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Princeton University Press Encountering Development
Book SynopsisAnswers questions such as: How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses?Trade Review"Arturo Escobar has given us an important and exciting take on issues of Third World development and its alternatives... [This book] indisputably provides some exciting and significant new ways of thinking about development... Arturo Escobar has done us all a service."--Contemporary Sociology "[T]he cultural critique--and politics--proposed in this penetrating book are crucial in these perilous times."--Michael F. Jimenez, American Journal of Sociology "[I]mportant... [A]n original and provocative analysis."--Population and Development ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the 2012 Edition vii Preface xlv CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Development and the Anthropology of Modernity 3 CHAPTER 2: The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development 21 CHAPTER 3: Economics and the Space of Development: Tales of Growth and Capital 55 CHAPTER 4: The Dispersion of Power: Tales of Food and Hunger 102 CHAPTER 5: Power and Visibility: Tales of Peasants, Women, and the Environment 154 CHAPTER 6: Conclusion: Imagining a Postdevelopment Era 212 Notes 227 References 249 Index 275
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Harvard University Press Global Inequality A New Approach for the Age of
Book SynopsisBranko Milanovic presents a bold account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Using vast data sets, he explains the forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations over time. He reveals who has been helped by globalization, who has been hurt, andwhat policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice.Trade ReviewThe data [Milanovic] provides offer a clearer picture of great economic puzzles, and his bold theorizing chips away at tired economic orthodoxies. * The Economist *In this fascinating book, Milanovic is able to articulate the study of inequality between and within countries in the clearest possible way. A must-read. -- Thomas Piketty, Paris School of EconomicsThis outstanding book adds significantly to recent works by Thomas Piketty, Anthony Atkinson and François Bourguignon. Milanovic concludes that inequality is rising within most countries, although global inequality, albeit huge, has been falling. Unfortunately, he sees no end to the current upswing in inequality in the high-income countries. That creates disturbing political dangers. -- Martin Wolf * Financial Times *[Milanovic] makes a case that the rapid growth of poorer countries since 1988 has brought the first decline in inequality since the Industrial Revolution…The very rich or the very corrupt may still hide their wealth in tax havens. Politicians in developed countries may decry rising inequality. But global trends and new data tell an alternative story about the progress already made to lift the poor. * Christian Science Monitor *Branko Milanović’s much underestimated Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, now being published in many languages, tells us more than any other recent book about the state of the world we live in and, at a time when hope is so urgently needed, offers us thought-provoking insights into the world we could become. -- Gordon Brown * The Guardian *Continuing with his extraordinarily important work on the empirics of global inequality, Branko Milanovic in this book expands on that work to lay the basis for a more theoretical understanding of the evolution of inequality. It is seen to be the product of two forces: Kuznets cycles of rising and decreasing within-nation inequalities, and convergence of mean incomes among countries. The relative strength of these two forces has profound political implications: Shall we live in the world of class cleavages, or of huge international income gaps? Is the world to be ruled by the global top 1 percent, or by a large global middle class? -- Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University[Milanovic] believes that growing inequality within countries will not threaten capitalism as a system for allocating economic resources but will pose a serious threat to liberal democracy. As middle classes everywhere get squeezed, the United States will become even more plutocratic, and nativistic populism will become more mainstream in Europe—a process that is already under way, aided in no small part by the influx of migrants, a feature of globalization that is likely to only intensify. -- Richard N. Cooper * Foreign Affairs *[Milanovic] brings an enormous scope of knowledge of recent and past income trends…The data assembled in the book are incredibly useful and will be eye-opening to most readers…There is an enormous amount of valuable material in a short book and he does raise a number of important basic moral questions that deserve careful thought. The book is well worth reading. -- Dean Baker * Huffington Post *Branko Milanovic has written an outstanding book. Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization is informative, wide-ranging, scholarly, imaginative, and commendably brief. As you would expect from one of the world’s leading experts on this topic, Milanovic has added significantly to important recent works by Thomas Piketty, Anthony Atkinson, and François Bourguignon…Ever-rising inequality looks a highly unlikely combination with any genuine democracy. It is to the credit of Milanovic’s book that it brings out these dangers so clearly, along with the important global successes of the past few decades. -- Martin Wolf * Financial Times *Milanovic offers us not just a plethora of facts about income inequality that will surely make his readers think twice. More importantly, he shows us the power of bringing the facts into focus by putting a new lens over these pressing issues—a global perspective…If you do read it, your focus will be sharper, you will be able to see further, perhaps even globally, and your image of a whole host of public policy challenges will be clearer and much more nuanced. -- Miles Corak * American Prospect *Branko Milanovic’s new book is a welcome companion to Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. -- Vicky Pryce * Prospect *[A] seminal book. -- Edward Luce * Financial Times *Global Inequality goes well beyond the narrative of rising inequality captured by French economist Thomas Piketty’s surprise 2014 best-seller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. In his highly readable account, Milanovic puts that development into the context of the centuries-long ebbs and flows of inequality driven by economic changes, such as the Industrial Revolution, as well epidemics, mass migrations, revolutions, wars and other political upheavals. -- Matt Phillips * Quartz *[Milanovic] brings fresh insights to one of today’s most talked-about issues, clearing up confusion on the way. -- Craig Calhoun * New Statesman *In Global Inequality, Branko Milanovic continues his lifelong investigation into the past, present, and future of inequality, within and between nations and in the world as a whole. Full of new and provocative ideas—including Kuznets waves and citizenship rents—the book will cement Milanovic’s reputation as one of the most thoughtful and enterprising of inequality scholars. -- Angus Deaton, Princeton UniversityThis is a most unusual and stimulating book. It covers a remarkably broad sweep in time, and deals with issues that are central to the future evolution of humanity across the globe. -- Brian Nolan, University of OxfordThis is an important book on an issue which has surprisingly been overlooked in the increasing debate on inequality: global inequality. A must-read. -- Ann Harrison, University of PennsylvaniaMilanovic is one of the first scholars of contemporary income inequality who globalized its study, not just comparing the landscape of income distribution country by country, but integrating all our viewpoints into a global panorama. This book, his latest research and thinking on inequality, gives fresh ideas and insights in global historical perspective, on the profoundly important economic changes in all our lives. This is a book that truly deserves to be read, talked about, and proudly displayed on everyone’s bookshelf. -- Danny Quah, London School of Economics and Political ScienceHard-hitting…Global Inequality reveals that the main losers of the past three decades of globalization have been the western middle classes. No wonder then that politics is turning so populist and pear-shaped in so many countries. In fact, Milanovic quite persuasively puts inequality worldwide at the heart of a wide range of ills, as threatening our economies and threatening our long-cherished democracies too…Whether you agree with his politics or not, the statistical support for Milanovic’s story is as compelling as that garnered by Piketty last year. He is persuasive that political concern about rising inequality is more than a passing fad, and that we need to think about narrowing the gaps, inside countries in particular, if we are going to avoid very ugly social and political developments worldwide. -- David Dodwell * South China Morning Post *Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization is a brilliant and thought-provoking essay stuffed with enough graphs to satisfy the numerati, anecdotes for the general reader and political insights for the policy wonks. Read it. -- Duncan Green * LSE Review of Books *Drawing on two centuries’ worth of household survey data, the book provides an important empirical picture of inequality patterns within and among nations…Milanovic’s marshaling and analysis of the data are an achievement in themselves. But I also appreciated his imaginative vision and probing sensibility, especially in the fascinating final chapter, in which he poses 10 big questions, offers predictions and proposals, and outlines a future filled with both possibility and peril. -- Jeff Kehoe * Harvard Business Review *If there is one book you want to read to understand the tumultuous events of 2016, it has to be Branko Milanovic’s Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. Using clear prose and armed with tons of data, Milanovic presents a fascinating tale of the rise and wane of global inequality to identify very precisely the winners and losers of globalization within and across countries. In doing so, he revisits some of the hoary assumptions about inequality in economics, and raises disturbing questions about the stability of democratic capitalism. -- Pramit Bhattacharya * Mint *Excellent…can help us better understand inequalities both between and within countries. -- Erik Berglöf * Project Syndicate *From assessing inequality in the Byzantine Empire to musing over where people fall on the global distribution of income, Branko Milanovic has made a name for himself as an innovative thinker in this field. Even before Thomas Piketty made it cool, he was using Jane Austen vignettes to explore historical patterns of inequality. Milanovic’s new book does not disappoint. -- Anthony Annett * Finance and Development *Milanovic provides an illuminating analysis. * Kirkus Reviews *
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers Presencing
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Working with Emotional Intelligence
Book SynopsisDo you want to be more successful at work? Do you want to improve your chances of promotion? Do you want to get on better with your colleagues? This work demonstrates that emotional intelligence at work matters twice as much as cognitive abilities such as IQ or technical expertise.Trade Review'Goleman explores how to develop raw emotional intelligence into emotional competency, which in turn can be used to turn difficult situations into rewarding ones' Independent
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Penguin Books Ltd The End of Poverty
Book SynopsisJeffrey Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University as well as Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. He is internationally renowned for his work as economic advisor to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa.
