Posted: January 31st, 2008, 5:09pm CET
A Beginner's Guide to Short-Term Trading: How to Maximize Profits in 3 Days to 3 Weeks
股票短线操作:初入市者指南
# Author:Toni Turner
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count: 280 pages
# Publisher: Adams Media Corporation (January 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1580625703
# ISBN-13: 978-1580625708
Hi Everyone! "A Beginner's Guide to Short-term Trading" is written to those of you who want to profit by grabbing the "sweet spots" out of a stock's uptrend or downtrend. The book explains two styles of trading: swing trading and position trading. When you place a swing trade, you buy a stock with the intent of taking gains in 2 - 5 days. When you enter a position trade, you typically buy a stock breaking out of a base into an uptrend. You hold that position as long as the stock rises in that uptrend, approximately 3 - 6 weeks.
If you have a have full-time job, yet want to participate in the stock market, short-term trading may appeal to you. And, if you're a traditional buy-and-hold investor, the knowledge you find in this book will help you keep your profits, instead of gaining them . . . and then giving them back.
Posted: January 30th, 2008, 5:03pm CET
Someone Will Make Money on Your Funds - Why Not You: A Better Way to Pick Mutual and Exchange-Traded Funds
共同基金与交易所买卖基金指南
# Author:Gary L. Gastineau
# Format:PDF 1.1MB
# Page Count: 296 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (August 31, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471744824
# ISBN-13: 978-0471744825
Expert advice on mutual funds and ETFs
This is not a typical investment book. While it covers critical investment and planning topics, it focuses on providing a unique, effective approach to picking mutual funds and ETFs. It is written for investors who want to own funds that turn away market timers, operate efficiently, and deliver solid returns.
Author and financial professional Gary Gastineau starts with the proposition that index funds usually have better performance than actively managed funds because they have lower costs. He explains how and why it is better to select funds based on indexes that are less popular and more efficient than widely used indexes like the Russell 2000 and the Standard & Poor's 500. Then he shows you how to find funds with lower expenses, including lower transaction costs. He also offers hope for a better breed of actively managed funds.
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 5:03pm CET
The Global Securities Market: A History
全球证券市场史
# Author:Ranald Michie
# Format:PDF 1.7MB
# Page Count: 412 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 1, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0199280614
# ISBN-13: 978-0199280612
This history of the global securities market is the product of over 30 years of research by one of the world's foremost financial historians. It covers all aspects of the history of the securities markets from its beginnings in Medieval Venice through Amsterdam and London to its operations in Tokyo and New York today. It also integrates the history of both stocks and bonds, established and emerging markets, stock exchanges and over-the- counter trading, and the crises and continuity that have made the global securities market such a force in the world over the centuries. A path-breaking book unlike any other written before, it provides in one volume an authoritative account of the global securities market from its earliest developments to the present day.
Posted: January 28th, 2008, 5:03pm CET
The Real Estate Fast Track: How to Create a $5,000 to $50,000 Per Month Real Estate Cash Flow
房地产快车道:如何每月创造从5,000至50,000美元的收入
# Author:David Finkel
# Format:PDF 1.0MB
# Page Count: 273 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (March 31, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471728306
# ISBN-13: 978-0471728306
What if you could consistently bring in $5,000 to $50,000 in real estate cash flow every month? Would you change the way you live your life? Every year, thousands of Americans do just that, using real estate to achieve the wealth and independence they've always dreamed of. In The Real Estate Fast Track, author David Finkel offers step-by-step guidance on building a real estate business that lets you earn more while you work less! You'll master all five of the core skills of the world's wealthiest investors and learn the advanced secrets that have helped Finkel's students and clients buy and sell over $1 billion of real estate, much of it without cash or credit. You'll build your real estate business until you can relax and watch the money flow in.
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 8:46am CET
Be Smart, Act Fast, Get Rich: Your Game Plan for Getting It Right in the Stock Market
明智一点,快速一点,先富起来:股市中正确的选择
# Author:Charles V. Payne
# Format:PDF 3.8MB
# Page Count: 332 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (May 4, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470075015
# ISBN-13: 978-0470075012
In today's markets, there are literally thousands of stocks available to trade or invest in, and every day some of those stocks make big moves. While the reasons behind the moves may vary, the ability to position yourself for those moves can consistently enhance the profitability of your portfolio.
Nobody knows this better than author and independent Wall Street analyst Charles Payne. He understands what it takes to make it in today's financial markets, and in Be Smart, Act Fast, Get Rich, he'll show you how to actively invest in stocks using strategies that eliminate emotions and incorporate fundamental analysis and charting to avoid the mistakes of the crowd.
Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Be Smart, Act Fast, Get Rich demystifies the stock market in a way that will allow you to make the most informed investment decisions possible. It will not only show you how to pick stocks that are poised for big moves, but it will also help you gain a better understanding of what the overall market is doing.
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 12:10am CET
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Even if You're Not Too Smart: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
你可以成为股市的天才,即使你不太聪明:揭开股市盈利的秘密
# Author:Joel Greenblatt
# Format:PDF 49.3MB
# Page Count: 304 pages
# Publisher: Simon & Schuster (March 1, 1997)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0684832135
# ISBN-13: 978-0684832135
The stock-market profits that investment pro Greenblatt is chasing are found in some areas not usually considered by the average investor: spin-offs, mergers, risk arbitrage, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, and asset sales. Greenblatt acknowledges that pursuing them will require some time, effort, patience, and experience. But he argues that because these areas are not overstudied by the analysts, possible market inefficiencies can be exploited. He explains each area with case studies from his own experience. Librarians will love his answer to the question, "Where can you find these special investment opportunities?"?read, read, read?and he gives the best places to look, emphasizing that you can pirate good ideas but you still need to do your own homework. None of this should be beyond the experienced investor (Greenblatt himself says he doesn't "like to work too hard to understand an investment"), but it is probably beyond the neophyte.
