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Market Indicators Other Than Price Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 07-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 05-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Market Indicators Other Than Price This Element is an excerpt from Technical
Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your
Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in
print and digital formats.
Interpreting the non-price indicators that
can uncover emerging trading opportunities
When the market goes one way and the
supporting indicator goes the other, then something is happening
beneath the surface. An early trading opportunity may be in the
works. Listen to these indicators–every indicator tells a
story....
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Market Sectors and Industry Groups Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 07-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 05-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Market Sectors and Industry Groups <>This Element is an excerpt from Technical Analysis
Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language
(9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in print and
digital formats.
Get the wind at your back, by consistently
picking the right sectors and industry groups
Usually, certain sectors of the market are
leading the charge while others are lagging. This means you need to
know which sectors of the market are going to lead and which will
lag. Once you know that, picking stocks from the leaders is a lot
less risky. How do you do that? Fortunately, in most
markets…...
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Who Can You Trust with the Financial Planning of Your Money? By: Bonnie Kirchner Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 07-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 05-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Who Can You Trust with the Financial Planning of Your Money? This Element is an excerpt from Who Can
You Trust With Your Money? Get the Help You Need Now and Avoid
Dishonest Advisors (9780137033652), by Bonnie Kirchner.
Available in print and digital formats.
Understand the field of financial planning,
so you can get the advice you need--and can rely on.
Financial planning includes many components,
and it is difficult for any one advisor to be expert in all of
them. It’s similar to medicine. Some advisors with a broad
base of knowledge act as generalists, often working with clients in
a holistic manner--but they might have to find
“specialists” in...
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The Roles of Various Financial Institutions By: Bonnie Kirchner Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 07-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 05-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Roles of Various Financial Institutions This Element is an excerpt from Who Can
You Trust With Your Money? Get the Help You Need Now and Avoid
Dishonest Advisors (9780137033652), by Bonnie Kirchner.
Available in print and digital formats.
Understand your financial advisor’s
relationships to other financial institutions--and what those
connections mean for you.
When you engage with a financial advisor,
you are also creating connections to various financial
institutions. Understanding the various roles of financial
institutions and how they are associated with different products
and services can give you clues as to whether you...
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High-Yield Bond Funds: Earn the Best Yields Available While Managing the Risks By: Marvin Appel Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 07-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 05-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: High-Yield Bond Funds: Earn the Best Yields Available While Managing the Risks This Element is an excerpt from Higher
Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to
Generate Lifetime Income (9780137003358) by Marvin Appel.
Available in print and digital formats.
When it might make sense to invest in
high-yield junk bonds–and when you absolutely must stay
away
Wouldn’t it be great to get 8% per
year or more in interest income from a bond mutual fund? This is
not idle fantasy when the average investment-grade bond is paying
just 4%. You can get very juicy yields if you are willing to bear
the credit risk of high-yield “junk” bonds. In this
chapter,...
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446. | Overview: How to Buy Individual Bonds This Element is an excerpt from Higher
Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to
Generate Lifetime Income (9780137003358) by Marvin Appel.
Available in print and digital formats.
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How to safely buy individual bonds–and
why the process can uncomfortably resemble buying a used car!
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Several things about buying bonds are not
readily apparent on review of brokers’ Web sites. First,
unlike stocks, there is usually no specified commission per trade
for buying bonds. Rather, buying bonds more closely resembles
buying a car. The price you pay includes a profit for...
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447. |  The Great Deleveraging: Economic Growth and Investing Strategies for the Future By: Chip Dickson; Oded Shenkar Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 11-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Great Deleveraging: Economic Growth and Investing Strategies for the Future In the past decade, the United States
experienced two periods of excessive growth periods followed by two
massive collapses: the technology and housing bubbles. Both
were caused by illusions of growth and wealth creation: They were
built on thin air. As an investor, how can you distinguish between
“fake” wealth and the real thing? Where can you earn
solid returns without falling victim to bubbles? Read The
Great Deleveraging and find out. Former Wall Street
analyst, strategist and Associate Director of Equity Research Chip
Dickson and leading global business scholar Oded Shenkar...
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448. |  The Rise of the State: Profitable Investing and Geopolitics in the 21st Century By: Yiannis G. Mostrous; Elliott H. Gue; David F. Dittman Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 09-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 02-JUN-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Rise of the State: Profitable Investing and Geopolitics in the 21st Century If you want to make money in the coming
decade, you need to understand the two most powerful trends that
are reshaping global markets right now: the growth of emerging
economies, and the accelerating influence of sovereign wealth
funds. Both trends share one crucial characteristic: they reflect
the rising role of government actors, and make it more important
for investors to understand geopolitics than ever before. These
trends emerged well before the global financial and economic
crisis, and that crisis has only strengthened them. In The Rise
of the State, three leading investment advisors...
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The Meaning Behind Financial Advisor Designations and Licenses By: Bonnie Kirchner Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 21-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 29-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Meaning Behind Financial Advisor Designations and Licenses This Element is an excerpt from Who Can
You Trust With Your Money? Get the Help You Need Now and Avoid
Dishonest Advisors (9780137033652) by Bonnie Kirchner.
Available in print and digital formats.
A practical guide to interpreting the
meaning and value of your financial professionals’ licenses,
designations, and certifications
Financial professionals who have more
letters after their names don’t necessarily offer higher
quality advice. Some designations carry more clout because they
require more dedication to obtain and maintain. Some are general
and others specific. Depending on your...
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Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 17-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Investment Chart Patterns This Element is an excerpt from
Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in
Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT.
Available in print and digital formats.
Discover the little-known technical
patterns that reveal when the market’s headed sideways.
