by Burton G. Malkiel

The million-copy bestseller, revised and updated with new investment strategies for retirement and the insights of behavioral finance.

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Updated with a new chapter that draws on behavioral finance, the field that studies the psychology of investment decisions, here is the best-selling, authoritative, and gimmick-free guide to investing. Burton G. Malkiel evaluates the full range of investment opportunities from stocks, bonds, and money markets to real estate investment trusts and insurance, home ownership, and tangible assets such as gold and collectibles. This edition includes new strategies for rearranging your portfolio for retirement along with the book’s classic life-cycle guide to investing, which matches the needs of investors in any age bracket. A Random Walk Down Wall Street long ago established itself as a must-read, the first book to purchase before starting a portfolio, and it remains the best investing guide money can buy.

by James J. Cramer

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Jim Cramer

Mr. Cramer is full of emotion. He is on TV and radio. He has much to say about the stock market. His information is helpful, but it is only the beginning in one’s learning to be successful in stock market investing. You will have to read many more books including books on technical analysis in order to gain the knowledge needed to be successful.

Cramer’s 25 rules for investing are explained in this book. The rules are sound and very helpful for the investor to review. They are:

1. Bulls, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.
2. It’s OK to pay the taxes.
3. Don’t buy all at once.
4. Buy damaged stocks, not damaged companies.
5. Diversify to control risk
6. Do your stock homework.
7. No one made a dime by panicking.
8. Buy best-of-breed companies.
9. Defend some stocks, not all.
10. Bad buys won’t become takeovers.
11. Don’t own too many names.
12. Cash is for winners.
13. No woulda, shoulda couldas.
14. Expect, don’t fear corrections.
15. Don’t forget bonds.
16. Never subsidize losers with winners.
17. Check hope at the door.
18. Be flexible.
19. When the chiefs retreat, so should you.
20. Giving up on value is a sin.
21. Be a TV critic.
22. Wait 30 days after preannouncements
23. Beware of Wall Street hype.
24. Explain your picks.
25. There’s always a bull market.

by Charles P. Kindleberger (Author), Robert Aliber (Author), Robert Solow

Manias, Panics, and Crashes, Fifth Edition is an engaging and entertaining account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries. Covering such topics as the history and anatomy of crises, speculative manias, and the lender of last resort, this book puts the turbulence of the financial world in perspective. The updated fifth edition expands upon each chapter, and includes two new chapters focusing on significant financial crises of the last fifteen years.

by Mark Douglas (Author)

Trading in the Zone

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.

Trading In The Zone offers specific solutions to the “people factor” of commodity price movement. It uncovers the true culprit for lack of consistency when it comes to stock picking: lack of focus and self-confidence. Through simple exercises, traders will learn how to think in terms of probabilities, and adopt the specific beliefs necessary to developing a winner’s mindset. Along the way, they’ll gain valuable insights into their own entrenched misconceptions about the market.

Backed by compelling examples, Trading In The Zone adds a new dimension to getting an edge on the market. Through a better understanding of themselves, as well as of Wall Street’s realities, traders will come to leverage the power of their psyche for unprecedented profitability.

by Alexander Green (Author), Steve Sjuggerud (Foreword)

The Gone Fishin

Outperform the vast majority of investment professionals while paying nothing in sales charges, brokerage fees, or commissions by modifying your investment strategy. Learn how to make your investment dreams come true with the advice in The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio: Get Wise, Get Wealthy…and Get on With Your Life, a guide that-s based on a Nobel Prize-winning investment strategy yet takes just 20 minutes to implement. Gain an understanding of the fundamental relationship between risk and reward in the financial markets and get an insider’s view of how the investment industry really works.
–This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

From the Inside Flap

Many of us have been conditioned to believe that investing is too difficult and time-consuming to attempt on our own. With so many products to choose from and so many risks involved, a financial “professional” is the only person qualified to handle the money you’ll retire on some day, right? The truth is, no one cares more about your money than you do. And with a basic understanding of the investment process and the time-tested strategy offered here, you can successfully manage your own portfolio in less than twenty minutes a year.

In The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio, author Alexander Green details an effective yet simple approach to investing that embraces the uncertainty of financial markets, and reveals how you can generate exceptional results during both good times and bad. Page by page, you’ll discover how the “Gone Fishin’ Portfolio” will allow you to earn superior returns, reduce risk, minimize taxes, and eliminate Wall Street’s mountain of fees.