Posted: January 26th, 2008, 12:51am CET
The All-Season Investor: Successful Strategies for Every Stage in the Business Cycle
# Author:Martin J. Pring
# Format:PDF 11.3MB
# Page Count: 352 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (March 1992)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471549770
# ISBN-13: 978-0471549772
The author offers practical straightforward guidance to modern methods of asset allocation. Explains why each stage in the business cycle--including recession--has its profitable investment strategy and provides various techniques for tracking the cycle in order to choose appropriate investments. A ``must-have'' for investors seeking guidance for the unknown changes ahead.
Posted: January 24th, 2008, 5:16pm CET
Making Big Money Investing In Foreclosures Without Cash or Credit
非现金或信用购买不动产
# Author:Peter Conti
# Format:PDF 1.03MB
# Page Count: Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; 2 edition (March 1, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1419597221
# ISBN-13: 978-1419597220
HERE'S WHAT READERS OF MAKING BIG MONEY INVESTING IN FORECLOSURES WITHOUT CASH OR CREDIT :
Michael King I knew that there was more to life than a job and I could achieve it if I was willing to make the effort. The greatest satisfaction for me comes from taking a house that is trashed and turning it into a desirable home. Read Peter's Making Big Money in Foreclosures and study your area and market. Then find ways to hang out with other winners like those you'd finding the Mentor Family.
Teri Darnell Although I've always had a good job and made decent money, living is expensive, and it's very easy to refinance and continue to borrow until one day you realize you're in way over your head. I was in foreclosure myself in the early '90s, so I understand the mental state people are in when it's happening. When money is short, it's so easy to leave your bills unopened and stick your head in the sand. It's a state of denial. I'm able to tell people my story and show them I'm a living example of life after foreclosure. I've been there, done that, and have bought real estate many times since, so it's not the end, but a new beginning.
Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 5:07pm CET
The New Laws of the Stock Market Jungle: An Insider's Guide to Successful Investing in a Changing World
新股市法则:成功投资于多变的世界
# Author:Michael J. Panzner
# Format:PDF 1.4MB
# Page Count: 320 pages
# Publisher: FT Press (July 9, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 032124785X
# ISBN-13: 978-0321247858
The stock market is undergoing revolutionary change: new players, new technologies, new information flows, and new macroeconomic conditions. These changes are radically impacting investors, whether they realize it or not. Now, Wall Street insider Michael J. Panzner shows you how to profit from the changes--instead of being victimized by them.
Discover how falling transaction costs and a barrage of data are transforming investment patterns, and how stocks are increasingly being bought and sold like commodities. Understand the impact of electronic trading, instant messaging, and hedge funds on intraday volatility and short-term direction. Learn how booms and busts have altered investor behavior and risk preferences, why today's market is increasingly emotional, and why many traditional market indicators simply don't work anymore.
From the growing role of derivatives to the increasing unpredictability of seasonal and cyclical patterns, this book takes you "under the hood" of today's equity markets... so you can choose investments that win.
Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 4:20am CET
The Future of Investing in Europe's Markets after MiFID
如何在MiFID引入后投资欧洲股市
# Author:Chris Skinner
# Format:PDF 1.5MB
# Page Count: 292 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (Jul 30 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470510382
# ISBN-13: 978-0470510384
The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) is the biggest change programme Europe’s capital markets have ever attempted. It takes all the protection away from Europe’s Stock Exchanges and forces investment banks, brokers and dealers to guarantee best execution. The organisational, process and technology changes demanded by the MiFID are massive.
In order to understand these challenges, industry commentator Chris Skinner has gathered the views of Europe’s leading figures in the MiFID community to discuss its implications. From an introduction from the European Business School and European Commission, through the views of leaders in the key constituencies of MiFID Connect and the MiFID Joint Working Group, through to organisations supporting the markets such as Reuters and SWIFT, this book provides a 360-degree perspective of the world of investing in Europe’s markets after the MiFID implementation.
Posted: January 22nd, 2008, 12:45pm CET
The Naked Trader: How Anyone Can Still Make Money Trading Shares
赤裸交易者:如何从股票交易中获利
# Author:Robbie Burns
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count: 344 pages
# Publisher: Harriman House Publishing; 2nd Rev Ed edition (10 Dec 2007)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 1905641516
# ISBN-13: 978-1905641512
In my opinion this is an excellent read well worth investing in.
The second edition of the Naked Trader is aimed I believe not only at the novice share dealer but also the relatively new one who may need the basic principles obtained from the first edition of the book reinforced by new ideas and strategies, which, I am pleased to report, are provided in abundance by the author. I believe it may also be aimed at the more experienced dealer who has perhaps lost their way a little, doesn't understand why, and would like to polish up on their skills. Read this book and a light-bulb will switch on in your head - you'll realise how and why you have been going wrong.
It is very refreshing to read a book on this subject that has been written in such an entertaining, easy-to-understand and logical style. So long as you can read and understand English you will understand everything in this book!
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:47pm CET
China and the WTO: Accession, Policy Reform, and Poverty Reduction Strategies
中国与世贸组织:入世,政策改革和减贫战略
# Author:Deepak Bhattasali, Shantong Li, Will Martin
# Format:PDF 5.5MB
# Page Count: 368 pages
# Publisher: A World Bank Publication (July 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0821356674
# ISBN-13: 978-0821356678
China and the WTO analyzes the nature of the reforms involved in Chinas accession to the WTO, assesses their implications for the world economy, and examines the implications for individual households, particularly the poor. Its key objective is to provide the information that will allow policy makers to implement WTO commitments and formulate supporting policies to contribute strongly to economic development and poverty reduction.