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HarperCollins Publishers The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
Book SynopsisNow shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf is a resonant exploration of economic behaviour and its consequences.Shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, this startling and unconventional book from neuroscientist and former Wall Street trader John Coates shows us the bankers in their natural environment, revealing how their biochemistry has a lasting and significant impact on our economy.We learn how risk stimulates the most primitive part of the banker's brain and how making the deals our bank balances depend on provokes an overwhelming fight-or-flight response. Constant swinging between aggression and apprehension impairs their judgment, causing economic upheaval in the wider world. The transformation between each split-second decision is what Coates calls the hour between dog and wolf, and understandingTrade Review‘This brilliant book shows how human biology contributes to the alternating cycles of irrational exuberance and pessimism that destabilise banks and the global economy – and how the system could be calmed down by applying biological principles … Should be top of the summer reading list for Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan, and anyone else wondering why traders so often get banks into trouble’ Financial Times ‘This stunning book… should be compulsory reading for anyone concerned about the behaviour of those involved in the lying and manipulation of those involved in the lying and manipulation of successive banking scandals’ Mail on Sunday ‘If Coates is right- the evidence he presents is compelling- then the financial; crises that so frequently plague capitalism find their roots in human biology’ New Scientist Magazine ‘The picture of humans as rational economic machines has gone down the tubes. This book looks at the biology of why Homo economicus is a myth, and no one is better positioned to write this than Coates – he is a neuroscientist and an economist and an ex-Wall Street trader and a spectacular writer. A superb book’ Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Neurology, Stanford University, and author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers ‘A terrific read – better than any amount of economic analysis because it explains what lies at the root of economic disaster – those biological drivers that cause sane and clever people to make catastrophic decisions. Every banker should be made to read it!’ Rita Carter, author of Mapping the Mind ‘It makes intuitive sense that biological responses inform the mood of the markets. This book puts flesh on that idea’ Economist
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Post Hill Press All the Presidents Money
Book SynopsisA journey through the personal money stories of the US presidents and how they built wealth—or didn’t.Was Harry Truman really our poorest president or simply a man up at 2 a.m. struggling with financial anxiety? Did Calvin Coolidge get bad advice from his stockbroker to buy stocks in 1930 as the market continued to crash? Is it true George Washington enhanced his net worth by marrying up? We often think of the US presidents as being above the fray. But the truth is, the presidents are just like us—worried about money, trying to keep a budget, and chasing the American financial dream. While some presidents like Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford became wildly successful with money, others like Thomas Jefferson and Joe Biden struggled to sustain their lifestyle. The ability to win the presidency is no guarantee of financial security, although today it’s a much easier path to monetize. In All the Presidents’ Money, tax attorn
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Penguin Putnam Inc Too Big to Fail
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John Wiley & Sons Prop Trading Secrets How Successful Traders are
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Princeton University Press How Progress Ends
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Oxford University Press A Dictionary of Business and Management
Book SynopsisOver 7,100 entries cover all aspects of business and management including marketing, accounting, organizational behaviour, business strategy, finance, law, and technology. Fully revised and updated, this new edition remains an essential book for business students, teachers, professionals, and anyone needing a guide to business terminology.Table of ContentsPREFACE; CREDITS; A-Z DICTIONARY
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Oxford University Press Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health
Book SynopsisThe purpose of economic evaluation is to inform decisions intended to improve healthcare. The new edition of Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes equips the reader with the necessary tools and understanding required to undertake evaluations by providing an outline of key principles and a ''tool kit'' based on the authors'' own experiences of undertaking economic evaluations.Building on the strength of the previous edition, the accessible writing style ensures the text is key reading for the non-expert reader, as no prior knowledge of economics is required. The book employs a critical appraisal framework, which is useful both to researchers conducting studies and to decision-makers assessing them. Practical examples are provided throughout to aid learning and understanding.The book discusses the analytical and policy challenges that face health systems in seeking to allocate resources efficiently and fairly. New chapters include ''Principles of economic evaluatiTrade ReviewReview from previous edition 'The book has some important characteristics that differentiate it from others in the field. Another unique feature is the presentation of tutorials that are highlighted in boxes.' * Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics *'This book is a new second edition of what became the standard text for Health Economists and can be heartily recommended to anyone who is interested in this vitally important area of research.' * Amazon.com *'An important contribution to studies on the economic evaluation of medical care.' * British Medical Journal *'This is essential reading. Only if all managers are aware of the powers of economic techniques will they be used sensibly.' * Health Service Journal *'This book suited my needs to perfection and is an ideal accompaniment to a course that combines methodology with critical appraisal and hands-on practical training in using these techniques. The methodological chapters on cost analysis and cost utility are gems... should become the standard text on the subject at the intermediate level at which it is aimed.' * Medical Decision Making *'This book is a must for every student in health services sciences.' * Acta Hospitalia *'The book is well designed and clearly written.' * Canadian Public Policy *'It leaves nothing important in economic evaluation analysis untouched.' * Health Policy and Planning *Table of Contents1. Introduction to economic evaluation ; 2. Making decisions in healthcare ; 3. Critical assessment of economic evaluation ; 4. Principles of economic evaluation ; 5. Measuring and valuing effects: health gains and QALYs ; 6. Measuring and valuing effects: contingent valuation and conjoint analysis ; 7. Cost analysis ; 8. Using clinical studies as a vehicle for economic evaluation ; 9. Economic evaluation using decision analytic modelling ; 10. Identifying, synthesising, and analysing evidence for economic evaluation ; 11. Characterising, reporting, and interpreting uncertainty ; 12. How to take matters further
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Oxford University Press On Liberty Utilitarianism and Other Essays
Book Synopsis''it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings''Mill''s four essays, ''On Liberty'', ''Utilitarianism'', ''Considerations on Representative Government'', and ''The Subjection of Women'' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes - whether in the nineteenth century or the twenty-first. They have formed the basis for many of the political institutions of the West since the late nineteenth century, tackling as they do the appropriate grounds for protecting individual liberty, the basic principles of ethics, the benefits and the costs of representative institutions, and the central importance of gender equality in society.These essays are central to the liberal tradition, but their interpretation and how we should understand their connection with each other are both contentious. In their introduction Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen set the essays in the context of Mill''s other works, and argue that his conTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION; NOTE ON THE TEXT; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; A CHRONOLOGY OF JOHN STUART MILL; ON LIBERTY; UTILITARIANISM; CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT; THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN; EXPLANATORY NOTES; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Inc Austerity
Book SynopsisSelected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailing out, recapitalizing, and adding liquidity to the broken banking system. Through these actions private debt was rechristened as government debt while those responsible for generating it walked away scot free, placing the blame on the state, and the burden on the taxpayer. That burden now takes the form of a global turn to austerity, the policy of reducing domestic wages and prices to restore competitiveness and balance the budget. The problem, according toTrade Reviewexcellent... timely... illuminating * Political Studies Review, Liam Stanley *A must-read * ACEMAXX-ANALYTICS *One of the especially good things in Mark Blyth's Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea is the way he traces the rise and fall of the idea of 'expansionary austerity', the proposition that cutting spending would actually lead to higher output. As Blyth documents, this idea 'spread like wildfire.' * Paul Krugman, The New York Review of Books *An important polemic... valid and compelling. * Lawrence Summers, Financial Times *Mark Blyth has written a clever, well-argued book that we should all read. * The Friend *Essential reading... The economy is much too important to leave to economists. We need to understand how ideas shape it, and Blyth's new book provides an excellent starting point. * Washington Monthly *Splendid new book. * Martin Wolf, Financial Times *Austerity is an economic policy strategy, but is also an ideology and an approach to economic management freighted with politics. In this book Mark Blyth uncovers these successive strata. In doing so he wields his spade in a way that shows no patience for fools and foolishness. * Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science University of California, Berkeley *Of all the zombie ideas that have been reanimated in the wake of the global financial crisis, austerity is the most dangerous. Mark Blyth shows how austerity created the disasters of the 1930s, and contributed to the descent of the world into global war. He shows how European austerity policies have prevented any recovery from the crisis of 2009, while rescuing and protecting the banks and financial institutions that created the crisis. An essential guide for anyone who wants to understand the current depression. * John Quiggin, author of Zombie Economics *Most fascinating is the author's discussion of the historical underpinnings of austerity, first formulated by Enlightenment thinkers Locke, Hume and Adam Smith, around the (good) idea of parsimony and the (bad) idea of debt. Ultimately, writes Blyth, austerity