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Live It Up without Outliving Your Money:
10 Steps to a Perfect
Retirement Portfolio
by Paul Merriman
 Paul
Merriman’s new book is a comprehensive road map to a financially
secure retirement. He shows you how to determine how much money
you’ll need to retire when you want, in the way that you want;
how to establish how much your investment portfolio needs to be
worth when you retire, and he shows you the kinds of investments
that will give you the returns you need to reach your goals.
Then he explains how to choose the right distribution plan to
provide both the income you need in retirement and the peace of
mind that you won’t run out of money. Using many charts and
graphs, he makes complex subjects easy to understand, and his
passion and enthusiasm are motivating and inspiring.
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Financial Reckoning Day:Surviving the Soft Depression of the 21st Century by Bill Bonner & Addison Wiggin
Our current economic picture mirrors that of Japan’s decade-old
"soft depression" -- caused by an aging population and a structural
reaction to a record-breaking financial boom. Irreverent and
eye-opening, this "big picture" investment book shows that investing
has more to do
with old rules, metaphors, and experience. |
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The Successful Investor: What 80 Million
People Need to Know to Invest Profitably and Avoid Big Losses
by William J. O'Neil
Investor's Business Daily publisher William J. O'Neil
tells investors how they can make money and, more important, avoid
losses in both up and down markets. Showing how mistakes made in the
recent market collapse were amazingly similar to those made in previous
down cycles, O'Neil reveals simple steps investors can follow to avoid
costly mistakes. |
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Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982-1999: What drove the Breakneck Market -- and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles
by Maggie Mahar
A thorough and accessible history of the explosive 1982-1999 bull market
that is illuminating as well as sobering from the current market
perspective. Filled with colorful portraits of many of the central
figures of the boom years. |
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Advanced Swing Trading : Strategies to Predict, Identify, and Trade
Future Market Swings by John Crane
Deals with Action/Reaction theory by combining price levels, timing
methods, and confirmation patterns that strengthen the predictability of
future market moves. Packed with proven strategies from a respected
veteran, real-world examples and clear-cut charts. Provides an in-depth
overview of the art of swing trading. This comprehensive book offers you
the step-by-step guidance that will allow you to apply powerful swing
trading techniques to any portfolio – without making it a full-time job
– and gives today’s investors fresh new methods needed to consistently
improve their bottom line. |
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Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
This debacle was encouraged a by the outside directors on the Enron
Board. Only they could have stopped it. As the book makes clear, they
never asked the most basic questions any director should ask and they
will probably never be held accountable for their malfeasance. If
justice prevails, at least Lay, Skilling and Fastow will ultimately do
hard time and forfeit their enormous illegal gains. This book should be
required reading for every corporate director. |
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Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It
-- No Matter What
by Michael Treacy
Treacy's main point is simple -- it really is possible to grow your
business by 10 percent or more, year after year, in good times and bad,
without cheating. Great companies already know how to do it, and the
rest of us can learn their strategies and do the same thing. Using case
studies from industry leaders such as Dell Computer, Home Depot, and GE,
he shows the five steps that are imperative to ensure growth. Treacy
believes that any business can grow at a consistent double-digit rate,
and managers and investors now have the tools to achieve that lofty goal
and maintain corporate success. |
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The Random Walk Guide to Investing: Ten Rules for Financial Success
by Burton G. Malkiel
For over thirty years, Burton G. Malkiel's informative, irreverent,
and gimmick-free books have helped investors understand the market and
use it to their best advantage. With this concise new guide, Malkiel
takes the mystery out of the money game by distilling his reliable plan
into ten easy-to-follow rules. Beginning with the basics, Malkiel
carefully and with no small measure of humor lays out his plan,
including such rules as "#3: Stiff the Tax Collector" and "#8: The
Market Is Smarter than You Are." This guide is essential for anyone
starting a portfolio, rebuilding after the dot-com crash, or simply
looking for reassurance in the puzzling world of personal finance. |
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Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude
by Mark Douglas
Maximizing the trader’s state of mind is the key to successful results.
Conflicts, contradictions and paradoxes in thinking can spell disaster
for even a highly motivated, astute and well grounded trader. Mark
Douglas, a trader, personal trading coach, and industry consultant since
1982, sends the message that "thinking strategy" will profoundly
influence a trader’s success rate. Douglas addresses five very specific
issues to give traders the insight and understanding about themselves
that will make them consistent winners in the market. Above all, he
shows you that the problem is not with the system that you're trading,
but the problem lies within yourself, and your own thoughts and beliefs
about how the market operates, and what your role is in the marketplace. |
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The Successful Investor Today: 14 Simple Truths You Must Know When You Invest by Larry E. Swedroe
Learn how to build, write, implement, and manage your own investment
plan. This book will help you become a better and more informed
investor, and it will help you achieve your financial goals by gradually
increasing your wealth. Apart from offering an up-to-date winning
strategy, the author presents an efficient and proven way to avoid the
most common and costly mistakes investors continue to make. |
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All About Market Timing by Leslie N. Masonson
Shell-shocked investors have lost patience with the traditional
buy-and-hold approach to investing. All About Market Timing
arms investors with simple, easy-to-use timing techniques that they can
use to enter rising markets, exit (or go short) falling markets, and
make consistent profits in both market environments while protecting
against catastrophic losses. Compelling arguments demonstrate the
superiority of basic timing over buy-and-hold, while step-by-step
instructions show how uncomplicated timing can be. Specific investment
vehicles are recommended that fit well into most timing strategies.