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 8:35am CET
Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World
全球经济展望2008
# Author:World Bank
# Format:PDF 3.9MB
# Page Count: 200 pages
# Publisher: World Bank Publications (January 10, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 082137365X
# ISBN-13: 978-0821373651
Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World examines the state of technology in developing countries and the pace with which it has advanced since the early 1990s. It reveals both encouraging and cautionary trends. On the one hand, the pace of technological progress in developing countries has been much faster than in high-income countries-reflecting increased exposure to foreign technology as a result of linkages with high-skilled diasporas and the opening of these countries to international trade and foreign direct investment.On the other hand, the technology gap remains large, and the domestic factors that determine how quickly technologies spread within developing countries often stymie progress, especially among low-income countries. This year's Global Economic Prospects comes on the heels of an extended period of strong growth and a 15 year period of strong performance in much of the developing world, which has contributed to substantial declines in global poverty. While high oil prices and heightened market volatility may signal a coming pause in this process, over the longer term continued technological progress should continue to push back poverty.
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 12:05am CET
Your Next Great Stock: How to Screen the Market for Tomorrow's Top Performers
你个下一个超级股票
# Author: Jack Hough
# Format:PDF 1.1MB
# Page Count: 250 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (October 26, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470117931
# ISBN-13: 978-0470117934
Tomorrow's top-performing stocks are giving off clues today. The world's most successful investors don't wait to stumble upon those clues; they find them by searching the entire market in seconds using a process called stock screening. Now, with Your Next Great Stock, author Jack Hough shows you how to use this proven process to locate stocks that are poised to outperform.
Too many investors use a company-by-company approach to stock investing. They collect tips from friends or financial professionals and base buying decisions on anecdotes rather than evidence. That approach rarely works. Your Next Great Stock will show you a better way. You'll size up more stocks in less time and find bargains that other investors haven't yet discovered.
Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Your Next Great Stock outlines a "Sherlock Holmes" approach to investing. It uses the power of stock screening to uncover and interpret important clues as to where a company and its stock may be headed. Along the way, you'll also learn which combinations of clues are most likely to produce winning stocks.
Posted: January 20th, 2008, 4:57am CET
Bonds: A Concise Guide for Investors
债券投资者简明参考指南
# Author:Moorad Choudhry
# Format:PDF 1.6MB
# Page Count: 192 pages
# Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (August 22, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0230006493
# ISBN-13: 978-0230006492
In this book leading expert Moorad Choudhry demystifies bonds once and for all. This guide explains, in a simple, clear fashion, the importance of bonds and why all private investors should include them as part of their portfolio. Covering, among other topics, government bonds, the yield curve, and what drives the market, in an easy, accessible style, this book is a must for anyone who wants to adopt a sound investment strategy.
Posted: January 19th, 2008, 5:40pm CET
The Future of the International Monetary System
国际货币体系的未来
# Author:Marc Uzan
# Format:PDF 1.3MB
# Page Count: 365 pages
# Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (August 30, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1843768054
# ISBN-13: 978-1843768050
Is the international financial architecture debate over? Not according to leading experts gathered together in this impressive volume who try to identify the key trends that will fashion the international financial system in the years ahead. As history has shown, the evolution of the international monetary system is a slow process. However, the authors argue that we may be entering a new era in which a combination of factors will have lasting consequences on the functioning of the international monetary system and the future role of the IMF. This book combines the thoughts and opinions of distinguished contributors from academia, the private sector and central banks. In light of the financial crises of the 1990s, it provides a first attempt to reflect on debates surrounding the current state of the international financial system and predict some possible future scenarios.
Posted: January 19th, 2008, 12:21pm CET
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of Finance)
金融市场技术分析
# Author:John J. Murphy
# Format:PDF 18.8MB
# Page Count: 576 pages
# Publisher: Prentice Hall Press; Subsequent edition (January 4, 1999)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0735200661
# ISBN-13: 978-0735200661
John J. Murphy has now updated his landmark bestseller Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets, to include all of the financial markets.
"If one could read only one book on technical analysis, this should be the one." --Knight-Ridder Financial Products and News (on the first edition, Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets, 0-13-898008-X)
This outstanding reference has already taught thousands of traders the concepts of technical analysis and their application in the futures and stock markets. Covering the latest developments in computer technology, technical tools, and indicators, the second edition features new material on candlestick charting, intermarket relationships, stocks and stock rotation, plus state-of-the-art examples and figures. From how to read charts to understanding indicators and the crucial role technical analysis plays in investing, readers gain a thorough and accessible overview of the field of technical analysis, with a special emphasis on futures markets. Revised and expanded for the demands of today's financial world, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in tracking and analyzing market behavior.
Posted: January 18th, 2008, 5:23pm CET
Wall Street: The Markets, Mechanisms and Players (The Economist Series)
解读华尔街(经济学人系列)
# Author:Richard Roberts
# Format:PDF 1.2MB
# Page Count: 288 pages
# Publisher: Bloomberg Press (April 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1861974647
# ISBN-13: 978-1861974648
This detailed guide looks at every aspect of Wall Street's activities, explaining how they work, how much they matter, and who does what. It reports on and analyzes the highs and lows in Wall Street's development and the regular occurrence of financial scandals. It examines the crisis in Wall Street that followed the collapse of the technology boom and the attacks on the World Trade Center. In short, it provides a complete overview of how Wall Street works and why it is important.
Posted: January 17th, 2008, 5:21pm CET
Super Stocks
超级强势股
# Author:Kenneth L. Fisher
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count:256 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (September 21, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0071499814
# ISBN-13: 978-0071499811
Target the Super Stocks that deliver huge returns
One of the most successful investing books ever published, Super Stocks showed investors how to use innovative techniques and fundamental analysis for valuing stocks and predicting future profit margins.
You'll gain valuable insight into Fisher's original thinkin for valuing stocks and predicting future profit margins. A pioneer in the use of the Price Sales Ratio-a powerful analytical tool-Fisher regales readers with instructive tales of the businesses he invested in and profited from.
Super Stocks gives a historical perspective on how Fisher successfully researched companies and stocks—who he saw and what he asked—to get a better read on profitable returns.