is a 'zombie economic idea because it has been disproven time and again, but it just keeps coming. A clear explanation of a complicated, and severely flawed, idea. * Kirkus Reviews *Informed, passionate. * Dissent Magazine *Mark Blyth's fascinating analysis guides the reader through 'the historical ideology which has classified debt as problematic.' In doing so he outlines the relevance of century-old debates between the advocates and opponents of laissez faire, and explains why, after a brief reemergence in 2008-09, and despite the lack of evidence supporting austerity, the world turned its back on Keynesian policies. * Robert Skidelsky, author of Keynes: The Return of the Master *Among all the calamities spawned by the global financial crisis, none was as easily avoidable as the idea that austerity policies were the only way out. In this feisty book, noted political scientist Mark Blyth covers new territory by recounting the intellectual history of this failed idea and how it came to exert a hold on the imagination of economists and politicians. It is an indication of the sorry state of macroeconomics that it takes a political scientist to expose so thoroughly one of the economics profession's most dangerous delusions. * Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University *Table of ContentsPreface ; Austerity, a Personal History ; 1 A Primer on Austerity, Debt, and Morality Plays ; Part One Why We All Need to Be Austere ; 2 America: Too Big to Fail? ; Bankers, Bailouts, and Blaming the State ; 3 Europe-Too Big to Bail ; The Politics of Permanent Austerity ; Part Two Austerity's Twin Histories ; Introduction to Chapters 4, 5, and 6 ; Austerity's Intellectual and Natural Histories ; 4 The Intellectual History of a Dangerous Idea, 1692-1942 ; 5 The Intellectual History of a Dangerous Idea, 1942-2012 ; 6 Austerity's Natural History, 1914-2012 ; Part Three Conclusion ; 7 The End of Banking, New Tales, and a Taxing ; Time Ahead ; Notes ; Index
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Pearson Education Harmonic Trading
Book SynopsisScott Carney, President and Founder of HarmonicTrader.com, has defined a system of price pattern recognition and Fibonacci measurement techniques that comprise the Harmonic Trading approach. He has named and defined harmonic patterns such as the Bat pattern, the ideal Gartley pattern, and the Crab pattern. He is the author of three books: The Harmonic Trader (1999), Harmonic Trading of the Financial Markets: Volume One (2004), and Harmonic Trading of the Financial Markets: Volume Two (2007). In 2005, Carney joined A.I.G. Financial Advisors as a Registered Investment Advisor. He has since left A.I.G. Financial Advisors after two years to start his own firm. In addition, Carney is a full member of the Market Technicians Association (www.mta.org) and the American Association of Professional Technical Analysts (www.aapta.us). He has been a regular columnist on several well-known websites, such as StockCharts.com, TradingMarkets.com, and eSignaTrade Review"To be useful, a trading methodology must be understood. Simplicity is a bonus. Harmonic Trading: Profiting from the Natural Order of the Financial Markets, Vol. 1 by Scott M. Carney succeeds on both counts. This first volume of a promising series on harmonic trading will benefit traders seeking to improve their models." --George A. Schade Jr., CMT, Stock Futures and Options, January 2011.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter 1 Harmonic Trading 7 Chapter 2 Fibonacci Numbers 11 Chapter 3 Pattern Identification 35 Chapter 4 The AB=CD Pattern 41 Chapter 5 The Bat Pattern 71 Chapter 6 The Gartley Pattern 97 Chapter 7 The Crab Pattern 121 Chapter 8 The Ideal Butterfly Pattern 149 Chapter 9 Trade Execution 171 Chapter 10 Price Action in the Potential Reversal Zone (PRZ) 185 Chapter 11 The Harmonic Trade Management System 203 Chapter 12 Pattern Violations 233 Conclusion 251 Bibliography 253 Index 255
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Warren Buffett Way Workbook
Book SynopsisThe Warren Buffett Way Workbook consists of over 500 questions and answers to help readers of The Warren Buffett Way reinforce and cement their knowledge of Buffett s hugely successful investment approach.Table of ContentsPreface ix Part I Questions Chapter One A Five-Sigma Event: The World’s Greatest Investor 3 Multiple-Choice Questions 3 Essay Questions 8 Chapter Two The Education of Warren Buffett 9 Multiple-Choice Questions 9 Essay Questions 17 Chapter Three Buying a Business: The Twelve Immutable Tenets 19 Multiple-Choice Questions 19 Essay Questions 31 Chapter Four Common Stock Purchases: Nine Case Studies 35 Multiple-Choice Questions 35 Essay Questions 48 Chapter Five Portfolio Management: The Mathematics of Investing 53 Multiple-Choice Questions 53 Essay Questions 64 Chapter Six The Psychology of Investing 67 Multiple-Choice Questions 67 Essay Questions 73 Chapter Seven The Value of Patience 77 Multiple-Choice Questions 77 Essay Questions 82 Chapter Eight The World’s Greatest Investor 85 Multiple-Choice Questions 85 Essay Questions 95 Part II Answers Chapter One A Five-Sigma Event: The World’s Greatest Investor 99 Answers to Multiple-Choice Questions 99 Essay Answers 102 Chapter Two The Education of Warren Buffett 107 Answers to Multiple-Choice Questions 107 Essay Answers 112 Chapter Three Buying a Business: The Twelve Immutable Tenets 119 Answers to Multiple-Choice Questions 119 Essay Answers 127 Chapter Four Common Stock Purchases: Nine Case Studies 139 Answers to Multiple-Choice Questions 139 Essay Answers 148 Chapter Five Portfolio Management: The Mathematics of Investing 163 Answers to Multiple-Choice Questions 163 Essay Answers 170 Chapter Six The Psychology of Investing 181 Answers to Multiple-Choice Questions 181 Essay Answers 186 Chapter Seven The Value of Patience 193 Answers to Multiple-Choice Questions 193 Essay Answers 196 Chapter Eight The World’s Greatest Investor 201 Answers to Multiple-Choice Questions 201 Essay Answers 207 About the Authors 213
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Handbook of Technical Analysis Test Bank
Book SynopsisA self study exam preparatory guide for financial technical analysis certifications Written by the course director and owner of www. tradermasterclass.Table of ContentsForeword xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi About the Author xxiii Chapter 1 Introduction to the Art and Science of Technical Analysis 1 1.1 Main Objective of Technical Analysis 1 1.2 Dual Function of Technical Analysis 3 1.3 Forecasting Price and Market Action 3 1.4 Classifying Technical Analysis 11 1.5 Subjectivity in Technical Analysis 16 1.6 Basic Assumptions of Technical Analysis 30 1.7 Four Basic Assumptions in the Application of Technical Analysis 39 1.8 Market Participants 40 1.9 Chapter Summary 42 Chapter 1 Review Questions 43 Chapter 2 Introduction to Dow Theory 45 2.1 Origins and Proponents of Dow Theory 45 2.2 Basic Assumptions of Dow Theory 46 2.3 Challenges to Dow Theory 62 2.4 Chapter Summary 64 Chapter 2 Review Questions 64 Chapter 3 Mechanics and Dynamics of Charting 65 3.1 The Mechanics and Dynamics of Charting 65 3.2 Gap Action: Four Types of Gaps 72 3.3 Constant Chart Measures 73 3.4 Futures Contracts 89 3.5 Chapter Summary 97 Chapter 3 Review Questions 98 Chapter 4 Market Phase Analysis 99 4.1 Dow Theory of Market Phase 99 4.2 Chart Pattern Interpretation of Market Phase 104 4.3 Volume and Open Interest Interpretation of Market Phase 112 4.4 Moving Average Interpretation of Market Phase 115 4.5 Divergence and Momentum Interpretation of Market Phase 116 4.6 Sentiment Interpretation of Market Phase 118 4.7 Sakata’s Interpretation of Market Phase 119 4.8 Elliott’s Interpretation of Market Phase 120 4.9 Cycle Analysis Interpretation of Market Phase 122 4.10 Chapter Summary 124 Chapter 4 Review Questions 124 Chapter 5 Trend Analysis 125 5.1 Definitions of a Trend 125 5.2 Quality of Trend: 16 Price Characteristics Impacting Future Price Action and Trend Strength 132 5.3 Price and Trend Filters 144 5.4 Trend Participation 145 5.5 Price Inflection Points 148 5.6 Trendlines, Channels, and Fan Lines 155 5.7 Trend Retracements 166 5.8 Gaps and Trends 166 5.9 Trend Directionality 168 5.10 Drummond Geometry 169 5.11 Forecasting Trend Reversals 170 5.12 Chapter Summary 171 Chapter 5 Review Questions 171 Chapter 6 Volume and Open Interest 173 6.1 The Mechanics of Volume Action 173 6.2 Volume Oscillators 203 6.3 Chapter Summary 208 Chapter 6 Review Questions 208 Chapter 7 Bar Chart Analysis 209 7.1 Price Bar Pattern Characteristics 209 7.2 Price Bar Pattern Characteristics 211 7.3 Popular Bar Reversal Patterns 218 7.4 Volatility‐Based Breakout Patterns 230 7.5 Chapter Summary 233 Chapter 7 Review Questions 233 Chapter 8 Window Oscillators and Overlay Indicators 235 8.1 Defining Indicators and Oscillators 235 8.2 Eight Ways to Analyze an Oscillator 240 8.3 Cycle Period, Multiple Timeframes, and Lagging Indicators 252 8.4 Input Data 253 8.5 Trend Trading Using Oscillators 255 8.6 Window Oscillators 255 8.7 Overlay Indicators 262 8.8 Chapter Summary 266 Chapter 8 Review Questions 266 Chapter 9 Divergence Analysis 267 9.1 Definition of Divergence 268 9.2 General Concept of Divergence 272 9.3 Standard and Reverse Divergence 291 9.4 Price Confirmation in Divergence Analysis 323 9.5 Signal Alternation between Standard and Reverse Divergence 337 9.6 More Examples of Divergence 338 9.7 Chapter Summary 354 Chapter 9 Review Questions 355 Chapter 10 Fibonacci Number and Ratio Analysis 357 10.1 The Fibonacci Number Series 357 10.2 Fibonacci Ratios 359 10.3 Fibonacci Retracements, Extensions, Projections, and Expansions 363 10.4 Fibonacci (Φ‐Based) Percentage Retracement Levels within an Observed Price Range 368 10.5 Fibonacci (Φ‐Based) Percentage Extension Levels beyond an Observed Price Range 375 10.6 Fibonacci (Φ‐Based) Percentage Expansion Levels beyond an Observed Price Range 379 10.7 Fibonacci (Φ‐Based) Percentage Projection Levels from a Significant Peak or Trough 384 10.8 Why Should Fibonacci Ratios or Numbers Work at All? 388 10.9 Geometrically versus Numerically Based Fibonacci Operations 389 10.10 The Fibonacci Trader’s Technical Toolbox 392 10.11 Area of Application 394 10.12 Selecting Effective Inflection Points for Fibonacci Operations 396 10.13 Fibonacci, Dow, Gann, and Floor Trader’s Pivot Point Levels 397 10.14 Probability of Continuation and Reversal in Fibonacci Retracements and Extensions 400 10.15 Fibonacci‐Based Entries, Stoplosses, and Minimum Price Objectives 400 10.16 Fibonacci Two‐ and Three‐Leg Retracements 402 10.17 Fibonacci Fan Lines 409 10.18 Fibonacci Channel Expansions 412 10.19 Fibonacci Arcs 414 10.20 Supportive and Resistive Fibonacci Clusters 415 10.21 Potential Barriers in Fibonacci Projections 417 10.22 Fibonacci Time and Ratio Projection Analysis on Elliott Waves 417 10.23 Chapter Summery 431 Chapter 10 Review Questions 431 Chapter 11 Moving Averages 433 11.1 Seven Main Components of Moving Averages 433 11.2 Nine Main Applications of Moving Averages 451 11.3 Chapter Summary 462 Chapter 11 Review Questions 463 Chapter 12 Envelopes and Methods of Price Containment 465 12.1 Containing Price Action and Volatility about a Central Value 465 12.2 Adjusting Bands for Effective Price Containment 475 12.3 Methods of Price Containment 477 12.4 Chapter Summery 492 Chapter 12 Review Questions 492 Chapter 13 Chart Pattern Analysis 495 13.1 Elements of Chart Pattern Analysis 495 13.2 Preconditions for Reliable Chart Pattern Reversals 499 13.3 Popular Chart Patterns 502 13.4 Chapter Summery 540 Chapter 13 Review Questions 540 Chapter 14 Japanese Candlestick Analysis 541 14.1 Elements of Candlestick Analysis 541 14.2 Popular Candlestick Patterns and Their Psychology 555 14.3 Integrating Candlestick Analysis 578 14.4 Filtered Candlesticks 583 14.5 Trading with Candlesticks 