June 2001

The Empowered Investor

The Precision Profit Float Indicator

The Stock Market Course

Value Investing In Commodity Futures

The After Hours Trader

The Guaranteed Real Income Program

The Dark Side Of Valuation

Day Trading On The Edge

Trading With Crowd Psychology

Eight $teps To $even Figure$

The Fundamentals Of Municipal Bonds

Dun & Bradstreet's Guide To Doing Business Around The World, Revised

The Guts & Glory Of Day Trading

NASDAQ 100 Investor's Guide 2001-2002

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The Empowered Investor: Practicing Safe Investing By Knowing Your Rights, Protecting Your Investment, Recovering Your Losses (218 pages, $19.95 softcover, 1998, ISBN 0793126398), by Robert Eric Karoly, published by Dearborn Financial Publishing. Investor beware! Know your rights! Every year, individual investors suffer billions of dollars in losses because they don't know what their rights are. In this eye-opening "investors' bill of rights," Robert Eric Karoly shows investors how to choose an honest broker, how to read - and understand - your brokerage statement, uncover hidden charges, and recoup your lost investments through arbitration. Above all, The Empowered Investor shows you how to proactively practice safe investing and protect yourself from rogue stockbrokers. The author's firm has helped many investors in claims representing nearly $100 million in securities losses and damages.

Dearborn, A Kaplan Professional Company

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The Precision Profit Float Indicator: Powerful Techniques To Exploit Price And Volume (224 pages, $69.95 hardcover, 2000, ISBN 188327284X), by Steve Woods, published by Marketplace Books. Active traders are always looking for an edge up on the market. That's one reason why serious investors enthusiastically embrace technical analysis tools. The author studied and then incorporated the classic techniques of W.D. Gann, William O'Neil, and others into new trading software. Through his research, he discovered a new way of reading price and volume charts. His method analyzes past trading volume to determine a stock's future price direction. By following the steps in this book, you can apply his techniques to your own portfolio.

Marketplace Books (Traders' Library)

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The Stock Market Course 442pages, $39.95 hardcover, 2001, ISBN 0471393150), by George A. Fontanills and Tom Gentile, published by John Wiley & Sons. In writing this book, one of the world's most-respected traders sought to help beginners avoid the pain and expense of learning the trading game the hard way by providing them with a solid foundation in the fundamental and technical aspects of trading stocks and other major investments. This box is a step-by-step guide that covers the bases, from market terminology to performing technical analysis.

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Value Investing In Commodity Futures: How To Profit With Scale Trading (202 pages, $69.95 hardcover, 2001, ISBN 0471348813), by Hal Masover, published by John Wiley & Sons. Successful commodities trading requires knowledge, skill, a healthy dose of optimism - and a logical and effective trading approach. Scale trading involves buying a commodity at progressively lower prices until it ceases to decline, then selling it at progressively higher prices as it rises. One of the benefits of scale trading is that it gives small traders the ability to emulate a trading method used by the megatraders. A knowledge of how the market behaves is required. Included in the book are numerous examples, illustrations, charts and tables covering everything from fundamentals, to scale construction, to choosing a broker, and more. Also included is a disk containing a scale trading spreadsheet.

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The After Hours Trader (276 pages, $29.95 hardcover, 2000, ISBN 0071362665), by Michael Sincere and Deron Wagner, published by McGraw-Hill. In the 1970s, discount stock commissions first made profitable stock trading possible for the average investors. The long-impenetrable gates of Wall Street began to crack. Old-line firms fought, but the new breed of traders fought harder. Now, as we cross into the 21st century, the barrier of trading outside of normal trading hours has fallen. This book is the first nuts-and-bolts guide to the world of after-hours trading, showing you how to get started and sharpen your skills. It's a toolbox filled with proven strategies and techniques, designed to make you a better trader in every type of market.

McGraw-Hill

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The Guaranteed Real Income Program: A Practical Guide To Winning In The Financial Markets (162 pages, $39 softcover, 2000, no ISBN number), by Charles Hughes, published by TradeWins Publishing. Welcome to the exciting world of stock and options trading. Options trading offers you some of the greatest profit potential in the investment universe, provided you understand the risk and rewards of these instruments. The objective of this book is to introduce you to the opportunities available in trading stocks and options, and to demonstrate profitable strategies that really work. Evidence of the effectiveness of the program is shown on several pages at the beginning of the book where all of the authors' trades have been listed.

TradeWins Publishing

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The Dark Side Of Valuation: Valuing Old Tech, New Tech, And New Economy Companies (479 pages, $59 hardcover, 2001, ISBN 014040652X), by Aswath Damodaran, published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall. Pick winners and losers with practical valuation techniques for technology companies with no track record, few hard assets, and few customers. Understand why cash flows, growth rates, and reduced uncertainty remain key drivers of value even in advanced technology markets. Discover prudent approaches to understanding revenue multiples, sector-specific multiples, and other substitutes for earnings multiples. Understand which management actions affect long-term value and how to account for value-neutral actions such as stock splits.