Posted: January 17th, 2008, 12:17am CET
The WTO, Developing Countries, and the Doha Development Agenda: Prospects and Challenges for Trade-Led Growth
世贸组织,发展中国家和多哈发展议程:前景与挑战,以贸易带动增长
# Author:Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count: 304 pages
# Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (September 4, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1403934835
# ISBN-13: 978-1403934833
The "development credibility" of the current trade regime in general, and the WTO in particular, is at stake. The Doha Round aims to reverse the brewing skepticism by providing a reliable engine of trade-led growth and development. The essays in this volume identify the key challenges in this regard, make an assessment of the current situation in agriculture and manufacturing market access and evaluate alternative policy options that will make the goal attainable.
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 9:05am CET
Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
你自己的致富之路
# Author:Brian Tracy
# Format:PDF 1.2MB
# Page Count:304 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (August 30, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471652644
# ISBN-13: 978-0471652649
How to get rich from the author of the BusinessWeek bestseller Create Your Own Future
The strategies, techniques, and methods for achieving financial independence practiced by more than 95 percent of Americans who go from rags to riches in one generation–from the author of the BusinessWeek bestseller Create Your Own Future.
Getting Rich Your Own Way shows you how to reach your financial goals, starting from wherever you are, and in any situation. This book outlines and explains practical, proven, fast-acting processes and principles that have been used by men and women throughout America and across the world to move from financial frustration to success and affluence.
This is the most complete and comprehensive approach to wealth building ever put down in a single book. Getting Rich Your Own Way starts at the beginning and shows people how to get out of debt and start building a financial account. The reader then learns how millions of affluent people have achieved their financial goals through entrepreneurship, real estate, stock market investing, successful careers and professions, and selling. The reader learns how to start wherever he/she is, move ahead more rapidly in his/her job, and begin accumulating the financial means necessary to springboard into wealth in one generation.
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 12:08am CET
The Stock Trader: How I Make a Living Trading Stocks
股市操盘手
# Author:Tony Oz
# Format:PDF 2.5MB
# Page Count: 279 pages
# Publisher: Goldman Brown Business Media (July 21, 2000)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0967943507
# ISBN-13: 978-0967943503
"Put your money where your mouth is," came the challenge. So he did. Best selling author, Tony Oz, was challenged by Tim Bourquin and Jim Sugarman, founders of the International Online Trading Expo, to prove that his stock trading strategies work, that he could consistently take higher-than-average returns out of the market. To meet the challenge, Tony kept a trading diary for four weeks, documenting each and every trade he made. The simple story that unfolded turned out to be of much greater consequence than anyone could have foreseen, as Tony chronicled a first-hand description of one of the worst stock market crashes in recent memory. Tony was already into his four-week trading challenge at the peak of the Nasdaq market, just before the Crash of April 2000. Having no idea at the time that he was in the middle of a “correction” that would wipe out over two trillion dollars of stockholder’s equity, Tony managed to earn respectable profits each week, and had only a few losing days. What is truly extraordinary is that all trades were on the Long side – not one trade was selling Short in a rapidly declining bear market. The results of the challenge are detailed in this exciting new book. Inside, Tony tells how he chose a broker, set up an account, and then drew a handsome income from the stock market each week, earning a 56% return on his capital in one month – more than most investors earn in a year. Over 100 round trip trades are recorded, charted and explained in a daily trading journal. Tony reveals what he was thinking and feeling, and he explains each trade’s strategy, and his profits and losses - all the while walking the reader through his simple methodology and simple rules. At the end of each week, he ordered a check from his broker to “sweep” his account, and prevent compounding of profits. “After all,” Tony explains in the book, “Friday is payday."
Posted: January 15th, 2008, 12:32am CET
Dealing with Financial Risk (The Economist Series)
处理金融风险(经济学人系列)
# Author:David Shirreff
# Format:PDF 1.0MB
# Page Count: 288 pages
# Publisher: Bloomberg Press (July 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1576601625
# ISBN-13: 978-1576601624
Dealing With Financial Risk is a clear and colorful guide to the peaks and crevasses of financial risk management, leading readers through the theory and practice of risk-taking. In addition, it looks at some spectacular failures of risk management and the lessons that can be learned from them.
About the Author
David Shirreff is the Frankfurt correspondent of The Economist covering business and finance. Before that, he was the capital markets editor of The Economist in London. He has also written about banking and risk management for EuroMoney and he co-founded Risk magazine in 1987.
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 8:04pm CET
Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor
巴菲特如是说:世界最伟大投资者的智慧
# Author:Janet Lowe
# Format:PDF 2.2MB
# Page Count: 288 pages
# Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (August 31, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470152621
# ISBN-13: 978-0470152621
Over the years, as Warren Buffett's influence and affluence have grown, one thing has remained the same—his unpretentious, honest, and optimistic approach toward business and life. In this completely revised edition of Warren Buffett Speaks, bestselling author Janet Lowe shows you why.
Updated to reflect Buffett's life over the past decade, this book contains a delightfully entertaining collection of quotes, writings, and favorite sayings from the world's most successful investor.
Often surprising, always intriguing, and sparked throughout by Buffett's unique combination of savvy business smarts and dry wit, this new edition is filled with Buffett's musings on subjects such as the Internet economy, family and friends, running a business, paying taxes, and much more. It also examines the thinking that prompted the second richest man in the world to give 85% of his wealth to the first richest couple (Bill and Melinda Gates) to distribute to charity.
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 1:17am CET
Guide to the European Union, Ninth Edition (Economist Series)
欧盟指南(经济学人系列)
# Author:Dick Leonard
# Format:PDF 1.03MB
# Page Count: 342 pages
# Publisher: Bloomberg Press; 9th ed. edition (July 27, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1861979304
# ISBN-13: 978-1861979308
Book Description
Guide to the European Union is well established as the clearest and most comprehensive guide to how the EU operates, and this new edition brings readers up to date at a crucial stage in its development.