584 14.6 Chapter Summary 588 Chapter 14 Review Questions 588 Chapter 15 Point‐and‐Figure Charting 589 15.1 Basic Elements of Point‐and‐Figure Charts 589 15.2 Basic Point‐and‐Figure Chart Patterns 600 15.3 Point‐and‐Figure Minimum Price Objectives 619 15.4 Bullish Percent Index and Relative Strength 623 15.5 Chapter Summary 624 Chapter 15 Review Questions 624 Chapter 16 Ichimoku Charting and Analysis 627 16.1 Constructing the Five Ichimoku Overlays 627 16.2 Functional Aspect of Ichimoku Overlays 633 16.3 Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Ichimoku Charting 643 16.4 Time and Price Domain Characteristics of Ichimoku Overlays 644 16.5 Basic Ichimoku Price‐Projection Techniques 649 16.6 Chapter Summary 649 Chapter 16 Review Questions 650 Chapter 17 Market Profile 651 17.1 The Search for Fair Price or Value 651 17.2 The Daily Profile Formations 665 17.3 Chapter Summary 671 Chapter 17 Review Questions 671 Chapter 18 Basic Elliott Wave Analysis 673 18.1 Elements of Elliott Wave Analysis 673 18.2 Rules and Guidelines 676 18.3 Motive Waves 676 18.4 Corrective Waves 678 18.5 Wave Extensions and Truncation 682 18.6 Alternation 683 18.7 Wave Equality 683 18.8 Fibonacci Ratio and Number Analysis of Elliott Waves 684 18.9 Chapter Summary 684 Chapter 18 Review Questions 684 Chapter 19 Basics of Gann Analysis 687 19.1 Techniques of W. D. Gann 687 19.4 Chapter Summary 710 Chapter 19 Review Questions 711 Chapter 20 Cycle Analysis 713 20.1 Elements of Cycle Analysis 713 20.2 Principles of Cycle Analysis 720 20.3 Additional Cyclic Characteristics 724 20.4 Tuning Oscillator and Overlay Indicators to the Dominant Cycle Period 725 20.5 Identifying Price Cycles 726 20.6 Chapter Summary 731 Chapter 20 Review Questions 731 Chapter 21 Volatility Analysis 733 21.1 The Concept of Change and Volatility 733 21.2 Some Statistical Measures of Price Volatility 743 21.3 Other Measures of Market Volatility 754 21.4 Chapter Summary 757 Chapter 21 Review Questions 757 Chapter 22 Market Breadth 759 22.1 Elements of Broad Market Action 759 22.2 Components of Market Breadth 762 22.3 Market‐Breadth Indicators in Action 765 22.4 Chapter Summary 777 Chapter 22 Review Questions 777 Chapter 23 Sentiment Indicators and Contrary Opinion 779 23.1 Assessing the Emotion and Psychology of Market Participants 779 23.2 Price‐Based Indicators versus Sentiment Indicators 783 23.3 Assessing Participant Actions 784 23.4 Assessing Participants’ Opinions 788 23.5 Chapter Summary 791 Chapter 23 Review Questions 791 Chapter 24 Relative Strength Analysis 793 24.1 Measuring Relative Performance 793 24.2 Chapter Summary 811 Chapter 24 Review Questions 811 Chapter 25 Investor Psychology 813 25.1 General Behavioral Aspects 813 25.2 Behavioral Elements Associated with Chart Patterns 815 25.3 Behavioral Elements Associated with Market Trends 817 25.4 Behavioral Aspects of Market Consolidations 820 25.5 Behavioral Aspects of Market Reversals 821 25.6 Chapter Summary 823 Chapter 25 Review Questions 823 Chapter 26 Trader Risk Profiling and Position Analysis 825 26.1 Fulfilling Client Objectives and Risk Capacity 826 26.2 Aggressive and Conservative Market Participation 827 26.3 Categorizing Clients according to Term Outlook and Sentiment 835 26.4 The Seven Participatory Options 838 26.5 Triggers, Signals, Price Targets, and Stoplosses 838 26.6 Confirming and Non‐Confirming Price Action and Filters 841 26.7 Collecting, Categorizing, and Organizing Technical Data 843 26.8 Multi‐Timeframe Confirmation 845 26.9 Reconciling Technical Outlook with Client Interest 846 26.10 Hedging Positions with Derivatives 847 26.11 Chapter Summary 847 Chapter 26 Review Questions 847 Chapter 27 Integrated Technical Analysis 849 27.1 The Integrated Components of Technical Analysis 849 27.2 Classification of Clusters and Confluences 854 27.3 Chapter Summary 877 Chapter 27 Review Questions 877 Chapter 28 Money Management 879 28.1 Elements of Money Management 879 Chapter 28 Review Questions 912 Chapter 29 Technical Trading Systems 913 29.1 Conceptualizing a Trading System 913 29.2 Basic Components of a Trading System 915 29.3 System Testing and Optimization 915 29.4 Performance Measurement 919 29.5 Chapter Summary 920 Chapter 29 Review Questions 920 Appendix A Basic Investment Decision Making Based on Chart Analysis 923 Appendix B Official IFTA CFTe, STA Diploma (UK), and MTA CMT Exam Reading Lists 933 About the Test Bank and Website 937 Index 939
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Family Capital
Book SynopsisThe lifelong guide to effective family wealth management strategy Family Capitalprovides a unique and practical lesson on wealth management. Instead of lectures and dry discussion, this engaging book follows an archetypal wealthy family through several generations and collateral family units to show you what effective family capital management looks like long-term. You will actually listen in on meetings between the family and its wealth advisor as they grapple with the many challenges family investors face. Expert wealth advisor Gregory Curtis provides advice and insight along the way, explaining why each strategy is effective, and how you can put it to work for you. You''ll learn how to find an advisor you can trust, how to evaluate their performance, and how you can take the lead role in managing your wealth with the right advisor by your side. Estate planning and portfolio design are explored thoroughly to help you understand what makes sense for your family, and tTable of ContentsPreface ix The Titan Family x Organization of the Book xi A Note to Middle-Income Investors xiii Acknowledgments xv Prologue: The Titan Family in America xvii Preparation and Use xvii The Extended Titan Family xxii The Titan Family Tree xxvi Summary xxvi Note xxvi Chapter 1 George Titan III and His Catastrophic Mistake 1 Preparation and Use 1 How Not to Manage Your Family’s Money 1 The Mistakes George Made 9 What a Good Advisor Could Have Done for the Titans 12 Summary 17 Notes 17 Chapter 2 Ned and Rose Succeed Jake as Co-Heads of the Family 19 Preparation and Use 19 Ned and Rose React to George III’s Decision to Sell Equities 19 Jake Picks Ned and Rose as Co-Heads of His Branch of the Titan Family 21 What the Regional Brokerage Firm Could Have Done Better 35 Summary 38 Chapter 3 The Titans Search for and Engage a New Financial Advisor 39 Preparation and Use 39 How the Titans Conducted Their Search 39 Concluding the Search 46 Summary 50 Notes 51 Chapter 4 First Meeting: Governance, Investment Strategy, and Other Introductory Matters 53 Preparation and Use 53 First Meeting with the Titans’ New Advisor 53 Summary 62 Note 62 Chapter 5 The Titans Create an Investment Policy Statement 63 Preparation and Use 63 The Titan Family Meeting 65 Summary 91 Notes 95 Chapter 6 Establishing the Titan Family’s Investment Objectives 97 Preparation and Use 97 The Titan Family’s Version of Their Investment Objectives 97 Summary 121 Notes 122 Chapter 7 The Titans Grapple with Asset Allocation 125 Preparation and Use 125 The Asset Allocation Meeting 126 Summary 164 Notes 165 Chapter 8 The Manager Search Meeting 167 Preparation and Use 167 The Manager Selection Meeting 168 Summary 206 Notes 207 Chapter 9 Reviewing the Performance of the Investment Accounts 209 Preparation and Use 209 The Performance Reporting Meeting 210 Summary 244 Notes 245 Chapter 10 Miscellaneous Investment-Related Discussions 247 Preparation and Use 247 Family Investment Education 247 Adding Value to the Titan Family Portfolio 256 Investment Committees 263 Socially Responsible Investing 266 Summary 270 Notes 272 Chapter 11 Miscellaneous Non-Investment Discussions 275 Preparation and Use 275 Hiring a Custodian 275 Family Limited Partnerships 280 Family Philanthropy 281 The Family Office 290 How Much to Leave the Kids 292 Inequality and Wealth 295 Summary 307 Notes 308 About the Website 311 About the Author 313 Index 315
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Bookkeeping and Accounting AllinOne For Dummies
Book SynopsisUK bookkeeping and accounting basics for the rest of us Unless you're one of those rare "numbers people," the thought of accounting and bookkeeping probably make your head spin.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Book I: Basic Bookkeeping 5 Chapter 1: So You Want to Do the Books 7 Chapter 2: Getting Down to Bookkeeping Basics 19 Chapter 3: Outlining Your Financial Roadmap with a Chart of Accounts 39 Chapter 4: Looking at Ledgers 57 Book II: Bookkeeping Day to Day 83 Chapter 1: Planning and Controlling Your Workload 85 Chapter 2: Counting Your Sales 99 Chapter 3: Buying and Tracking Your Purchases 125 Chapter 4: Doing Your Banking 141 Book III: Undertaking Monthly and Quarterly Tasks 155 Chapter 1: Adding the Cost of Value‐Added Tax (VAT) 157 Chapter 2: Employee Payroll and Benefits 171 Chapter 3: Adjusting Your Books 191 Book IV: Working to Prepare Financial Statements 209 Chapter 1: Producing a Profit and Loss Statement 211 Chapter 2: Developing a Balance Sheet 227 Chapter 3: Cash Flows and the Cash Flow Statement 245 Book V: Accountants: Managing the Business 269 Chapter 1: Discovering Different Business Types 271 Chapter 2: Choosing Accounting Methods 281 Chapter 3: Managing Profit Performance 307 Chapter 4: Cost Conundrums 331 Chapter 5: Business Budgeting 355 Book VI: Accountants: Working with the Outside World 379 Chapter 1: Getting a Financial Report Ready for Prime Time 381 Chapter 2: How Investors Read a Financial Report 401 Chapter 3: Professional Auditors and Advisers 431 Index 445
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Book Synopsis"Although Reminiscences. was first published some seventy years ago, its take on crowd psychology and market timing is a s timely as last summer's frenzy on the foreign exchange markets.Trade Review"...certainly one of the most entertaining books ever written about stock trading..." (Money magazine, November 2007) "...is a classic that gives readers a sense of a trader's mind..." (Wall Street Journal, August 7, 2006) "... an engaging read, chock-full of pearls of wisdom and amusing anecdotes...candid and analytical style evoking sympathy for the narrator." (Money Week, October 2006) "... contains timeless advice on the markets." (The Independent, Extra, Thu 13th March)Table of ContentsChapter I - 3 Chapter II – 14 Chapter III – 27 Chapter IV – 35 Chapter V – 49 Chapter VI – 60 Chapter VII – 71 Chapter VIII – 77 Chapter IX – 89 Chapter X – 104 Chapter XI – 116 Chapter XII – 127 Chapter XIII – 141 Chapter XIV – 153 Chapter XV – 168 Chapter XVI – 176 Chapter XVII – 190 Chapter XVIII – 203 Chapter XIX – 210 Chapter XX – 216 Chapter XXI – 227 Chapter XXII – 241 Chapter XXIII – 259 Chapter XXIV – 269
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Cengage Learning, Inc Microeconomic Theory
Book SynopsisNow you can truly understand and apply the latest economic models as you work directly with theoretical tools, real-world applications, and the popular new behavioral economics in this reader-friendly, market-leading book. MICROECONOMIC THEORY: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND EXTENSIONS, 12E takes a calculus-based approach to provide the ideal level of mathematical rigor, whether you are an upper-level undergraduate or beginning graduate student. Insightful graphic presentations help you visually grasp the connections between the calculus and the algebraic and geometric approach to the same material. End-of-chapter problems present simple numerical/mathematical exercises, which strengthen your microeconomic intuition and are followed by more analytical, theoretical, behavioral, and complex problems. Unlike other more theoretical texts, MICROECONOMIC THEORY, 12E closely connects all theory to real applications in the world today.Table of ContentsPart I: INTRODUCTION. 1. Economic Models. 2. Mathematics for Microeconomics. Part II: CHOICE AND DEMAND. 3. Preferences and Utility. 4. Utility Maximization and Choice. 5. Income and Substitution Effects. 6. Demand Relationships among Goods. Part III: UNCERTAINTY AND STRATEGY. 7. Uncertainty. 8. Game Theory. Part IV: PRODUCTION AND SUPPLY. 9. Production Functions. 10. Cost Functions. 11. Profit Maximization. Part V: COMPETITIVE MARKETS. 12. The Partial Equilibrium Competitive Model. 13. General Equilibrium and Welfare. Part VI: MARKET POWER. 14. Monopoly. 15. Imperfect Competition. Part VII: PRICING IN INPUT MARKETS. 16. Labor Markets. 17. Capital and Time. Part VIII: MARKET FAILURE. 18. Asymmetric Information. 19. Externalities and Public Goods.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market
