Economy & Finance

If you're looking for a powerful, proven approach to technical analysis that can demonstrate proven effectiveness, you're looking for Harmonic Trading. Now, the creator of this remarkable approach has written the definitive introduction to using it in your own trades. Scott Carney, President and Founder of HarmonicTrader.com, shows how harmonic trading combines Fibonacci measurement strategies with advanced pattern recognition analysis, unlocking valid market signals as if they were the combination to a safe. Carney presents natural harmonic patterns that consistently identify critical price levels and market turning points: patterns analogous to the predictable behavior of natural systems. Next, he presents a comprehensive plan for applying Harmonic Trading in real trades. You'll find examples from U.S. equities, currencies, commodities and foreign markets; for both short- and long-term timeframes; and in all markets, including 2008's extraordinarily bearish environment. Harmonic Trading has rapidly grown in recent years, and is now widely recognized as a premiere technical analysis discipline. This book presents the state-of-the-art - including strategies and techniques that will be completely new to most traders and investors. Carney guides traders gently up the learning curve, sharing personal experiences and presenting over 100 pages of clear illustrations. The result is a book that makes Harmonic Trading techniques more widely accessible than ever before.

The revised edition of this highly acclaimed work presents crucial lessons from Japan's recession that could aid the US and other economies as they struggle to recover from the current financial crisis. This book is about Japan's 15-year long recession and how it affected current theoretical thinking about its causes and cures.

* How toMake a Living Trading Foreign Exchange takes the world ofForex, and puts it at readers' fingertips. * Smithbegins with an introduction to the Forex market - what it is, andhow it works.

The seductive elegance of classical finance theory is powerful, yet value investing requires that we reject both the precepts of modern portfolio theory (MPT) and pretty much all of its tools and techniques. This book explains how value investing is the only tried and tested method of delivering sustainable long-term returns.

Index funds are based on a simple concept: when the index goes up, index funds benchmarked to that index should go up nearly an identical amount and vice versa. Index Investing For Dummies shows readers how they can make use of index funds to take advantage of these large markets and maximize the return on their investments.

Posner explores the causes of Europe's emergence as a global financial power, addressing classic and new questions about the origins of markets and their relationship to politics and bureaucracy.

Early in this career, Benjamin Graham's wrote a number of articles appearing in the Magazine of Wall Street. This is the first time they have been published in book form.

Quantitative finance is the most fascinating and rewarding real-world application of mathematics. It is fascinating because of the speed at which the subject develops the new products and the new models which we have to understand. And it is rewarding because anyone can make a fundamental breakthrough.

This is the story of John Sussex, a highly successful derivatives trader whose career has spanned the radical technological, social and political changes that took place in the City of London during the Eighties and Nineties.

An realistic look at the challenges involved in becoming a successful day trader. Based on the author's ten years experience, the book dissects the psychological and strategic pitfalls that cause most aspiring day traders to fail.

Trading the financial markets is extremely difficult, but with the right approach, traders can achieve success. Nobody knows this better than authors Larry Pesavento and Leslie Jouflas, both traders and educators of traders, who have consistently used pattern recognition to capture profits from the markets.

Modelling Single-name and Multi-name Credit Derivatives presents an up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible and practical guide to the pricing and risk-management of credit derivatives. It is both a detailed introduction to credit derivative modelling and a reference for those who are already practitioners.

Hedge fund managers who survived and profited through the 2008 financial crisis share their secrets In light of the colossal losses and amidst the resulting confusion that still lingers, it is time to rethink money management in the broadest of terms.

Games are played everywhere: from economics and online auctions to social interactions, and game theory is about how to play such games in a rational way, and how to maximize their outcomes. This VSI reveals, without mathematical equations, the insights the theory can bring to everything from how to play poker optimally to the sex ratio among bees.

William Easterly, acclaimed author and former economist at the World Bank, addresses the problems of extreme poverty and the West's failed attempts to help the poor. While recognising the energy and compassion behind the campaign to make poverty history he argues that grand plans and good intentions are a part of the problem not the solution.

Offers you one simple tool that can enhance your investment decision-making process - the chart. This book gives you the basics needed to look at a chart and get a feel for what the market or individual stock is doing. It covers only the nuts and bolts of chart analysis, barely touching upon the next level concepts.

"Entertainingly indiscreet... Knee's talent for wicked pen portraits is put to good use. "--Financial Times Investment bankers used to be known as respectful of their clients, loyal to their firms, and chary of the financial system that allowed them to prosper.

In The Little Book That Builds Wealth, author Pat Dorsey-the Director of Equity Research for leading independent investment research provider Morningstar, Inc.

Praise for Jim Rogers and Adventure Capitalist "[Jim Rogers is] the Indiana Jones of finance. " Time "Rogers has a knack for storytelling and drawing the reader in. You'll finish this book feeling as though you, too, have spun around the globe. " USA Today "A terrific read.

In recent years, metals have been among the safest and most lucrative investments around, but they are not entirely risk free. Before you begin investing or trading in metals, you need authoritative information and proven investment strategies. You need Precious Metal Investing For Dummies.

Drawing on Russia's Department files, personal papers of key Wall Street figures, biographies and conventional histories, this book reveals: the role of Morgan banking executives in funneling illegal Bolshevik gold into the US; the co-option of the American Red Cross by powerful Wall Street forces; and, more.

There are many ways to make money in today's market, but the one strategy that has truly proven itself over the years is value investing. Now, with The Little Book of Value Investing, Christopher Browne shows you how to use this wealth-building strategy to successfully buy bargain stocks around the world.

Traders can mentor themselves and further their development by drawing upon research and practice from psychology and various performance disciplines. Leading associate professor of psychiatry Brett Steenbarger provides a practical collection of validated strategies for enhancing trader performance and changing their psychological patterns.

Accident law, if properly designed, is capable of reducing the incidence of mishaps by making people act more cautiously. Since the 1960s, a group of legal scholars and economists have focused on identifying the effects of accident law on people's behavior. Steven Shavell's book is the definitive synthesis of research to date in this new field.

The Life of John Maynard Keynes traces the life and career of the famous English economist and evaluates his contribution to modern economic policy making.

Professional English in Use Finance is the latest exciting addition to the bestselling English Vocabulary in Use titles.

Tells investors how they can make money and, avoid losses in up markets, down markets, and everything in between. Showing how mistakes made in the market collapse were similar to those made in previous down cycles, this title reveals simple steps investors can follow to avoid costly mistakes.