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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Amazon link
Just read the book, then saw the movie. Thought I'd post it.
To 'rt20' , read 'ins here. interesting stuff.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
by Walter Isaacson
Link to book review
http://elise.com/books/el/archives/benjamin_franklin_-_walter_isaacson.php
any good books out there made you money?
Technical Analysis Demystified - a self teaching guide
by Constance Brown
The food and farming transition: toward a post carbon food system
http://postcarbon.org/files/PCI-food-and-farming-transition.pdf
Profit from Legal Insider Trading: Invest Today on Tomorrow's News
By: Moreland, Jonathan
http://www.traderslibrary.com/moreinfo.asp?item=10222&SID=REQDAMBBVPIA9C2B538571671287B6EE&lc=cart
I'm posting this link to suggested reading by Thomas Sowell
http://www.tsowell.com/SuggestedRead.htm
Candlestick Charting Explained (3rd Ed.)
by Gregory L. Morris
review:
http://stockcharts.stores.yahoo.net/cachex3edgrl.html
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
Curious if anyone read this yet and what you thought of it?
Review:
http://www.buffettsecrets.com/the-snowball-warren-buffett-and-business-life.htm
One up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch
Classic. Basically The Intelligent Investor with a bit of a Lynch's personal style: "he who turns over the most rocks wins."
Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse
by Peter Schiff
The economic tipping point for the United States is no longer theoretical. It is a reality today. The country has gone from the world's largest creditor to its greatest debtor; the value of the dollar is sinking; domestic manufacturing is winding down - and these trends don't seem to be slowing. Peter Schiff casts a sharp, clear-sighted eye on these factors and explains what the possible effects may be and how investors can protect themselves. For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients reposition their portfolios to reflect his outlook. What he sees is a nation facing an economic storm brought on by growing federal, personal, and corporate debt, too-little savings, a declining dollar, and lack of domestic manufacturing.
Crash-Proof is an informed and informative warning of a looming period marked by sizeable tax hikes, loss of retirement benefits, double digit inflation, even - as happened recently in Argentina - the possible collapse of the middle class. However, Schiff does have a survival plan that can provide the protection that readers will need in the coming years.
Preview the book:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=BXodkDAR-wMC&dq=Crash+Proof:+How+to+Profit+From+the+Coming+Economic+Collapse,+Schiff&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=YVfXbws-97&sig=0JWc618wyJsNTQZ1sAFFDpZ75-k&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPR7,M1
Technical Analysis Using Multiple Time Frames
Author(s): Shannon, Brian
pricey, but imo a must have for the TA library
http://alphatrends.blogspot.com/2008/09/top-ten-trading-books-ever-written.html
glta
Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer)
by James J. Cramer and Cliff Mason
Stay Mad for Life Jim Cramer’s book addresses general personal finance issues (for the most part) instead of focusing strictly on individual stock investing as he has in his last two investing books. The end result is a personal finance book with a mix of long term and relatively short term perspectives, particularly as compared to other books. It also has a healthy dollop of the Cramer entertainment factor, for better or worse, and there is some coverage of individual stock investing, too.
Excerpts ~~~> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22007945/
The Secrets of Economic Indicators: Hidden Clues to Future Economic Trends and Investment Opportunities, 2nd Edition
by Bernard Baumohl
“This is the most up-to-date guide to economic indicators and their importance to financial markets in print. The coverage of less-reported indicators, especially those from nongovernment sources, is hard to find elsewhere. The inclusion of the actual published tables helps the newer student of the markets find the data in the public release. For anyone trying to follow the economic data, this should be next to your computer so that you can understand and find the data on the Internet.”
–David Wyss, Chief Economist, Standard and Poor’s
This seems to be one of hte latest...
Technical Analysis of Stock Trends by Robert D. Edwards and John Magee (Paperback - April 25, 2008)
Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians by Charles D. Kirkpatrick and Julie R. Dahlquist (Hardcover - Aug 28, 2006)
I read the first half of ch 1 and put it back on the shelf...got tired of looking in the dictionary every other sentence :)
Reminisce of a Stock Operator by Jesse Livermore.
Stikky Stock Charts
by Laurence Holt
website for book
http://www.stikky.com/0003-stockcharts/0003-fulldetails.htm
Highly recommended book on Wealth University board
I strongly suggest this book - The Millionare Mind - if your in sales, marketing, or own your own business. Truly an eye opener ~~~~~~~> You may realize your chasing people with a "Big Hat but no cattle".
