general reference, provides complete coverage of the most important issues surrounding modern portfolio management.

In this latest edition, financial experts John Maginn, Donald Tuttle, Jerald Pinto, and Dennis McLeavey—along with a number of experienced contributors—fully update information associated with this important discipline by examining everything from asset allocation strategies to risk management frameworks. Blending theory with practice, they skillfully outline the entire flow of the portfolio management process—from formulating an investment policy statement to portfolio construction, trade execution, and monitoring and rebalancing a portfolio. Throughout the text, special attention is paid to ensuring the evenness of subject matter, consistencyof mathematical notation, and continuity of topic coverage that is so critical to the learning process.

http://rapidshare.com/files/235034342/Managing_Investment_Portfolios_A_Dynamic_Process.pdf

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Ichimoku Charts: An Introduction to Ichimoku Kinko Clouds


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Candlesticks charts, although originating in Japan, now play an important role in technical analysis worldwide. Now, for the first time in English, this book presents the next stage of candlestick analysis - Ichimoku Kinko Hyo. Sometimes called Cloud Charts, this analysis adds moving averages to candlestick charts. But moving averages a little different from those traditionally used in the West. For trending markets, Cloud Charts add an essential tool for analysing near-term areas of support and resistance.The book covers the history of candlestick charts - explaining the context in which they developed. And then moves on to explain how in the 1930s a journalist, with the pseudonym Ichimoku Sanjin, started refining candlestick analysis by adding a series of moving averages. The book explains in detail how to construct Cloud Charts and how to interpret them. A chapter is devoted to the advanced analysis of Cloud charts, with an in-depth study of the Three Principles: Wave Principle, Price Target and Timespan Principle. The book is illustrated throughout with numerous examples of Cloud Chart analysis.Walk into any Japanese dealing room today and you will see that the most common charts being used are Ichimoku Kinko Clouds. This book presents the definitive explanation of these charts for the first time to a Western audience.

http://rapidshare.com/files/235844865/Ichimoku_Charts.pdf

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The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results

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Covel (Trend Following) revisits a famous financial trading experiment conducted by Wall Street trader Richard Dennis and extracts its lessons with mixed results. Dennis, who quickly learned how to trade after starting as a runner at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 1966 at age 17, had made a reported $200 million by 1983. To settle an argument with fellow trader William Eckhardt about whether trading ability was innate or could be taught, he put an ad in the Wall Street Journal offering to teach candidates how to trade in two weeks, and then backed them with his own money. Of the thousands of people who who applied, 23 turtles were accepted. Their trading made $100 million for Dennis, leading some to become highly successful traders in their own right. Having tracked down most of the people involved, Covel describes the turtle training, including rules for entering and exiting trades as well as Dennis and Eckhardt's personal lessons, and speculates on why some turtles succeeded more than others. However, there are too many characters with competing interests, and many missing facts. Covel's own strong views can also get more emphasis than the voices of the principals. Still, the book is a useful training manual distilling the lessons of a fascinating experiment.

http://rapidshare.com/files/236562564/The_Complete_TurtleTrader.pdf

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Getting Started in Options (Getting Started In.....)


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Anyone mystified by stock options or who simply dismisses them as too speculative will find Getting Started in Options an excellent first read on the subject. Beginning with the premise that it's not the complexity of the investment but that of its language that makes options difficult for new investors to understand, author Michael C. Thomsett has created a guided tour through the lexicon. The result is a nontechnical introduction to these specialized markets.

The book carefully and completely defines the terminology, explains options investing step by step, and presents strategies so that it is easy to understand at each level of risk involved. Choosing the right stock, buying and selling options, and combining techniques are all covered in increasing complexity, but this is a book for beginners, and those with basic knowledge of the subject will want to seek out more advanced reading.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FT7JS29Y

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Guide to Investment Strategy: How to Understand Markets, Risk, Rewards And Behavior

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Investors and their advisors face a dizzying array of options when selecting investments. How to choose the optimal mix of stocks, bonds, real estate, and other assets? This book shows how to construct strategies that are appropriate for each investor.

With its detailed analysis, supported by data and anecdotes drawn from investment experience, it is above all a practical guide. It shows how new insights from behavioral analysis are widely reflected in the actual choices investors make. It also emphasises the importance of basing recommendations for investment strategy on the principles of traditional finance. And it statkes into account current research on the goals investors want to acheive and the mistakes they frequently make.

Peter Stanyer has written an extremely clear guide to the ins and outs of investment strategy.

http://rapidshare.com/files/237654496/Economist_-_Guide_to_Investment_Strategy.pdf

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Dictionary of E-business: A Definitive Guide to Technology and Business Terms


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New technologies spawn neologisms at a frightening rate. New ways of working need new words to describe them and we need new words, with good definitions, to orientate ourselves more ably in IT's new spaces. A dictionary may not be the most obvious nor optimal tool for keeping up and getting on but books still have many advantages in our e-saturated world, not least in explaining that world back to us in formats, and through mediums, we are at ease with.

Francis Botto's Dictionary of E-Business is subtitled "a definitive guide to technology and business terms" a subtitle this accelerated world is, in reality, always going to make a mockery of: whatever is defined can be redefined and nothing degrades meaning more quickly than technology. That withstanding, Botto's dictionary is well presented, clear and timely and it makes a pretty good stab at living up to the promise on its cover. Definitions range from AAA server to Zoom options and include symbol definitions and good, pithy descriptions of key computer languages and their functions. It is easy to get lost in IT's language--Botto's book makes a good map!


http://rapidshare.com/files/238397273/Dictionary_of_e-Business.pdf

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Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis


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Many Americans have resisted the notion that their country is an imperial power. The idea seems to contradict the values of the Republic and its Founding Fathers. But in Empire of Debt, prominent financial analysts Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin argue passionately that not only is the United States an empire, but it is also one whose end is coming soon. In Empire of Debt, a sequel to their earlier doom-and-gloom book Financial Reckoning Day, they elaborate on their argument that the U.S. economy is about to implode.

Bonner and Wiggin enumerate a long list of chronic ailments that imperil the American financial system--a massive trade deficit, soaring personal and government debt, a housing bubble, runaway military expenditures. These problems "hardly disturb the sleep of the imperial race," the authors write. "[But] all empires must pass away." Bonner and Wiggin argue that American imperial delusions are similar to the fantasies that fueled the dot-com market mania. They recommend readers buy gold as insurance in the event of a financial crisis. Empire of Debt flounders when discussing how America indebted itself; the authors blame the Federal Reserve Board's low interest rates but gloss over the fact that rates were slashed because the U.S. teetered on the brink of deflation in 2002 and 2003 (a topic they give more attention to in Financial Reckoning Day). As hardcore free-marketeers, Bonner and Wiggin also seem to long for the pre-welfare days of the 1920s but forget how that period's policies led to the Great Depression. That said, Empire of Debt contains many revelations that will open eyes.

http://rapidshare.com/files/239093324/Empire_of_Debt_-_The_Rise_of_an_Epic_Financial_Crisis.pdf

[succhuster]

It;s wonderful to see many wonderful books @ one place. Thanks for all of them, Keep going !!!

Thanx Buddy:D

The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results

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Covel (Trend Following) revisits a famous financial trading experiment conducted by Wall Street trader Richard Dennis and extracts its lessons with mixed results. Dennis, who quickly learned how to trade after starting as a runner at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 1966 at age 17, had made a reported $200 million by 1983. To settle an argument with fellow trader William Eckhardt about whether trading ability was innate or could be taught, he put an ad in the Wall Street Journal offering to teach candidates how to trade in two weeks, and then backed them with his own money. Of the thousands of people who who applied, 23 turtles were accepted. Their trading made $100 million for Dennis, leading some to become highly successful traders in their own right. Having tracked down most of the people involved, Covel describes the turtle training, including rules for entering and exiting trades as well as Dennis and Eckhardt's personal lessons, and speculates on why some turtles succeeded more than others. However, there are too many characters with competing interests, and many missing facts. Covel's own strong views can also get more emphasis than the voices of the principals. Still, the book is a useful training manual distilling the lessons of a fascinating experiment.

http://rapidshare.com/files/236562564/The_Complete_TurtleTrader.pdf

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Financial Risk Manager Handbook


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The Financial Risk Management Exam (FRM Exam) is given by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) annually in November for risk professionals who want to earn FRM(r) certification. The Financial Risk Manager Handbook, Fourth Edition is the definitive guide for those preparing to take the FRM Exam as well as a valued working reference for risk professionals. Written with the full support of GARP, and containing questions and solutions from previous exams, this book is a valuable resource for professionals responsible for or associated with financial risk management.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DSR5TE9N

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Vault Guide to Finance Interviews

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The Vault Guide to Finance Interviews is your top resource for landing a finance job. Whether you’re looking for a position at an investment bank, mutual fund, hedge fund or commercial bank, the Guide has the questions you’ll encounter.

We give you over 100 questions asked in actual interviews at the top finance firms, along with detailed answers, key finance concepts and easy-to-follow charts and frameworks. Don’t be afraid of technical or quantitative questions. Read the Vault Guide to Finance Interviews and you’ll be prepared for the toughest finance interview.

Inside information about finance interviews

Valuation techniques

Bonds and interest rates

Options and derivatives

Accounting concepts

Mergers and acquisitions

What personal qualities interviewers look for in a candidate

Other key concepts, frameworks and takeaways

About Vault

Vault, Inc., the Insider Career Network(tm), is the leading media company focused on careers. Job seekers love Vault for its award-winning guidebooks, thousands of online company and industry profiles, popular job board, and the Internet's first-ever message boards for employees, called the Electronic WaterCooler(tm). HR professionals and hiring managers embrace Vault for its top-quality HR content, message boards, targetted VaultMatch(tm) resume database, high-quality job board, and other services. Headquartered in New York City, Vault was founded in 1997 by HS Hamadeh, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman.

http://rapidshare.com/files/240210639/Vault_Guide_to_Finance_Interviews.pdf

[Elie007]

Wow..... great

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Financial Econometrics: From Basics to Advanced Modeling Techniques

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A comprehensive guide to financial econometrics

Financial econometrics is a quest for models that describe financial time series such as prices, returns, interest rates, and exchange rates. In Financial Econometrics, readers will be introduced to this growing discipline and the concepts and theories associated with it, including background material on probability theory and statistics. The experienced author team uses real-world data where possible and brings in the results of published research provided by investment banking firms and journals. Financial Econometrics clearly explains the techniques presented and provides illustrative examples for the topics discussed.