Divided into three comprehensive parts—Get Wise, Get Wealthy, and Get on with Your Life—this reliable resource:Discusses the relationship between risk and reward in financial markets, and reveals how the investment industry really worksUnveils the “Gone Fishin’ Portfolio,” addresses why it’s arguably the safest and simplest way to reach your long-term financial goals, and explores the financial and psychological challenges you’re likely to face in the years aheadExamines what it means to take your financial destiny into your hands and, at the same time, reclaim your most precious resource—your time

The “Gone Fishin’ Portfolio” is based on an investment strategy that won a Nobel Prize in economics. Yet setting it up is a snap and maintaining it is even easier. You’ll need less than twenty minutes a year.

The philosophy behind the “Gone Fishin’ Portfolio” is based on the best investment thinking available. Investors who have put their money to work this way have enjoyed years of market-beating returns while taking far less risk than being fully invested in stocks. The “Gone Fishin’ Portfolio” will allow you to reach your most important investment goals, beat Wall Street at its own game, and achieve the financial independence you deserve.

Trading Options For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) (Paperback)

trading option

Thinking of trading options, but not sure where to start? Trading Options For Dummies starts you from the beginning with clear, step-by-step advice on how to use top option strategies to reduce your risk while boosting your income and enlarging your retirement portfolio with index, equity, and ETF options.

This plain-English guide explains the common types of options and helps you choose the right ones for your investing needs. You find out how to weigh option costs and benefits, combine options to reduce risk, and build a strategy that allows you to gain no matter what the market may bring. You’ll learn the basics of market and sector analysis and what to look for when trying out a new option strategy. You’ll also find what you need to know about options contract specifications and mechanics. Discover how to:

* Understand option contracts and orders
* Determine and manage your risk
* Guard your assets using options
* Trade options on securities exchanges
* Protect your rights and satisfy your contract obligations
* Target sectors using technical analysis
* Minimize potential losses and optimize rewards
* Map out your plan of attack
* Limit your downside when trading the trend
* Combine options to limit your position risk
* Benefit from exchange traded funds
* Key in on volatility for trading opportunities
* Capitalize on sideways movements

Trading options is serious business. Trading Options For Dummies gives you the expert help you need to succeed.

From the Back Cover
Features top option strategies that reduce your risk

Navigate options markets and bring in the profits

Thinking about trading options? This plain-English guide explains the common types of options and helps you choose the right ones for your investing needs. You’ll see how to weigh option costs and benefits, combine options to reduce risk, and build a strategy that allows you to gain no matter the market conditions.

Discover how to:

*Understand option contracts and orders

*Know and manage your risk

*Use technical analysis

*Guard your assets with options

*Minimize potential losses

Chart Your Way To Profits: The Online Trader

Chart Your Way To Profits: The Online Trader’s Gu to Technical Analysis (Wiley Trading) (Hardcover)

Chart Your Way to Profits shows you how to harness the technology available on www.prophet.com to analyze markets and make informed trading decisions. It discusses the fundamentals of technical analysis and shows you how to design your own charts and indicators in a way that enables you to easily monitor the markets and make solid trading decisions.

From the Inside Flap
Making money in today’s markets isn’t easy, but with the right approach, you can succeed. No one knows this better than author Tim Knight, who has been charting and trading the financial markets for more than twenty years. During this time, his passion for the markets led him to create Prophet.net—a Web site containing an innovative array of technical analysis tools—which has been consistently ranked the number one site for technical analysis by Barron’s and Forbes magazines.

Now, in Chart Your Way to Profits, Knight shows you how to use the powerful technology available online in conjunction with technical analysis to analyze markets and make the most profitable trading decisions possible.

Written in a straightforward and accessible manner, Chart Your Way to Profits covers a lot of ground with respect to technical analysis and charting. You’ll be introduced to the charting tools ProphetCharts and JavaCharts, so you can discover how to perform your own analysis with the help of hundreds of real-world examples. Along the way, you’ll also become familiar with some of the most important rules of sound trading.

Filled with in-depth insight and practical advice, Chart Your Way to Profits also:

* Examines a variety of chart types currently available, how to size and arrange them, and the differences in charting stocks, options, indices, and other financial instruments
* Discusses the mechanics of managing watch lists—as well as chart styles—and how to use them effectively
* Highlights essential indicators, including moving averages, Bollinger bands, the parabolic stop and reversal (PSAR), and moving average convergence divergence (MACD)
* Explores numerous analysis methods for financial charts, such as saucers, multiple tops and bottoms, trendlines, channels, and Fibonacci studies
* And much more

Consistent analysis produces consistent profits. And through the ups and downs of financial markets, technical criteria and charting allow traders to be completely objective in their assessment of price action, while leaving emotion out of the decision-making process. Chart Your Way to Profits can help you do the same, as it shows you how to combine technical analysis with powerful online tools to achieve trading success.

