February 2006
The Almanac Investor: Profit From Market History And Seasonal Trends
The Almanac Investor: Profit From Market History And Seasonal Trends (525 pages, $39.95 softcover, 2005, ISBN 0-471-65405-1) by Jeffrey A. Hirsch and J. Taylor Brown, published by John Wiley & Sons.
The key to investment success is accurate financial research, which depends on your ability to quickly access and analyze data. Combining this book and its online research platform can help you do just that. This book reveals valuable data and practical indicators needed to understand and profit from recognizing market fluctuations and patterns. Here you will find four decades' worth of stock market research packed into one reference.
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The currency/foreign exchange (FX) market is by far the largest financial market in the world, with trading volumes surpassing $1.9 trillion a day. A new era of Internet-based communication technologies has recently allowed individual investors to gain direct access to this market. This book reveals technical and fundamental strategies for trading the FX market. Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, it can show you how to enter this arena with confidence and exit with profits.
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Chart pattern analysis is one of the most important investing tools, and one of the most popular. This book is designed to help both new and seasoned traders profit by tracking and identifying specific chart patterns. Bulkowski, a STOCKS & COMMODITIES Contributing Writer, opens with a discussion of chart pattern formation and how bad habits can hurt trading, then moves on to more than 40 key chart formations and trading tactics. Bulkowski includes his own trading experiences to shed light on how to about trading with chart patterns.
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Options more than doubled between 1993 and 1998. Option trading volume in 2004 was 30% higher than in 2003. Yet even savvy investors need instructions to tailor a sophisticated risk/reward profile that will maximize earning potential. This third edition, updated and reformatted, begins with an introduction to the concepts that are the building blocks toward understanding the strategies that the professionals use. Subsequent chapters focus on individual strategies, and each concludes with examples and a series of self-tests.
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No one cares more about your money than you do. Therefore, understanding the market is one of the wisest decisions you can make. Nassar has educated thousands of traders and investors to achieve financial freedom and success. This book, filled with trading insights drawn from his teachings, shares the lessons of his success and that of other Wall Street professionals, and reveals the ideas, methods, and techniques needed for trading. Readers are provided with a solid trading and investing foundation of fundamental and technical analysis, and offered a variety of trading strategies and instruments to tailor a strategy to any trading time horizon.
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This guide includes analysis of the 2005 tax law changes and help you understand how they will affect you in clear explanations. Using easy-to-understand language, these tax professionals explain how the tax rules affect your personal finances and how you may benefit. They outline ways to handle your investments, plan for your retirement, pay for your kids' education, and more. It gives you tips to keep you from paying more tax than you need to, and will help you plan for new rules that don't take effect until 2006 or later.
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Volatility is an ally if you know the secrets of timing. Author Weir lays bare those secrets in this systematic yet easily accessible volume. From broad principles to examples of actual trades, you'll learn to avoid the market's seductive traps and make the decisions that will keep you ahead of the game.
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After great initial success as a professional trader, Thomas Busby was nearly wiped out in the stock market crash of 1987. Rebounding, he devised a method of daytrading that allowed him to reap profits and avoid pitfalls. He will teach the crucial role psychology plays in the trading game. And you will find out why risk management — not profit-taking — must be the daytrader's highest priority. This book will serve as an introduction for the novice, as well as a guide for the established trader. This guide that will enable you to reap the rewards of those who know how to win.
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