Svetlozar T. Rachev, PhD (Karlsruhe, Germany) is currently Chair-Professor at the University of Karlsruhe. Stefan Mittnik, PhD (Munich, Germany) is Professor of Financial Econometrics at the University of Munich. Frank J. Fabozzi, PhD, CFA, CFP (New Hope, PA) is an adjunct professor of Finance at Yale University’s School of Management. Sergio M. Focardi (Paris, France) is a founding partner of the Paris-based consulting firm The Intertek Group. Teo Jasic, PhD, (Frankfurt, Germany) is a senior manager with a leading international management consultancy firm in Frankfurt.

http://rapidshare.com/files/241339706/Financial_Econometrics.pdf

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Alan Shrugged: Alan Greenspan, the World's Most Powerful Banker

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As the book's title suggests, Alan Greenspan, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, is probably the world's most powerful financial figure. Tuccille, a financial writer and biographer (Rupert Murdoch; Trump), covers Greenspan's life from his 1926 birth through early 2002. He recounts Greenspan's close relationship with his mother after his parents' divorce, his two marriages, and his affinity for both mathematics and music. Although he played jazz professionally, Greenspan chose to follow his mathematical side and made a career in economics. After years in the private sector, he moved into government service as an advisor to presidents Nixon and Ford before President Reagan appointed him Federal Reserve Chairman in 1987, a job he has held ever since. Perhaps the most interesting details presented here are Greenspan's early involvement with Ayn Rand, his libertarian views on a limited government, and the flexibility he has maintained in his economic thought, which has allowed him to adjust to both differing market conditions and politicians. Tuccille's biography would be a useful addition to most academic and public libraries. For a more detailed look at Greenspan's years at the Fed, up to 2000, reader s should consider Bob Woodward's Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom.

http://rapidshare.com/files/242455166/Alan_Shrugged_-_Alan_Greenspan__the_World_s_Most_Powerful_Banker.pdf

[burnsy24]

awesome contribution

thanks

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Profitable Patterns for Stock Trading

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Over the past 20 years the use and misuse of the Fibonacci Summation series has proliferated to the point that commentators on the nation's TV business channels are now resident experts. I lay no claim to being an expert. I have, however, studied the subject of Fibonacci numbers extensively, especially how it relates to trading. I have always taken the pragmatic position that if I could not use what I was studying to help in trading, then I was not interested in pursuing it any further. If this material can stimulate your interest in the subject, then introducing you to the subject will have been worthwhile... The pattern recognition methodology illustrated in the text will be of interest to anyone that has ever traded using technical charts. I can say with confidence that there are very few who have researched patterns to the extent I have. Some of the references date back to the early 1900s. Each of these patterns is based on ratio and proportion. A technical ! chart is nothing more than a road map with a price and time axis. These patterns repeat with a great deal of regularity. Some of my best students have been airline pilots. They seem to approach trading like they approach flying, following a flight plan. The similarities to trading are numerous. Finally, one of my goals in writing this book is to expose you to the subject of ancient geometry. Fibonacci numbers are an integral part of the numbers that make up the subject of their origin in the cosmos. I will not spend a significant amount of time relating my experiences in astro-harmonics research. The subject is too vast for me to consider here. More importantly, it is not necessary for profitable trading.

http://rapidshare.com/files/243587759/Profitable_Patterns_For_Stock_Trading.pdf

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Tips, Tricks, Strategies and Tactics for Traders - Joe Ross



http://rapidshare.com/files/228035191/Ross_Joe_-_Tips__Tricks__Strategies_and_Tactics_for_Traders.pdfThere are a few copies of this on the net , which are either, only 50% complete or have missing Chapters. I've reassembled the above book and it's now complete, with no missing chapters or pages.
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It is a 2002 reprint of the book :

Electronic Trading "TNT" IV Tips Tricks and Other Trading Stuff

Electronic Trading 'TNT' IV Tips-Tricks and Other Trading Stuff. This manual, will, when combined with Electronic Trading 'TNT' I, II, and III, constitute a complete course in electronic trading for both day traders and position traders. Tips-Tricks and Other Trading Stuff will bring together some of the greatest trading strategies and tactics ever assembled in one manual. You will learn how the insiders operate and how to beat them at their own game. You will learn how to combine chart reading with unique indicator settings to get an edge on the competition. You will learn how to use a special indicator (widely available) to keep you in a trend longer than most traders would dare to stay. You will learn how to properly scalp a market for quick profits. You will be shown trading tips that will place your trading at the level of a professional, and if you are already a professional, you will learn some new tricks that will take your trading to new hei! ghts. Over 380 pages that will blast your trading to ever greater levels of success. Profusely illustrated.

The link is dead. Could someone provide an active link? Thanks in advance!

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Yellow Brick Road to Your Financial Security

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'For a comfortable retirement you need three things: property, superannuation and your own portfolio of shares. Then there's the ultimate investment - your health. How to balance these is a lifelong journey requiring passion, courage and wisdom. It's the Yellow Brick Road to your financial security . . .'

In 2004, the founder and chairman of Wizard Home Loans, Mark Bouris, sold his stake to the world's largest corporation, GE. Overnight he became a wealthy man, but like many baby boomers, Bouris had no expertise in planning a retirement strategy. In his search for the best approach Bouris sought assistance from some of Australia's top investment experts.

The Yellow Brick Road to Your Financial Security explains what he learned in language we can all understand. Find out:
* what the experts know
* what the jargon means
* how to take charge of your retirement plans and why you need to start acting now
* how much you need for retirement and what your own risk profile looks like
* how to create a system to build your own investment portfolio
* why the ultimate investment - your own health and wellbeing - is the vital missing piece.

http://rapidshare.com/files/244307750/The_Yellow_Brick_Road_to_Your_Financial_Security.pdf

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Serious Money, Straight Talk About Investing for Retirement

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SERIOUS MONEY is a down to earth investment book that is a must read for anyone saving for retirement.

Armed with extensive research and his own professional experience, Richard Ferri dismantles the illusion that stockbrokers, financial planners, and other Wall Street "experts" offer superior investment advice. Ferri finds that most of the investments sold in the mass market consist of high cost products that deliver below average returns. Ferri further explains how index funds and other low cost, low tax investments lead to greater wealth at retirement.

Serious Money is a thoughtful and thorough guidebook that cuts through the clutter and provides genuinely useful advice. It will save you time, money, and headaches.

http://rapidshare.com/files/244664250/Serious_Money-Straight_Talk_About_Investing_for_Retirement.pdf

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Analysis of Derivatives for the CFA Program


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Analysis of Derivatives for the CFA® Program introduces students and practitioners to a practical risk management approach to derivatives. The textbook captures current practice and reflects what the general investment practitioner needs to know about derivatives. It does not simply deliver an explanation of various derivatives instruments and positions but provides motivation for every derivatives position by explaining what the manager wants to accomplish prior to addressing the details of the position.

http://rapidshare.com/files/246730625/CFA_-_Analysis_Of_Derivatives.pdf

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Exchange Traded Funds as an Investment Option


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Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a relatively new open-ended investment vehicle. Launched in 1993, their appeal as an important and unique financial product has compelled institutional and retail investors alike to look anew at what seems to be their endless possibilities. This has led to their dramatic expansion in terms of capital represented and numbers of funds.

http://rapidshare.com/files/247591537/Exchange-Traded_Funds.pdf

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Asset Price Bubbles: The Implications for Monetary, Regulatory, and International Policies


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In both the industrialized and developing worlds, a distinctive feature of the last two decades has been prolonged buildups and sharp collapses in asset markets such as stock, housing, and exchange markets. The volatility has sparked intense debate in academic and policy circles over the appropriate monetary and regulatory response to dramatic market shifts.

This book examines asset price bubbles to further our understanding of the causes and implications of financial instability, focusing on the potential of central banks and regulatory agencies to prevent it. The book grew out of a conference jointly sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the World Bank Group in April 2002.

http://rapidshare.com/files/248142261/Asset_Price_Bubbles_-_The_Implications_for_Monetary__Regulatory__and_International_Policies..pdf

[NoNoKitty]

THNX! Looks Interesting. :D

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Profiting With Forex: The Most Effective Tools and Techniques for Trading Currencies

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Profiting with Forex introduces investors to all the advantages of the global foreign exchange market and shows them how to capitalize on it. Readers will learn why forex is the perfect supplement to stock and bond investing; why it is unrivaled in terms of protection, profit potential, and ease of use; and how it can generate profits, whether the other markets are up of down.

Written by two leading forex experts, this complete investing resource uses basic economic principles, solid technical analysis, and lots of common sense to develop an arsenal of tools and techniques that will lead to winning results in the lucrative foreign exchange marketplace. Profiting with Forex includes everything that investors need to know about:

- The many advantages of the forex market: huge market size, ease of entry, profit potential, tax incentives, 24-hour trading, no commissions, increased leverage, and guaranteed stops
- The basic terms of forex trading: definitions of important concepts, including "pip," "currency pair," "contract" or "lot," and more
- Genesis and growth of the forex market: how the forex market emerged out of a changing global financial landscape and continues to changes and adapt with that same volatile landscape
- Fundamental factors that shape the Forex market: the U.S. government, inflation, the U.S. stock market, China and other emerging markets, oil, and breaking news
- Fundamental tools for tracking Forex market changes: interest rates, Treasury International Capital Data, Consumer Price Index, S&P 500, U.S. dollar vs. Chinese yuan, balance of trade, crude oil futures, and news media
- Technical analysis tools and indicators for gauging market sentiment: moving averages, oscillating indicators such as, stochastics, Commodity Channel Index, Relative Strength Index, Fibonacci analysis, and others

Filled with over 150 illustrations and figures, Profiting with Forex also shows investors how to combine their newly acquired knowledge of Forex fundamentals with proven trading techniques that can generate great rewards in the market.

http://rapidshare.com/files/248894108/Profiting_With_Forex_-_0071464654.PDF

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Financial Analysis: A Controller's Guide

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Corporations rely on their controllers and financial managers to provide a wide array of accounting functions, from processing accounts payable and receivable transactions to closing the books in a timely manner. Accomplishing these activities are the foundation of a successful career. However, in order to be truly notable and recognized as an innovative thinker in an organization, a controller must acquire first-rate skills in the area of financial analysis.

Financial Analysis: A Controller's Guide, Second Edition helps controllers, financial managers, and treasurers develop and apply top-notch financial skills in their jobs and throughout their com-panies. By obtaining a broad knowledge of skills and applying them to a multitude of situations, readers will achieve deep insights into why their company performs as it does, and can transmit this information, along with recommendations for improvements, to other members of the management team, enhancing the corporation's overall financial performance.

http://rapidshare.com/files/249970356/Financial_Analysis_A_Controllers_Guide_0470055189.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

How to Write a Grant Proposal

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Effective grant proposals are not so much written as they are extensively researched, developed, and positioned. The actual writing, obviously an essential component, is nevertheless only the tip of the iceberg. Grant seekers must possess the necessary skills to correctly identify potential funders, craft a proposal that meets a specific funder’s needs, and follow that funder’s directions to the letter. Cheryl New and James Quick take grant seekers step-by-step through the entire development and drafting process in How to Write a Grant Proposal.