Book SynopsisPlay the forex markets to win with this invaluable guide to strategy and analysis Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market gives forex traders the strategies and skills they need to approach this highly competitive arena on an equal footing with major institutions. Now in it''s third edition, this invaluable guide provides the latest statistics, data, and analysis of recent events, giving you the most up-to-date picture of the state of the fast-moving foreign exchange markets. You''ll learn how the interbank currency markets work, and how to borrow strategy from the biggest players to profit from trends. Clear and comprehensive, this book describes the technical and fundamental strategies that allow individual traders to compete with bank traders, and gives you comprehensive explanations of strategies involving intermarket relationships, interest rate differentials, option volatilities, news events, and more. The companion website gives you access to video semTable of ContentsPreface ix About the Author xi Chapter 1 Foreign Exchange—The Fastest Growing Market of Our Time 1 Chapter 2 Historical Events in the FX Markets 17 Chapter 3 What Moves the Currency Market? 31 Chapter 4 A Deeper Look at the FX Market 53 Chapter 5 What Are the Most Market Moving Economic Data? 61 Chapter 6 What Are Currency Correlations, and How Can We Use Them? 67 Chapter 7 Trade Parameters for Various Market Conditions 73 Chapter 8 Technical Trading Strategy: Multiple Time Frame Analysis 91 Chapter 9 Technical Strategy: Trading with Double Bollinger Bands 101 Chapter 10 Technical Trading Strategy: Fading the Double Zeros 111 Chapter 11 Technical Trading Strategy: Waiting for the Deal 117 Chapter 12 Technical Trading Strategy: Inside Days Breakout Play 123 Chapter 13 Technical Trading Strategy: Fader 129 Chapter 14 Technical Trading Strategy: 20-Day Breakout Trade 135 Chapter 15 Technical Trading Strategy: Channels 139 Chapter 16 Technical Trading Strategy: Perfect Order 143 Chapter 17 Fundamental Trading Strategy: Pairing Strong with Weak 149 Chapter 18 Fundamental Trading Strategy: The Leveraged Carry Trade 153 Chapter 19 Fundamental Trading Strategy: Macro Event Driven Trade 161 Chapter 20 Quantitative Easing and Its Impact on Forex 169 Chapter 21 Fundamental Trading Strategy: Commodity Prices as a Leading Indicator 177 Chapter 22 Fundamental Strategy: Using Bond Spreads as a Leading Indicator for FX 181 Chapter 23 Fundamental Trading Strategy: Risk Reversals 187 Chapter 24 Fundamental Trading Strategy: Using Option Volatilities to Time Market Movements 191 Chapter 25 Fundamental Trading Strategy: Intervention 195 Chapter 26 Currency Profiles and Outlook 203 Chapter 27 Currency Profile: Euro (EUR) 213 Chapter 28 Currency Profile: British Pound (GBP) 223 Chapter 29 Currency Profile: Swiss Franc (CHF) 231 Chapter 30 Currency Profile: Japanese Yen (JPY) 239 Chapter 31 Currency Profile: Australian Dollar (AUD) 247 Chapter 32 Currency Profile: New Zealand Dollar (NZD) 255 Chapter 33 Currency Profile: Canadian Dollar (CAD) 263 Index 269
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University of California Press The Modern WorldSystem I
Book SynopsisA panoramic reinterpretation of global history, this title traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.Trade Review"A tour de force that brings together and makes sense of a wealth of diverse historical studies which often seem to contradict each other...an extremely formidable achievement." * New York Times Book Review *"A heroic and impressive achievement. . . . an exhilarating and satisfying book. . . . it explains more convincingly and sympathetically than anything I have read hitherto the actual process of economic and social development on a European-world scale." * American Journal of Sociology *"A remarkable book. The author has a theory and uses it to explain the structure and course of public events in Europe and its trans-oceanic annexes in the sixteenth century. The effect is dazzling and dizzying." * Societas *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Quotation Credits Prologue to the 2011 Edition Introduction: On the study of social change 1. Medieval prelude 2. The new European division of labor: c. 1450–1640 3. The absolute monarchy and statism 4. From Seville to Amsterdam: the failure of empire 5. The strong core-states: class-formation and international commerce 6. The European world-economy: periphery versus external arena 7. Theoretical reprise Bibliography Index
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HarperCollins Publishers Ditzler J Your Best Year Yet
Book SynopsisA new edition of this best-selling book. Your Best Year Yet is the perfect guide to help you realise goals and overcome last year's limitations. The proven methods in the book will make this year into the most successful ever.Your Best Year Yet is the perfect handbook to help people realise their goals in 12 months. Jinny Ditzler has almost two decades of experience with the Best Year Yet programme. Her results are inspiring; in this clear-cut guide anyone can set aside three hours of their time and transform their life.Your Best Year Yet asks you challenging questions about your expectations, accomplishments and goals for the future. It is not until you take time to sit down and really think about what you want out of the next year that you can start working towards your goals.Ditzler asks us to outline our accomplishments, disappointments, limitations, personal values, goals, our roles in life and shows us how to develop our own programme to achieving our goals and learning from our mistakes.Trade Review"Personal success does not have to be years away. Jinny Ditzler masterfully guides you from thought to action and inspires you to start actualising your heart's desires this year."John Gray, author of MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS "Whether you're a harried homemaker or a confused corporate executive, YOUR BEST YEAR YET! offers a clearly defined, easily implemented and profoundly effective method for getting your life back on track. Forget New Year's Resolutions… read this instead."Dr. Tony Alessandra, author of THE PLATINUM RULE and CHARISMA
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Visual Investor
Book SynopsisThe Visual Investor, Second Edition breaks down technical analysis into terms that are accessible to even individual investors. Shows investors how to follow the ups and downs of stock prices by visually comparing the charts, without using formulas or having a necessarily advanced understanding of technical analysis math and jargon.Table of ContentsPreface xv Acknowledgments xix Section One Introduction 1 What Has Changed? 1 Fund Categories 2 Global Funds 2 Investors Need to Be Better Informed 3 Benefits of Visual Investing 3 Structure of the Book 3 Chapter 1 What Is Visual Investing? 5 Why Market Analysis? 5 The Trend Is to Blend 6 What’s in a Name? 6 Why Study the Market? 7 Chartists Are Cheaters 7 It’s Always Just Supply and Demand 7 Charts Are Just Faster 8 Charts Do Look Ahead 8 Pictures Don’t Lie 9 Picture Anything You Want 9 The Market’s Always Right 9 It’s All About Trend 10 Isn’t the Past Always Prologue? 10 Timing Is Everything 13 Summary 13 Chapter 2 The Trend Is Your Friend 15 What Is a Trend? 15 Support and Resistance Levels 18 Role Reversal 18 Short Versus Long Term 25 Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Charts 28 Recent versus Distant Past 28 Trendlines 31 Channel Lines 34 Retracing Our Steps by One-Third, One-Half, and Two-Thirds 34 Weekly Reversals 38 Summary 38 Chapter 3 Pictures That Tell a Story 41 Chart Types 41 Time Choices 46 Scaling 46 Volume Analysis 50 Chart Patterns 52 Measuring Techniques 61 Even the Fed Is Charting 65 The Triangle 65 Point-and-Figure Charts 66 Chart Pattern Recognition Software 70 Section Two Indicators 73 Chapter 4 Your Best Friend in a Trend 75 Two Classes of Indicators 75 The Moving Average 76 The Simple Average 76 Weighting the Average or Smoothing It? 77 Moving Average Lengths 77 Moving Average Combinations 78 Summary 95 Chapter 5 Is It Overbought or Oversold? 97 Measuring Overbought and Oversold Conditions 97 Divergences 97 Momentum 99 Welles Wilder’s Relative Strength Index 100 The Stochastics Oscillator 110 Combine RSI and Stochastics 113 Summary 119 Chapter 6 How to Have the Best of Both Worlds 121 MACD Construction 121 MACD as Trend-Following Indicator 123 MACD as an Oscillator 123 MACD Divergences 125 How to Blend Daily and Weekly Signals 125 How to Make MACD Even Better—The Histogram 128 Be Sure to Watch Monthly Signals 130 How to Know Which Indicators to Use 130 The Average Directional Movement (ADX) Line 133 Summary 135 Section Three Linkage 137 Chapter 7 Market Linkage 139 The Asset Allocation Process 140 The Relative Strength Ratio 142 2002 Shift from Paper to Hard Assets 142 Commodity/Bond Ratio also Turned up 144 Turns in the Bond/Stock Ratio 144 2007 Ratio Shifts Back to Bonds 147 Bonds Rise as Stocks Fall 147 Falling U.S. Rates Hurt the Dollar 147 Falling Dollar Pushes Gold to Record High 150 Commodity-Related Stocks 153 Foreign Stocks Are Linked to the Dollar 153 Commodity Exporters Get Bigger Boost 156 Global Decoupling Is a Myth 156 Rising Yen Threatens Global Stocks 158 Review of 2004 Intermarket Book 159 Summary 161 Chapter 8 Market Breadth 163 Measuring Market Breadth with NYSE AD Line 163 NYSE AD Line Violates Moving Average Lines 164 Advance-Decline Shows Negative Divergence 164 Where the Negative Divergences Were Located 166 Retail Stocks Start to Underperform During 2007 169 Retailers and Homebuilders Were Linked 171 Consumers are also Squeezed by Rising Oil 173 Dow Theory 173 Transports Don’t Confirm Industrial High 175 Percent of NYSE Stocks above 200-Day Average 175 NYSE Bullish Percent Index 179 Point-and-Figure Version of BPI 181 Summary 182 Chapter 9 Relative Strength and Rotation 183 Uses of Relative Strength 183 Top-Down Analysis 186 Relative Strength versus Absolute Performance 187 Using Relative Strength between Stocks 190 Comparing Gold Stocks to Gold 190 How to Spot New Market Leaders 193 Where the Money Came from 193 Spotting Rotation Back into Large Caps 196 Trend Changes Are Easy to Spot 198 Rotation within Market Sectors 198 Chinese Stocks Lose Leadership Role 200 Summary 202 Section Four Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds 205 Chapter 10 Sectors and Industry Groups 207 Difference between Sectors and Industry Groups 208 Performance Charts 209 Sector Carpets 211 Using Market Carpet to Find Stock Leaders 212 Industry Group Leader 213 Sector Trends Need to Be Monitored 214 Information on Sectors and Industry Groups 214 Spotting Natural Gas Leadership 215 Natural Gas Components 215 CBOE Volatility (VIX) Index 217 Summary 221 Chapter 11 Mutual Funds 227 What Works on Mutual Funds 227 Open- versus Closed-End Funds 228 Charting Adjustments on Open-End Funds 228 Blending Fundamental and Technical Data 229 Relative Strength Analysis 229 Traditional and Nontraditional Mutual Funds 229 Keep It Simple 230 200-Day Moving Average and Housing 230 Natural Gas Breakout 232 Consumer Discretionary Breakdown 232 Bear Crossing Sinks Chips 235 Negative ROC Hurts Technology 235 Consumer Staples Hold Up Okay 235 Retail Ratio Plunges 235 Energizing a Portfolio 240 Latin America Leads 240 Real Estate Is Global 240 Profunds Rising Rates Fund 244 Profunds Falling U.S. Dollar Fund 244 Commodity Mutual Funds 247 Inverse Stock Funds 247 Summary 250 Chapter 12 Exchange-Traded Funds 251 ETFs versus Mutual Funds 252 Using ETFs to Hedge 253 Using a Bear ETF 253 Trading the Nasdaq 100 255 Using Sector ETFs 258 Inverse Sector ETFs 260 Using Technology as a Market Indicator 260 Commodity ETFs 263 Foreign Currency ETFs 263 Bond ETFs 267 International ETFs 269 Summary 275 Conclusion 279 Why It’s Called Visual Investing 279 The Media Will Always Tell You Why Later 279 Media Views Keep Shifting 280 Visual Analysis Is More User Friendly 280 Keep It Simple 280 Visual Tools Are Universal 281 The Stock Market Leads the Economy 281 Prices Lead the Fundamentals 282 Sector Investing 282 Exchange-Traded Funds 283 A Year After the 2007 Top 283 Warning Signs were Clearly Visible 284 Appendix A Getting Started 285 Find a Good Web Site 285 Use the Readers Choice Awards 285 StockCharts.com 286 Chart School 286 Online Bookstore 287 Investor’s Business Daily 288 Stock Scans 288 Bullish Percent Indexes 289 DecisionPoint.com 294 McClellan Breadth Indicators 294 Appendix B Japanese Candlesticks 295 Candlestick Patterns 297 Bullish Engulfing Pattern 298 Stock Scan Candlestick Patterns 300 Recommended Reading 300 Appendix C Point-and-Figure Charting 301 Triple and Quadruple Signals 302 How to Vary P&F Charts for Sensitivity 304 There’s No Doubt about P&F Signals 305 Recommended Reading 306 Index 307
