Stock Market Books

Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (Suny Series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:29 -0600

Price=$29.95
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How to Beat the Market with High-Performance Generic Stocks: (*Your Broker Won't Tell You About) (Mentor)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:27 -0600

Price=$4.50
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Investment Styles, Market Anomalies and Global Stock Selection (Research Foundation of AIMR and Blackwell Series in Finance)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:25 -0600

Investment Styles, Market Anomalies, and Global Stock Selection focuses on global factor-return relationships for institutional equity management and style analysis. The author uses a new global factor-return equity database, defined in 1990 and allowed to evolve over time, that was designed to avoid incurring some of the common critiques of market anomaly studies. The framework and data the author presents are intended to enhance the investor/manager's understanding of vital global equity investment issues.
Price=$35.00
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The Dividend Connection: How Dividends Create Value in the Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:23 -0600

For anyone interested in making value investments in the stock market, the authors present a proven and straightforward approach to stock selection. Written in a direct, readable style, the book will give investors, regardless of their background, the self-confidence to make sophisticated stock market choices without doubt or anxiety.
Price=$24.95
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Stock market probability: How to improve your odds of making safe and profitable investment decisions

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:21 -0600

Price=$19.95
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Tom Dorsey's Trading Tips: A Playbook for Stock Market Success

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:18 -0600

Invaluable insights and techniques for trading from a consummate market pro. What accounts for the loyalty and zeal of Tom Dorsey's book-buying devotees? What traders and investors want is what Dorsey gives them--the tools for making the right decisions--not theory or an overly complex trading "system." Tom Dorsey's Trading Tips draws upon the collective wisdom of Dorsey and his colleagues--whose closely followed newsletter and Web site provide a daily education of insights and research to legions of brokers and investors. Tom Dorsey receives constant feedback from traders who have built their success with Dorsey's techniques, so he knows that his strategies work. Tom Dorsey's Trading Tips includes invaluable coaching on the general market, point-and-figure charting techniques, options strategies, as well as a portfolio of other valuable topics. And Dorsey's tips are simple to apply: self-contained, well chosen, tested strategies that can be confidently mastered because he has made them crystal clear, and shows his readers exactly when and how to use them. This book condenses the author's most useful stock-and-option trading techniques in a highly accessible, conveniently organized playbook format that readers can and will easily consult again and again.

Includes:
* Razor-sharp, proven insights on how to make the right trading decisions
* Sound advice from the Dorsey Wright & Associates newsletter that brokers depend on
* Solid guidance on how to make consistent money in all market conditions
* Proven key technical approaches to investment success
Price=$67.95
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The Beardstown Ladies' Common-Sense Investment Guide: How We Beat the Stock Market-And How You Can, Too

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:16 -0600

Already role models for thousands of investors, the Beardstown Ladies--16 savvy women from rural Beardstown, Illinois--have beaten the stock market for more than a decade. This guide includes step-by-step instructions for their investment strategies, plus illustrative anecdotes that will show even the most inexperienced investor how to devise a personal financial plan. Photos.
Price=$11.95
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The Anatomy of Success by Nicolas Darvas (the author of How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:13 -0600

In this book the author of How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market present an analysis of the road to success that does away with the myths that have surrounded this subject for so long.Like most good ideas, Darvas's is simple, and is key lies in the Power of Positive Selfishness.

The Anatomy of Success grew out of the author's own experiences and observations, and his own life was changed when he applied his theories to himself. His exciting and inspiring book is certain to change lifes of many others.
Price=$15.59
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Demystifying the Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:11 -0600

Price=$11.01
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The Day Trader's Quick Reference to the Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:09 -0600

This "Spring" issue of The Day Trader's Quick Reference to the Stock Market is improved thanks to the feedback from readers of previous issues.

Whether you are a seasoned day trader or novice, finding information fast is a necessary investment for making money. The Day Trader is a vital information tool, assisting the trader or investor to get a quick overview of the Sectors, Industries and Indices.

As with the previous issue, the Day Trader identifies the most liquid stocks to trade: Energy, Financial, Healthcare, Technology and Transportation. Over 100 industries are categorized by sector. The largest companies within each industry are listed.

This spiral-bound (3 1/2" x 6" ) book of 125 pages lays flat and can easily fit into a coat pocket. The Day Trader organizes the stocks in an easy-to-read tabular format.

You will finally grip the stock market with confidence with the Day Trader's Quick Reference to the Stock Market.
Price=$19.95
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Stock Market Smart (Single Titles)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:07 -0600

Price=$23.90
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The Mind of the Market: A Study of Stock Market Philosophies, Their Uses, and Their Implications

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:04 -0600

Price=$36.00
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Stability of International Stock Markets

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:03 -0600

The findings of this book are based on legal aspects of the majority of the world jurisdictions, and the majority of the existing and new introduced practices to the world stock markets including the role of international commissions, and organizations in this regards. Examination of the stock market efficiency and stability presented in the sixth and seventh chapters is built on empirical investigations, opinions surveys of stock markets experts, and state of arts of the related empirical studies, official reports, and suggested recommendations and best practices. Finally, this book is an attempt to help prevent the next stock market crisis, or to understand how to deal with, in order to shorten the period of declining, shorting the period of recovering, and to reduce the effect of irrational trading during unstable trading.
Price=$90.00
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Trading Stocks on the Over-The-Counter Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:42:01 -0600

Price=$21.50
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The Trading Crowd: An Ethnography of the Shanghai Stock Market (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:59 -0600

In 1992, an explosion of "stock fever" hit Shanghai. Ellen Hertz's anthropological study sets the stock market and its players in the context of Shanghai society, and probes the dominant role played by the state, which has yielded a stock market very different from those of the West. She explains the way in which investors and officials construct a "moral storyline" to make sense of this great structural innovation, identifying a struggle among the big investors, the little investors and the state to control the market.
Price=$39.99
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The Random Character of Stock Market Prices

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:57 -0600

"Cootner's classic has been an inspiration to a generation of financial economists and its publication in 1964 marked the beginnings of the field known as financial econometrics. It is high time that this collection of gems is reprinted" Professor Andrew Lo, Professor of Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Price=$98.00
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Business forecasting;: The principles and practice of forecasting business and stock-market trends with especial reference to business cycles

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:54 -0600

Price=$147.41
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The Stock Exchanges of Ireland (Studies in Financial and Economic History, Vol 1)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:51 -0600

The Stock Exchanges of Ireland traces the evolution of the markets which have operated in Ireland from their emergence (Dublin at the end of the eighteenth century, and later Belfast and Cork in the nineteenth) to the mid-1980s when this book was published.