The authors concentrate on all the behind-the-scenes, pre-writing work that makes the difference between successful grant proposals and those that potential funders discard as "nonresponsive." New and Quick concentrate on crafting specific proposals that prove a perfect match between a funder and a solicitor’s needs. Funders and the nonprofit organizations they support are both in the business of solving problems; the key is creating a project that addresses a problem that both parties are interested in solving. How to Write a Grant Proposal provides targeted guidance for a variety of kinds of organizations, including:

K—12 private and public educational organizations

Government agencies

For-profit businesses

Health care organizations

Traditional nonprofits

Higher education universities and centers

How to Write a Grant Proposal proves a one-stop resource on how to interpret a funder’s guidelines to create a successful grant proposal.

http://rapidshare.com/files/251138327/How_to_Write_a_Grant_Proposal.pdf

[belz]

thank you, great 8-)

[Corporate Raider]

Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders

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Newcomers to Jack Schwager's series on top traders, as well as fervent fans of his first two entries Market Wizards and The New Market Wizards, will find that Stock Market Wizards offers another revealing look at a wide spectrum of trading styles through the eyes of 15 extraordinarily successful individuals. Transcripts of incisive Q&A sessions between Schwager and traders--including Michael Lauer, Dana Galante, Alphonse "Buddy" Fletcher Jr., and Claudio Guazzoni--examine the ways each approaches their specialty, whether it be value stocks, mutual funds, short selling, options trading, or other market niches. After brief but interesting introductions that place the subjects' trading practices into perspective, Schwager coaxes from them penetrating observations on setting goals, finding opportunities, learning from mistakes, and operating on a day-to-day basis. While some participants refuse to divulge proprietary practices, and Anthony admits that many traders' activities hold little relevance to individual investors, the basic doctrines nonetheless contain nuggets of wisdom that can be applied by many nonprofessionals. And, in the final "Wizard Lessons" chapter, Schwager details the 65 overarching principles (such as Trade Your Personality, Be Willing to Take a Loss, and The Importance of Setting Goals) he culled from these extensive conversations.


http://rapidshare.com/files/252076985/Stock_Market_WIZARDS_Interviews_with_America_s_Top_Stock_Traders.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Wall Street Meat: My Narrow Escape from the Stock Market Grinder

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When Kessler interviewed for an analyst's position at Paine Webber in 1986, he wasn't even sure what the job entailed, but would soon learn there were "absolutely no qualifications whatsoever" for the responsibility of telling investors how to build their stock portfolios. He did happen to meet the right people, however: he palled around with Jack Grubman and then, at a subsequent job at Morgan Stanley, worked with Frank Quattrone and Mary Meeker-three analysts who later acquired varying levels of fame and notoriety during the boom-and-bust market of the late 1990s, as they were accused of deliberately recommending stocks from tech companies they knew to be overvalued. Henry Blodget was also implicated in the ensuing scandal, but despite his prominence on the cover, he has no substantial presence in this story, just a few cameos well after Kessler left Wall Street to run an investment firm in California. The subtitular implication that Wall Street "chewed up" these figures is also misleading; the men were at the top of their game when they were forced out, while Meeker has at this writing suffered nothing more than slight damage to her reputation. Kessler's denigration of her as a "clueless" rookie who became a technology "cheerleader" risks overstating the case against her as a means of pumping up the reputation of otherwise "pure analysts." False modesty and clunky dialogue do little to enhance a story that relies too heavily on Kessler's former proximity to now-famous people, while his analysis of their legal woes rarely advances beyond the superficial. Readers seeking insight into the blurring of the boundaries between investment bankers and stock analysts should wait for a book that tells that story directly, with a fuller perspective.

http://rapidshare.com/files/252455177/Wall_Street_Meat_-_My_Narrow_Escape_from_the_Stock_Market_Grinder_-_0060592141.PDF

[yongzc]

Are u able to look for ebook for
Starting Your Career as a Wall Street Quant: A Practical, No-BS Guide to Getting a Job in Quantitative Finance and Launching a Lucrative Career


by Brett Jiu (http://www.amazon.com/Brett-Jiu/e/B001JS435A/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1). I heard that it is an interesting book. Thanks anyway..

[Corporate Raider]

The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes

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The Disciplined Trader is trading psychology book that describes the methods of becoming the disciplined financial trader and stop losing money just because our emotions take control over the mind. It also describes what the discipline in trading is and why is it very important in every financial market, including Forex, stocks, options and others. Mark Douglas is a CEO of a trading software development company and he has a very rich experience in trading. According to him, more than 80% of trader’s success is concentrated in psychology and his treatment of the emotions. This book can serve as a step-by-step guide to adapting successfully to the unusual psychological characteristics of the Forex trading. You will learn to understand the psychology of trading and the importance of personal psychological transformation

http://www.filefactory.com/file/a0c71ce/n/Mark_Douglas_-_The_Disciplined_Trader_pdf

[slam200x]

Hi Corporate Raider, thanks for your massive contribution. I'm searching for the following ebooks for some time but with no success. I wonder if you can help me?
Thanks in advance :)

(1) Stikky Stock Charts (by Laurence Holt Books)
The full version, not the 50-page sample version

(2) Technical Analysis Using Multiple Timeframes (by Brian Shannon)

(3) The Way of the Warrior-Trader (BY Richard D. McCall)

(4) Tools and Tactics for the Master Day Trader (By Oliver Velez and Greg Capra)

(5) How Charts Can Help You in the Stock Market (By William Jiler)

(6) Practical Speculation (By Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner)

(7) Secrets of the Underground Trader (By Jea Yu and Russell Lockhart)

[Corporate Raider]

Financial Analysis and Decision Making : Tools and Techniques to Solve Financial Problems and Make Effective Business Decisions


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How can you use your company's assets more productively?

Are you at risk of running out of cash?

Are you giving your shareholders the best value for their investments?

Good questions. Financial Analysis and Decision Making shows you how to use the tools of financial analysis to arrive at answers that are both easy to grasp and based on reality, not CPA-speak.

This uniquely accessible book emphasizes the impact of accounting information on strategic business decisions, and explains how financial and nonfinancial professionals can use that information to solve a variety of business questions and problems. Plain-English descriptions, sample problems, real-world case studies, and more show you how to:

* Look "inside" financial data for clues to past, current, and future performance
* Apply proven risk management principles to everyday business problems
* Control product costs to increase per-unit profits and gain competitive advantage

A fundamental understanding of financial analysis is an essential--but often overlooked--prerequisite to making sound strategic decisions. Financial Analysis and Decision Making helps you understand what the numbers are saying and use that understanding to improve the performance of your business at every level.

http://rapidshare.com/files/254982586/Financial_Analysis_and_Decision_Making.pdf

[ajackson]

Thanks sooooooooooooooooo much ...................................

[Corporate Raider]

Encyclopedia of Alternative Investments

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The Encyclopedia of Alternative Investments is a great reference source for both students and professionals seeking an understanding of the various alternative investment terms. It provides definitions for nearly 600 alternative investment terms, which are provided in an easily accessible format rather than looking up the definitions online. The terms are defined by academics and professionals in the alternative investment space and are defined in easy-to-understand terms. Investor interest in alternative investments continues to grow, and this encyclopedia provides a comprehensive source of definitions for the alternative investment areas of venture capital, hedge funds, managed futures, and commodities. The encyclopedia provides the definitions by category, making definitions easily obtainable. It is a valuable reference source for all those individuals interested in alternative investments.

http://rapidshare.com/files/256566693/Encyclopedia_of_Alternative_Investments.pdf

[gyalgod]

has anyone tried this

[Corporate Raider]

Optimization Methods in Finance

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Optimization models play an increasingly important role in financial decisions. This is the first textbook devoted to explaining how recent advances in optimization models, methods and software can be applied to solve problems in computational finance more efficiently and accurately. Chapters discussing the theory and efficient solution methods for all major classes of optimization problems alternate with chapters illustrating their use in modeling problems of mathematical finance. The reader is guided through topics such as volatility estimation, portfolio optimization problems and constructing an index fund, using techniques such as nonlinear optimization models, quadratic programming formulations and integer programming models respectively. The book is based on Master's courses in financial engineering and comes with worked examples, exercises and case studies. It will be welcomed by applied mathematicians, operational researchers and others who work in mathematical and computational finance and who are seeking a text for self-learning or for use with courses.

http://rapidshare.com/files/258556473/Optimization_Methods_in_Finance__Mathematics__Finance_and_Risk_.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Say It With Charts: The Executive's Guide to Visual Communication

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Business is about communication. Every day, scores of questions must be answered, and each answer must be communicated quickly, completely, and with a minimum of confusion. Time has become our most valuable, irreplaceable commodity, and**in today's rapid fire, ultra-competitive business environment**delays or errors in communicating information are uncalled for, unaffordable...and unacceptable.

Say It With Charts, shows you how to put your message in visual form and translate information and ideas into persuasive, powerful charts, visuals, and multimedia presentations**holding your audience's attention as you communicate exactly what you want, with no confusion. The newest edition of this bestselling classic covers every important point from previous editions and, in addition, shows you how to use today's digital technologies to create professional-quality, attention-grabbing visuals on your computer screen.

Everything you need to know to make your charts and visuals eye-catching and memorable is in these pages, including:

* Commandments for designing successful onscreen visuals
* Techniques for conveying your messages using visuals and visual metaphors
* How to decide when to use a chart**and know when a chart could work against you
* Graphic representations of ineffective, counter-productive charts**with examples of how they could be improved
* Time- and money-saving methods to make one presentation template serve multiple audiences
* Hands-on practice projects and exercises to help you grasp each important concept

Over the years, Say It With Charts has become the standard guidebook for executives, sales managers, management consultants**all those who want to make their points clearly and concisely, whether speaking directly to a packed conference room or communicating on computer screens across the globe. Now updated for today's technological communications revolution, it will show you how to translate your most compelling data and messages into even more compelling visuals, and hammer home your message every time.

http://rapidshare.com/files/258958546/Say_It_With_Charts_The_Executive_s_Guide_to_Visual_Communication.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Trading Rules that Work: The 28 Lessons Every Trader Must Master

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As traders, virtually all of us develop a set of rules that govern our trading activities. Yet, all too often—for a variety of reasons—many of us selectively ignore or change those rules.

Author Jason Alan Jankovsky has been a trader and market analyst for over twenty years. During this time the markets have taught him many things, but the most valuable lesson learned was the importance of following a set of trading rules that work for your style of trading, risk tolerance, and emotional make-up. Now, in Trading Rules that Work, Jankovsky wants to share his findings with you.

This comprehensive guide provides a blueprint for trading success by introducing you to 28 essential rules that can be shaped to fit any trading approach—whether you're dealing in stocks, commodities, or currencies. Straightforward and accessible, Trading Rules that Work outlines the deeper psychology behind each of these accepted trading rules and provides you with a better understanding of how to make those rules work for you. The rules, which are more accurately defined as flexible guidelines, fall under four parts within the book:

* Part One: Getting in the Game outlines the psychology of market price action, what that can mean as far as your trade selection is concerned, and how to begin from the point of a strong market presence
* Part Two: Cutting Losses shows you how to protect yourself in today's markets—even when it is emotionally difficult to do so—by developing a set of personal trading rules uniquely designed to your trading style
* Part Three: Letting Profits Run covers the few simple rules you should follow in order to remain in a winning trade until market potential has run out
* Part Four: Trader Maxims examines the most common rules, and how they have both nega-tive and positive psychological implications

Trading successfully takes discipline, desire, knowledge, and skill. By combining the various rules, insights, and guidelines found through-out this book, you'll be in the best position possible to achieve consistent success—no matter what markets you choose to trade.

http://rapidshare.com/files/259948680/Trading_Rules_that_Work_The_28_Lessons_Every_Trader_Must_Master.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Technical Analysis of Stock Trends

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The original. The best. The bedrock of modern market investing, updated for the next generation

Technical Analysis of Stock Trends was the first book to produce a methodology for interpreting the predictable behavior of investors and markets. It revolutionized technical investment approaches and showed traders and investors how to make money regardless of what the market is doing. Now in its ninth edition, the book remains the benchmark by which all other investment methodologies are measured. An indispensable reference for technical traders, investors, and finance professionals, the ninth edition features:

* Expanded treatment of Magee’s ""basing points"" procedure

* In-depth discussion and dissection of Dow Theory

* Extensive new material on commodity trading

* Much-needed perspective on short-term and futures trading

The newest incarnation of one of the true classics of market analysis, this book will be a crucial resource for both seasoned veterans and the new generation alike."

http://rapidshare.com/files/260358714/ROBERT.D._EDWARDS___JOHN_MAGEE_-_TECHNICAL_ANALYSIS_OF_STOCK_TRENDS.pdf

[Chartsky]

Great collection Corporate Raider . . . thanks for sharing!