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Inside the Investors Brain
Book SynopsisUnique insights into how the mind of an investor operates and how developing emotional awareness leads to long-term success Inside the Investor''s Brain provides readers with specific techniques for understanding their financial psychology, so that they can improve their own performance and learn how to outsmart other investors. Chapter by chapter, author Richard Peterson addresses various mental traps and how they play a role in investing. Through examples, such as a gambling experiment with playing cards, the author shows readers how being aware of the subconscious can separate the smart investors from the average ones. This book also contains descriptions of the work of neuroscientists, financial practitioners, and psychologists, offering an expert''s view into the mind of the market. Innovative and accessible, Inside the Investor''s Brain gives investors the tools they need to better understand how emotions and mental biases affect the way they manage money and react to Trade Review"Exceptionally well-written, it will likely prove to be a seminal text on the influence of the human brain on investment behavior. And neurofinance, as that field is known, may provide the next great edge for savvy investors. ... Inside the Investor's Brain , written by an experienced but surprisingly young author (he's 35), is outstanding. Peterson and his first book have much to offer investors and the institutions in which they work." -- Dr. David L. Nathan, (Barron's, September 2007) "Clear and Accessible." -- Bob Frick (Kiplinger's Personal Finance, December 2007) "Highly recommended." -- (Kiplinger's Best Investing Reads of 2007) "For those who want to take behaviouralism a step further, and to study the science of the brain - a subject that tells us a lot about ourselves, as well as about how we might just make some more money ... " --(Financial Times, December 2007)Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. About the Author. Introduction. Part I: Foundations. Chapter 1: Markets on the Mind. Analysts and Dart Boards. Developing Better Expectations. “The Wisdom of the Collective” Meteorological Anomalies and Other Animal Spirits. Sentiment. Chapter 2: Brain Basics. Damasio and the Iowa Gambling Task. The Brain: Structure and Function. The Brain-Damaged Investor. Research Methods. Neuroscience Preview. Chapter 3: Origins of Mind. Emotions and Perceptions. Expectations and the Comparator. Counterfactual Comparisons. Beliefs and Expectations: The Placebo Effect. Making Sense of the News. Self-Deception. Emotional Defense Mechanisms and Motivated Reasoning. Chapter 4: Neurochemistry. Introducing the Neurotransmitters. Serotonin. Dopamine. Norepinephrine. Opiates. Stress Hormones. Caffeine. GABA, Acetylcholine, and Omega-3 Fatty Acids. The Chemistry of (Financial) Mental Disorders. The Neurochemistry of Financial Performance. Serotonin and Market Bubbles. Recreational Drugs and Alcohol. Alcohol. Cocaine. Part II: Feelings and Finances. Chapter 5: Intuition. Analysis and Intuition. Investment Practice. What Does Your "Gut" Tell You? Listening Without Thinking. Intuition and Emotion in Investing. Emotional Intelligence. Subliminal Emotion. Stirring the Unconscious. Chapter 6: Money Emotions. Emotional Biases. The Difference between Positive and Negative Feelings. Regret as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. An Amicable Divorce. Sadness and Disgust. Fear and Anger. Projection Bias. Managing Feelings. Summary. Chapter 7: Excitement and Greed. Brokers Kindle Irrational Exuberance. The Anatomy of Stock Hype. Greed: The Basics. The BIAS Task. The Nucleus Accumbens. Excited About a Good Deal. Improving Biased Decision Making. Greed in the Markets. Chapter 8: Overconfidence and Hubris. The Psychology of Hubris. Overconfidence. Illusion of Control. Winning Changes the Brain. The Neurochemistry of Exploration. One Who Knows: Christian Siva-Jothy. Confidence—the "Good" Kind. Solutions. Chapter 9: Anxiety, Fear, and Nervousness. Climbing a Wall of Worry. Dread in the MRI. Nature versus Nurture. It’s All in Your Head. Empathy Gaps. Pain Relief. Investment Lessons. Of Hurricanes, Risk Perceptions, and Opportunity. Summary. Chapter 10: Stress and Burnout. Stress. Cramer on Stress. Choking for Rupees. Which Goes Wrong—the Brains or the Brawn? Stress and Trend Perception. Neurochemistry of Stress. Biological Effects of Stress. Adrenaline Junkies. Managing Investment Stress. Summary. Chapter 11: Love of Risk. Knowing When to Fold ‘Em. Pathological Gambling. The Gambler’s Brain. Ought to Know Better. Reducing Gambling. Summary. Chapter 12: Personality Factors. The "Big Five." Extraversion versus Introversion. Neuroticism versus Emotional Stability. Conscientiousness versus Impulsiveness. Openness to New Experiences versus Traditionalism. Agreeableness versus Self-interest. The Genetics of Personality. Investing Personality. Neurotic Investors. Extraverted, Open, and Conscientious Investors. Other Personality Research. Trading Psychology. Part III: Thinking about Money. Chapter 13: Making Decisions. Expected Value and Expected Utility. The Jackpot Trap. Probability Misjudgments. Vividness, Imagination, and Desire. Ambiguity and Uncertainty. Ambiguity in the Markets. Neuroscience of Ambiguity, Risk, and Reward. The Possibility that You are Overweight. The Trusting Brain. Neuroscience of the Ultimatum Game. The Trust Hormone. Implications. Chapter 14: Framing Your Options. The Disposition Effect. A Father-Son Stock Sale. Teasing out the Problem. Framing Risk. A Frame in the Membrane. Holding Losers: "Double-or-Nothing!" Differences in Aversion. Letting Winners Ride. Summary. Chapter 15: Loss Aversion. Neuroscience of Loss Aversion. The Equity Premium Puzzle. The Implied Put Option. Overcoming Loss Aversion. The House Money Effect. Lessons from the Pope. Comments from Soros, Tudor, and Cramer: "Booyah!" Chapter 16: Time Discounting. Get Your Hand out of the Cookie Jar. Brain Basis of Delayed Gratification. Chemical Impulses. Monkey Business. Making a Killing in the Options Pit. Improving Self-Control. In Practice. Chapter 17: Herding. Herding. Social Proof. Social Comparison. Asch and Conformity. Information Cascades. Stanley Milgram and the Shocking Truth. Nice Clothes, Fast Cars, and Fancy Titles. The Neuroscience of Cooperation. Analysts' Abuse of Authority. The Herding Habit. Living the Contrarian Lifestyle. Advice for Herd Animals and Trend Followers. Advice for Investment Committees. Chapter 18: Charting and Data Mining. Artificial Neural Networks. Data Mining and Self-deception. Finding Patterns in the Noise. The Trend and Mean-reversion Biases in Chart Reading. Overreliance on Charts. The Gambler's Fallacy. Irrational Exuberance . . . Called Too Early. The Soochow Gambling Task. The Learned Caudate. Patterns in Earnings Reports. Fooled by Randomness. Chapter 19: Attention and Memory. Terminal Illness. Representative Returns. Fond Memories. Beating the Hindsight Bias. Attention Deficit. Keep Your Eye on the Pills. What's in a Name? China Prosperity Internet Holdings. "All that Glitters." Chapter 20: Age, Sex, and Culture. Emotional Memories. The Female Brain: Estrogen, Emotion, and Cooperation. Financial Planning for Divorcees. Male Overconfidence. Age. The Seattle Longitudinal Study of Adult Development. Culture (East and West). Chinese Risk Takers. Biases Among Chinese Stock Traders. Part IV: In Practice. Chapter 21: Emotion Management. Do it for Love, Not Money. Money Changes You. Emotional Defenses. The Pursuit of Happiness. Neuroplasticity. Chemical Stabilizers. Self-discipline. Creating a Decision Journal. Chapter 22: Change Techniques. Dealing with Fearful and Overconfident Clients. Cognitive-behavioral Therapy and Stress Management. Yoga, Meditation, and Lifestyle. Simple Stress Reduction. Getting Out of a Slump. Trading Coaches. Flavia Cymbalista. Denise Shull. Modeling Others. Growing Happier. Neurofeedback. Maintain "Learning Goals." Chapter 23: Behavioral Finance Investing. Harvesting Risk Premia. Risk Premia and Expectations. Value versus Glamour. Momentum, Size, and the Optimal Portfolio. "Buy on the Rumor and Sell on the News." Limits to Arbitrage. Behavioral Finance Fund Performance. Behavioral Investment Products. Final Notes. Notes. Glossary. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Psychology of Trading
Book SynopsisThe one, only, and by far the best book synthesizing psychology and investing. In addition to providing modern, scientific knowledge about psychology, this book provides a mirror into the mind and wide breadth of knowledge of one of the leading practitioners of brief and effectual cures. Will help to cure your trading and your life. -Victor Niederhoffer, Chief Speculator, Manchester Investments Author, The Education of a Speculator and Practical Speculation How refreshing! A book that rises above the old NLP model of the 80''s and provides insights on how our relationship with the market is indeed a very personal one. Not only has Steenbarger provided some fantastic tools for the trader to transform his mindset, but he has contributed unique trading ideas as well. Brilliant! -Linda Raschke, President, LBRGroup, Inc. ''Investigate, before you invest'' was for many years the slogan of the New York Stock Exchange. I always thought a better one Table of ContentsChapter One: The Woman Who Could Not Love. Manufacturing Cars and Success. Sue, the Survivor. Finding Solutions amidst Problems. Accelerating Change by Doing What Comes Unnaturally. Going against the Flow with Sue. Finding Solutions. The Fearless Trading Inventory. An Inventory of Solutions. Enacting the Solutions. Conclusion. Chapter Two: The Student WhoWouldn’t Study. Ken, the Failure. Diversification in Life and Markets. The Psychology of Paralysis. Decisions and Uncertainty. Altering the Risk-Reward Equation. Shifting Risks and Rewards in Trading. Music, Moods, and Pivot Chords. Tom’s Pivot Chord. Breaking Routines. Breaking the Routines of Trading. Conclusion. Chapter Three: The Woolworth Man. The Interview from Hell. Observing Patterns. Invoking the Internal Observer. Rule-Governed Trading. Taking Your Emotional