It starts with the historical circumstances - the beginnings of the Irish National Debt in the mid-eighteenth century and the problems of government borrowing in time of peace and war - which preceded the formation, in 1799, of the Dublin Stock Exchange. Later chapters examine many aspects of the market's development during the nineteenth century: changes in its practices and customs; the origins of some of the oldest surviving broking firms; the important trade in government securities between London and Dublin; the Irish railways; and the formation of joint stock companies in Ireland. Finally, the role of the Stock Exchange in the finance of government and industry since Irish independence is fully covered.

Throughout, The Stock Exchanges of Ireland is soundly based on the surviving records (to which the author was granted full access) of the three Irish markets - Dublin, Cork and Belfast. Important new material was also obtained from the Irish Record Office, the National Library of Ireland, the archives of the Bank of Ireland and the Record Office of the Bank of England.

The book makes a comprehensive and significant contribution to Irish and financial history, and will prove an essential work of reference. It is also a lively, readable account of growth, change and development in the Irish markets, which should interest all concerned with banking, finance, investment and stockbroking.
Price=$60.00
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Wall Street Money Machine, Vol. 2, Stock Market Miracles w/cd

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:50 -0600

Finally, a book by an author that understands what the average investor needs! The information in this book will give you the ability to make money using real tried-and-true techniques. No special knowledge required, no strings attached. These tools can help you secure real wealth-not through get-rich-quick schemes, or any other tried-and-failed method, but through large cash returns from the stock market.
Price=$26.95
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When to Sell for the '90s: Inside Strategies for Stock-Market Profits (Fraser Contrary Opinion Library Book)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:45 -0600

Inside Strategies for Stock Market Profits. Mamis has updated and revised his original book, When to Sell, and has produced a classic. Speeded-up information has become the norm in the 90's and Justin offers up-to-date clues on the direction of stock price movements. A meaningful analysis, a few rules to follow, how to choose good charts, and numerous case histories. Guidelines to follow which help you be self-reliant.
Price=$20.00
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100 Ways to Beat the Market (One Hundred Ways to Beat the Stock Market)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:42 -0600

A bestselling author and investment analyst offers proven strategies for investors. Walden has written a simple, succinct, straightforward guide to successful stock market investing strategies. For this book, he has talked with some of the top investment professionals in the world including mutual fund managers, analysts, economists, and stockbrokers.
Price=$20.00
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Do foreign investors destabilize stock markets?: The Korean experience in 1997 (NBER working paper series)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:39 -0600

Price=$5.00
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100 World Famous Stock Market Techniques

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:39 -0600

Price=$13.55
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Winning market systems: 11 days to stock market success

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:38 -0600

Price=$25.00
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501 Stock Market Tips and Guidelines

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:37 -0600

This book contains 501 stock market lessons, guidelines and tips, which are grouped by various topics such as buying, selling, planning and research, picking winning characteristics, company analysis, valuation, price/earnings ratio, price performance, market behavior, technical analysis, monitoring the economy, miscellaneous tips and common mistakes to avoid.

Novice as well as experienced investors will find this book useful, which is easy to read and follow because each tip is short, to the point, and grouped together with other tips that address the same topic. Therefore, an investor desirous of looking up tips on a specific subject, such as market behavior, will be able to find them in one placeÂ—in one chapter.

The tips in this book provide a high level, summarized, overview. Therefore, it is ideally suited for refreshing the basic principles and rules of stock market investing. Hence, investors who desire to gain an in-depth knowledge of stock market investing are referred to the authorÂ’s previously published book, Â“Stock investing for everyone: Tools for investing like the prosÂ”.
Price=$21.95
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Adventure Capitalism: Globalization and the Political Economy of Stock Markets in Africa

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:34 -0600

Sub-Saharan Africa, the poorest and least integrated region of the world, now has 15 stock markets. Adventure Capitalism examines the economic and political forces behind this trend and discusses the potential consequences of financial market integration for developing countries. Using a political economy approach, it finds that financial globalization presents a formidable challenge for African policymakers, but is also an opportunity with a range of benefits.

Price=$125.00
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The Investor's Guide to Warrants: Capitalize on the Fastest Growing Sector of the Stock Market, Second Edition (Financial Times Series)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:31 -0600

Brings essential information about the fastest growing market on the stock exchange.
Price=$45.00
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Straightforward Guide to the Stock Market: How the Stock Market Works

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:29 -0600

Price=$18.98
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International Encyclopedia of the Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:27 -0600

For the first time, the stock market is treated as a worldwide phenomenon. Terms that are part of the vocabulary of the international stock market, as well as terms specific to particular countries, are all thoroughly and extensively defined to make them comprehensible to the lay person and to the business professional. In addition, there are extended entries that survey individual countries from Argentina to Great Britain, from Italy to Botswana, and from China to the United States. These country surveys offer complete details of the country's stock market, conditions, practices and regulation. They also provide information on the country's leading regulatory agencies, its brokerage firms and its most prominent practitioners.