Markets go up and down, but they also go
sideways. Both bulls and bears can lose their desires to buy and
sell aggressively as value is established. They wait for the next
clues the market will leave as it decides where it wants to go
next. Just like a car, trending markets must rest occasionally to
refuel. Their...
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Which Type of Bond Is Right for You? By: Marvin Appel Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 17-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Which Type of Bond Is Right for You? This Element is an excerpt from Higher
Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to
Generate Lifetime Income (9780137003358)by Marvin Appel.
Available in print and digital formats.
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Your basic bond primer: how bonds differ and
how to choose the best ones for your investment needs.
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Bonds share the basic characteristic of
providing you with a dependable source of investment income.
However, there are many different types of bonds from which you can
choose. Let’s see how you can best meet different
requirements with the various bonds available to you.......
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452. | Overview: Basics of Bond Investments This Element is an excerpt from Higher
Returns from Safe Investments: Using Bonds, Stocks, and Options to
Generate Lifetime Income (9780137003358) by Marvin Appel.
Available in print and digital formats.
Don’t know anything about bonds? Start
with this plain-English guide to the absolute basics!
A thoughtful program of investing in bonds
can help you achieve peace of mind: I explain what bonds are, how
they work, and why they are usually (but not always) safe. To begin
with, a bond is a loan that an investor makes to a business or
government. Bond investors make loans and, in return,...
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Chart Patterns: When the Market Is Changing Its Mind Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 17-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Chart Patterns: When the Market Is Changing Its Mind This Element is an excerpt from
Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in
Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT.
Available in print and digital formats.
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How to recognize market turning points that
are just about to happen, so you can profit--and avoid getting
hammered.
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If some chart patterns are merely a rest
stop for the market, others are turning points. If you already own
a position in the market and one of these patterns form, it is
probably time to consider selling. Here, you will learn to
recognize these “reversal patterns”.......
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See the Investment Forest and the Trees Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 17-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: See the Investment Forest and the Trees This Element is an excerpt from
Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in
Your Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT.
Available in print and digital formats.
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Stop burying yourself in data: Cut to the
chase and get the insights you need to discover real market trends
and make better trades!
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So many investment tools are available to
the technician that it is easy to overdo it. Vast quantities of
data may be unnecessary to discern simple patterns. The
“noise” associated with daily data can confuse
long-term analysis, and too many indicators can obscure...
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455. |  Personal Investing: The Missing Manual By: Bonnie Biafore; Amy E. Buttell; Carol Fabbri Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 17-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 12-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Personal Investing: The Missing Manual Did your personal investments take a hit in the recession? It's time to take control of your funds with Personal Investing: The Missing Manual. This lively and easy-to-understand guide provides the confidence, tools, and insight you need to evaluate and invest in financial products that target success over the long term. You'll learn how to set goals and research the types of investments -- mutual funds, stocks, bonds, and other financial products -- that can best help you achieve them....
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456. |  By: Scott M. Carney Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 07-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 12-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | The MOST ADVANCED Harmonic Trading
Techniques Ever Published--by Their CREATOR, Scott
Carney!
“Perhaps the greatest shortcoming of
the field of Technical Analysis is the high degree of subjectivity
in price pattern interpretation. In Harmonic Trading: Volume
2, highly respected technical analyst Scott Carney reduces
subjectivity to a minimum with his Fibonacci-based price
measurement techniques and traditional technical analysis methods.
Precise price-pattern examples presented in the book enable the
novice as well as the advanced trader to incorporate the Harmonic
Trading methodology into...
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The Trend Is Your Friend and so Are Trendlines By: Michael N. Kahn Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 30-APR-2010 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Trend Is Your Friend and so Are Trendlines This Element is an excerpt from Technical
Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your
Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in
print and digital formats.
The simple, practical guide to understanding
trendlines--and riding trends to earn greater investment
profits.
The old adage says, “The trend is your
friend.” Why? It is because trends tend to perpetuate unless
something causes them to do otherwise. If you can identify a trend
in its early stages, you can ride that trend for significant
profits. Trendlines mark the trend on the chart so it can...
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Investment Charts and Concepts By: Michael N. Kahn Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 30-APR-2010 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Investment Charts and Concepts This Element is an excerpt from Technical
Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your
Language (9780137042012), by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in
print and digital formats.
Technical charts demystified: why they work,
how they work, and how to get started with them.
Patterns on charts are not random
apparitions. They are formed when real people, acting in their self
interests, buy and sell stocks, bonds, currencies, or commodities
in pursuit of financial gain. They act, that action is recorded,
and the sum actions of all participants form the patterns we see.
Period. There...
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Explosions and Corrections in Investment Chart Patterns By: Michael N. Kahn Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 30-APR-2010 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Explosions and Corrections in Investment Chart Patterns This Element is an excerpt from Technical
Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your
Language (9780137042012) by Michael N. Kahn, CMT. Available in
print and digital formats.
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How to handle upward or downward
“explosions” in market prices--and how to keep yourself
from being fooled by them.
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Sometimes, market perceptions change so
rapidly that the market seems to explode higher or lower. The
extreme example is a market crash, but we can see this rapid shift
after takeover announcements or surprising earnings news. This is
sometimes exaggerated by news emerging between...
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Simplicity and Speed: Training to Be a Master By: Curtis Faith Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 30-APR-2010 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Simplicity and Speed: Training to Be a Master This Element is an excerpt from Trading
from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct & Left Brain
Smarts to Become a Master Trader (9780137047680) by Curtis
Faith. Available in print and digital formats.
Four simple, powerful rules first taught by
“turtle trading” creator Richard Dennis--the trader who
turned $10K into $200 million!
Richard Dennis--who turned $10,000 into an
estimated $200 million--gave 12 strangers only 2 weeks of training
in his methods. Then, after only 20 days of practice trading, he
gave us millions of dollars to trade. Dennis obviously did not
believe that trading...
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