[reddevilrulez]

Wow! Thanks.

[Corporate Raider]

Handbook of International Trade

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This handbook is a detailed exploration of the theories, policies, and issues stemming from the field of International Trade. Written by specialists in the field, the chapters focus on four important areas: factor proportions theory, trade policy, investment, and new trade theory. The extensive analysis covers such topics as the Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Model and the Stolper-Samuelson Price Link, as well as wages, antidumping, and political economics.


* Explores the theories, policies and issues stemming from the field of International Trade.
* Focuses on factor proportions theory, trade policy, investment, and new trade theory.
* Includes analyses of the Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Model and the Stolper-Samuelson Price link.

http://rapidshare.com/files/261042460/Blackwell_.Handbook_of_International_Trade.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Working the Street: What You Need to Know About Life on Wall Street

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Written by a former Managing Director at Merrill Lynch, Working the Street is the resource for readers hoping to build a successful career on Wall Street. It is not a "how-to" career book or a job guide. It doesn't tell the reader who to contact for a job or what classes to take to prepare for a career in banking, and it is not a book about the technical "nuts and bolts" of Wall Street. What this book does tell the reader is about some of the "ins and outs" of Wall Street; about how things really work in the banking world; about some of the speed bumps to watch out for and some of the "low hanging fruit" that is ripe for the picking, from getting in the door and developing positive habits, to getting a bonus and handling retirement. In order to really succeed, it is necessary to know as much as possible about how Wall Street really works. Working the Street goes a long way in providing exactly that.

http://rapidshare.com/files/261520708/Working_the_Street_-_1403963770.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Quantitative Investment Analysis (CFA Institute Investment Series)

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In the Second Edition of Quantitative Investment Analysis, financial experts Richard DeFusco, Dennis McLeavey, Jerald Pinto, and David Runkle outline the tools and techniques needed to understand and apply quantitative methods to today's investment process.

Now, in Quantitative Investment Analysis Workbook, Second Edition, they offer you a wealth of practical information and exercises that will further enhance your understanding of this discipline. This essential study guide--which parallels the main book chapter by chapter--contains challenging problems and a complete set of solutions as well as concise learning outcome statements and summary overviews.

If you're looking to successfully navigate today's dynamic investment environment, the lessons found within these pages can show you how. Topics reviewed include:

* The time value of money
* Discounted cash flow
* Probability distributions
* Sampling and estimation
* Hypothesis testing
* Multiple regression
* Time-series analysis
* And much more

http://rapidshare.com/files/264250157/Quantitative_Investment_Analysis__CFA_Institute_Investment_Series_.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

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Barbarians at the Gate is a classic of the business book genre, and with the private equity boom we have seen in the last couple of years, it is still as relevant as it was when it came twenty years ago. It is the story or some extremely unlikable rich people brought low by equally unsavory, but much smarter rich people, and it gives you an inside feel for the major wall street deal like no other book can.

Barbarians at the Gate is the story of an attempt to take RJR Nabisco private, and then the series of take over attempts that were instigated by the original privatization plan. Johnson, the CEO of RJR, comes off as pompous, full of himself, and not very smart. He's like a frat boy who makes it by glad handing people and buying rounds of drinks. Kravis, of legendary private equity firm KKR, comes off like a financier god. Brilliant, pushy, and beyond your puny human morals. Guess who gets the company in the end.

A must read for anyone interested in modern Wall Street.

http://rapidshare.com/files/265320671/Barbarians_At_the_Gate_-_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Quantitative Investment Analysis, Workbook (CFA Institute Investment Series)

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In the Second Edition of Quantitative Investment Analysis, financial experts Richard DeFusco, Dennis McLeavey, Jerald Pinto, and David Runkle outline the tools and techniques needed to understand and apply quantitative methods to today's investment process.

Now, in Quantitative Investment Analysis Workbook, Second Edition, they offer you a wealth of practical information and exercises that will further enhance your understanding of this discipline. This essential study guide--which parallels the main book chapter by chapter--contains challenging problems and a complete set of solutions as well as concise learning outcome statements and summary overviews.

If you're looking to successfully navigate today's dynamic investment environment, the lessons found within these pages can show you how. Topics reviewed include:

* The time value of money
* Discounted cash flow
* Probability distributions
* Sampling and estimation
* Hypothesis testing
* Multiple regression
* Time-series analysis
* And much more

http://rapidshare.com/files/265664033/Quantitative_Investment_Analysis__Workbook.pdf

[whatupmang]

I've been following your post. You've been putting good material to read. thank you.

[Corporate Raider]

Wall Street: A History : From Its Beginnings to the Fall of Enron

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In the seven years since the publication of the first edition of Wall Street, America's financial industry has undergone a series of wrenching events that have dramatically changed the nation's economic landscape. The bull market of the 1990's came to a close, ushering in the end of the dot com boom, a record number of mergers occurred, and accounting scandals in companies like Enron and WorldCom shook the financial industry to its core. In this wide-ranging volume, financial historian Charles Geisst provides the first history of Wall Street, explaining how a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan came to have such enormous influence in national and world affairs. In this updated edition, Geisst sums up the recent turbulence that has threatened America's financial industry. He shows how in 1997 thirty NASDAQ market makers paid a record $1.3 billion fine for price irregularities in stocks. He makes sense of the closing of the bull market, and explains a major change in the accounting rules for mergers that caused monumental losses for companies like AOL Time Warner. And he recounts how in the aftermath of the speculative fever that swept Wall Street in the 1990's, the scandals at Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, and Conseco represent a last gasp of mergermania and a fallout from a bubble-like market. Wall Street is at once the story of the street itself, from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant, to the modern billion-dollar computer-driven colossus of today. In a broader sense it is an engaging economic history of the United States, the role Wall Street played in making America the most powerful economy in the world, and the many challenges to that role it has faced in recent years.

http://rapidshare.com/files/267377442/Wall_Street._A_History._From_Its_Beginnings_to_the_Fall_of_Enron.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

The 5 Keys to Value Investing

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How to determine what stocks are really worth** and buy the best at a discount

"The Five Keys to Value Investing is practical, insightful, and a great roadmap to not only value investing but how to make money in the stock market." -- Joel Greenblatt, Managing Partner, Gotham Capital

"Jean-Jacques has written a great how-to guide for both beginning and experienced value investors. He skillfully draws on the canon and legacy of the great value investors, such as Graham and Buffett…a terrific addition on this time-tested methodology." -- Eric T. McKissack, Vice Chairman, Ariel Capital Management/Ariel Mutual Funds

Investors left to pick up the pieces of the shattered stock market are rediscovering value investing** the time-tested technique based on assessing and buying businesses as opposed to "picking" hot stocks. The Five Keys to Value Investing provides a methodical framework for using value analysis to uncover investment opportunities based on their business strengths, and building a solid portfolio of stocks that is destined to provide superior long-term returns.

Written by a professional value investor who worked for the best, The Five Keys to Value Investing explains how to answer the four basic questions of value investing:

* Does this stock represent a good business to own?
* What is its balance between price and value?
* What specific events will spur it to appreciate?
* What are the stock's safety levels?


http://rapidshare.com/files/267702090/The_5_Keys_to_Value_Investing.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Epistemological Problems of Economics


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"The characteristic feature of this age of destructive wars and social disintegration is the revolt against economics." So says Ludwig von Mises in his most thorough defense of the method and scope of economic science. In this treatise, he argues that the core intellectual errors of statism, socialism, protectionism, racism, irrationalism can be found in a revolt against economic logic and its special character.

Epistemological Problems of Economics was original published in 1933, a period when the social sciences and economic policy were undergoing upheaval. The classical view of economics as a deductive science, along with the laissez-faire policies implied by that view, were being displaced by positivism and economic planning. Mises set out to put the classical view on a firmer foundation. In so doing, he examines a range of philosophical problems associated with economics. He goes further to delineate the scope of the general science of human action.

This treatise, out of print for many years, is now brought back by the Mises Institute in a 3rd edition, with a comprehensive introduction by Jörg Guido Hülsmann, senior fellow of the Mises Institute. He observes that "the great majority of contemporary economists, sociologists, political scientists, and philosophers are either completely unaware of Mises's contributions to the epistemology of the social sciences or think they can safely neglect dealing with them. They are in error. One can ignore a thinker, but the fundamental problems of social analysis remain. There will be no progress in these disciplines before the mainstream has fully absorbed and digested Mises's ideas."

http://rapidshare.com/files/267829296/von_Mises_L._Epistemological_Problems_of_Economics.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Master Forecasting Method

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This course was Gann's Greatest Course as you will see below reflected in his valuation of it. Notice the prices charged for the different courses and what they contain and you will find an Excellent Clue to what he considered of the Greatest Importance. This course has been unavailable since the time Gann himself sold it. The following excerpt is from "Learn Before You Lose", one of Gann's Marketing Brochures which discusses the importance of the Master Time Factor, and which advertised this Course. Everything listed in the following description is included in our set of courses listed after Gann's Introduction.

http://rapidshare.com/files/268445035/WILLIAM_D_Gann_-_Stock_Market_Forecasting_Courses.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Personal Finance and Investing All-in-one for Dummies

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Providing a one stop shop for every aspect of your money management, Personal Finance and Investing All in One For Dummies is the perfect guide to getting the most from your money. This friendly guide gives you expert advice on everything from getting the best current account and coping with credit cards to being savvy with savings and creating wealth with investments. It also lets you know how to save money on tax and build up a healthy pension. Personal Finance and Investing All In One For Dummies will cover: organising your finances and dealing with debt; paying less tax; building up savings and investments; retiring wealthy; and your wealth and the next generation.

http://rapidshare.com/files/269557048/Personal_Finance_and_Investing_All-in-One_For_Dummie.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

The Joy of Money: A User-friendly Guide to the Financial Maze

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"The Joy of Money" explains the language of the money world in an easy to understand, fun way for everybody. The first step to financial enlightenment, it will empower anyone to challenge the experts and ask them the right questions. Taking a fresh, lively approach, "The Joy of Money" clearly explains hundreds of financial terms from the basics like pensions and ISAs, to more advanced concepts like warrants and convertibles. Perfect for those with a phobia about anything more complicated than a savings account, "The Joy of Money" will give confidence to even the most fiscally challenged.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5R4PTNKV

[Corporate Raider]

Bull: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004

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Financial journalist Mahar offers a thorough and accessible history of the explosive 1982-1999 bull market that is illuminating as well as sobering from the current bear market perspective. She notes that most people swept up in the euphoria of this latest market surge failed to recall the lessons of 1929-1934 and 1970-1974, when earlier bubbles collapsed and investors lost heavily. Citing studies by esteemed economists John Kenneth Galbraith and Charles Kindleberger, Mahar reminds readers that this self-blinding euphoria is a regular feature of every bull market. In vivid detail, she documents the trends and outsized personalities that fueled this particular bull market, including the surge of leveraged buyouts of 1984-1987, the mania for junk bonds, falling short-term interest rates, the rush of individual investors into 401(k) retirement plans, the power (and appetites) of mutual funds and the media frenzy that lent an unlikely allure to quarterly corporate earnings reports. As the runup in stock prices gained momentum in the late 1990s while evidence of corporate accounting shenanigans mounted, Mahar's account assumes the compelling power of an oncoming train wreck. Survivors of the recent market meltdown can profit from Mahar's assertion: "Ultimately, secular bear markets teach investors to learn to manage risk in a different way, focusing not on the odds, but on the size of risk." Individual investors will also gather that they need to be more skeptical of some sources of "information" and to be much better informed not to be burned again.