Edited by Michael Sheimo, one of America's leading authorities on Wall Street, and by Andreas Loizou, who has written about business for The Times, The Sunday Times, and The Evening Standard in London, the International Encyclopedia of the Stock Market features contributions from the editorial staffs of the world's stock exchanges and from more than 600 financial experts. This two-volume encyclopedia is a worldwide collaborative effort, unprecedented in its scope, and destined to become the definitive reference book in the field.
Price=$395.00
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The Dynamics of Emerging Stock Markets: Empirical Assessments and Implications (Contributions to Management Science)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:24 -0600

Emerging markets have received a particular attention of academic researchers and practitioners since they decided to open their domestic capital markets to foreign participants about three decades ago. At the same time, we remark that theoretical and empirical research in emerging stock markets has been particularly challenged by their fast changes in nature and size under the effects of financial liberalization and reforms. This evolving feature has particularly led to a commensurate increase in sophistication of modeling techniques used for understanding financial markets.

In this spirit, the book aims at providing the audience a comprehensive understanding of emerging stock markets in various aspects using modern financial econometric methods. It addresses the empirical techniques needed by economic agents to analyze the dynamics of these markets and illustrates how they can be applied to the actual data. On the other hand, it presents and discusses new research findings and their implications.

Price=$103.23
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Winning on the Stock Market (Millard Onà)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:21 -0600

Brian Millards clear, concise style has established his reputation as a leading finance author. In the second edition of this popular introduction to investment, Brian Millard shows how to make a profit out of the stock market. He provides a clear and logical method which can minimise the risk and maximise the profit which can be made from investment in shares, even in adverse market conditions. Winning on the Stock Market gives investors practical advice and takes the mystery out of

the mechanics of buying and selling shares through a broker
selecting the shares which have the largest profit potential
improving the timing of buying and selling operations so that maximum profit can be wrung from the most profitable shares

Price=$80.00
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The Handbook of Corporate Earnings Analysis: Company Performance and Stock Market Valuation

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:19 -0600

Distills the best writing on corporate earnings analysis into a classic single volume. Helps investors and research analysts identify the best methods and techniques in the field.
Price=$65.00
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Keynes and the Market: How the Worlds Greatest Economist Overturned Conventional Wisdom and Made a Fortune on the Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:17 -0600

Keynes and the Market is an entertaining guide to John Maynard Keynes– amazing stock market success. It weaves the economist's value investing tenets around key events in his richly lived life. This timely book identifies what modern masters of the market have taken from Keynes and used in their own investing styles–and what you too can learn from one of the greatest economic thinkers of the twentieth century. If you want to profit in today's turbulent stock market the techniques outlined here will put you in a better position to succeed.
Price=$20.39
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Elliot Wave Principle: 6th Expanded Edition, Key to Stock Market Profits

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:15 -0600

Price=$32.50
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A New Science of Stock Market Investing: How to Predict Stock Price Movements Consistently and Profitably

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:11 -0600

Price=$18.95
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Flying the Stock Market: Pilot Your Dollars to Success

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:09 -0600

As a longtime private pilot, Frank Reick believes that he has utilized the learned experiences of aviation to connect many other abilities, such as the skills necessary to perform successful investing.
Price=$24.95
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The Stock Market Vol 9 (Catalog of Images)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:07 -0600

Price=$7.91
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Market Microstructure: Inventory Management - Bid-Ask Spread and Pricing in Stock Markets in terms of Inventory Costs

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:05 -0600

Price=$64.00
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Get Your Share: A Guide to Striking It Rich in the Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:02 -0600

The New York Times bestseller...now with a new introduction by the author.

Financial planner and broker Julie Stav has been helping women get rich for years. Now she offers her hands-on techniques and inspiring advice in a book that simplifies the stock market and puts a new world of wealth within reach. And with updated information--including current examples, the hottest new websites, and more--this smart, sensible, and down-to-earth book is the ideal guide for women who want to invest in their dreams.
Price=$11.86
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How to make millions in the stock market with blind pools reverse acquisitions

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:41:00 -0600

Price=$18.88
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Profiting from Chaos: Using Chaos Theory for Market Timing, Stock Selection, and Option Valuation

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:57 -0600

Finally, a book that not only explains the relationship between investing and chaos theory--the cutting-edge dicipline that Business Week says will "revitalize the money-management industry"--but also shows readers how to use the theory to master the financial markets. Illustrated.
Price=$39.95
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Guide to the Stock Market: How the Stock Market Works (Straightforward Guides)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:54 -0600

Price=$29.22
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The Stock Market: Theories and Evidence

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:52 -0600

Price=$42.50
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Stock Market Developments in the Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Finance and Capital Markets Series)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:50 -0600

The book analyzes the stock market developments in all GCC countries, focusing on the recent boom and bust episodes in five out of the seven GCC equity markets -- one of the major events in emerging markets this decade. The lessons from this period will constitute a reference for emerging equity markets for decades to come.

Price=$225.00
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How women can make money in the stock market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:48 -0600

Price=$0.96
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How the Average Investor Can Use Technical Analysis for Stock Profits: An In-Depth Work on Stock Market Technical Analysis, Mob Psychology, and Fundamentals

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:45 -0600

Price=$400.00
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There's Always a Bull Market: Conservative Investing in Stocks, Bonds, and Gold

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:42 -0600

Price=$30.00
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Bubbleology: The New Science of Stock Market Winners and Losers

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:37 -0600

There are only two types of stocks: those safe from bubbles and those that are not. This is a fact of investing many discovered as they saw their fabulous gains whittled away by the extreme calamity of the Internet sector.

But what about the future? Is there a way for investors to capture the enormous potential for profit that exists at the frontier of the economy, the place where innovation and genius operate, without placing their fortunes in jeopardy? Is there a way to evaluate price increases—and declines—and identify whether they are happening for good or bad reasons?

Bubbleology makes it possible to separate the winners from the losers. It is a brilliant, practical, and original analysis of the stock market that bashes the conventional wisdom about bubbles, showing that such famous examples as Tulipomania were not, in fact, bubbles at all.