Temperature. Inoculating Yourself against Stress. Effort and Emotional Change. The Trader as Addict: Breaking Stops. Becoming More Rule-Governed in Trading. Using Emotion to Make the Contrary Move. Conclusion. Chapter Four: Traders Out of Their Minds. The World’s Most Powerful Glasses. Phil, the Addicted Trader. Exploring the Dual Mind. The Mind of the Trader. Solution-Focused Money Management. A Trade from the Couch. Shifting Selves in Trading. Stationarity and the Moods of the Markets. Conclusion. Chapter Five: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. Getting inside Mary’s Journal. Afflicting the Comfort Zone. Repeating Patterns. Changing Repetitive Patterns. Doing What Comes Unnaturally. Resisting What Is Best for You. Creating Powerful Emotional Experiences in Trading. Conclusion. Chapter Six: The Evil Spiders. Communication and Metacommunication. Metacommunications in Trading. The Communications of Traders’ Bodies. The Mind beneath the Human Mind. Knowing More than You Know: Implicit Learning. Minding the Complexity of the Markets. Conclusion. Chapter Seven: The Big Man beneath the Bed. Big, Silent Walt. Creating Powerful New Experiences. Regression: The Mind’s Time Travel. Entering the Time Portal. When Your Gears Remain Locked. Novelty: The Key to Change. Novelty in Therapy: Making Translations. The Role of Consolidation in Change. Walt’s Consolidation. Conclusion. Chapter Eight: Buried Alive! The Art of Timing in Therapy and Trading. Markers and the Markets. Markers with the NYSE TICK. The Power of Dreams. Dreams as Emotional Communications. Repetitive Dreams: The Themes of Life. Hypnosis: Accessing Other Minds. The Waking Trance: Daydreams. Conclusion. Chapter Nine: Trance-Forming the Mindscape. The Radio Dial of Consciousness. Changing Behavior by Changing Contexts. Trauma and the Radio Dial. Dr. Brett Receives Strange Communications. Mind Experiments. Mapping the Mindscape. Experiments with Trading. Conclusion. Chapter Ten: The Coat in the Closet. Stopping the Morning Frenzy. Stopping on the Way to New York. Knowing More than We Know We Know. Joan and Her Inner Voices. Repairing Multiplicity. Triggers. Joan’s Lullaby Therapy. When Efforts at Change Fail. Conclusion. Chapter Eleven: Pinball Wizardry. Creating Models of the World. Modeling Yourself as a Trader. Playing Market Pinball. Contrary Trading: Fading the Maps of Traders. Internal Maps and Inkblots. Maps and the Language Traders Use. Conclusion. Chapter Twelve: A Session at Gunpoint. Jack, Man in Crisis. Facing Life’s Challenge. When the Game Is on the Line. The Edge in Crisis Counseling. Dr. Brett’s Trading Crisis. Creating Change by Creating New Roles. Leaps and Tempos. Conclusion. Chapter Thirteen: A Dose of Profanity. Understanding Your Relationship with Yourself. Dave, the Narcissist. Regression and Multiplicity. Narcissism and Regression. The States of Daily Experience. Effort and Partial Consciousness. Achieving a Novel Mind Frame. Changing the Posture of Mind. Conclusion. Chapter Fourteen: Trading from the Couch. Propositions for Trading Psychology. Changing Your Mind: Applying the Principles. Matching Your Trading to Your Personality. The Great Frontier: Developing Trading Expertise. Implications of the Implicit Learning Research. Greatness and the Acquisition of Expertise. Etching the Brain. The Quest for Market Mastery. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Tech Analysis Currency Market Classic Techniques
Book SynopsisProven currency--specific trading strategies from one of todaya s top currency analysts "If you trade currency, then you need to have this book on your desk. Ita s the only book you need for technical analysis of the fastest--moving market on the planet. " --Rob Booker, Currency Trader, W.R.Table of ContentsChapter 1: FX 101. Chapter 2: Is It All Just Random? Chapter 3: The Secret to Trading. Chapter 4: Show Me the Data! Chapter 5: Trend Is Your Friend? Chapter 6: Gauging Range. Chapter 7: Fibs Don’t Fib. Chapter 8: Patterns and Antipatterns: Know Your Mark. Chapter 9: Know Yourself, Know Your Setup. Chapter 10: Setups! Setups! Setups! Glossary. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Kellogg on Strategy Concepts Tools and Frameworks
Book SynopsisCreating and sustaining a profitable business requires close adherence to the fundamentals of business strategy. Fortunately, the basics of business strategy can be boiled down to three simple principles: Firms must create value for their customers; they must fend off competition; and they must ensure that their strategic position endures.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter 1: Getting Ready to Do Strategy. Chapter 2: B Minus C: Positioning Your Firm against the Competition. Chapter 3: Affirming Your Competitive Advantage: The Resources and Capabilities Audit. Chapter 4: Measuring Your Competitive Advantage: A Toolkit. Chapter 5: The Cancer of Competition: How to Diagnose It. Chapter 6: The Cancer of Competition: How to Cure It. Chapter 7: The Threat of Entry and How to Combat It. Chapter 8: How to Sustain Your Competitive Advantage. Chapter 9: Two Examples of Strategy in Action: Southwest Airlines and the Chicago Hospital Market. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The EMyth Accountant
Book SynopsisDistilled small business advice for accounting practices Many accountants in small and mid-size practices are experts when it comes to their professional knowledge, but may not have considered their practice as much from a business perspective. Michael Gerber''s The E-Myth Accountant fills this void, giving you powerful advice on everything you need to run your practice as a successful business, allowing you to achieve your goals and grow your practice. Featuring Gerber''s signature easy-to-understand, easy-to-implement style, The E-Myth Accountant features Gerber''s universal appeal as a recognized expert on small businesses who has coached, taught, and trained over 60,000 small businesses A recognized and widely respected co-author and leader in the accounting field The E-Myth Accountant is the last guide you''ll ever need to make the difference in building or developing your successful accounting practiTrade Revieweasy-to-implement advice that should make the difference in building a successful accounting practice.' (Finance & Management, April 2011).Table of ContentsA Word about This Book ix A Note from M. Darren Root xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xix Introduction xxi Chapter 1: The Story of Steve and Peggy 1 Chapter 2: This CPA’s Personal Journey 9 Chapter 3: On the Subject of Money 13 Chapter 4: The Pursuit of Money 27 Chapter 5: On the Subject of Planning 35 Chapter 6: The Value of Taking Aim 47 Chapter 7: On the Subject of Management 59 Chapter 8: Management by Design 65 Chapter 9: On the Subject of People 71 Chapter 10: We the People 79 Chapter 11: On the Subject of Associate Accountants 85 Chapter 12: Building a Professional Team 89 Chapter 13: On the Subject of Estimating 95 Chapter 14: The Value of Pricing 99 Chapter 15: On the Subject of Clients 103 Chapter 16: Making It All about the Client 111 Chapter 17: On the Subject of Growth 119 Chapter 18: The Art of Growth 123 Chapter 19: On the Subject of Change 127 Chapter 20: The Next Generation Accounting Firm 137 Chapter 21: On the Subject of Time 143 Chapter 22: Managing Choices, Not Time 149 Chapter 23: On the Subject of Work 155 Chapter 24: Getting to the Real Work 161 Chapter 25: On the Subject of Taking Action 167 Chapter 26: Getting Things Done 175 Afterword 181
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Dividend Stocks For Dummies
Book SynopsisDividends are payments made by a corporation to its shareholders. They can either be re-invested in the business, or it can be paid to the shareholders of the corporation as dividends. Dividend Stocks For Dummies gives expert advice on how to make the most out of dividend stock investing no matter the type of market.Trade Review‘…explains in easy to understand detail how dividend stocks work, how to analyze the stocks… and managing your portfolio.' (Stockerblog.com, August 2010).Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Introducing Dividend Investing Basics 7 Chapter 1: Wrapping Your Brain Around Dividend Investing 9 Chapter 2: Brushing Up on Dividend Details 27 Chapter 3: Grasping the Dividend Advantage 41 Part II: Selecting an Investment Approach and Picking Stocks 57 Chapter 4: Risky Business: Assessing Risk and Your Risk Tolerance 59 Chapter 5: Setting Goals and Making Plans 75 Chapter 6: Choosing the Right Approach for You 87 Chapter 7: Searching for Promising Candidates 101 Chapter 8: Sizing Up Potential Picks 113 Part III: Exploring Income-Generating Industries 141 Chapter 9: Lighting Up Your Portfolio with Utilities 143 Chapter 10: Pumping Up Your Portfolio with Energy Partnerships 153 Chapter 11: Getting Connected with Telecommunications Stocks 163 Chapter 12: Investing in the Necessities of Life: Consumer Goods 173 Chapter 13: Exploring REITs and Financials 183 Part IV: Checking Out Dividend Investment Vehicles 203 Chapter 14: Compounding Your Returns with Dividend Reinvestment Plans 205 Chapter 15: Diversifying Your Dividends through Mutual Funds 217 Chapter 16: Tapping the Best of Both Worlds with Exchange-Traded Funds 235 Chapter 17: Going Global with Foreign Dividends 251 Part V: Managing Your Portfolio 261 Chapter 18: Choosing an Effective Stock-Picking Strategy 263 Chapter 19: Buying and Selling Dividend Stocks: Where and How 273 Chapter 20: Tuning In to Changes in Tax Laws 287 Part VI: The Part of Tens 305 Chapter 21: Setting the Record Straight: Ten Common Misconceptions about Dividends 307 Chapter 22: Ten Dividend Investing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them 313 Appendix: The Dividend Aristocrats 319 Index 323
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Simon & Schuster LEAN THINKING
Book SynopsisLean Thinking was launched in the fall of 1996, just in time for the recession of 1997. It told the story of how American, European, and Japanese firms applied a simple set of principles called ''lean thinking'' to survive the recession of 1991 and grow steadily in sales and profits through 1996. Even though the recession of 1997 never happened, companies were starving for information on how to make themselves leaner and more efficient. Now we are dealing with the recession of 2001 and the financial meltdown of 2002. So what happened to the exemplar firms profiled in Lean Thinking? In the new fully revised edition of this bestselling book those pioneering lean thinkers are brought up to date. Authors James Womack and Daniel Jones offer new guidelines for lean thinking firms and bring their groundbreaking practices to a brand new generation of companies that are looking to stay one step ahead of the competition.
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HarperCollins Winning The Ultimate Business HowTo Book
Book SynopsisA champion manager of people, Jack Welch shares the hard-earned wisdom of a storied career in what will become the ultimate business bible With Winning, Jack Welch delivers a wide-ranging, in-depth, no-holds-barred management guidebook about the tough strategic, organizational, and personal challenges that face people at every stage of their careers. Loaded with candid personal anecdotes, hard-hitting advice, and invaluable dos and don'ts, Jack explains his theory of business, by laying out the four most important principles that form the foundation of his success. Chapters include: How to Get Promoted, How to Think about Strategy, How to Write a Budget that Works, How to Work for a Jerk, How Find Work-Life Balance and How Start Something New. Enlivened by quotes from business leaders that Welch interviewed especially for the book, it's a tour de force that reflects Welch's mastery of execution, excellence and leadership.
