"Investing can be a tricky act with ever-changing variables and market dilemmas. While some investors struggle and make irreversible mistakes, some profit. This book will discuss investment techniques that improve performance over time, the importance of disciplined investment management, and the common mistakes made by professionals and every day investors. The mistakes include: Mistake #1--Fighting the Market Mistake #2--Active Trading Mistake #3--Misunderstanding...

If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now the one and only Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of “the greatest economic boom since England's Industrial Revolution.”In this indispensable new book, Rogers, one of the world's most successful investors, brings his unerring investment acumen to bear on this huge and unruly land now being opened to the world and...

Everybody knows that a strong dollar equals a strong economy, bonds are safer than stocks, stocks are more volatile now and stop-losses are a smart, money-saving tactic ... right? These are just a few widely believed but potentially dangerous market myths New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ken Fisher dismantles in this wise, informative, wholly entertaining new book. As a long-term Forbes columnist and CEO of a global money...

Nicolas Darvas was a world famous dancer and a self-taught investor. He had never considered investing in the stock market until he was, paid in stock for a performance. That stock shot up in value and he realized that there was a great deal of money to be, made investing in stocks. Over the next few years, he read widely about stocks and spent every free moment studying the market. In a very short amount of time he learned when to buy, when not to...

Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?These questions have fascinated people ever since the news broke about the respected New York financier who swindled his friends, relatives, and other investors out of $65 billion through a fraud that lasted for decades. Many have speculated about what might have happened or what must have happened, but no reporter has been able to get the full story-until now.In The...