Bubbleology shows that the traditional way of evaluating risk—equating it with volatility—is inherently flawed and incomplete. If a stock fluctuates a lot in price it is regarded as risky. If the price is stable, then it is not. What this simplistic way of thinking leaves out is the simple fact that companies trying something completely new that may fundamentally alter the economic landscape are operating at the frontier. The stock of such a company swims in a sea of ambiguity, its circumstances uncertain, since there is little to provide guidance about the future. But when nobody knows for sure what will happen, pundits tell us again about Tulipomania, the South Seas Bubble, and now the debacle of the Internet to scare investors away from potentially enormous profits. To realize those profits, however, investors have to understand the role that uncertainty and ambiguity—the absence of reliable information about future events—play in the modern stock market. Those who equate ambiguity with bubbles will miss the great opportunities of the future.

Bubbleology provides a new way to observe what is really going on in the market, enabling you to understand whether a stock or a sector is suspicious—whether it is in a bubble and therefore something to be avoided. Finding bubbles requires knowing where to look and what to look for.

Bubbleology will help you avoid both streaming into speculative manias and shying away from perfectly good business opportunities. It tells you why you need to avoid both pontificating pundits and overconfident stock analysts. With this unique and forward-thinking book, you can inspect suspicious stocks, accurately discern risk, and diagnose a blossoming bubble before it vanishes along with your money.
Price=$18.95
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Stock Market Efficiency, Insider Dealing and Market Abuse

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:36 -0600

The recent turbulence in the stock market has brought into question the way, and prices at which, shares are traded, and how the market effectively values companies. It has also raised public concern as to the way by which dealers and investors take advantage of changes in market prices. A number of high profile criminal prosecutions of insider dealing and market abuse and the frequent claims of other instances, combined with the changes in regulations resulting in a more aggressive and proactive stance by the various regulators, have brought the issue under the spotlight. This book discusses what makes stock market efficiency so important for the economy, looks at the theory and issues that underpin market abuse and why an offence often dismissed as a victimless crime is punished so severely. It explores the impact of perception and other factors that distort the market and outlines the extent of abuse. Regulators, lawyers, company officials, investigators, professional advisers and of course investors, both professional and otherwise will find this a helpful guide to the underlying elements of fraud and market manipulation.
Price=$124.95
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'To Get Rich Is Glorious!': China's Stock Markets in the '80s and '90s (Studies on the Chinese Economy)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:33 -0600

This book provides a guide to 20 years of China's stock markets. Carl Walter and Fraser Howie analyze the changes that have occurred in all areas of China's securities industry including legal, regulatory, share structure, issuers, investor base, and market performance. These topics are examined in the context of the industry's overall development to highlight the market's current situation as China enters the new century.

Price=$135.00
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Stock Market Stratagem: Loss Control and Portfolio Management Enhancement

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:30 -0600

Offering fresh insights for both professionals and sophisticated investors, Stock Market Stratagem focuses on the all-important task of loss control and the necessary adjustments to portfolio management in a volatile environment. It provides serious equity investors with an unambiguous methodology for being in the right stocks, at the right time, in the right proportions — and with the right exit strategy. A seasoned researcher and investor, Glett explains the need for an airtight portfolio methodology as a necessity to control losses and explores some common scenarios and fallacies that lead to the majority of stock market losses. In addition, the book offers in-depth coverage of how to pick high-potential stocks and includes a set of criteria to help investors in this key task.
Price=$46.95
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Nasdaq Handbook: The Stock Market for the Next 100 Years : A Complete Reference for Investors, Registered Representatives, Company Executives, Resea

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:27 -0600

Price=$40.00
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The Perfect Investment/a Proven System for Picking Profitable Stocks No Matter What the Market Is Doing

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:23 -0600

Price=$6.95
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Timing the Market: How To Profit in the Stock Market Using the Yield Curve, Technical Analysis, and Cultural Indicators

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:20 -0600

The first definitive guide to understanding and profiting from the relationship between the stock market and interest rates

It's well established that interest rates significantly impact the stock market. This is the first book that definitively explores the interest rate/stock market relationship and describes a specific system for profiting from the relationship. Timing the Market provides an historically proven system, rooted in fundamental economics, that allows investors and traders to forecast the stock market using data from the interest rate markets-together with supporting market sentiment and cultural indicators-to pinpoint and profit from major turns in the stock market.

Deborah Weir (Greenwich, CT) is President of Wealth Strategies, a firm that does marketing for traditional money managers and hedge funds. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and is the first woman president of the Stamford CFA Society.
Price=$42.32
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Chasing the Same Signals: How Black Box Trading Influences Stock Markets from Wall Street to Shanghai (Wiley Trading)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:18 -0600

The worst stock market crash since Black Monday during October of 1987 occurred during the first week of August of 2007. But nobody noticed.

On the morning of August 6th 2007, investment professionals were baffled with unprecedented stock patterns. Mining sector stocks were up +18% but manufacturing stocks were down -14%. It was an extreme sector skew yet the S&P index was unchanged at +0.5% on the day. The next few days would continue with excessive volatility. MBI Insurance, a stock that had rarely attracted speculation would finish up +15% on Aug 6th, followed by another +7% on Aug 7th, and then finish down -22% over the subsequent two days. The brief rally in MBI was short lived.

Only weeks later would investors begin to have insights on the dispersion patterns. Prominent hedge funds that had never had a negative annual performance began disclosing excessive trading loses with many notable firms reporting several hundred millions were lost - in a single day. Hedge funds were hemorrhaging in excess of 30% of their assets when the S&P index was unchanged. The market dispersion was the side effects of the synchronous unwind ignited by the hordes of "computerized" strategies that were caught off guard when history didn't repeat. It was the industry's first world wide panic - by machines.