http://rapidshare.com/files/271093977/Bull_A_History_of_the_Boom_and_Bust__1982-2004.pdf

[Corporate Raider]

Options Made Easy: Your Guide to Profitable Trading


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In Options Made Easy, Second Edition, Guy Cohen clearly explains everything you need to know about options in plain English so that you can start trading fast and make consistent profits in any market, bull or bear! Simply and clearly, the author reveals secrets of options trading that were formerly limited to elite professionals--and exposes the dangerous myths that keep investors from profiting. As you set out on your options journey, you'll learn interactively through real-life examples, anecdotes, case studies, and pictures. Guy Cohen is your friendly expert guide, helping you pick the right stocks, learn the right strategies, create the trading plans that work, and master the psychology of the winning trader. * Master all the essentials--and put them to work Options demystified so that you can get past the fear and start profiting! * Learn the safest ways to trade options Identify high-probability trades that lead to consistent profits * Design a winning Trading Plan--and stick to it Understand your risk profile and discover exactly when to enter and exit your trades * Choose the right stocks for maximum profit Screen for your best opportunities--stocks that are moving--or are about to move * Discover the optimum strategies for you Match your trading strategies to your personal investment goals * No bull! The realities and myths of the markets What you must know about fundamental and technical analysis The easy, plain-English guide to making consistent profits with options! Teaches all the essentials with real-life examples and crystal-clear explanations No complicated math or confusing jargon: Learn visually with easy-to-understand pictures! Identify high-probability trades, and design a Trading Plan that works Master practical, easy strategies for succeeding in any environment--even bear markets Updated for today's markets with even more dynamic graphics, intuitive explanations, and valuable information! For every investor interested in trading options When you read this book, you'll be amazed how quickly you understand options--and how quickly you can start profiting from them!

http://rapidshare.com/files/271630233/Options_Made_Easy_-_Your_Guide_to_Profitable_Trading.pdf

[relio]

thank you:D

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Mastering Fundamental Analysis

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Adapt investing strategies using the same disciplined analysis that has made Warren Buffett successful. "Mastering Fundamental Analysis" performs the valuable service of leading everyday investors into better investment decisions, while allowing them to learn at their own pace through the use of worksheets, graphs, sidebars, and step-by-step examples.

http://rapidshare.com/files/272604215/Mastering_Fundamental_Analysis.pdf

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Understanding Wall Street

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Over the past quarter century, Understanding Wall Street has helped everyone from rookie investors to Wall Street veterans understand exactly how the market works and how to determine which stocks to buy ... and which to avoid. The fourth edition of this top-selling guide--still as easy-to-read, practical, and comprehensive as the first three--has been completely updated to help investors prosper in today's new, no-limits marketplace.

http://rapidshare.com/files/274106927/Understanding_Wall_Street__4th_Ed.pdf

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The Psychology of the Foreign Exchange Market

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This book demystifies the foreign exchange market by focusing on the people who comprise it. Drawing on the expertise of the very professionals whose decisions help shape the market, Thomas Oberlechner describes the highly interdependent relationship between financial decision makers and news providers, showing that the assumption that the foreign exchange market is purely economic and rational has to be replaced by a more complex market psychology.

http://rapidshare.com/files/275613379/The_Psychology_of_the_Foreign_Exchange_Market.pdf

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The Ultimate Trading Guide

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With the recent explosion in the popularity of trading, nearly everyone who trades wants a trading system–a methodology for buying and selling. A trading system can be a useful tool–provided the trader has the know-how to use it correctly. Unfortunately, few traders do. In this indispensable book, John Hill, one of today’s most highly regarded analysts, and his partners, George Pruitt and Lundy Hill, enable traders to develop original systems that they can use to increase their trading profitability.

Demonstrating that a system is only as reliable as the criteria on which it is based and the information that is fed into it, the authors provide traders with the tools needed to develop systems based on sound logic, including complete explanations of:

* The principles behind trading systems
* How various systems operate for
* accounts of all sizes, ranging from
* amounts of $10,000 to $1,000,000
* The tools and background necessary for developing computerized trading systems that are backtested (i.e., tested on existing historical data) and will be profitable in the future
* Short-term market timing techniques for any market

...and much more. Stock, futures and options traders, and individual investors will find that this complete, highly effective tutorial is truly the ultimate in successfully developing and utilizing trading systems that really work.

http://rapidshare.com/files/276869534/The_Ultimate_Trading_Guide.pdf

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Trade Like Jesse Livermore

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The secret to Jesse Livermore’s legendary trading success
Although he began his career in 1892, Jesse Livermore is still considered to be one of the world’s greatest traders. In life and in death, Livermore has always been a controversial figure and his methods held up as a model for traders of all generations. Through 45 years of trading and market observation, Jesse Livermore determined that stocks and stock markets move in a series of repetitive patterns. He then developed a series of unique tools, using secret formulas and equations that allowed him to identify and interpret the movement in stocks with uncanny reliability. In Trade Like Jesse Livermore, author Richard Smitten explores the technical aspects of Livermore’s trading approach and shows readers how they can use these techniques to garner the success Livermore once did. Trade Like Jesse Livermore covers every aspect of Livermore’s trading methods, from discerning market behavior and trends such as top-down and tandem trading to paying close attention to indicators such as one-day reversals and spikes. With this book as their guide, readers can learn how to trade profitably without fear or greed.

http://rapidshare.com/files/277379300/Trade_Like_Jesse_Livermore.pdf

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Professional Stock Trading: System Design and Automation


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Learn the art and science of trading systems from professional speculators. The authors share powerful long and short trading strategies in TradeStation that span all time frames, including over one hundred annotated charts with commentary and rationale. The book contains a complete implementation of a professional trading platform, including dozens of TradeStation strategies, indicators, and functions -- with 64 pages of EasyLanguage code. Further, advanced trading techniques such as pair trading and float trading are explained. These systems are integrated into a fully automated framework for position sizing and trade management. Finally, follow the authors as they track their stock selections throughout the week in real time.

Professional Stock Trading is a practical blueprint for the entrepreneur who has the desire, ambition, and intensity to enter the trading business. In a scientific manner, a trader learns how to master the technical elements of the business and integrate them into a disciplined approach. The book ends with a full-scale implementation of a professional trading platform. Swing traders, day traders, and investors who aspire to a greater understanding of the stock market will welcome this book.

http://rapidshare.com/files/278418830/Professional_Stock_Trading_-_Mark_R._Conway___Behle__Aaron_N..pdf

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Bond and Money Markets: Strategy, Trading, Analysis


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This is a truly impressive work and a great reference. Even market experts will find something of value here, it takes the reader from first principles to some very complex subjects, all explained in very acccessible fashion. Every topic connected with the debt capital markets is covered, ranging from bonds, interest-rate derivatives, money markets, credit derivatives, yield curve analysis, structured products, CDOs, everything. It is also very well written, like having your own private tutor and market expert delivering a lecture on the markets. It is well worth the money I paid for it, and I recommend it to anyone who needs to know about bonds, derivatives and market analysis. This book is streets ahead of all the competition, no author I have come across, in over 20 years of experience in the markets, comes close to writing like Choudhry does.

http://rapidshare.com/files/279162585/Bond_and_Money_Markets_Strategy__Trading__Analysis.pdf

[Herbert Shields]

Hi,

Thanks for sharing the useful information.

Learn to invest your money starting with small amounts. There are many websites to learn the basics of investing. If you have saved up at least $500 then I would recommend starting investing. If you don't know where to start investing and you are impatient then I would recommend the Vanguard S&P 500 Index Fund. Just do a search for it on google and you can find out how to get started. Don't invest a dime in to anything until you have paid off your debt.

[Venuz]

Great...You are the man...I love business and this material greatly help me no matter in study or working.

Thanks you so much

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money


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This book did a great job of explaining to the average person how to save, invest and avoid the common financial pitfalls we so often make. It was done with humor and wit, which is a breath of fresh air in this often hard to understand, jargon loaded industry. This book is beneficial to anyone who has thought about developing a financial plan but does not know how or where to begin. It is an easy read, fun and should be a required reading for the masses of people buried in credit card debt!

http://rapidshare.com/files/280557675/Complete_Idiots_Guide_to_Managing_Your_Money.pdf

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How to Make Money With Real Estate Options

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Spend like a miser, profit like a mogul

Who says you have to spend money to make money?Savvy real estate investors follow the examples of Donald Trump and Walt Disney, turning substantial profits on properties without incurring the debt, risk, and maintenance costs of ownership--and now, so can you!

In How to Make Money with Real Estate Options, real estate expert Thomas Lucier introduces you to the low-risk, high-yield investment vehicle that can earn big bucks even for small investors. Lucier explains what real estate options are, how they work, and why they are the tools of choice for thousands of successful investors. Step by step, he shows you how to:
* Locate potential option properties using the Internet, want ads, and "bird-dogs"
* Contact and negotiate with property owners
* Perform due diligence and avoid options pitfalls
* Prepare an option agreement that protects you
* Insure real estate options with title insurance
* Package and sell optioned properties for optimum profits


Packed with no-nonsense advice on how to identify the most profitable properties and manage every step of the option process, How to Make Money with Real Estate Options is a practical guide to one of the secret weapons of savvy investors.

http://rapidshare.com/files/280578567/How.to.Make.Money.with.Real.Estate.Options.pdf

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Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics

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Reisman's ringing manifesto for laissez-faire capitalism free of all government intervention is at once a conservative polemic and a monumental treatise, brimming with original theories. that is remarkable for its depth, scope and rigorous argument. He rejects the Keynesian doctrine that government must adopt a policy of budget deficits to cope with unemployment, contending, to the contrary, that federal intervention in the economic system is a root cause of inflation, credit expansion, depression and mass unemployment. Reisman staunchly defends capitalists as risk-takers who raise the average worker's real wages and living standards, increasing productivity and improving the quantity and quality of goods. Socialism, he says, is the system that exploits labor and causes stifling monopolistic control. Professor of economics at L.A.'s Pepperdine University, Reisman frequently espouses unfashionable, some would say "extreme," views; for instance, he opposes mandatory recycling, defends insider trading of stocks as justifiable and beneficial and condemns laws banning child labor as an "inappropriate" response to a social ill. His call for a pro-capitalist political movement dedicated to the abolition of the welfare state, elimination of Social Security and Medicare, dismantling of public education, private ownership of all land, abolition of personal and corporate income taxes and a 90% cutback in government spending seems to put this tome beyond the pale of mainstream political debate?although it does come with advance raves from two Nobel laureates in economics.

http://rapidshare.com/files/281057819/Capitalism.pdf

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Vault Career Guide to Consulting

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This is one of Vault's best-selling titles. This new Guide covers the basics of the consulting industry, including walk-throughs of growing and hiring firms, perks, fimr-paid graduate degrees, insider interview tips and real consulting case questions.

http://rapidshare.com/files/281596232/Vault_Career_Guide_to_Consulting.pdf

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Managing Global Financial and Foreign Exchange Rate Risk


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From the balance of payment exposure to foreign exchange and interest rate risk, to credit derivatives and other exotic options, futures, and swaps for mitigating and transferring risk, this book provides a simple yet comprehensive analysis of complex derivatives pricing and their application in risk management. The risk posed by foreign exchange transactions stems from the volatility of the exchange rate, the volatility of the interest rates, and factors unique to individual companies which are interrelated. To protect and hedge against adverse currency and interest rate changes, multinational corporations need to take concrete steps for mitigating these risks.