Investors who want to time the market using their own strategies are
provided with information on available software and Web sites. |
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Investor Therapy: A Psychologist and Investing Guru Tells You How to Out-Psych Wall Street
by Dr. Richard A. Geist
Dr. Geist shows that investing success means both having and using
solid information and expertly understanding, monitoring, and managing
your emotions. This is the first book directed at professional and
individual investors alike, illustrating how they can use emotions to
become more effective at meeting the ever-increasing challenges of
today’s investing environment. Conventional wisdom says “park your
emotions at the door when making investing decisions.” Dr. Geist brings
a new, important perspective to show that the conventional wisdom is not
only wrong but harmful to your financial well-being. Success lies in
understanding your emotional reactions to the market and its
participants and integrating an emotional understanding of yourself into
your investing strategies. The successful investor is, above all, a
human investor, not a “perfect” machine-like investor. |
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Deals of the Century: Wall Street, Mergers, and the Making of Modern America by Charles R. Geisst
An in-depth look at the most notable merger and acquisition deals of
the twentieth century -- and the role Wall Street played in each of
them. Beginning with J.P. Morgan’s acquisition of Carnegie Steel in 1901
to form U.S. Steel, renowned business historian and bestselling author
Charles Geisst traces the deals that have had the most dramatic impact
on the worlds of both finance and industry over the past century. Decade
by decade, you’ll be introduced to the personalities behind each event,
as industries are built, dismantled, and reorganized by "professionals"
driven mainly by the profits extracted from the deals themselves more
than by the long-term effects. |
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Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders by
Jack D. Schwager
Finding a successful mentor can be the best way of learning a
complex skill like trading. Who better to learn from than exceptional
traders? Indispensable reading for novices, yet replete with trading
lessons, insights and knowledge for traders at every level, Schwager's
Market Wizards serves as one of the most insightful looks
into the thought processes of top traders. The book runs the gamut of
trading styles, from floor scalpers to multi-year position traders; from
a trader who started with one-lots, to speculators trading values in the
billions. Each interview includes a biographical sketch and ends up
being a de facto, if abbreviated, trading tutorial. Schwager prompts
these trading legends to share their beginnings in the business, their
trading rules, their philosophies, best and worst trades, and market
perspectives. From these conversations, you'll learn a variety of
successful approaches to the markets, and learn how to avoid these
traders' mistakes. |
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Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading by Alexander Elder
Learn to manage your money and time, as well as your strategy, so that you
can enter the markets with confidence and exit with profits. This
essential book educates the novice and gives more power to the
professional through expert advice, proven trading methods, and
something entirely unique – a visit to Dr. Elder’s own trading room. You
get to follow him through several actual trades, whose entries and exits
illustrate many of the key concepts of this book. Dr Elder's background
as a psychiatrist provides valuable insights into understanding the
human element of market behavior, and individual trader psychology. Dr
Elder shares his own, successful trading strategy in a clear, concise,
and easy to understand style. |
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Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing
by Kenneth M. Morris
This handy fact-filled book initiates you into the mysteries of the
financial pages -- buying stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures and
options, spotting trends and evaluating companies. For those who are
curious but intimidated by everyday financial jargon, this guide offers
a literate, forthright and lively alternative. This visually appealing,
user-friendly guide initiates the reader into the world of money and the
financial markets. Written in plain, everyday language, it explains how
financial products and service companies work, who the players are, and
how to evaluate investment performance. Photos, illustrations and
charts. |
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Tomorrow's Gold: Asia's Age of Discovery by Marc Faber
A renowned investment advisor, Faber sets out to find tomorrow's
gold -- the outperforming asset classes of the future. Far from being a
sensational reading of the runes, this book delves deep into the past,
to chart how investor trends developed and assess how new patterns might
emerge. What Faber puts together here is nothing short of what should be
required reading for every investor who got caught up in the 90's bull
market only to be disheartened, confused, and bewildered by the
aftermath. This is a great intellectual piece on the history of markets,
economies, manias, currencies, and the behavior of man through it all. |
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A professional trader and mathematics professor, Taleb examines what
randomness means in business and in life and why human beings are so
prone to mistake dumb luck for consummate skill. This eccentric and
highly personal exploration of the nature of randomness meanders from
the court of Croesus and trading rooms in New York and London to Russian
roulette, Monte Carlo engines, and the philosophy of Karl Popper. Part
of what makes this book so good is Taleb's ability to make seemingly
arcane mathematical concepts entirely relevant in evaluating and
understanding everything from the stock market to the success of
millionaires. Here's an articulate, wise, and humorous meditation on the
nature of success and failure that anyone who wants a little more of the
former would do well to consider. |
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The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Peter L. Bernstein
A fascinating account of the role of gold throughout history, the book
begins with the physical properties of the metal which help explain its
attraction to cultures around the world. Bernstein traces the evolution
of the precious metal from the time of Croesus through the abandonment
of the Bretton Woods system. Bernstein is a great storyteller. His
accounts of mythological, ancient, and recent history ooze with odd and
entertaining details that bring each successive tale of obsession to
life. If not for his skill, the sheer volume of events collected here --
presented more anecdotally than systematically -- would be overwhelming.
In the end, though, it is Bernstein's fascination with the power of gold
to entangle and entrap its possessors, and its ultimate ability to
change the course of entire eras and civilizations, that makes his book
as fascinating as it is informative and entertaining. |
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