Over the past decade, computerized (or black-box) trading has had a coming of age. Black-box firms use mathematical formulas to buy and sell stocks. The industry attracts the likes of mathematicians, astrophysics and robot scientists. They describe their investment strategy as a marriage of economics and science. Their proliferation has been on the back of success, black-box firms have been among the best performing funds over the past decade, the marquee firms have generated double-digit performance with few if any months of negative returns.

Through their coming of age, these obscure mathematicians have joined the ranks of traditional buy-n-hold investors in their influence of market valuations. A rally into the market close is just as likely the byproduct of a technical signal as an earnings revision. They are speculated to represent a one third of all market volume albeit their influence to the day-to-day gyrations goes largely unnoticed. CNBC rarely comments on the sentiments of computerized investors.

Conventional wisdom suggests that markets are efficient, random walks and that stock prices rise and fall with the fundamentals of the company. How then have black-box traders prospered and how do they exploit market inefficiencies? Are their strategies on their last legs or will they adapt to the new landscape amidst the global financial crisis?

Chasing the Same Signals is a unique chronicle of the black-box industry's rise to prominence and their influence on the market place. This is not a story about what signals they chase, but rather a story on how they chase and compete for the same signals.
Price=$32.97
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The Dividend Investor: A Safe and Sure Way to Beat the Market with High-Yield Dividend Stocks

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:15 -0600

Clearly written, The Dividend Investor comes complete with a step-by-step method to implement the strategy, as well as detailed research on the long-term performance of dividend-yielding stocks. It provides investors with a safe and effective system for beating the stock market. Specific topics include: The foundations of dividend investing; The mechanics of dividend investing; A high-yield strategy to beat the market; Why dividend investing works; How to make money in a bear market.
Price=$24.95
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The S/B Stock Market Ratio: Profiting from Legal Insider Trading

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:12 -0600

Price=$14.95
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Indian Stock Market: An Empirical Study

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:12 -0600

Price=$93.52
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Making your living from the stock market: America's greatest franchise : a how-to book for the novice investor

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:08 -0600

Price=$2.50
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Stock Market Capitalization and Corporate Governance in India

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:06 -0600

The book provides an outline of corporate governance systems across the world and specific corporate governance issues in emerging markets like in India. It covers functioning of corporate governance mechanisms in general and relates them specifically to CG in India along with a commentary on their effectiveness. By providing an overview of the Bombay Stock Exchange which represents the Indian capital market, it provides an understanding of the Indian capital market and its regulatory environment.
Price=$50.00
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The A B C of Stock Speculation (Stock Market Theory Series)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:03 -0600

Price=$15.29
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How to Avoid Tax on Your Stock Market Profits

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:03 -0600

This extremely comprehensive guide will show you how to pay significantly less capital gains tax, inheritance tax and income tax on your stock market income and profits. Written in plain English, it contains numerous examples and tax-planning tips. Subjects covered include: how to calculate capital gains tax when you sell shares and other assets, how to make the most of all the capital gains tax reliefs and exemptions, how to protect your family from paying 40% inheritance tax, the benefits of obtaining 'share trader' tax status and how to make the most of all the tax shelters available to stock market investors.
Price=$46.95
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In And Out The Money: A Regular Guy's Guide To Consistently Make Money In The Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:40:00 -0600

Price=$11.95
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Small Investor Goes to Market: A Beginner's Guide to Picking Stocks

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:57 -0600

Aiming to demystify the stock market in simple language, this guide takes the reader step-by-step through the process of evaluating a stock, working with a broker, managing investments, and making solid, sensible long-term investments.
Price=$14.95
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High-Return, Low-Risk Investment: Using Stock Selection and Market Timing

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:56 -0600

A blunt, opinionated, insiders' perspective on playing the stock market. Cautious investors will appreciate this book's emphasis on low risk. More experienced players will relish its eye-opening assessments of well-known investment theories and systems, from hedging to dollar cost averaging.
Price=$22.95
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Divining the Dow: 100 Of the World's Most Widely Followed Stock Market Prediction Systems

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:53 -0600

Price=$24.95
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Stop and Make Money: How To Profit in the Stock Market Using Volume and Stop Orders (Wiley Trading)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:51 -0600

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.
Price=$54.75
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The Markets and the Media: Business News and Stock Market Movements

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:48 -0600

In recent years there has been a great influx of sources for business and financial news, yet the hope that this financial media boom would lead to the democratization of the financial markets has not been realized. Thomas Schuster's The Markets and the Media explores why the expansion of economic communication has proven to be of only limited benefit, arguing that the financial media boom has had negative repercussions resulting in substantial costs for the individual as well as the systemic level.
Price=$27.01
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Cómo Gané $2,000,000 en la Bolsa / How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market (Spanish Edition)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:46 -0600

Como hizo este famoso bailarín, sin ningún conocimiento del mercado bursátil, o finanzas en general, para ganar 2 millones de dolares en la Bolsa en 18 meses, comenzando con tan solo $10,000?

Darvas es una leyenda y por una buena razón.

Descubra la razón en este libro...
Price=$10.19
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Chinese Stock Markets: A Research Handbook

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:45 -0600

The exponential growth of China’s stock markets in the past decade has attracted global attention from academics and practitioners. The practitioner’s interest in Chinese markets stems from corporations; investors and financial institutions foresee substantial benefits from investing in China in the long run. However, the academic literature on the development of securities markets and reform of state enterprises in China is still in its infancy and fragmented. This handbook aims to bridge that gap by presenting a wide spectrum of research in the forefront of financial applications. It integrates theory and practice with state-of-the-art statistical techniques and provides numerous insights into the main challenges confronting Chinese markets in the new millennium.
Price=$129.00
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The Value and Momentum Trader: Dynamic Stock Selection Models to Beat the Market (Wiley Trading)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:42 -0600

A winning approach to stock trading based on proprietary statistical research in Excel

In The Value and Momentum Trader, Grant Henning presents a comprehensive approach to stock trading, which centers around Excel-based research methods he has developed. In this book, Henning presents the trading tools he has used to become a successful trader, and discusses some of the greatest challenges facing active market participants. This reliable resource presents both winning trading systems and all the skills necessary to perform as a trader as market conditions change. It also demonstrates how you can turn the successes and failures of any trading system into an interactive feedback loop to discover one's true trading skills.