About the Author
Dick Leonard is Senior Adviser to the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. A former MP for Romford, he was an assistant editor of The Economist and later Brussels correspondent for both The Economist and The Observer. He is the author or co-author of twelve books and also acts as a consultant on European affairs.
Posted: January 13th, 2008, 1:05pm CET
The City: A Guide to London's Global Financial Centre (The Economist Series)
伦敦全球金融中心指南(经济学人系列)
# Author:Richard Roberts
# Format:PDF 1.3MB
# Page Count: 288 pages
# Publisher: Bloomberg Press (October 20, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1861976321
# ISBN-13: 978-1861976321
Book Description
- Audience: Finance practitioners, commentators, and observers; anyone relocating to UK
- The Economist series presents powerful, clear writing on a topic close to their backyard
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 8:01pm CET
Wall Street. A History. From Its Beginnings to the Fall of Enron
华尔街的历史: 从它的建立到安然的倒闭
# Author:Charles R. Geisst
# Format:PDF 26.3MB
# Page Count: 449 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press; Rev Exp edition (March 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 019517061X
# ISBN-13: 978-0195170610
In the seven years since the publication of the first edition of Wall Street, America's financial industry has undergone a series of wrenching events that have dramatically changed the nation's economic landscape. The bull market of the 1990's came to a close, ushering in the end of the dot com boom, a record number of mergers occurred, and accounting scandals in companies like Enron and WorldCom shook the financial industry to its core. In this wide-ranging volume, financial historian Charles Geisst provides the first history of Wall Street, explaining how a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan came to have such enormous influence in national and world affairs. In this updated edition, Geisst sums up the recent turbulence that has threatened America's financial industry. He shows how in 1997 thirty NASDAQ market makers paid a record $1.3 billion fine for price irregularities in stocks. He makes sense of the closing of the bull market, and explains a major change in the accounting rules for mergers that caused monumental losses for companies like AOL Time Warner. And he recounts how in the aftermath of the speculative fever that swept Wall Street in the 1990's, the scandals at Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, and Conseco represent a last gasp of mergermania and a fallout from a bubble-like market. Wall Street is at once the story of the street itself, from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant, to the modern billion-dollar computer-driven colossus of today. In a broader sense it is an engaging economic history of the United States, the role Wall Street played in making America the most powerful economy in the world, and the many challenges to that role it has faced in recent years.
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 12:00am CET
All About Stocks, Third Edition
关于股市的一切 第三版
# Author:Esme E. Faerber
# Format:PDF 1.0MB
# Page Count: 340 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 3 edition (September 10, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0071494553
# ISBN-13: 978-0071494557
How to buy, what to hold, and when to sell- the guide to getting started in stocks and managing your portfolio!
Want to become a more accomplished investor? All About Stocks is packed with the practical, hands-on guidance you need to choose your investments wisely, minimize your risk, and enter today's market with confidence-no matter your level of experience.
Providing concise, clear answers to your most pressing stock-market questions, this thoroughly revised edition has been updated to address such timely issues as the role of exchange-traded funds, global investing, risk-adjusted returns, and the most effective ways to conduct online research and trading.
All About Stocks explains in easy-to-understand language:
* What stocks are, and why you should own them
* How to use the Internet to develop buying and selling strategies
* How fundamental and technical analysis can help you find undervalued stocks
* What mutual funds are, how they work, and which are right for you
* How stocks fit within the asset allocation framework
* Simple strategies for assembling a high-growth, low-risk, diversified portfolio
* Trades to increase your safety during turbulent markets
Posted: January 10th, 2008, 5:08pm CET
Beyond Technical Analysis: How to Develop and Implement a Winning Trading System
超越技术分析:如何制定和推行一套股市赢利体系
# Author:Tushar S. Chande
# Format:PDF 2.2MB
# Page Count:267 pages
# Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc; Har/Dsk edition (January 1997)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471161888
# ISBN-13: 978-0471161882
Unique book/disk package helps traders develop and forward-test a high-performance trading system
In trading, a winning system is everything. Without a systematized methodology on which to base their actions, traders quickly succumb to market fear and confusion and watch helplessly as precious profits vanish. And while it is theoretically possible to buy a canned trading system, most experts agree that the best system is proprietary to each trader—developed, implemented, and tested by the individual to suit his or her exact requirements.
Posted: January 10th, 2008, 1:16am CET
Timing the Market: How To Profit in the Stock Market Using the Yield Curve, Technical Analysis, and Cultural Indicators
把握股市时机:如何在股市中利用曲线,技术分析和指标获利
# Author:Deborah Weir
# Format:PDF 1.7MB
# Page Count: 432 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (November 4, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471708984
# ISBN-13: 978-0471708988
The first definitive guide to understanding and profiting from the relationship between the stock market and interest rates
It's well established that interest rates significantly impact the stock market. This is the first book that definitively explores the interest rate/stock market relationship and describes a specific system for profiting from the relationship. Timing the Market provides an historically proven system, rooted in fundamental economics, that allows investors and traders to forecast the stock market using data from the interest rate markets-together with supporting market sentiment and cultural indicators-to pinpoint and profit from major turns in the stock market.
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 12:16am CET
Risk-adjusted Lending Conditions: An Option Pricing Approach
# Author:Werner Rosenberger
# Format:PDF 1.2MB
# Page Count: 286 pages
# Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (Mar 7 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470847522
# ISBN-13: 978-0470847527
In order to operate their lending business profitably, banks must know all the costs involved in granting loans. In particular, all the expenses they incur in covering losses must be included. Provided loan risks can be calculated, it is possible in each case to charge a price that is appropriately adjusted for risk, thus making it possible to make high-risk loans.