Managing Global Financial and Foreign Exchange Rate Risk offers a thorough treatment of price, foreign currency, and interest rate risk management practices of multinational corporations in a dynamic global economy. It lays out the pros and cons of various hedging instruments, as well as the economic cost benefit analysis of alternative hedging vehicles. Written in a detailed yet user-friendly manner, this resource provides treasurers and other financial managers with the tools they need to manage their various exposures to credit, price, and foreign exchange risk.

http://rapidshare.com/files/281606402/Managing_Global_Financial_and_Foreign_Exchange_Rate_Risk.pdf

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Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns

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Praise for the encyclopedia of chart patterns "A great achievement that fills a void for everyone who uses charts. Bulkowski has taken an intelligent and thoughtful approach to producing a practical guide to evaluating chart formations." —Perry Kaufman Author of Trading Systems and Methods, Third Edition "Not since Edwards and Magee has someone put together so comprehensive an assemblage of market behavior expressed graphically. That you also get a solid statistical assessment of the results of these chart formations is an unexpected and invaluable bonus. No chartist should be without this book." Interim Editor, Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities "Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns is a book I have wanted to see published for many years. It brings together the patterns found in many diverse charting methods and adds the valuable dimension of performance statistics, trading tactics, and behavioral characteristics of each pattern. It is a valuable contribution to existing literature on charting and should be considered an indispensable reference by any serious chart trader." —Edward D. Dobson President, Traders Press, Inc. "Having worn out my 1948 first edition of Edwards and Magee’s Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, I thought I knew a lot about chart patterns. Thomas Bulkowski’s Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns showed me how much more there is to learn. Meticulously researched, complete, and insightful, the Encyclopedia has earned a permanent place on my trading desk as a highly valued resource."

http://www.easy-share.com/1909191556/Bulkowski ,Thomas N.Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns.pdf

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Day Trading Systems and Methods

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Using your computer to Day Trade has never been more popular. But it can also be risky business. Benefit from the simple truths LeBeau and Lucas provide - and stay on the winning side of the score sheet more often! This compact little booklet really packs a punch. Two top pros cover all the day trading essentials including:

1) What it is
2) How to get started
3) Costs of doing business
4) Maximizing profits
5) 12 major systems and methods for day trading success

Plus, a demo disk assists readers in using their PC and analytical software when making any trading decision. DEMO Disk Included: The enclosed demo disk will enable you to quickly and easily apply all the methods and techniques outlined in the book and put them to work for you. Its an essential tool for becoming a better, consistently successful day trader - and will keep you on the cutting-edge of this fast-paced and quickly changing arena.

http://rapidshare.com/files/282036436/Le_Beau_-_Daytrading.pdf

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Fractal Market Analysis Applying Chaos Theory to Investment and Economics

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The average investor is usually unaware of the theoretical bases and academic underpinnings of various investment strategies. Investment books and popular reference guides barely mention efficient market or random walk theory, and the mathematical aspect of portfolio management theory appears as little more than a footnote. Little actually new has been added to the field of investment and market theory for the last 30 years, but recently Peters introduced the landmark Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets (1991). Chaos theory is a branch of mathematics that, despite its name, attempts to make order out of seemingly random events and that has found application in the natural sciences. Market chaologists, as they have come to be known, have marshaled an array of formulas and computer models but have been criticized for not being able to explain their ideas in practical terms or to demonstrate how to apply these ideas. Fractals are the main mathematical tool of chaos theory, and Peters now shows how these can be applied to financial markets and trading. This book is unquestionably complex and relatively expensive, but all libraries with investment collections should consider purchasing at least one copy

http://rapidshare.com/files/282312294/Fractal_Market_Analysis_Applying_Chaos_Theory_to_Investment_and_Economics.PDF

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Trading With The Odds: Using the Power of Statistics to Profit in the futures Market

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Every trader will appreciate this reliable, realistic, and systematic approach to trading financial and commodity markets. In a step-by-step manner, the author applies a rigorous mathematical discipline to finanical speculation and explain how to analyze markets, forecast price movements, develop trading strategies, and manage trading capital. Kase also unveils several highly sophisticated indicators that are far more precise than conventional technical indicators. Unlike most books on trading, Trading with the Odds contains complete coverage of money management, including the author's own ``Kase Dev-Stop,'' a highly calibrated money management tool. Trading with the Odds also includes: Uses and abuses of conventional technical analysis; New technical indicators for analyzing markets and entering trades.

http://rapidshare.com/files/282769013/C.Kase.Trading_With_the_Odds.pdf

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Multiple Streams of Internet Income

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Allen (Nothing Down: How To Buy Real Estate with Little or No Money Down; Multiple Streams of Income) has now moved on to espouse the web as the path to more wealth and personal freedom. The first third of the volume is simply hype. The middle third reviews marketing fundamentals as applied to the net material that one might find in any marketing text. The remainder devotes individual chapters to methods for making money on the Internet such as niche marketing, auto responders, selling links, placing ads on your web page, net auctions, and affiliations with companies who want access to your clients. Allen freely uses other individuals to explain concepts and, unlike many authors of this genre, gives them credit. The volume also has a reputable publisher, an author with a proven record of popularity, arguably less hyperbole than most, and a focus on marketing basics. Despite the ongoing shake-out in the high-tech arena, there is always an audience for get-rich-quick schemes, and Allen's latest title is a cut above the rest of the Tony Robbins or Dave Del Dotto ilk. An acceptable public library purchase

http://rapidshare.com/files/283281441/Multiple_Streams_of_Internet_Income_-_Robert.G.Allen.pdf

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The Market Guys' Five Points for Trading Success

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Over the course of their successful careers, AJ Monte and Rick Swope, also known as The Market Guys, have worked with hundreds of thousands of traders and investors all around the world. Long before they even considered creating a book, they were talking to traders in London, teaching options to students in Taipei, and helping investors protect their portfolios in Stockholm. During this time, they developed a Five Point strategy—identify the trend, pinpoint support, strike with the buyers, protect your position, and act for results—focusing on the issues that really matter when it comes to making money in today's markets. Now, with The Market Guys' Five Points for Trading Success, Monte and Swope look to share their hard-won insights with you.

http://rapidshare.com/files/283644109/The_Market_Guys____Five_Points_.pdf

[Venuz]

You are awesome...Thank you so much...

I can't believe that the post is still growing...

[Venuz]

Do you have warrent buffet biography book.

[nabeel merchant]

Thankyou soo much for these books alot appreciated :)

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Inflation-indexed Securities: Bonds, Swaps and Other Derivatives

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The global market for inflation–indexed securities has ballooned in recent years, and this trend is set to continue. This book examines the rationale behind issuance and investment decisions, and details the issues facing anyone who designs indexed securities, illustrating them wherever possible with actual examples from the international capital markets. In particular, an extensive review of indexed debt markets throughout the world is provided – including for the first time, a comprehensive and consistent set of cash flow and price–yield equations for the instruments already in existence in the major bond markets – forming an important reference for those already experienced in the field, as well as practitioners and academics approaching the subject for the first time.

The book also provides unique insight into the development of inflation–indexed derivative products, and the analytical tools required to value such instruments.

http://rapidshare.com/files/284464208/Inflation-indexed_Securities.pdf

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Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management


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The target market for this text is an introductory undergraduate course in which students have relatively little familiarity with investments and would like a practical and applied type of text. The approach of this undergraduate investments text reflects two central ideas:

1. A consistent focus on the student as an individual investor or investment advisor.

2. A consistent, unified treatment of the four basic types of financial instruments stocks, bonds, options, and futures focusing on their characteristics and features, their risks and returns, and the markets in which they trade.

The focus on the student as the audience paired with Brad Jordans conversational writing style makes this a very relevant and understandable text. This text is a great complement to trading simulations, especially Stock-Trak, by covering the basic material early enough to begin trading in the first two weeks of the course.

http://rapidshare.com/files/285506115/Fundamentals_of_Investments.pdf

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Probability and Finance: It's Only a Game!

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Glenn Shafer wrote a very thought provoking book on the mathematical theory of evidence many years ago. Vladimir Vovk was a student of Kolmogorov. At first I thought this would be a book that tries to replace the measure theoretic approach to probability with a game theory (gambling) approach and I was skeptical about it being successful. But these authors are serious and first rate probabilists who understand the theory, foundations and history of probability from all the angles.

The authors sell the book as two books. The first half presents probability theory and the classic probability results in the framework of a game between two opponents that they call Skeptic and the World. If we replaced Skeptic by Investor and World by Market we see it naturally as an investment problem in finance. They see their methodology as natural for a course in the probabilist approach to financial problems. The special topics in finance and important models such as Black-Scholes is then the subject of the second part of the book.

http://rapidshare.com/files/285516718/Probability_and_Finance_It_s_only_a_game.pdf

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Preparing for the Worst: Incorporating Downside Risk in Stock Market Investments

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A timely approach to downside risk and its role in stock market investments

When dealing with the topic of risk analysis, most books on investments treat downside and upside risk equally. Preparing for the Worst takes an entirely novel approach by focusing on downside risk and explaining how to incorporate it into investment decisions. Highlighting this asymmetry of the stock market, the authors describe how existing theories miss the downside and follow with explanations of how it can be included. Various techniques for calculating downside risk are demonstrated.

This book presents the latest ideas in the field from the ground up, making the discussion accessible to mathematicians and statisticians interested in applications in finance, as well as to finance professionals who may not have a mathematical background. An invaluable resource for anyone wishing to explore the critical issues of finance, portfolio management, and securities pricing, this book:

* Incorporates Value at Risk into the theoretical discussion
* Uses many examples to illustrate downside risk in U.S., international, and emerging market investments
* Addresses downside risk arising from fraud and corruption
* Includes step-by-step instructions on how to implement the methods introduced in this book
* Offers advice on how to avoid pitfalls in calculations and computer programming
* Provides software use information and tips

http://rapidshare.com/files/285728215/Preparing_For_The_Worst.pdf

[dudjom1109]

thks for all the wonderful upload
greatly appreciate the time given to this thread
cheers

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Essentials of Investments

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The market leading Essentials of Investments, 5/e by Bodie, Kane and Marcus is an undergraduate textbook on investment analysis, presenting the practical applications of investment theory to convey insights of practical value. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace. ESSENTIALS maintains the theme of asset allocation (authors discuss asset pricing and trading then apply these theories to portfolio planning in real-world securities markets that are governed by risk/return relationships). ESSENTIALS continues to develop modern topics. The major objective in this revision is to maintain the current level in content and coverage, with greater emphasis on the Internet and global issues, and to improve the text's accessibility by enhancing presentation, pedagogy, and design.

http://rapidshare.com/files/286329346/Essentials_of_Investments_-_5th_Ed_-_Bodie_Kane_Marcus.pdf

[ngnm]

Do you have warrent buffet biography book.