Provides a solid understanding of the author's statistical trading system
Explores how to execute optimal trades under different market conditions
Outlines a very affordable Excel-based stock analysis method that is easy to implement
Dr. Henning has proven to be a trusted author with other academic publications in the areas of measurement and statistics.

The Value and Momentum Trader is an essential guide to trading today's dynamic markets.
Price=$50.62
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Ups And Downs: A Book About The Stock Market (Money Matters)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:39 -0600

Price=$22.60
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Trouncing the Dow: A Value-Based Method for Making Huge Profits in the Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:36 -0600

Insights on value investing from a Wall Street superbroker. From 1973 to 1997, the stock market averaged 9% return. Kenneth Lee's "Benchmark Investing" averaged 24%. Value investing may be a hot topic on Wall Street right now, but Lee has been making money with it for nearly a quarter-century. Troucning the Dow, Written in an easy-to-understand style, is packed with step-by-step instructions that show any investor how to be a winner. With returns that rival Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham, Kenneth Lee carves out his own spot in history with Trouncing the Dow.
Price=$24.95
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The Stock Market Investor's Computer Guide

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:33 -0600

Price=$38.50
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Uncommon Stock Market Strategies: Powerful Tools for Investors

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:31 -0600

UNCOMMON STOCK MARKET STRATEGIES has been named one of the "Year’s Top Investment Books" by the 2004 STOCK TRADER’S ALMANAC!

Now you can ENJOY stock market volatility – and benefit from price movements in either direction – using powerful uncommon investment tools offered by the securities markets and described in UNCOMMON STOCK MARKET STRATEGIES. If you manage your own stock market assets, you can take advantage of these uncommon tools. Learn how you can:

• Buy a stock at less than today’s price. • Sell a stock at more than today’s price. • Benefit from price movements in either direction.

How can you buy a stock at less than today’s price? By selling a put short to buy a stock.

How can you sell a stock at more than today’s price? By selling a covered call, a call that is covered by the ownership of the underlying common stock.

Many investors shy away from options, because of unsatisfactory experiences with buying options. This book utilizes the investment strategy of SELLING OPTIONS SHORT (writing option contracts), not buying options. The options contracts are sold (sell to open) prior to buying them (buy to close).

After explaining the process of selling options short in clear, easy-to-understand terms – using numerous tables and charts to illustrate each step – the book establishes a model, a three-legged strategy, for using these tools in combination with the purchase of common stocks.

The book then covers the steps that follow the establishment of the three-legged strategy, including how to respond to rising, falling, or sideways-moving prices, how to extend a position, how to "write up" a position, how to set up a portfolio, and how to keep track of the positions in that portfolio.

Let UNCOMMON STOCK MARKET STRATEGIES show you how to create and manage a portfolio using these powerful investment tools.
Price=$29.95
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How to Avoid Tax on Your Stock Market Profits

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:30 -0600

Method in Dealing in Stock: A Practical Guide and Handbook for Recording and Interpreting the Daily Actions of the Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:26 -0600

Price=$12.95
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The Stock Market (Exploring Business and Economics)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:25 -0600

Price=$25.00
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Conquering Stock Market Hype

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:23 -0600

Reliable guidance for investors who are reluctant to get back into the market

Millions of investors burned by the crashes and spikes of today’s stock market are staying on the sidelines, and it’s costing them a fortune. Conquering Stock Market Hype explains to skittish investors what is really going on, why markets are safer than they look, and how investors can take full advantage of stock market profits without once again exposing themselves to undue risk. Nonthreatening and easy to understand, Conquering Stock Market Hype distills wide-ranging and detailed research and knowledge into a package that is both accessible and reassuring. Investors will value its factual and straightforward explanations of:

Strategies for recognizing market tops and bottoms
Which types of investments are best for novice investors
Signals that the market is overbought or oversold

Price=$19.95
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Stock Market Superstars: Secrets of Canada's Top Stock Pickers

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:20 -0600

In these absorbing interviews with twelve of the greatest money managers in Canada, Bob Thompson explores the mechanics and psychology behind the key characteristics that make these managers great. How do the country's top stock pickers make millions of dollars in the markets? That's the question Thompson answers in interviews with these money-making superstars.
Price=$13.17
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Preparing for the Worst: Incorporating Downside Risk in Stock Market Investments (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:17 -0600

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

Price=$115.00
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Emerging Stock Markets: Risk, Return and Performance (Research Foundation of AIMR and Blackwell Series in Finance)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:15 -0600

Emerging Stock Markets: Risk, Return, and Performance is a compendium of historical data currently available about the performance of securities in emerging markets. As a result, it will be an invaluable aid to the investor or investment manager trying to make informed decisions about investing in emerging market assets. The authors provide monthly stock return data for more than two dozen countries in the Emerging Markets Data Base maintained by the International Finance Corporation. Without such data, analysis of this fascinating asset class has been frustrated.
Price=$35.00
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The Intelligent Guide to Stock Market Investment

