2008 Edition: The Neatest Little Guide To Stock Market Investing
March 2008
Beat The Market The Easy Way!
Day Trading For Dummies
The ETF Book: All You Need To know About Exchange-Traded Funds
Surviving The Storm
Timing Techniques For Commodity Futures Markets
Trade What You See: How To Profit From Pattern Recognition
The Ultimate Dividend Playbook
2008 Edition: The Neatest Little Guide To Stock Market Investing (276 pages, $15 softcover, 2008, ISBN 978-0-452-28921-5) by Jason Kelly, published by the Penguin Group. This updated edition of a guide to stock market investing provides both neophyte and seasoned investors with the insider knowledge and time-tested strategies needed to maximize their investment programs. This edition includes Kelly's maximum midcap system, real-life examples of investment strategies, and tips from investors Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, and Bill Miller. This book is an accessible approach to investing, and a valuable resource for investors.
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Beat The Market The Easy Way! (228 pages, $38.95 hardcover, 2007, ISBN 978-1-58736-918-6) by Sy Harding, published by Wheatmark. The real-time profits from this book's proven seasonal timing strategy, even through the 2000?02 bear market (with no down years) makes it a must-have for investors. This book introduces the author's Presidental-cycle seasonal strategy. The author has been one of the top market timers since 1990.
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Day Trading For Dummies (336 pages, $24.95 softcover, 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-17149-3) by Ann C. Loge, MBA, published by John Wiley & Sons. Want to succeed as a daytrader? This guide shows you how daytrading works, identifies the all-too-numerous pitfalls, and gives you a step-by-step action plan to get started. From classic and renegade strategies to the nitty-gritty daily practices, you'll see how to keep a cool head and manage risk while you buy and sell positions. It has "get in, get out" information, written in plain English, with humor and fun.
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The ETF Book: All You Need To know About Exchange-Traded Funds (386 pages, $29.95 hardcover, 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-13063-6) by Richard A. Ferri, CFA, published by John Wiley & Sons. Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are revolutionizing the investment industry. They have grown from the first ETF in 1993 to more than 1,000 on US exchanges with assets of more than a trillion dollars. This detailed guide contains up-to-date information on navigating growing number of ETFs. Divided into four parts, it addresses everything from basic to the tax benefits using ETFs. Portfolio management strategies that you can adapt to your own endeavors are included. This guide will help you build a solid portfolio of ETFs that will benefit you for years to come.
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Surviving The Storm (302 pages, $29.95 hardcover, 2007, ISBN 978-0-07-149604-9) by James O. Lunney with Larry Chambers, published by McGraw-Hill. Economic conditions can be predicted like weather patterns, based on fundamental principles of human behavior. This guide shows you how to see through the fog of the investing landscape by looking at three wealth factors -- birthrate, spending patterns, and economice seasons. You can cultivate the investments that will best serve the goals and timelines of your life. In the next economic downturn, some will see their assets washed away, while others, like this author, will be surviving the storm.
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Timing Techniques For Commodity Futures Markets (266 pages, $65 hardcover, 2008, ISBN 978-0-07-149601-8) by Colin Alexander, published by McGraw-Hill. Futures trading has grown from a specialized area to a major sector attracting pension funds, hedge funds, and other capital pools. Technology and around-the-clock trading has generated huge volumes that can be traded at minimal cost. This book explains how to make money in all market conditions. You will learn how to avoid high-risk and marginal trades without sacrificing high-potential ones. The advice on basics will provide an insider's edge on the best chart patterns for all time frames cylical and seasonal forces, and the price rules for knowing when to pull the trigger on a trade.
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Trade What You See: How To Profit From Pattern Recognition (201 pages, $60 hardcover, 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-10676-1) by Larry Pesavento and Leslie Jouflas, published by John Wiley & Sons. Trading the financial markets is difficult, but with the right approach, you can succeed. Using chart examples and a variety of stocks and markets, this guide will illustrate how patterns form. Then, with a solid foundation in pattern structure you will become familiar with the best way to integrate them into your own endeavors. The book is divided into three parts and, among other things, discusses setting up trading as a business that prepares for the unexpected. It outlines both a practical and sophisticated approach to trading that will interest all traders.
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The Ultimate Dividend Playbook (264 pages, $24.95 softcover, 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-12512-0) by Josh Peters, CFA, published by John Wiley & Sons. Today's investors are often presented with the hard choice of selecting either unreliable gains from stocks or low real returns from fixed-income securities. This book provides a third choice: reliable dividend-paying stocks that provide investors with the best of both worlds -- long-term total returns of stocks with current cash returns competitive with bonds. Dividend-paying stocks provide income now, an insight into corporate peformance, and future returns. Peters is editor of the Morningstar Dividend Investor newsletter, and this book covers nearly all aspects of dividend paying stocks.
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Originally published in the March 2008 issue of Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine. All rights reserved. © Copyright 2008, Technical Analysis, Inc.