Financial Times/Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall Direct

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Day Trading On The Edge: A Look-Before-You-Leap Guide To Extreme Investing (383 pages, $29.95 hardcover, 2001, ISBN 0814405738), by Leslie N. Masonson, published by Amacom. Daytrading is fast, furious - and without the right knowledge, fatal to your finances. The lure of making a living -maybe even a fortune - beckons thousands of online investor novices into the treacherous realm of daytrading. Between 80% and 90% of inexperienced daytraders lose their shirts. This book gives readers what they need to determine if daytrading is right for them.

AMACOM

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Trading With Crowd Psychology (262 pages, $49.95 hardcover, 2001, ISBN 0471387746), by Carl Gyllenram, published by John Wiley & Sons. In this fascinating work, Carl Gyllenram uses an in-depth analysis of economic theory versus the psychology of the markets to illustrate the psychological nature of market fluctuations - and show the reader how to take advantage of those fluctuations. Though classic financial theory maintains that markets are rational, stable, and effective, Gyllenram poses the question: How can that be so when it is human beings (who are not consistently rational) who are buying and selling stocks? From this premise he expands to an illuminating study of crowd psychology and its relevance to a better understanding of the markets.

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Eight $teps To $even Figure$: The Investment Strategies Of Everyday Millionaires And How You Can Become Wealthy Too (312 pages, $14.95 softcover, 2000, ISBN 0385487326), by Charles B. Carlson, a Currency Book published by Doubleday. What should investors do when the bull market turns into a bear? According to Carlson, 70% of the millionaires he surveyed say that their investment approach does not differ during bull and bear markets. They continue to buy and hold stocks even when stocks are in a widespread decline. Of those surveyed, 75% report that they hold investments on average for at least five years. Only 8% hold investments for less than one year. And millionaire investors also avoid nonstandard investments and strategies: less than 30% own gold; only 6% have ever bought futures; and only 15% have ever sold stocks short.

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The Fundamentals Of Municipal Bonds: 5th edition (273 pages, $59.95 hardcover, 2001, ISBN 0471393657), by The Bond Market Association (BMA), published by John Wiley & Sons. This volume is an update of the long-heralded classic text on the municipal securities market. Written by Judy Wesalo Temel for BMA - the trade association whose members underwrite 90% of all municipal bonds - this revised book deals with the many recent developments in the municipal securities market. It provides a basic understanding of the market for a range of readers, including experienced professionals, public officials, private investors, academicians, and students. This book adds a new glossary of municipal terminology and provides detailed explanations and a variety of relevant examples to illuminate crucial areas.

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Dun & Bradstreet's Guide To Doing Business Around The World, Revised (527 pages, $30 hardcover, 2001, ISBN 0735201080), by Terri Morrison, Wayne A. Conway, and Joseph J. Douress, published by Prentice Hall Press. With new opportunities for worldwide trade expanding at an unparalleled rate, there's never been a better time to expand your company's presence, market share, and potential profits abroad. This is the global dealmaker's guide to forging strong alliances and avoiding critical business gaffes. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the changing economic climates in the US's top 40 trading partners, it features vital facts on population, demographics, and markets; information on societal, religious, and political influences on business; updates on tariffs, and much more. If you are a global dealmaker and want to forge strong alliances while avoiding cultural gaffes, this book is for you.

Prentice Hall Direct

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The Guts & Glory Of Day Trading: True Stories Of Day Traders Who Made (Or Lost) $1,000,000 (288 pages, $24.95 hardcover, 2001, ISBN 0761528032), by Mark Ingebretsen, published by Prima Publishing. Every battle has its winners and losers. Everyday, thousands of daytraders take their battle positions in front of their computers to go head to head against the world's best, and most powerful, trading institutions. There are many casualties, but there are also victories -- Moments when a trader reaches the top of the system and takes a profit from the market. In this book, you'll read the stories of those traders who have been skilled enough to make significant money, and the gut-wrenching dramas of those who were unfortunate enough to lose vast fortunes.

Prima Communications, Inc.

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NASDAQ 100 Investor's Guide 2001-2002 (294 pages, $20 softcover, 2001, ISBN 0735202494), by Michael P. Byrum, CFA, with a foreword by John L. Jacobs, published by the New York Institute of Finance. Since its inception in 1985, the Nasdaq-100 has showered investors with almost twice the return of the Standard & Poor's 500, with only two down years. Select companies from the index have done even better. In addition to providing an overview of this sometimes volatile index, this book includes profiles of each component stock, complete with graphs and charts. An added bonus, Byrum offers in-depth analysis of his 25 favorite index stocks for the year ahead, and provides a list of what to look out for as you venture into today's face-paced market.

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