Mastering the Trade

Mastering the Trade (McGraw-Hill Trader’s Edge) (Hardcover)

Expert tactics to become make the most of every swing trade

In Mastering the Trade, veteran trader and educator John Carter shares his hard-won five-point technique for successful swing trading. In addition, Carter helps you move to the next level of confidence by explaining how markets really work and detailing behind-the-scenes market mechanics.

From the Back Cover

Turn your fascination with trading into a lucrative, full-time career

Mastering the Trade presents you with a step-by-step, innovative approach for becoming a successful professional trader. Full-time trader and fund manager John F. Carter combines an insightful market overview with specific trading strategies and concepts, providing you with chart setups, trading methodologies, vital money management principles, essential psychological guidelines, advice on powerful hardware and software, and more.

This results-driven book sets aside timeworn basics and rehashed ideas to present and examine in detail the underlying reasons that cause prices to move. Its proven program can be used to consistently get in early on market moves, either jumping right back out when you realize you’ve made a mistake or hanging on for a long and profitable ride.

From valuable hardware and software to market mechanics, pivot points, position sizing, and much, much more, Mastering the Trade covers:

* The five psychological truths that you must know to transform yourself from a deer-in-the-headlights beginner into a savvy professional
* Proven set-ups, with optimal markets and a set of non-negotiable trading rules for increasing the effectiveness of each
* Exact entry, exit, and stop loss levels for the intraday trading of stocks, options, ETFs, emini futures, 30 year bonds, Forex currency markets, and more
* Seven key internals, from TICKS to 5-minute volume, that are critical for gauging pending market direction from the opening bell
* A pre-market checklist to analyze recent market behavior and calculate what you plan to do, how you plan to do it, and why
* Non-negotiable risk control techniques that protect trading capital, the most important component of a professional trading career
* Tools and techniques for stripping away the cookies, spam, and other hard drive cloggers that rob you of valuable computer speed

After spending years on various trading desks, John Carter developed an intuitive understanding of how the markets work. In Mastering the Trade, Carter gives you unlimited access to everything you need to know–which trading systems work best in specific markets, techniques for controlling losses, internal strategies for overcoming the danger of emotions–to make an exceptional living on the frontlines of professional trading.

Praise for John Carter’s Mastering the Trade:

“Mastering the Trade is an excellent source for a basic understanding of market action, be it day and/or longer term trend trading. A programmer will have a field day with the many ideas that are in this book. It is highly recommended.”
–John Hill, president of Futures Truth magazine

“John Carter’s new book focuses quickly on the critical area of trader psychology, a realm that will often separate the trader from his wallet if it is not mastered first. The in-depth trading strategies clearly show how to respond to market moves based on real-world examples.”
–Price Headley, founder of BigTrends.com and author of Big Trends in Trading

“. . . Well written and packed with the kind of insight about the nature of trading and the markets that can surely benefit every level of trader.”
–Mark Douglas, author of Trading in the Zone and The Disciplined Trader

“This is a must read for all new traders, specifically for the psychological aspect of trading. I am recommending it to all of my clients.”
–Carolyn Boroden, Synchronicity Market Timing, LLC

Thanks to the market-proven advice in Mastering the Trade, you will avoid becoming “fresh meat” to other seasoned traders. John F. Carter, a veteran trader himself, arms you with the knowledge and tools you need to launch your foray into this precarious field and, most important, reap the financial spoils.

A Beginner

A Beginner’s Guide to Day Trading Online (2nd edition)
Day trading is highly profitableÑand highly tumultuous. Moreover, the financial markets have changed considerably in recent years. Expert author Toni Turner gives you the latest information on mastering the markets, including:

* Decimalization of stock prices
* New trading products such as E-minis and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
* Precision entries and exits

# The new breed of trader Written in an accessible, step-by-step manner, A BeginnerÕs Guide to Day Trading Online, 2nd Edition shows how to day trade stocks in todayÕs market.

Brokers’ take - 09 Sep 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
S-Reit DBS VICKERS, Sept 8 WE reiterate our view that the S-Reit sector has been de-rated sufficiently for the prospects of slowing earnings growth momentum

Investment Recommendation - 5 Sep 2008
Posted on Friday September 5th, 2008

Date Stock Broker Price TargetPrice Recommendation (6-12mths) 05/09/08 SingTel CIMB 3.45 3.50 Underperform Downgraded Starhub CIMB…

Ospraie to shut flagship commodity hedge fund
04 Sep 2008
Ospraie, It took 8 years to reach where it was, one of the largest commodities fund. It took nearly (or less than) 8weeks for it to close!

Hit Singles for Satisfaction
04 Sep 2008
The allure of swinging for the fence is common in the trading world, and it appeals to each of us from time to time. However, that sure doesn’t mean it’s the thing to aim for in our trading from week to week or month to month.