The Millionaire Next Door
by Thomas J. Stanley
Nice summary here:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stanley-millionaire.html
Also companion book The Millionaire Mind
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
by John J. Murphy
This is an invaluable tool for traders/investors at all experience levels. In John Murphy's latest book, Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets, he takes the principles from his 1986 best-selling book and expands it to cover all the financial markets. If you invest in the stock market, this is an investment you cannot overlook.
Recently mentioned by spirilis over on the Wealth University board and used by many I'm sure.
50 Success Classics
by Tom Butler-Bowdon
This books compiles and comments on the winning wisdom for life and work from fifty landmark books. Below is a link to the books it covers. I have collected and read quite a few books from the list:
http://www.butler-bowdon.com/success-classics-list.html
The Intelligent Investor
by Benjamin Graham
First published in 1949, this investment classic has sold millions of copies and is the bible for many value investors.
A quantitative investor at heart, Graham believed that all the qualitative aspects of a company would manifest themselves in the financial statements. By understanding the statements and trends therein, Graham could correctly assess a company's prospects.
The first 10 chapters cover investment basics like investing vs. speculation, stocks vs. bonds, inflation, advisers, "defensive" vs. "enterprising" investing and margin of safety. The last 10 chapters focus on securities analysis for the lay investor and include topics like financial statement analysis, per share earnings and assessing management. Lots of examples are used, and while some may be a bit dated, the key points are driven home. Warren Buffett calls it one of the best investment books ever written.
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.The Success Principles
I have heard about this book before and heard it referred to at a coaching clinic I was at this weekend. The coach assigned parts of this book as reading assignments on the way to track meets for his kids.
Success in life, success in investing, success in track. I look forward to checking this book out.
The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
by Jack Canfield
The author of the phenomenal bestselling Chicken Soup series turns to the secrets of success as the cornerstone of his next franchise. From graduates and teachers to parents and self-starting business aspirants, Canfield offers readers practical help and inspiration.
Maestro: Greenspan's Fed And The American Boom
by Bob Woodward
Amazon.com Review
Bob Woodward called his biography of Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan Maestro for two reasons. First, Greenspan is a musician. He started out as a Julliard-trained jazz sax man. "He wasn't a good improviser," Woodward reports. And while the other guys got stoned all night, Greenspan "read economics and business books and eventually became the band's bookkeeper." He also cultivated powerful pals, like Ayn Rand, whose coterie dubbed the dour young man "The Undertaker."
More profoundly, Greenspan is a maestro, a conductor, exquisitely attuned to every instrument in the political and economic orchestra. He rules by consensus, but with a firm hand and notoriously inscrutable words. Marvelously, Woodward relates that Greenspan had to propose twice to his wife, the violinist-turned-TV news star Andrea Mitchell, before she understood: "His verbal obscurity and caution were so ingrained that Mitchell didn't even know that he had asked her to marry him." Woodward gives us the inside story of what Greenspan really thinks and how he outmaneuvered the most ruthless politicians on earth in some of the hairiest times imaginable, from the 1987 stock market crash to the 1994-95 Mexican crisis to the stomach-churning turn of the century. It turns out that for all his awesome knowledge of monetary minutiae, the Fed chief literally relies on "a pain in the pit of my stomach" to make decisions. "At times, he found his body sensed danger before his head," writes Woodward. The Fed chief also adapts Einstein's technique to economics, hunting for discrepancies as keys to deeper theories. Einstein made breakthroughs out of bent light; Greenspan deduced productivity gains that government statisticians had overlooked for years. (The gains appeared when Greenspan made the statisticians calculate productivity by business sector, the way it's done in the real world.)
