If you're the kind of savvy trader or investor who aggressively seeks profits in bull and bear markets, this book is for you. You'll learn the secret to success in any market by utilizing a trading plan that identifies prevailing conditions and then seeks situations with the highest reward-to-risk ratios. This book explores indicators that will help you gauge investor sentiment and guide you through specific stock selection strategies before moving from stocks to options, and discussing the power of trend-based strategies for option buyers. Filled with strategies, case studies, and helpful charts, this book will put you on the path to trading profits and investment success.

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This book interviews 20 successful investors -- an assortment of fund managers, economists, professors, executives, statisticians, strategists, traders, and technicians who put their money and prowess on the line in the pages of this text. These top financial minds have made themselves available to the investing public via the Internet and are willing to share their strategies, successes, failures, and philosophies in open online forums. This book will help you connect and make money with them, giving you 20 powerful allies in the complicated game of investing. This book is a guide to investing with the Internet and shows you how to leverage the talents of experts to enhance your own performance.

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This book and CD-ROM tutorial provides traders, investors, and students with an intuitive, interactive approach to understanding and using the Nobel Prize-winning Black-Scholes model for option pricing. Integrating text and the interactive computer animations that are presented, this book teaches the fundamentals of option valuation and shortens the learning curve for mastering and applying the theory and its analytic capabilities. This book shows your investment odds and teaches you how to take advantage of them.

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How do thousands of professionals earn a living each year on Wall Street by predicting stock prices? The answer is simple -- by using techniques that allow for a stock market that at times can be predictable. A new trading model is introduced with the help of a few ideas from chaos theory. You'll learn about the specific parts of this model, and how to find the beginning and end of major swings that will form the trading range, as well as how to navigate the range once it appears. Through expert advice, real-world examples, and proven trading techniques, this book will help you make profitable trading decisions today, and accurate predictions of market movements tomorrow.

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This book looks at the historic challenges and opportunities facing the world today -- the United States in particular, but also Latin America, the former Soviet Union, the Muslim world, and the emerging countries. The author brings a wide range of political and financial experience to his arguments. He shows that to devise strategies that create lasting prosperity, one must look at the details of local politics and policies along with the larger geopolitical picture. He examines whether the 21st century will be another American century, along with many other wide-perspective questions, and ends with an analysis of what the US should do to maintain its success.

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On December 2, 2001, many of the world's most prominent financial institutions had billions of dollars of credit risk exposure to Enron Corporation when it filed its $49.53 billion bankruptcy. Adoption of early warning systems that accurately measure credit risk exposure might have alerted these investors in time for them to take action to manage their risk exposure. That is the role of the credit measurement models surveyed in this book. The authors examine how these new models approach the evaluation of the individual borrower, as well as the develop-ment of derivative contracts, to manage credit risk exposure. The art and science of credit risk management is the single most important topic in finance today. To get a jump on these new concepts and tools, you need guidance. This book gives you that.

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Imagine getting advice from an investment dream team. In this book, you'll meet 20 of today's best value managers who follow in the footsteps of Graham, Templeton, and Buffett. You'll learn how to apply their winning tactics to your investment strategies. Beating the market is never easy, but they've done it by buying cheap stocks and riding them to hefty gains. In a series of interviews they reveal how they uncover promising investments and make big money even when the rest of the market is in the red. As all of these masters manage mutual funds, if their approach meets your needs, you can hire one or more to invest for you.

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