The Snowball : Warren Buffett and the business of Life by Alice Schroder (Warren Buffett's Authorised Biography) is available in my e-library thread

Link to my e - library thread in my signature below :)

Happy Reading!

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Getting Started in Bonds

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A complete guide to understanding everything about Getting Started in Bonds
SECOND EDITION

Thinking of getting your feet wet in the world of bonds, but don’t know where to begin? The Second Edition of Getting Started in Bonds will help you better understand and invest in fixed income securities (bonds). Packed with new material, dozens of real-life examples, and up-to-the-minute facts and figures, Getting Started in Bonds, Second Edition is an informational as well as entertaining primer written in a fun, conversational voice, not as a lecture.

* Covers a variety of bonds you have to choose from–U.S. Government, Municipal, Corporate, Convertible, and much more
* Helps you identify a good bond
* Reveals factors that can affect a bond’s value and help you forecast future interest rates
* Shares a number of valuable bond investing and portfolio strategies

http://rapidshare.com/files/287602297/Getting_Started_in_Bonds__2nd_Edition..pdf

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really appreciate this !!!!

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Investments

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Bodie/Kane/Marcus is the leading textbook in the graduate investments market. It is recognized as the best blend of practical and theoretical coverage, while maintaining an appropriate rigor and clear writing style. Its unifying theme is that security markets are nearly efficient, meaning that most securities are usually priced appropriately given their risk and return attributes. The text places greater emphasis on asset allocation, and offers a much broader and deeper treatment of futures, options, and other derivative security markets than most investment texts.

Volume I

http://rapidshare.com/files/288207726/Investments__5th_Ed__Bodie_Kane_Marcus_-_Vol_I.pdf


Volume 2

http://rapidshare.com/files/288207732/Investments__5th_Ed__Bodie_Kane_Marcus_-_Vol_II.pdf

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The Compleat Day Trader: Trading Systems, Strategies, Timing Indicators and Analytical Methods

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The emergence of the Internet along with the increased volatility of the financial markets have combined to fuel an explosive growth in the interest and practice of day trading. So it should surprise no one that there's a parallel explosion in the number of books about day trading. Jake Bernstein, who has been involved in the futures industry as an author and trader for some 30 years, adds The Compleat Day Trader to this cadre. It offers a solid introduction to day trading and evaluates various techniques and strategies, including moving averages, intraday application of stochastics, support and resistance, gaps, and scalping. Bernstein spends several chapters discussing trading psychology, and he sees successful traders as developing a balance between technique and "art." He writes:

My experiences as a trader have led me to the conclusion that successful day trading is built upon a unique foundation combining art and science. If pressed to "guesstimate" as to the proper mix of both qualities, I'd say that approximately 70 percent of successful day trading consists of technique or science and 30 percent skill and/or art. This, however, would be a misleading statement inasmuch as both elements are symbiotic; without one, the other would be ineffective. The successful day trader combines both elements synergistically to produce profits, consistency and longevity.

As he does in the sequel to this book, The Compleat Day Trader II, Bernstein shows an obvious preference to futures trading, but many of the techniques described should apply to other markets as well.

http://rapidshare.com/files/288601273/Jake_Bernstein_-_The_Compleat_Day_Trader_Vol_I.pdf

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The Compleat Day Trader II

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The Compleat Day Trader II builds on the ideas presented in Bernstein's first day-trading book, The Compleat Day Trader. This time around, Bernstein focuses on more advanced trading systems and places particular emphasis on the importance of self-discipline in day trading, and he zeros in on the best futures markets to trade, including the S&P 500, Treasury bonds, and European currencies. He peppers the book with cautions about the difficulties of day trading, saying, for example:

The bad news is that it's getting harder and harder to win as the markets become more competitive and as insiders grab onto opportunities before the general public has had a chance to do so. Fortunately, the basic rules of profitable futures trading still apply. Therefore, if you follow the rules, you will improve your odds of success, even though they may be less than they would have been 15 years ago.

The lure of making a living--if not a fortune--on the daily ups and downs of the stock and commodity markets has drawn thousands into this high-stakes game. Just how many profitable day traders there are is impossible to gauge, but judging from message boards and articles in the financial press, it's a safe bet that lots of people lose lots of money. Reading both The Compleat Day Trader and The Compleat Day Trader II should you bring you to the conclusion that while profitable day trading is possible, it requires more than just a passing interest. Proceed with caution.

http://rapidshare.com/files/288608945/Jake_Bernstein_-_The_Compleat_Day_Trader_Vol_II.pdf

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Financial Derivatives

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Financial derivatives–financial instruments whose value depends on other basic instruments, such as stocks or bonds–are one of the most important financial innovations of the last century. While they are unsurpassed as tools for speculation, financial derivatives have also emerged as important risk-management tools in the corporate world.

If you want to understand derivatives without getting bogged down by the mathematics surrounding their pricing and valuation, Financial Derivatives, Third Edition is the book for you. Through in-depth insights gleaned from years of financial experience, Robert Kolb and James Overdahl clearly explain what derivatives are and how you can prudently use them within the context of your underlying business activities.

Financial Derivatives, Third Edition will introduce you to the wide range of markets for financial derivatives. This invaluable guide offers a broad overview of the different types of derivatives–futures, options, and swaps–while focusing on the principles that determine market prices. This comprehensive resource also provides a thorough introduction to financial derivatives and their importance to risk management in a corporate setting. After each derivative is described and examined, Kolb and Overdahl address the practical applications of these instruments in the area of risk management.

Filled with helpful tables and charts, informative Q&A sections, and new chapters that reflect an increased emphasis on risk management, Financial Derivatives, Third Edition offers a wealth of knowledge on futures, options, swaps, financial engineering, and structured products. Through the process of financial engineering you will learn how to apply financial derivatives to numerous risk management scenarios.

As a financial professional, if you are looking to minimize risk and maximize profits, you must understand how to use derivatives. Fully updated and completely revised to reflect today’s ever-changing economic environment, Financial Derivatives, Third Edition will help you unlock the incredible potential of financial derivatives.

http://rapidshare.com/files/288750396/Financial_Derivatives__3rd_Edition..pdf

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Budgeting Basics and Beyond

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Budgeting Basics and Beyond, Second Edition provides managers with a hassle-free resource that’s guaranteed to make the budgeting process easier, less stressful, and more effective. This updated edition features new information on service and nonprofit applications, types of financial models, Web-based budgeting and planning solutions, and much more. From preparing and presenting budgets to monitoring results against budget figures and handling any budget problem that comes up, this Second Edition is a go-to reference for every budgeting issue. Packed with case studies, illustrations, exhibits, forms, checklists, graphs, samples, and worked-out solutions to a wide variety of budgeting, planning, and control problems, this Second Edition is both a handy desk reference and problem-solver for today’s financial and nonfinancial managers in public practice and private industry.

http://rapidshare.com/files/289096252/Budgeting_Basics_and_Beyond.pdf

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New Trading Dimensions: How to Profit from Chaos in Stocks, Bonds, and Commodities

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Written by an expert in the field who has been featured in Futures, Worth, Success, and other prominent publications, New Trading Dimensions takes the latest in scientific knowledge about human behavior and applies it directly to the fields of stock and commodity investing and trading. With straightforward guidelines, it shows you how to adopt the right attitude toward the behavior of the market and use the right tools (ATTITOOLS) for profitable trading. Packed with practice exercises, specific applications to different types of investments, and a detailed review of important market signals, here's where you'll learn how to:

* Discover what the market wants and align your own beliefs with the direction of the market
* Apply chaos theory to trading and investing
* Use Williams' "Market Alligator" for analyzing and profiting from the markets
* Employ a multidimensional trading program that includes such tools and techniques as fractals, oscillators, AC signals, psychological zones, and balance lines
* Exit trades in a timely fashion to reap high returns

Drawing on the author's more than forty years of experience as both a successful trader and seasoned trainer, this invaluable guide offers a breakthrough method that has proven its ability to turn investors into consistent winners.

http://rapidshare.com/files/289211712/Bill_Williams_-_New_Trading_Dimension.pdf

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A Guide to Business Continuity Planning

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The need for business continuity planning has been highlighted recently by the continuing rapid increase in the dependency of business on technology and the series of headline-grabbing, thought-provoking disasters witnessed in recent years, caused by and including power failures, fuel shortages, storms and floods.

As these disasters occupy prominent coverage by the news media, the senior management of virtually every company and governmental entity needs to consider and plan for the prospect of a disaster interrupting their operations.

Yet the cause of the disaster condition is more often a localized occurrence which can have a deceptively great impact on a company or organization. It is these more common occurrences which happen to an individual company rather than an entire area, that activate companies to plan beyond the point of "what if" to a more proactive "how can we prepare for this type of thing happening again" approach.

This practical and highly topical book:

* provides the "how-to" of planning and implementing recovery policies in case of disaster or emergency
* is an invaluable "toolkit" for CEOs, and managers who find themselves in the role of internal consultant on corporate business continuity planning
* offers the same kind of guidance as an external specialist
* will also be a valuable source of reference for business consultants in the field

http://rapidshare.com/files/289484504/A_Guide_to_Business_Continuity_Planning..pdf

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Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy


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A well-known conservative columnist, author and economist, Sowell (A Personal Odyssey, etc.) presents an introductory course in economics with an emphasis on public policy. Forgoing jargon, equations, graphs and complicated exposition, he's produced a book that's easy to read and understand, though it tends to be superficial and is written in an angry tone, often accusing others of economic ignorance, as if that is the only possible explanation for disagreement with the author's views. Sowell is at his best discussing microeconomics in the first two-thirds of the book. Unlike most accounts, which cover the subject from the point of view of business or investment, Sowell concentrates on government action, in an effort to prepare the reader for civic participation. He addresses price controls and subsidies in detail, both as important political issues in their own right and to demonstrate how prices work by showing what happens when they are constrained. In the final third of the book, he wades into more complex and controversial territory--macroeconomics, international economics and popular fallacies--and his effort to cover them at the elementary level results in a muddled treatment. Overall, his defense of certain conservative tenets is wielded with a sledgehammer rather than a rapier. Agent, Carol Mann. (Feb. 15)Forecast: Sowell's many fans will appreciate this book (which is supported by a radio satellite tour), though it is probably most appropriate as a gift to junior high school relatives, accompanied by a bribe to read it. General readers can--and some of them will--find better written, more sophisticated introductions to economics, including such middle-of-the-road overviews as From Here to Economy: A Short Cut to Economic Literacy by Todd G. Buchholz or New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought by Todd G. Buchholz and Martin Feldstein. For a conservative viewpoint, Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman has yet to be topped.

http://rapidshare.com/files/290106607/BasicBooks_.Basic_Economics_-_A_Citizen_s_Guide_to_the_Economy..pdf

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A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing


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An updated approach to classic security analysis
The principles of value investing outlined by Graham and Dodd in the 1940s continues to be used today by individuals and companies who face challenging investment decisions. A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing examines the classic Graham and Dodd approach to valuation and updates it for the twenty-first century. Thomas Au, a credentialed analyst with a leading insurance company and an ex-Value Line analyst, reworks the basics of value investing from net present value, financial statement analysis, and return on capital to return and leverage, asset allocation, and diversification. Through case studies and real-time analysis, A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing presents readers with examples that will make analysis and portfolio theory more relevant and powerful.

http://rapidshare.com/files/290136515/A_Modern_Approach_to_Graham_and_Dodd_Investing.pdf

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Business Economics and Managerial Decision Making

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Trefor Jones draws upon current research and real-world examples from around the globe to illustrate the practical implications of economic theory for the business of the firm. In addition, a major chapter-length case study of a single enterprise (Stagecoach plc) provides an integrative real-world analysis of the core concepts and major theories developed throughout the book.