Woodward's prose is cool and rational, not exuberant. But if you're into economics and politics, you'll find a rich gossip trove here. Who knew Reagan had a draft of a presidential order to shut down Wall Street trading at hand in 1987? Scary! Reading Maestro is better than sitting with Greenspan in his famous tub as he charts your future--it's like being right there inside his head. --Tim Appelo
NY Times review:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/reviews/001217.17kuttnet.html
This book is about this nations first Treasury secretary and Founding Father, who created public finance in the United States. Would he have endorsed running up hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars in government debt to rescue private institutions? I saw it referenced in a post on Wealth University by $heff and would love to read it considering the times we are now in.
other good books in this link
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=34469141&txt2find=book
Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton brings to life a man who was central to the formation of the United States, but is most often remembered, if at all, for being killed in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. He traces the arc of Hamilton's life from his birth in poverty on an obscure Caribbean island, to his days as a pampleteer in New York, his roles as aide-de-camp to General Washington and hero during the Revolutionary War, his authorship of most of the Federalist Papers, and his role as the first Secretary of the Treasury of the new United States government. Hamilton was a fiery writer and debater who believed in a strong central government, often quarreling with Jefferson, Madison, and other founding fathers. This intense behavior also led to an affair with a married woman whose husband blackmailed him, and his ultimate undoing in his feud with Aaron Burr. Alexander Hamilton has received mostly positive reviews. The Rocky Mountain News calls it "a book that does such a fine job, not only of bringing Alexander Hamilton to full and varied life but of providing the reader, as well, with a richly textured picture of the America that was emerging from the blood and turmoil of the Revolutionary War."
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
by Peter L. Bernstein
Capital Ideas traces the origins of modern Wall Street, from the pioneering work of early scholars and the development of new theories in risk, valuation, and investment returns, to the actual implementation of these theories in the real world of investment management. Starting with the French mathematician Louis Bachelier, who wrote about the unpredictability of stock prices in the early 1900s, Bernstein brings to life a variety of brilliant academics who have contributed to modern investment theory over the years.
There is a follow-up book called Capital Ideas Evolving available also.
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
Against the Gods, a narrative that reads like a novel, chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from the oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. This is a richly-woven tale of Greek philosophers and Arab mathematicians, of merchants and scientists, gamblers and philosophers, world-renowned intellects and obscure but inspired amateurs who helped discover the modern methods of putting the future at the service of the present, replacing helplessness before the fates with choice and decision.
How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market by Nicolas Darvas
Free book download:
http://stockvision.org/books/Nicolas_Darvas-How_I_Made_$2_Million_in_the_Stock_Market-EN.pdf
** Futures **
Futures tickers are a little different from stocks. Each futures market has a ticker symbol that is followed by symbols for the contract month and the year.
For example, crude oil futures have a ticker symbol - CL.
The complete ticker symbol for December 2008 Crude Oil Futures would be - CLZ8.
The “CL” stands for the underlying futures contract.
The “Z” stands for a December delivery month.
(F=Jan, G=Feb, H=Mar, J=Apr, K=May, M=June, N=July, Q=Aug, U=Sep, V=Oct, X=Nov, Z=Dec) The “8” stands for the year – 2008.
Alphabetical Listing of Futures Symbols
http://www.infinitytrading.com/futures_markets_symbols.html
http://www.commoditysymbols.com/
Futures Trading Hours
http://www.nymex.com/tradin_hours.aspx
Futures Facts
http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=productsEdu&ib_entity=llc
LOL
THX BUD, APRECIATE IT
LOL!!!!!!!!!! board marked. nice ibox info bro
EDWARD STEVENSON DOESN'T READ BOOKS. HE STARES THEM DOWN UNTIL HE GETS THE INFORMATION HE WANTS.
MARKET_TECHNICIAN
great post zigzagman, and thx for the Dow analysis, enjoyed it. I agree, oil is negatively correlated with the markets. Hopefully September will get us out of this choppiness and give us some direction.
SWEET BOARD YOU GOT HERE MARKET_TECHNICIAN!!!
Is this where we talk about TA?
I'm a 'chartaholic' thru and thru. I LOVE reading charts. Been doing it for fifteen years. I was a Day Trader for many years and that's how I learned to read charts with many technical indicators. You can't Day Trade without good charts.
I combine TA and Fundamental analysis in my Swing Trading strategy. These days, you have to pay attention to the price of crude oil since it has such a big impact on the movements of the DJIA and S&P 500.
One of my favorite BUY signals is the 15MA/50MA crossover known as the 'Silver Cross'. Look at the two charts below to see that the DJIA and one of my favorite stocks (TSL) have both done a 'Silver Cross'. I find that interesting, because the market usually bottoms in October. It's been a strange year to say the least though. Could we really be at "THE" Bottom already. I hope so. I'm getting tired of Shorting!~lol
Long-Term Investors Need Trends to Make Money
http://seekingalpha.com/article/87191-risk-management-in-trending-markets?source=wl_sidebar
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