In "Risk-adjusted Lending Conditions" the author presents a model, to measure and calculate loan risks, showing how it functions and how it may be applied. His approach has its origins in the ideas put forward by Black/Scholes in 1973, and thus owes much to option price theory. From this the author has succeeded in developing a solution such that, whatever a company's debt position and however its balance sheet may be structured, any situation can be individually assessed. Building on this, he demonstrates how combinations of loans with the lowest possible interest costs can be tailor-made for any company. The book contains numerous examples, making it easy for practising bankers to see how the model may be applied.
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 1:03am CET
Stock Market Rules
股市法则(第3版)
# Author:Michael Sheimo
# Format:PDF 3.3MB
# Page Count: 240 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 3 edition (1 Feb 2005)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 0071445870
# ISBN-13: 978-0071445870
For more than a decade, in two previous editions, Stock Market Rules has helped investors separate the most valuable of these maxims from the meaningless and even potentially harmful. But with recent market turbulence and scandals blindsiding millions of investors, the time has come for a new, updated edition.
Stock Market Rules, Third Edition, is that book, an in-depth, up-to-date examination of the 50 axioms that will most help investors gain the edge in today's technologically supercharged markets.
Unwritten rules of Wall Street-what works, what doesn't, and how investors can tell the difference. Investing is governed by unofficial rules, passed to investors through brokers, the financial press, and even fellow investors. For more than a decade, in two previous editions, "Stock Market Rules" has helped investors separate the most valuable of these maxims from the meaningless and even potentially harmful. But with recent market turbulence and scandals blindsiding millions of investors, the time has come for a new, updated edition. "Stock Market Rules, Third Edition", is that book, an in-depth, up-to-date examination of the 50 axioms that will most help investors gain the edge in today's technologically supercharged markets. Investors needing authoritative, hands-on guidance will look to this updated edition for its: short sections covering the 50 most immediately useful rules; easy-to-read yet analytical approach; arrangement by research, strategy, and other major topic areas.
Posted: January 7th, 2008, 8:25am CET
The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
卧底经济学
# Author:Tim Harford
# Format:PDF 1.2MB + MP3 180M
# Page Count: 288 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (November 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0195189779
# ISBN-13: 978-0195189773
Nattily packaged-the cover sports a Roy Lichtensteinesque image of an economist in Dick Tracy garb-and cleverly written, this book applies basic economic theory to such modern phenomena as Starbucks' pricing system and Microsoft's stock values. While the concepts explored are those encountered in Microeconomics 101, Harford gracefully explains abstruse ideas like pricing along the demand curve and game theory using real world examples without relying on graphs or jargon. The book addresses free market economic theory, but Harford is not a complete apologist for capitalism; he shows how companies from Amazon.com to Whole Foods to Starbucks have gouged consumers through guerrilla pricing techniques and explains the high rents in London (it has more to do with agriculture than one might think). Harford comes down soft on Chinese sweatshops, acknowledging "conditions in factories are terrible," but "sweatshops are better than the horrors that came before them, and a step on the road to something better." Perhaps, but Harford doesn't question whether communism or a capitalist-style industrial revolution are the only two choices available in modern economies. That aside, the book is unequaled in its accessibility and ability to show how free market economic forces affect readers' day-to-day.
Posted: January 6th, 2008, 5:00pm CET
Tech Stock Valuation
股票技术估值
# Author:Mark Hirschey
# Format:PDF 2.2MB
# Page Count: 271 pages
# Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (June 17, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0123497043
# ISBN-13: 978-0123497048
The contribution of research and development to a company's market value has grown considerably in recent years. In the mid-1970s, accountants were able to capture on their ledgers 90-95% of a firm's book value, but by 2000 the importance of intangible assets had grown to the point where they could account for only 13-15%. Financial economists and accountants have investigated the link between a firm's market value and its R&D spending, and various factions advocate a variety of positions on the amount and rate of investment, investors' ability to capture returns on that investment, and ways to measure value, investment, and returns.
'Tech Stock Valuation' extends the R&D literature by providing detailed direct evidence on the market value implications of inventive and innovative output. Specifically, the book demonstrates that stock-price effects of patent output are most pronounced in the case of of high-quality patents, where patent quality is measured by scientific merit. Scientific measures of patent quality give tech stock investors and R&D managers a valuable new tool that can be used to measure R&D program effectiveness. At the same time, it gives investors a new tool to help them assess the value of hard-to-measure intangible assets.
*Provides detailed direct evidence on the market value implications of inventive and innovative output
*Based on recent research, much of which Dr. Hirschey has pioneered
*Gives financial professionals a new tool for assessing R&D quality and its relation to market valuation
Posted: January 6th, 2008, 8:56am CET
China, the United States, and the Global Economy
中国,美国和世界经济
# Author: Shuxun Chen, Charles Wolf
# Format:PDF 1.03MB
# Page Count:296 pages
# Publisher: RAND (1 Jul 2001)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 0833029630
# ISBN-13: 978-0833029638
Chinese and American scholars presented papers (on topics including China's World Trade Organization membership, the outlook for the U.S. and Chinese economies, and Sino-U.S. security relations) at the second annual conference organized by RAND in Santa Monica, and the China Reform Forum (CRF) in Beijing. Chinese and American scholars and practitioners presented papers at the second of four annual conferences organized by RAND in Santa Monica, and the China Reform Forum (CRF) in Beijing. This book contains those edited papers. The second conference was held at RAND on November 9-10, 1999, with about 30 participants including the authors and their discussants. The topics discussed include China's World Trade Organization membership, the outlook for the U.S. and Chinese economies, and Sino-U.S. security relations-topics that are no less relevant now than they were at the time of the 1999 conference. The second CRF-RAND conference and the editing and other requisites for readying the original papers for publication could not have been accomplished without the generous support of several organizations and individuals. These include--besides the China Reform Forum and RAND--the Committee of 100 and Henry Tang, the Hoover Institution and John Raisian, the Capital Group Companies and Gina Despres, Lombard Investments and Joseph Chulick, the UCLA Center for International Studies and Richard Rosecrance, the Zhejiang Gateway International Investment Company and James Bitonti, the Overland Group and Fred Liao, and Roy Doumani. None of these organizations or individuals bears any responsibility for the content of the wide-ranging views and policy suggestions presented in the book.
