Tested, proven, and successful, candlestick charting and analysis is one of the most profitable ways to trade the market. Signals created by this unique technical analysis method identify the immediate direction and effects of investor sentiment through price movements, and allow you to trade profitably. This guide makes learning the candlestick method fast and easy by introducing specific patterns and the psychology behind them. With these tools in hand, you will be able to learn the built-in advantages of this methodology. Your investment abilities will be improved forever.

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This video helps traders balance short-term oriented swing and microtrading moves with midrange trading timeframes. Swing and micro trading tactics are appropriate for seizing fast-breaking, ultra short-term trading opportunities. But every portfolio should also focus on a slightly longer timeline. This video serves this need. By monitoring weekly charts, core traders can hold positions for weeks or months, thereby grabbing even larger profits. Includes a free online companion guide that may be printed.

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Mutual funds are a popular choice for today's investor, which is why making sense of the available options has never been tougher. This resource contains information you need to find the right funds, choose a discount broker, and build a portfolio. It provides clear and practical guidance you can put to use. Plus, you'll find performance data for more than 10,000 funds compiled by Value Line. You will gain an understanding of how mutual funds work, how to buy them, and which funds best suit your needs. This book contains what you need to create an investment plan, regardless of your experience or how much you have to invest.

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The objective of the book is to present pertinent information, in an organized way, to enhance your trading of options on futures. The common theme of each chapter is that you must consciously decide how you want to allocate risk between market movement, changes in implied volatility, and time decay. The author assumes that readers are familiar with all the basics about options. No one can consistently forecast where the markets are going, so you must learn a different way of trading the commodity markets. You must focus on volatility by seeing graphically how your positions will perform, and by modifying your positions when circumstances change.

TradeWins Publishing, 19 Bellemeade Ave., Smithtown, NY 11787, 516 360-3348, fax 516 265-5230, TrWinsPubl@aol.com 

This latest edition outlines the Astro Economics system, a method that uses technical, fundamental, and planetary cycle analysis. This book is for new or experienced investors and traders. It has easy-to-understand explanations of how to select stocks and find out which ones will be hot picks for 2002. You can learn what will energize the economy in 2002 and what to avoid while defining your own personal investing style and understanding your attitude about money. The vast majority of the binder is made up of planetary and stock charts.

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When it comes to investing, nothing has changed the rules as much as technology. For anyone interested in investing, this book is a great resource that can be used every day. It was written to provide the reader with the necessary lingo to navigate the Internet and online trading with ease. Entries range from basic terms used within your office to the buzzwords spoken by everyday investors and traders.

This dictionary contains more than 6,000 entries. Each term is defined and cross-referenced, and will be helpful to both the experienced and inexperienced.

Career Press/New Page Books, 3 Tice Rd., PO Box 687, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417, 800 227-3371, www.careerpress.com

At one time, the customer was king. Doctors made housecalls and the corner bakery knew your weekly order. The author sees consumers setting web rules on the Internet that return to that era. 
 Today, millions of people go online to shop. They search for products, services, and information. They play, conduct research, and soon will use it to vote and pay taxes. Consumers are powerful, and the web rules are in their hands.

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This book demonstrates how Excel and VBA can play an important role in the explanation and implementation of numerical methods across finance. It takes a comprehensive look at equities, options on equities, and options on bonds from the early 1950s to the late 1990s. Each area contains both standard material and more advanced topics. All models are developed fully in both spreadsheets, bringing clarity to teaching in finance, and user-defined functions in VBA, giving a ready-made library of portable functions that can be used in Excel. The spreadsheets and VBA functions are provided on a CD-ROM.

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Savvy long-term investors realize that blue-chip investments with solid track histories have been the best bet to succeed in a changing and often volatile marketplace. Among the best of the best, the top-ranked 15 companies in Walden's previous edition produced an average annual return of 33.7% over the past two years! During the same period, the Nasdaq plunged 34%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 8%, and the Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 14%. Only the strongest companies make the grade in Walden's selection process. Companies are ranked on earnings growth, stock growth, consistency, and dividends.

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The new millennium brought profound changes to the American financial markets. Understandably, investors are increasingly wary when it comes to choosing stocks. TheStreet.com has become a news source, and a go-to investment site in the world of finance. The book discusses how to research stocks, use the resources of the Internet to screen stocks, and decide in which ones to invest. It also offers insights into how the economy has changed and what that means in terms of stock performance.

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Equity derivatives are a continuing success story offering more flexibility and hedging opportunities than ever before. They make up one of the most important components of capital markets. It is imperative that financial professionals understand how equity derivatives are priced, hedged, and implemented via new technologies. This book provides a balanced, integrated presentation of theory and practice. The theoretical treatment of each new modeling and hedging concept is followed by a demonstration of its practical application. The book also covers recent developments and new technologies that are fostering the delivery of pricing and hedging analytics over the Internet and company intranets. Take the knowledge and experience of the quantitative research team of DeutscheBank, and put equity derivatives to work for you.

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While markets have prevailed over central planning in many countries, Wall Street continues to experience disconcerting episodes of exuberance and despair. Traditional methods of financial and economic analysis provide little comfort for typical investors, whose supposed irrationality often serves as a scapegoat for the market's problems. While human psychology may contribute to the market's problems, experimentalists have found that even a simple change in the rules that govern a market can lead to a dramatic improvement in its performance. This book is packed with insights into why financial markets behave the way they do and where they might be headed in the future.

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This guide is updated with information and strategies for tackling the new 2001 tax laws. Here are business, estate, retirement planning, and tax-saving strategies that virtually anyone can implement within the new tax laws. Specific information is included to help traders reduce their tax liability, with individual case studies, real-world examples, and model tax returns. This is a strategy being used by those savvy enough to understand and use it.

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The market in listed options and nonequity option products provides investors with a wealth of strategic opportunities for managing their investments. This updated edition of the book gives you market-tested tools for maximizing the earnings potential of your portfolio while reducing downside risk, no matter how the market is performing. This reference is written especially for investors with some familiarity with options. It shows the concepts and applications of various option strategies -- how they work, in which situations, and why. Detailed examples and checklists show the power of each strategy under carefully described market conditions. A study guide is also available (162 pages, $39.95 softcover, 2002, ISBN 0735202389).

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Trading requires knowledge, skill, and something even more important -- your time. Let this video presentation help you pinpoint high-probability trades, using seven chart patterns found to be winners. With clear examples and clarification of key turning points, discover how to take the right trading actions at the right time. Every trader can benefit from Ed Downs' experience as a trader and system designer when you add this video course to your library.

The manual is available at www.traders library.com/tradesecrets.

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