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:12 -0600

‘The Intelligent Guide to Stock Market Investment is a welcome initiative to help explain the stock market and the important role it can play in people’s long term investment plans. This book is particularly valuable at a time when everyone is being encouraged to take more responsibility for their financial future and it is more important than ever to be better informed when making investment decisions.’ The London Stock Exchange ‘… an excellent text … highly interesting and entertaining … subtle, sophisticated and rigorous … In short, even for the successful stock market investor, the percentage returns from buying this book are likely to make it one of the best investments in his/her portfolio!’ Professor Robert Watson, Strathclyde Graduate Business School The Intelligent Guide to Stock Market Investment This comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of stock market investment explains in a clear accessible style the techniques, risks and potential rewards of stock market investment. Written by a leading team of financial researchers, it provides the reader with a sophisticated synthesis of current investment knowledge, drawn both from the latest academic research and the professional investment world. Avoiding simplistic and unrealistic formulae to success, this book gives a balanced assessment of the various approaches to investment and thorough understanding of the way in which the stock market works that will enable readers to take control of their own financial future. The International Institute of Banking and Financial Services specialises in world class research and postgraduate education for the whole of the financial services sector.
Price=$65.00
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Stock Market Investing (Made E-Z Guides)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:11 -0600

Price=$14.95
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Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:09 -0600

Maximizing the trader’s state of mind is the key to successful results. Conflicts, contradictions and paradoxes in thinking can spell disaster for even a highly motivated, astute and well grounded trader. Mark Douglas, a trader, personal trading coach, and industry consultant since 1982, sends the message that "thinking strategy" will profoundly influence a trader’s success rate. Douglas addresses five very specific issues to give traders the insight and understanding about themselves that will make them consistent winners in the market.

Trading In The Zone offers specific solutions to the “people factor” of commodity price movement. It uncovers the true culprit for lack of consistency when it comes to stock picking: lack of focus and self-confidence. Through simple exercises, traders will learn how to think in terms of probabilities, and adopt the specific beliefs necessary to developing a winner’s mindset. Along the way, they’ll gain valuable insights into their own entrenched misconceptions about the market.

Backed by compelling examples, Trading In The Zone adds a new dimension to getting an edge on the market. Through a better understanding of themselves, as well as of Wall Street’s realities, traders will come to leverage the power of their psyche for unprecedented profitability.
Price=$30.00
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Technical Analysis and Stock Market Profits: The Real Bible of Technical Analysis

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:06 -0600

This classic is the foundation on which technical analysis is built.
Price=$55.10
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Booms, Bubbles and Busts in the US Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:03 -0600

Why did US stock markets experience such a huge bubble in the 1990s? Why did Greenspan 'allow' the bubble to occur? Why did investors appear to act irrationally and indulge in such vehement speculations? Why the euphoria?

This book examines the American stock market during one of its most intriguing periods. By turning his critical eye upon the rise of the stock market bubble during the 1990s boom years and its inevitable crash some years later, David L. Western has written a scholarly yet readable book. Providing historical background as well as solid statistical research, the book helps to explain the mysteries of the stock market in an authoritative manner.

Advanced undergraduate and postgraduate and postgraduate students will find this to be an enlightening read, whilst readers with an interest in how the biggest economy in the world got things badly wrong will find this to be a book that remains useful as a reference for many years to come.
Price=$180.00
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Quantum Investing: Quantum Physics, Nanotechnology, and the Future of the Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:39:00 -0600

Quantum Investing is a book about today’s ascendant quantum-physics-based industries, such as information technology, communications, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Author Stephen Waite makes clear why these areas are the most important investment opportunities today and how these industries will have a profound impact on our economy.
Price=$20.95
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Midas Investing:: How You Can Make at Least 20% in the Stock Market This Year and Every Year

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:57 -0600

A step-by-step guide to investment shows how to pick money-making stocks, explains how to evaluate investment opportunities, and presents successful strategies and methods for making money in the stock market. 20,000 first printing.
Price=$23.00
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The Active Trader: Essential Tools to Profit in the Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:53 -0600

"The Active Trader" is a practical guide for trading in today's stock market. It will give beginning traders an accelerated path for success and will help advanced traders further define their own portfolio strategy. Whether you prefer risk or are risk averse, "The Active Trader" provides specific guidelines to manage your portfolio to minimize losses and maximize profit. Bonus CD-ROM includes:"The Active Trader" Portfolio Template, "The Active Trader" Audio Book, "The Active Trader" eBook
Price=$18.96
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The Vital Few vs. The Trivial Many: A Unique Concept for Always Making Money in the Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:50 -0600

George Muzea's concept of "The Vital Few vs. The Trivial Many" is described in easy to understand language and clarity. Chapters dealing with these well developed strategies are analogous to George's dynamic and highly sucessful career as a consultant to some of the world's largest and most influential money management firms.

George is confident that his book will open your eyes to a new way of looking at the investment world, especially the stock market. It has been a lucrative and interesting journey for him since he discovered the secrets outlined in his book. It can be for you as well.
Price=$15.95
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The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:46 -0600

This fascinating book shows how the New York securities market, with its promise of great wealth and its equally devastating disappointments, is a vital link in the history of American economic growth.
Price=$34.95
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Investing in Stocks and Shares: A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Money on the Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:42 -0600

Explains what affects share prices, how to avoid unnecessary risks and how to trade on the stock market.
Price=$17.16
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Market Timing For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:41 -0600

Want to improve your market timing so you can send your investment returns soaring? Market Timing For Dummies takes the guesswork out of developing a trading strategy and provides all of the tools you need to forecast, prepare for, and take advantage of market trends and changes.

This authoritative guide is packed with expert advice on how to increase your profits and limit your risk. It helps you grasp the psychology behind market timing as you learn the basics of the method, analyze our finances, select the right software and equipment, and define your market trading style. You’ll get the hang of using technical analysis to identify trends and reversals, catch key turning points, and manage risk as you track general market trends, develop a feel for when a particular trend is vulnerable to change, and seize the moment! Discover how to:

Understand how Wall Street really works
Use a wide array of market-timing tools
Anticipate and prepare for trend shifts using technical analysis
Time the stock market with the seasons
Time with a feel for the pulse of the market
Execute successful timing trades
Time the stock, bond, foreign, and commodities markets

Yes! You can make money in any market, whether trends are rising, falling, or moving sideways. Let Market Timing For Dummies show you how.
Price=$16.48
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The Stock Market (Greenwood Guides to Business and Economics)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:38 -0600

The stock marketâ€”the virtual place where corporations raise capitalâ€”has come to symbolize business more profoundly than any other entity or institution. This book provides a glimpse into the history, development, regulation, and increasing importance that the stock market plays in business and economic growth, as well as the investment strategies of individualsâ€”in the U.S. and around the world, including Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, and emerging markets in the developing world that are rapidly integrating into the global economy.