Posted: January 5th, 2008, 5:05pm CET
Fundamentals of the Stock Market
股市原理
# Author:B. O'Neill Wyss
# Format:PDF 2.6MB
# Page Count: 245 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 29, 2000)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0071360964
# ISBN-13: 978-0071360968
This practical, hands-on blueprint to stocks and mutual funds provides a thorough overview of today’s stock market. From understanding how trends and policies affect markets and the basics of placing a trade to advanced issues including technical analysis, short selling, Modern Portfolio Theory, and more, this unique and useful workbook explains the stock market in clear, concise language.
This practical, hands-on blueprint to stocks and mutual funds provides a thorough overview of today's stock market.
Posted: January 5th, 2008, 12:41pm CET
Credit Scores, Credit Cards: How Consumer Finance Works: How to Avoid Mistakes and How to Manage Your Accounts Well
信用记录和信用卡:消费金融系统是如何工作的
# Author:The Silver Lake
# Format:PDF 1.1MB
# Page Count: 288 pages
# Publisher: Silver Lake Publishing (February 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1563437821
# ISBN-13: 978-1563437823
How to make sure your credit history, financial data, account information and other essentials are strong and safe! In 2001, the average North American consumer spent nearly $40,000 on credit cards. By 2005, this average person will carry over $50,000 in consumer debt - not counting mortgages or car loans! This unsecured consumer debt is fundamentally changing the way Americans live: * the tradition of a home owned free and clear has become unusual as people borrow against their homes and refinance repeatedly to pay for discretionary spending * financing vacations, electronics and dining out with multiple credit cards is commonplace At the same time, credit scores have become the golden keys to successful borrowing. But what does it all mean? How do you know you’re managing your credit wisely? In a credit-based economy, your credit score means as much to you as money in the bank meant to your grandparents --and here's how to protect it!
Posted: January 5th, 2008, 5:53am CET
Derivatives: A Manager's Guide to the World's Most Powerful Financial Instruments
金融衍生产品:经理人指南-世界上最强大的金融工具
# Author:Philip McBride Johnson
# Format:PDF 1.0MB
# Page Count:210 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (April 1, 1999)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 007134506X
# ISBN-13: 978-0071345064
As a corporate manager or executive, you probably have little contact with the actual day-to-day trading of derivatives contracts. Regardless, your oversight responsibilities place your career directly in the hands of aggressive derivatives traders. Do you really know what they're up to? DERIVATIVES is the first and only book written for the manager who is not a derivatives expert but is responsible for the experts. Concise, uncomplicated, and often entertaining, it gives you a basic understanding and appreciation for these complex yet powerful financial tools. DERIVATIVES isn't another "how to trade" book. Instead, it eschews technical jargon and mathematical formulate to show you "how to survive" when derivatives inevitably cross your professional path. Real life examples of derivatives disasters (Proctor & Gamble's 1994 loss of $102 million, Barings Bank's 1995 loss of $1.3 billion, and the Belgian government's 1997 loss of $1.2 billion) are accompanied by analysis of where they went wrong. Far from the daredevil, all-or-nothing reputation they are often given, derivatives are basically conservative hedging instruments designed to REDUCE risk. They allow organizations to pass the assumption of natural risks to speculators (who intend to profit from those risks). From simple agricultural futures to the latest versions of credit derivatives and swaps, DERIVATIVES will give you a basic appreciation of how derivatives operate and where the dangers lie. Look to this comprehensive yet easy-to-read overview for valuable information on: How to instinctively recognize different types of risk, and choose the instruments which best counteract each; Examination of the legal environment for derivatives, and how to protect your firm from potential liabilities; Strategies to structure your firm's checks and balances to keep pace with the changing structure of the derivatives business. While it may be the quants and traders who make the costly errors, it is the managers and executives who ultimately answer to the authorities not to mention their stockholders. DERIVATIVES will help you safeguard your company from undue risk, provide you with a new level of comfort and understanding regarding these vibrant and valuable risk protection tools, and help ensure that your company and career won't be the next cautionary tale splashed across financial pages worldwide. Derivatives can be both beneficial and devastating. Don't let yourself get burned! Derivatives will give you a step-by-step tour through the amazing benefits of derivatives as well as an overview of their hazards and put you firmly in control of your corporation's risk control program.
Posted: January 4th, 2008, 5:00pm CET
A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market
数学家妙谈股市
# Author:John Allen Paulos
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count: 224 pages
# Publisher: Basic Books (May 13, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0465054803
# ISBN-13: 978-0465054800
We like to think not only that mathematicians are smarter than the rest of us but that by dint of their mastery of numbers, they hold the key to understanding the baffling mysteries of the universe. Alas, Paulos (Innumeracy) says that's not always the case. As the author relates in this funny, insightful little volume about attempts to bring order and science to the free-for-all that is the stock market, he himself was once a big investor (in WorldCom). Despite strong evidence to sell, he desperately hung on to his stock as the price plummeted, proving that a head for numbers doesn't always translate to Wall Street know-how. Through most of this book, Paulos discusses various methods for predicting markets and offers thoughts on why people keep trying to perfect them. Shocking in their obtuseness are the so-called Elliot Wave followers, who believe stocks operate according to an impossibly arcane series of numerical waves and cycles. The efficient-market theorists-many of whom believe the stock market is so inherently efficient that everything one needs to know about a company is reflected in its stock price-get the most thorough joshing from Paulos: never able to resist a joke, he tells one about how many efficient market theorists it takes to change a light bulb. "Answer: None. If the light bulb needed changing the market would have already done it." Playful and informative, Paulos's book will be appreciated by investors with a sense of humor.