Extending the approach traditionally taken by business economics texts, Trefor Jones introduces material on the boundaries of the firm, including its growth and development, diversification and mergers.

http://rapidshare.com/files/291428508/Business_Economic_and_Managerial_Decision_Making.pdf

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Financial Valuation: Applications and Models

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Financial valuation is a field rich in theory and divergent points of view, though often lacking in real-world applications and professional consensus. Nationally recognized valuation authority James Hitchner fills in the gap by assembling twenty-five leading valuation experts who analyze, explain, and concur on the most effective valuation procedures in Financial Valuation: Applications and Models.

This seminal text contains numerous examples and methods that will assist the reader in navigating a valuation project, along with hundreds of short, easily understandable "ValTips" highlighting important and often controversial issues. Financial Valuation covers basic, intermediate, and advanced topics, such as:

* Shareholder disputes
* Mergers and acquisitions
* Income, estate, and gift tax
* Marital dissolution
* ESOPs
* Financial reporting

The twenty-five authors hail from a variety of professional specializations, including accounting, business appraisal, and financial analysis. Each chapter summarizes its function’s best practices, illustrating the appropriate and defensible way to prepare a business valuation.

http://rapidshare.com/files/291787815/Financial_Valuation_-_Applications_and_Models..pdf

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Can u post guide to hedge funds by philip coggan published by the economist

Amazon link (http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Hedge-Funds-Advantages-Economist/dp/1576603113/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255674077&sr=8-1)

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Very good books, thank you!

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Investment Madness How Psychology Affects Your Investing...And What To Do About It

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Why'd you fall for that Internet stock? Why do you always seem to buy high and sell low? Why does it look like everyone else is getting rich but you? As an investor, your emotions are your biggest obstacles -- cutting your returns, and raising your risks. Drawing on the new science of behavioral finance, Investment Madness will show you how to take control of your emotions -- and maximize your profits. Nofsinger shows how to think about your investments more clearly, without the overconfidence that leads many investors to take too many risks, and lower their returns. You'll gain insight into how your self-image impacts your investment decisions, and how to recognize when pride or avoiding feelings of regret are preventing you from taking appropriate action. Discover how to place your recent investment experiences -- good and bad -- in realistic perspective. Learn how to avoid the human tendency to stay with only the financial instruments you're already comfortable with. Finally, understand how the human brain handles investment memories -- and how what you remember may not always be what happened. For every investor, amateur and professional alike.

http://rapidshare.com/files/294890173/Investment_Madness.pdf

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A New Financial Market Structure for East Asia: Process And Outcomes in Infrastructure Industries

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This book contends that the East Asian financial constitution lacks an appropriate infrastructure, resulting in inefficient allocation of high savings and an over-inflated short-term debt market. It goes on to point out that despite high savings, East Asia’s dependency on financial centers outside the region is also relatively high, and that there is no strong region-wide network to connect various financial centers in East Asia.

Against this economic background, the contributors make recommendations for the establishment of effective and stable capital recycling in East Asia. The financial intermediary function of the regional financial centers - Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo - is evaluated. Discussion focuses on the issues of building an organic network between the financial markets of major economies in the region and enhancing the future role and function of those regional financial centers. The policy implications of the future development of regional financial markets - based on regional financial networks - that could potentially act as intermediaries between the high savings and productive sectors in East Asia are also examined.

Concentrating on the major issues identified as central to building a new financial market structure in East Asia, this book will be appeal to those with a special interest in Asian studies and financial economics.

http://rapidshare.com/files/295115070/A_New_Financial_Market_Structure_for_East_Asia.pdf

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Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results

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Niven shares his extensive experience in developing Balanced Scorecards for Fortune 1000, public sector, and not-for-profit organizations. He provides insight on and practical solutions for developing performance objectives and measures that faithfully translate strategy.

http://rapidshare.com/files/295735313/Balanced_Scorecard_Step-by-Step_Maximizing_Performance_and_Maintaining_Results.pdf

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Monetary Theory and Policy

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Monetary Theory and Policy presents an advanced treatment of critical topics in monetary economics and the models economists use to investigate the interactions between real and monetary factors. It provides extensive coverage of general equilibrium models of money, models of the short-run real effects of monetary policy, and game-theoretic approaches to monetary policy. Among the topics covered are money-in-the-utility-function models, cash-in-advance models, money and public finance, the credit channel of money, models of time consistency, monetary policy operating procedures, and interest rates and monetary policy. The book uses dynamic simulations to evaluate quantitatively the significance of the channels through which monetary policy and inflation affect the economy. It extensively examines modern approaches to monetary policy that stress the incentives facing central banks and the strategic interactions between central banks and the private sector. Where most treatments of monetary policy emphasize money supply control and money demand, this book focuses on the implications of interest rate control for monetary policy. The book is designed for advanced graduate students in monetary economics, economic researchers, and economists working in policy institutions and central banks. This second edition includes new discussions of empirical evidence on the interest elasticity of money demand, the fiscal theory of the price level, the new Keynesian model, optimal policies in forward-looking models, stability and the Taylor principle, and open economy new Keynesian models. It also expands its coverage of multiple equilibria, the role of timing assumptions in cash-in-advance models, and the Ramsey approach to optimal monetary taxation. A new chapter treats policy analysis in new Keynesisan models; the discussion includes the derivation of the policy objective function, optimal commitment and discretionary outcome, targeting rules,and instrument rules.

http://rapidshare.com/files/296238835/Monetary_Theory_-_Walsh.pdf

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Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements, Text and Cases

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Financial Statements are the basis for a wide range of business analysis. There is strong demand among business students for course materials that provide a framework for using financial statement data in a variety of business analysis and valuation contexts. Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements, 2nd Edition by Palepu/Healy/Bernard provides that framework

http://rapidshare.com/files/297527416/Business_Analysis_and_Valuation_Using_Financial_Statements.pdf

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International Economics: Theory and Policy

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International Economics, the best-selling textbook in the field, is written by two of the world's preeminent economists. Both the real trade portion of the book and the monetary portion are divided into a core of chapters focused on theory, followed by chapters applying the theory to major policy questions, past and current. The Sixth Edition has been throughly revised to reflect the changes of today's global economic landscape, including the unprecedented expansion of globalization, the increasingly crucial nature of international economic relations, the gains from trade, and recent anti-globalization controversies such as the continuing debate over the optimal level of trade. Consistent with previous editions, the text presents an integrated treatment of the Ricardian model, specific factors, factor endowments, and imperfect competition models of trade, along with in-depth analysis of empirical evidence. It covers the effects and causes of trade policy, including strategic trade policy and the income-distribution effects of trade.The book also provides a unified model of open-economy macroeconomics, based on an asset-market approach to exchange rate determination with a central role for expectations.

http://rapidshare.com/files/299229460/krugman_obstfeld_-_international_economics.pdf

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Campaign Trading: Tactics and Strategies to Exploit the Markets

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Trading systems are the strategies all technical traders use to place their trades. However, any given system is only effective for a certain amount of time, under a specific set of circumstances. Therefore, to be truly successful, traders must change their systems on a regular basis. This text discusses the impermanence and built-in obsolescence of trading systems. The author explains, using a case example, how to create a profitable trading campaign that will work for a specific financial instrument under certain circumstances for a limited period of time. Then, the system is redeveloped for the next set of circumstances. The overall aim is that the campaign never becomes obsolete as the program is constantly adjusted to meet market changes.

http://rapidshare.com/files/299393092/Campaign_Trading_by_John_Sweeney.pdf

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Conversations with Millionaires: What Millionaires Do to Get Rich, That You Never Learned About in School!

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Discover the amazing secrets of nine successful self-made millionaires that can get you all the success and happiness you could ever want. Plus, these secrets can help you eliminate years of struggle and wasted effort and make you an absolute fortune...Just like they already have for thousands of others! These millionaires include: the co-Author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, authors of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Multiple Streams of Income and Nothing Down, The E-Myth, Guerrilla Marketing, plus Jim McCann (the CEO of 1-800-FLOWERS), Jim Rohn (Tony Robbins' mentor), and even the king of Chocolate Chip Cookies, Wally Famous Amos! Discover secrets like: The two best ways to triple your income and double your time off, simple success secrets that launched a billion dollar empire, and how to set up a business so it gives you freedom to live your dreams.

From Mark Victor Hanson and Jack Canfield to Robert Allen and Michael Gerber, Conversations with Millionaires can help you get more of what you want in life because you'll be learning the same methods, techniques, and secrets that have already been time-tested and proven to work in the real world. Conversations with Millionaires is exactly that. A book jam-packed with the actual fast-paced interviews between real-world entrepreneur Mike Litman (Host of The Mike Litman Radio Show) and each of these self-made millionaires. Mike's world-reknowned style of getting each millionaire to cut-to-the-chase and reveal exactly how they do what they do makes this book a 'behind the scenes' look at how these millionaires became so rich and successful

http://rapidshare.com/files/299688244/Full_Conversations_with_Millionaires.pdf

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100 Minds That Made the Market

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Fisher (Wall Street Waltz, Contemporary Bks., 1987), the author of the "Portfolio Strategy" column in Forbes magazine, here presents a collection of brief (three- to four-page) biographies of individuals who made notable contributions to American finance. Fisher's list of 100 embraces both the successes and the failures, with Chapter 7 devoted to "Crooks, Scandals, and Scalawags." Fisher opted to include only deceased figures, and all but a handful are Americans. Many of them (e.g., Vanderbilt, Morgan, Gould) will be familiar to all readers; others (such as Evangeline Adams, a fortune-teller who made market predictions for rich and famous clients) are less prominent but more entertaining to read about. This informative book achieves its stated purpose of being "fun." Recommended for libraries with large popular business collections; less suitable for reference purposes.

http://rapidshare.com/files/301696831/100_Minds_That_Made_the_Market.pdf

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Beyond Economic Growth: An Introduction to Sustainable Development.

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What is development? And what does it take to make development sustainable? How can we measure and compare levels of development for different countries? The author of Beyond Economic Growth challenges readers to find their own answers to these complex questions by analyzing and synthesizing information on a range of critical and interrelated development issues: population growth, economic growth, equity, poverty, hunger, education, health, industrialization, privatization, trade, foreign investment, international aid, climate change, the Millennium Development Goals, and more.

Why is world population growing faster than ever before?
Will poor country economies catch up with the rich?
Can poor countries break the vicious circle of poverty and hunger?
How does a country’s economic position affect its education needs?
How are health risks changing in different parts of the world?
Will the North-South cooperation help prevent global climate change?
How does government corruption influence national development?

The book, which draws on recent World Bank data, is written for young people, teachers, students, and others interested in learning more about global development.

This completely revised and expanded second edition of Beyond Economic Growth includes new sections on:

global hunger
HIV/AIDS
international migration,
government corruption, and
the Millennium Development Goals.

http://rapidshare.com/files/302135039/Beyond_Economic_Growth_-_An_Introduction_to_Sustainable_Development.pdf