18 books like Forecasting financial markets
Exchange-traded funds for dummies
It seems like every week Wall Street comes up with some new, exotic investment idea that puts your money at risk. Thankfully, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are less volatile than individual stocks, cheaper than most mutual funds, and subject to minimal taxation. But how do you use this wonderful product to diversify your investments in today's fast-growing and ever-changing market? …
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Practical Portfolio Performance Measurement and Attribution
Practical Performance Measurement and Attribution provides a clear introduction to the subject of performance measurement. Focusing more on the practical use and calculation of performance returns rather than the academic background it will help readers gain a clear understanding of the role and implications of performance measurement in today's financial environment. "Carl's book is a 'must…
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Capital Ideas Evolving
"A lot has happened in the financial markets since 1992, when Peter Bernstein wrote his seminal Capital Ideas. Happily, Peter has taken up his facile pen again to describe these changes, a virtual revolution in the practice of investing that relies heavily on complex mathematics, derivatives, hedging, and hyperactive trading. This fine and eminently readable book is unlikely to be surpassed as…
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The Age of Deleveraging
"Top economist Gary Shilling shows you how to prosper in the slow-growing and deflationary times that lie ahead. While many investors fear a rapid rise in inflation, author Gary Shilling, an award-winning economic forecaster, argues that the global economy is going through a long period of de-leveraging and weak growth, which makes deflation far more likely and a far greater threat to investors…
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Intermarket Analysis
Praise for INTERMARKET ANALYSIS "John Murphy has done it again. He dissects the global relationships between equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities like no one else can, and lays out an irrefutable case for intermarket analysis in plain English. This book is a must-read for all serious traders." -Louis B. Mendelsohn, creator of VantagePoint Intermarket Analysis software "John Murphy's…
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Portfolio Management
A career’s worth of portfolio management knowledge in one thorough, efficient guidePortfolio Management is an authoritative guide for those who wish to manage money professionally. This invaluable resource presents effective portfolio management practices supported by their underlying theory, providing the tools and instruction required to meet investor objectives and deliver superior…
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When the Wolves Bite
"With their unprecedented amounts of capital and their savvy understanding of business, activist investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman have the ability to move markets and change the fortunes of investors, workers, and even large companies with the flick of a wrist. But what happens when they run into the one thing in business they can't control: each other? On January 25, 2013, Scott Wapner, the…
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Fooled by Randomness
"[Taleb is] Wall Street's principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther's ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church."--Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker
Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world. This book is about luck: more precisely how we…
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Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth
How did a secretary, a firefighter, a retired naval officer, a housewife, a construction worker, a schoolteacher, and a pharmacist become wealthy? Bestselling author Ric Edelman has studied the wealth-making habits of these and 5,000 other ordinary Americans.What he found is revealed for the first time in this book: the eight great secrets to attaining wealth. This extraordinary book is filled…
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Stock Investing for Dummies
Stock Investing For Dummies, 3rd Edition includes information on stock investing in both bear and bull markets; unique investment segments; stock investing for different types of situations; and examples straight from the real world of stock investing as they have occurred in the past three years.
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How to Make Money in Stocks
A BUSINESSWEEK BESTSELLER!Anyone can learn to invest wisely with this bestselling investment system!Through every type of market, William J. O'Neil's national bestseller, How to MakeMoney in Stocks, has shown over 2 million investors the secrets to building wealth.O'Neil's powerful CAN SLIM® Investing System—a proven 7-step process for minimizingrisk and maximizing gains—has influenced…
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The Dao of Capital
"As today's preeminent doomsday investor Mark Spitznagel describes his Daoist and roundabout investment approach, "one gains by losing and loses by gaining." This is Austrian Investing, an archetypal, counterintuitive, and proven approach, gleaned from the 150-year-old Austrian School of economics, that is both timeless and exceedingly timely.In The Dao of Capital, hedge fund manager and…
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Short-Term Financial Management
Essential tools and guidance for effective nonprofit financial managementFinancial Management for Nonprofit Organizations provides students, professionals, and board members with a comprehensive reference for the field. Identifying key objectives and exploring current practices, this book offers practical guidance on all major aspects of nonprofit financial management. As nonprofit organizations…
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Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth
From analyzing potential properties to effectively managing your listings, this book is your one-stop resource for making a profit with short-term rentals!Airbnb, Vrbo, and other listing services have become massively popular in recent years—why not tap into the gold mine? Whether you’re new to real estate investing or you want to add a new strategy to your growing portfolio, vacation rentals can…
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Maximum Trading Gains With Anchored VWAP
Maximum Trading Gains with the Anchored VWAP results from decades of research and application by the author. It builds on Shannon's foundational book, Technical Analysis Using Multiple Timeframes.
Author Brian Shannon, CMT, explains how to use the Anchored VWAP (AVWAP) to make better entries and exits, to time breakouts and breakdowns, and to set stop losses. Both new and experienced traders and…
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Suze Orman's Action Plan
Times have changed and the rules have changed, but financial security is still the goal. Do you know how to get there?There is a new reality out there--a new normal. What was once certain--that you would be able to retire comfortably, that you would pay for your kids' education, that your home would appreciate in value--is no longer a sure thing. So much has changed on the financial landscape…
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Profit First For Lawyers
This Book Will Make Your Law Firm More ProfitableBy following the simple advice in this book, one day not long from now, you will wake up to find you are taking more profits from your law firm:•Without spending more money on marketing.•Without hiring more staff.•Without increasing overhead.Notice the absence of "hedge" words. Following just about any of the advice in this book will make your law…
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Introduction to Fixed-Income Analysis and Portfolio Management
A concise but comprehensive introduction to fixed income analysis for undergraduate and graduate students.Offering more concise and less technical coverage of the material featured in the classic text Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies, this streamlined book is rightsized for a one-semester fixed-income course. In accessible terms, Frank Fabozzi describes the sectors of the fixed-income…
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