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Pearson Education Limited Organizational Theory Design and Change Global
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Part 1: The Organization and Its Environment Chapter 1: Organizations and Organizational Effectiveness Chapter 2: Stakeholders, Managers, and Ethics Chapter 3: Organizing in a Changing Global Environment Part 2: Organizational Design Chapter 4: Basic Challenges of Organizational Design Chapter 5: Designing Organizational Structure: Authority and Control Chapter 6: Designing Organizational Structure: Specialization and Coordination Chapter 7: Creating and Managing Organizational Culture Chapter 8: Organizational Design and Strategy in a Changing Global Environment Chapter 9: Organizational Design, Competences, and Technology Part 3: Organizational Change Chapter 10: Types and Forms of Organizational Change Chapter 11: Organizational Transformations: Birth, Growth, Decline, and Death Chapter 12: Decision Making, Learning, Knowledge Management, and Information Technology Chapter 13: Innovation, Intrapreneurship, and Creativity Chapter 14: Managing Conflict, Power, and Politics
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Simon & Schuster Beating the Street
Book SynopsisDevelop a Winning Investment Strategy-with Expert Advice from The Nation''s #1 Money Manager. Peter Lynch''s invest in what you know strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small. An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There''s a company behind every stock and a reason companies-and their stocks-perform the way they do. In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research. In Beating the Street,Lynch for the first time explains how to devise a mutual fund strategy, shows his step-by-step strategies for picking stock, and describes how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts. There''s no reason the individual investor can''t match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how.Table of ContentsCONTENTSPrefacePreface to the Trade Paperback EditionIntroduction: Escape from BondageOne: The Miracle of St. AgnesTwo: The Weekend WorrierThree: A Tour of the Fund HouseFour: Managing Magellan: The Early YearsFive: Magellan: The Middle YearsSix: Magellan: The Later YearsSeven: Art, Science, and LegworkEight: Shopping for Stocks: The Retail SectorNine: Prospecting in Bad News: How the "Collapse" in Real Estate Led Me to Pier 1, Sunbelt Nursery, and General HostTen: My Close Shave at SupercutsEleven: Blossoms in the Desert: Great Companies in Lousy IndustriesTwelve: It's a Wonderful BuyThirteen: A Closer Look at the S&LsFourteen: Master Limited Partnerships: A Deal with a YieldFifteen: The Cyclicals: What Goes Around Comes AroundSixteen: Nukes in Distress: CMS EnergySeventeen: Uncle Sam'a Garage Sale: Allied Capital IIEighteen: My Fannie Mae DiaryNineteen: Treasure in the Backyard: The Colonial Group of Mutual FundsTwenty: The Restaurant Stocks: Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth IsTwenty-One: The Six-Month Checkup25 Golden RulesPostscriptIndex
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Amplify Publishing Yield How Google Bought Built and Bullied Its Way
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Cengage Learning, Inc Milady Standard Esthetics Advanced
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LID Publishing Inc. Adaptive Capacity
Book SynopsisThe five crucial dimensions that companies must improve in order to succeed in today's disrupted world.
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Little, Brown & Company A Whack on the Side of the Head
Book SynopsisThis is the 25th anniversary edition of the creativity classic by Dr. Roger von Oech. Over the years, A WHACK ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD has been praised by business people, educators, scientists, homemakers, artists, youth leaders, and many more. The book has been stimulating creativity in millions of readers, translated into eleven languages, and used in seminars around the world. Now Roger von Oech''s fully illustrated and updated volume is filled with even more provocative puzzles, anecdotes, exercises, metaphors, cartoons, questions, quotations, stories, and tips designed to systematically break through your mental blocks and unlock your mind for creative thinking. This new edition will attract an entire new generation of readers with updated and mind-stretching material.Trade Review'Business brilliance!' -- USA Today 'This new WHACK is even more potent.' -- Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain 'What a technique!' -- ABC's 20/20 'Using this product may beat consulting the I Ching.' -- Fortune 'Roger von Oech has won a loyal following around the country.' -- BusinessWeek 'Very refreshing...a book about how to get through life!' -- Richard Bolles, Author of What Color Is Your Parachute 'Roger von Oech runs alps around everyone else in the creativity consulting business.' -- San Francisco Examiner 'A wonderfully entertaining book that will enhance your creative ability. It will make a difference in your life!' -- James Adams, author of Conceptual Blockbusting
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WW Norton & Co Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread from the
Book SynopsisA New York Times bestseller "Brilliant, funny…the best math teacher you never had." —San Francisco ChronicleTrade Review"Sparkling and intensely readable…A riff on basic statistics that is neither textbook nor essay but a happy amalgam of the two." -- New York Times"Naked Statistics is an apt title. Charles Wheelan strips away the superfluous outer garments and exposes the underlying beauty of the subject in a way that everyone can appreciate." -- Hal Varian, chief economist at Google"[Wheelan] does something unique here: he makes statistics interesting and fun. His book strips the subject of its complexity to expose the sexy stuff underneath." -- The Economist"Almost anyone interested in sports, politics, business, and the myriad of other areas in which statistics rule the roost today will benefit from this highly readable, on target, and important book." -- Frank Newport, Gallup editor-in-chief"A fun, engaging book that shows why statistics is a vital tool for anyone who wants to understand the modern world." -- Jacob J. Goldstein, NPR’s Planet Money"Two phrases you don’t often see together: ‘statistics primer’ and ‘rollicking good time.’ Until Charlie Wheelan got to it, that is. This book explains the way statistical ideas can help you understand much of everyday life." -- Austan Goolsbee, professor of economics at the University of Chicago and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers"A well written, surprisingly funny, and enthusiastic primer on statistics…It is hard to imagine a more accessible introduction to a field with an undeserved reputation for inaccessibility." -- New Republic"With humor and an engaging conversational style, [Wheelan] walks the reader through the basics of statistical concepts and their applications, using real-world examples to illustrate how statistics work and why they matter. All in all, it’s an excellent book." -- Science News"Naked Statistics is the book that I wish I had in 1991, the year that I took stats during my first semester at grad school…Wheelan is a master of explaining the core concepts and methods of statistics in a way that is both accessible and relevant. He is clearly a master teacher, and his gifts are in abundant display in Naked Statistics." -- Inside Higher Ed
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Essential Manners for Men 2nd Edition
Book SynopsisTackles the issues of real concern for men. This title includes: Social Media: social networking, gaming, and the world of online dating; Communication: both in person - greetings, handshakes, and the all-important first impression - and on-the go-texting, emailing, and smart phones; and, more.
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Pearson Education Strategic Management A Competitive Advantage
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Everybody Lies
Book Synopsis New York Times BestsellerForeword by Steven Pinker,...
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John Wiley & Sons Inc On the Hunt for Great Companies
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe The New Gold Standard 5 Leadership Principles for
Book SynopsisDiscover the secrets of world-class leadership!When it comes to refined service and exquisite hospitality, one name stands high above the rest: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. With ceaseless attention to every luxurious detail, the company has set the bar for creating memorable customer experiences in world-class settings. Now, for the first time, the leadership secrets behind the company's extraordinary success are revealed.The New Gold Standard takes you on an exclusive tour behind the scenes of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. Granted unprecedented access to the company's executives, staff, and its award-winning Leadership Center training facilities, bestselling author Joseph Michelli explored every level of leadership within the organization. He emerged with the key principles leaders at any company can use to provide a customer experience unlike any other, such as: Understanding the ever-evolving needs of customers Empowering employees b
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OUP Oxford Oxford IB Diploma Programme Business Management
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Pearson Education (US) Brand Flip The
Book SynopsisMarty Neumeier is an author, designer, and business adviser. His previous whiteboard books includes The Brand Gap, widely considered the foundation of modern brand-building; ZAG, named one of the top hundred business books of all time for its insights into brand strategy; The Designful Company, a guide to building a culture of nonstop innovation; and The 46 Rules of Genius, which lays out a universal map to innovation mastery. In 1996, Neumeier founded Critique magazine, the first journal about design thinking. He has worked closely with innovative companies such as Apple, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Google, and Twitter to help advance their brands and cultures. Today he serves as Director of Transformation for Liquid Agency in Silicon VaTrade Review"Marty Neumeier does it again: with his finger firmly on the future of branding, he shreds conventional marketing wisdom. Read this book!" -NIRAJ DAWAR, author of Tilt, professor at the Ivey Business School "The Brand Flip will absolutely be the new bible for branding. It goes immediately onto my list of the top books I've ever read." -JOHN SPENCE, AUTHOR OF AWESOMELY SIMPLE AND "TOP 100 BUSINESS THOUGHT LEADER" "An exhilarating dive into the big new truth: companies don't make brands, customers do." -ROBERT JONES, STRATEGIST AT WOLFF OLINS AND PROFESSOR AT UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA "Timeless marketing wisdom applied to a tricky future." -ROGER MARTIN, MANAGEMENT THINKER, AUTHOR OF THE DESIGN OF BUSINESS "Marty Neumeier is a master storyteller, making this powerful book as enjoyable to read as it is illuminating. The psychology of consumers has fundamentally changed over the last decade. Marty takes the 'daunting' out of the daunting task of adapting to this change." -KIT YARROW, PH.D, CONSUMER PSYCHOLOGIST AND AUTHOR OF DECODING THE CONSUMER MIND Insight! Marty Neumeier brings incisive clarity to that disorienting encounter between real people, societal change, and business strategy. Just flip! -RIC GREFE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF AIGA, THE PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DESIGN "Marty Neumeier brilliantly groks how changes in the 'human capital' of customers can transform the brand equity of products and services. THE BRAND FLIP is the investment manual for marketers who want to make that human capital even more valuable." -MICHAEL SCHRAGE, AUTHOR OF WHO DO YOU WANT YOUR CUSTOMERS TO BECOME? "Get smart: Read THE BRAND FLIP and learn a) why customers want to take over your brand, and b) how to help them do it." -GREG PETROFF, CHIEF EXPERIENCE OFFICER AT GETable of ContentsINTRODUCTION 1 FLIPPING THE BRAND Products –> Meaning Selling –> Enrolling Company identity –> Customer identity Transactions –> Relationships Buyer beware –> Seller beware Tangible –> Immaterial Better products –> Better customers Customer segments –> Customer tribes Brands –> Movements 2 LEADING THE TRIBE Authority –> Authenticity Punishment –> Protection Captive audience –> Engaged participants Customer base –> Fan base Competing –> Differentiating Features –> Experience Story telling –> Story making Cost-based pricing –> Relationship pricing Static brands –> Liquid brands 3 FLIPPING THE CULTURE Value protection –> Value creation Monolithic planning –> Fluid planning Investor rhythms –> Customer rhythms Rigid hierarchies –> Flexible roles Insularity –> Inclusiveness Conformity –> Troublemaking Rivalry –> Collaboration Generic skills –> Branded skills Analysis –> Action 4 DESIGNING THE WAY FORWARD Deciding the future –> Designing the future Grand schemes –> Cheap experiments Certainty –> Empathy Linear process –> Swarming Assumptions –> Testing Compromise –> Common ground Over-choice –> Simplicity Logic –> Magic Satisfaction –> Empowerment THE FLIP CHART RECOMMENDED READING ABOUT THE AUTHOR INDEX
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