To explore the roles and workings of the stock market, the authors trace its evolution from its origins on Wall Street in the 1700s to the present, and examine the varied ways in which it is used to generate economic value. From initial public offerings (IPOs) to hedge funds to American Depository Receipts (ADRs) to options and more, the authors go beyond basic stocks and bonds to highlight the development and current applications of a wide variety of financial instruments that are used to raise capital. Featuring examples, graphics, illustrations, glossary, index, and references and on-line resources, this volume offers an accessible and engaging introduction to the world of investment and corporate finance, while illuminating one of the icons of capitalism.

Price=$55.00
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Wealth Forever: The Analytics of Stock Markets

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:36 -0600

This book is the first of its kind in providing, simultaneously and comprehensively, historical, institutional and theoretical foundations for developments in the stock market. It debunks many a myth about stock price behavior and the valuation of stocks. The traditional valuation models are tested and shown to be often weak and unreliable, especially when applied to the valuation of technology stocks. New paradigms are suggested.

The authors seek to answer many questions about the stock market: Why invest in stocks, how to invest in stocks, how to value stocks, how to change the risk profile of portfolios, how to analyze the results of stock investing, and how to minimize estate taxes and maximize control, even after death.

All aspects of the stock market are covered, including the basic tools that will enable the reader to understand the stock market basics, the history of stock market performance in the US and overseas, the various ways to value stocks and to assess their risk, and the various methods that have been proposed to capitalize on the inefficiencies of the stock market, be they temporary or permanent. The book also deals with the derivative markets for stocks.
Price=$52.00
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Fear, Greed & Panic: The Psychology of the Stock Market

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:34 -0600

DON'T BUY THIS BOOK if you want handy hints on which shares to buy, because David Cohen is not an investment expert.

DO BUY THIS BOOK if you want to know how brokers behave or if you've ever wondered why investing in the stock market seems to be more of a gamble than a coolly calculated, economic exercise. David Cohen examines the psychology of the real stock market, not the share prices, buildings or machines, but the people who work there and the people who invest their money in it.

Fear, Greed and Panic shows that economic facts are less important than feelings, for both professional investors and lay people. Try the risk questionnaire to see how you fare. Lots of people are shy about admitting that they want to make money. If you can understand the people involved in the money markets you will know a lot more about share prices than any clever software package can reveal.

Comments on the hardback edition:

"David Cohen's book has hit upon a rich seam, which is far more edifying than any beginner's guide to investing . . . his objective eye from one profession looking at another gives the reader a far better insight of the markets than many an expert I have read." - Justin Urquhart Stewart, The Independent

"Cohen attempts to address what makes the markets tick in his thoroughly engaging work . . . fascinating book." - Conn O Midheach, Irish Times

Price=$37.85
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Stock Market Investing 10 Minute Guide

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:33 -0600

Price=$0.79
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A History of the London Stock Market 1945-2007

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:30 -0600

"I recommend this book as an enjoyable and instructive read that captures the spirit of the times. In the absence of a crystal ball, a history book is the next best thing." - From the foreword by Jim Slater "My historical reference book of choice. I frequently turn to it when seeking to understand why the financial markets of past years behaved like they did." - From the foreword by David Schwartz, stock market historian A unique record of the people, deals and events that have driven the stock market over the last 60+ years.

Price=$58.36
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How the Markets Really Work

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:38:28 -0600

Several years ago, Joel Kurtzman was covering a meeting between a group of Russian economists and politicians and some of America’s best thinkers from business and academia. The Russians were trying to get a handle on exactly who was in charge of the markets and how long the founder of a failed start-up would be sentenced to jail.

It’s easy to see why Joel’s Russian friends were befuddled. But how many of us really understand how the markets work, despite the fact that we live and work in a society that practically worships “the market” as a religion? And when people today are investing more money in mutual funds than in banks, this can be a problem. The markets are big, complex, and completely unforgiving. If you make a major mistake, you risk losing a major amount of money. That’s why it’s vital to peel back the layers of mystery shrouding the markets.

In How the Markets Really Work, Joel Kurtzman provides a lucid explanation of one of the fundamental forces shaping our lives. In clear, accessible language, Kurtzman explains:

* How markets, which are so vital to the world’s economies, are able to function without any central control
* How they create wealth and spread the risk of the world’s most uncertain, but potentially lucrative, bets
* How markets package and resell debt, connect financial institutions, and set prices
* Why volatility has increased and what this means for the boom and bust of investing

Kurtzman illuminates the musty corners of the markets, showing how the system is both a single network linked together globally and a highly coordinated dance of free-wheeling, unchoreographed dancers that constitutes a massive social mechanism for laying off some of the world’s riskier bets. He explains the kinds of products that traders trade within the network (stocks, bonds, options, etc); how money circulates within the network; and how banks fit into the global network.

This is a book that will help you think strategically about investing. If you understand the markets and the instruments and vehicles that are traded on those markets before thinking about individual stocks and mutual funds, you’ll be a smarter, savvier investor.

Crown Business BriefingsThe Crown Business Briefings series offers an appealing solution to the dilemma of today’s business audience: how to keep up with the rapid pace of change in knowledge while leading time-crunched lives. The series features short books on important topics of immediate and measurable benefit to today’s broad audience of business readers.
Price=$18.95
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