Posted: January 4th, 2008, 4:15am CET
The Bull Hunter Tracking Today's Hottest Investments
牛市猎人:跟踪当今最热门的投资
# Author:Dan Denning
# Format:PDF 1.2MB
# Page Count: 225 pages
# Publisher: Wiley; New Ed edition (May 26, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471787221
# ISBN-13: 978-0471787228
The Bull Hunter is a personal road map to making big money in the days ahead–retirement-level wealth that only early investors can enjoy. Influential global market analyst Dan Denning reveals what readers can unearth exceptional short- and long-term profit opportunities. He outlines numerous techniques to mine raging bull markets and extraordinary profits in emerging countries, sectors, industries, and companies that are just beginning to flourish. He also shows readers how to protect themselves from disastrous risks, get in on the stocks of hard-asset companies, profit from the fastest growing economies in the world, and more. The Bull Hunter shows readers how, with simple trades they can make with a phone call to their broker, their investment performance and profits will jump today, tomorrow, and over the next decade.
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 5:02pm CET
Guide to Business Planning (The Economist Series)
商业计划指南(经济学人特辑系列)
# Author:Graham Friend Stefan Zehle
# Format:PDF 4.3MB
# Page Count:288 pages
# Publisher: Bloomberg Press (February 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1861974744
# ISBN-13: 978-1861974747
To get any new business idea off the ground you must have a plan--and if you need to raise funds to finance the business or get the approval of senior management, it must be a convincing plan. This guide covers every aspect of preparing a business plan including how to analyze the market, how to model the business and financial statements, and analysis of risk and the assessment of both the upside and potential downside, and the all-important executive summary--often the only part of a business plan that is read. Finally, "Guide to Business Planningshows how to use a business plan to help put your ideas into practice and how to monitor and measure the performance of the business. This newest title in The Economist series is critical for businesspeople who have an idea and need a plan.
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 5:02am CET
Getting Started in Rental Income (Getting Started in...)
租金收入入门
# Author:Michael C. Thomsett
# Format:PDF 1.4MB
# Page Count: 208 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (June 16, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471710989
# ISBN-13: 978-0471710981
An accessible introduction to GENERATING RENTAL INCOME FROM REAL ESTATE
GETTING STARTED IN RENTAL INCOME
Just as location is a critical component to the value of real estate, knowledge is a critical component to investing success. As with any type of new endeavor, gaining knowledge and experience is essential as you move forward toward success.
If you're interested in generating rental income through an investment in real estate, but unsure of how to go about doing this, Getting Started in Rental Income will show you the way. Written in a straightforward and accessible manner, this book discusses the two major ways of entering the rental income market—the traditional purchase of rental properties or buying and selling fixer-upper properties—and reveals what you need to do once you're in. This easy-to-read guide clearly explains how to:
* Invest in the right properties
* Generate cash flow adequate to make insurance, tax, utility, and monthly mortgage payments as well as to allow for periodic vacancies
* Make a profit from flipping properties
* Take advantage of the tax benefits of real estate
* Implement specific strategies—beyond diversification—to mitigate real estate risk
* And much more
Posted: January 2nd, 2008, 5:04pm CET
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
宽客人生-华尔街的数量金融大师
# Author:Emanuel Derman
# Format:PDF 1.3MB
# Page Count: 304 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (September 16, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471394203
# ISBN-13: 978-0471394204
Emanuel Derman was one of the first physicists to move to Wall Street, and his career paralleled the growth of quantitative trading over the past twenty years. In My Life as a Quant, he traces his transformation from ambitious young scientist to managing director and head of the renowned Quantitative Strategies group at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Derman’s tale recounts his adventures with quants, traders and other high fliers on Wall Street as he became the best-known quant in the business. He describes the struggles of research and his interactions with an assorted cast of famous scientists. He relates his impressions of some of the most creative minds on Wall Street, including Fischer Black, with whom he collaborated on the widely used Black-Derman-Toy model of interest rates. Throughout his story he reflects on the appropriate way to apply the refined methods of physics to the hurly-burly world of markets and the people that inhabit them.
Indecisive, introspective, awkward, and sometimes morose, memoirist Emanuel Derman comes across like a character in a Saul Bellow novel. He wallows in loneliness after leaving his home in South Africa to earn a PhD in theoretical physics at Columbia University. Later, he obsesses over leaving pure physics to do applied research at Bell Laboratories. Then he punishes himself with guilt when he abandons physics entirely to work on Wall Street. Although he succeeds as a math-savvy "quant" at Goldman, Sachs & Co. (GS), he continues to ponder whether markets can really be understood. "We are still on a darkling plain," he writes toward the end of his new book. "If you are a theorist you must never forget that you are traveling through lawless roads where the local inhabitants don't respect your principles."
Posted: January 1st, 2008, 5:00pm CET
101 Investment Tools for Buying Low and Selling High
101种高抛低吸的投资工具
# Author:Jae K. Shim, Jonathan Lansner
# Format:PDF 11.6MB
# Page Count: 296 pages
# Publisher: CRC; 1 edition (December 12, 2000)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 091094413X
# ISBN-13: 978-0910944137
More than just an investment dictionary, 101 Investment Tools for Buying Low and Selling High analyzes in a concise style various investment vanes-from stock indexes to measures of affordable housing to leading economic reports. Learn what these measures are, who's compiling them, where they are easily found, and how they can, or cannot, be used to guide your investment decisions. At your fingertips are fast and reliable explanations of all the everyday terms and tools investors need, each discussed in an easy-to-follow, structured format:
· What is it?
· How is it computed?
· Can you give a example?
· Where is it found?
· How is it applied?
· How is it used for investment decision?
· Are there any words of caution?
In today's complex climate, understanding and using such investment tools are the keys to success. New investment vehicles are introduced almost everyday. 101 Investment Tools for Buying Low and Selling High is your guide to the best financial barometers.
