Not Your Grandma's Stock Market


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This Element is an excerpt from Crapshoot Investing: How Tech Savvy Traders and Clueless Regulators Turned the Stock Market into a Casino (9780132599689) by Jim McTague. Available in print and digital formats. The revolutionary change in the stock markets that you didn’t notice–and the profound impact it will have on your investments. A revolution inexorably altered the American stock market beginning in 2007; but outside the industry, few realized it had occurred. As late as 2010, the average investor still believed that the stock market was dominated by two major exchanges: NYSE and NASDAQ. In fact, it had expanded to more than a dozen registered equity exchanges and more than 200 other stock-trading venues. . . .




Stock Market Pie


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Explains how the stock market works and how small investments can grow into large sums over time. The book is intended to encourage young people to save and invest. Explains various terms - bull and bear markets, dividends, how transactions occur - in understandable language.




Crapshoot Investing


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In just the past few years, the equity markets have been transformed into a high-speed casino that’s a pure crapshoot: a white-knuckle rollercoaster ride that has left individual investors legitimately terrified of equities. The Flash Crash of May 6, 2010–when the DJIA plummeted 734 points in 17 minutes, and dozens of top companies traded as low as zero–was just a harbinger of disasters to come. In Crap Shoot Investing, Barron’s Washington Editor Jim McTague reveals the twin causes of this massive transformation: high-frequency traders using mathematical hocus pocus, and blundering regulators whose attempts to promote long-term investment have massively backfired. McTague takes you through the Flash Crash moment by moment, revealing what happened and how it happened. Next, he burrows “under the volcano” to uncover the titanic, uncontrolled forces now at work in equity markets, showing investors exactly what they’re jumping into when they buy and sell stock today. You’ll learn how new exchanges, desperate for cash, are attracting high-frequency traders at everyone else’s expense... how “dark pools” of hidden trades are tilting the playing field...how even small investors are promoting dangerous volatility. McTague explains why regulators continue to ignore the big picture as the markets accelerate towards chaos. Last but not least, he presents a rational strategy for investors who need to get ahead in markets that have become riskier than most casinos. "A valuable read for anyone considering investing in equity markets." Reprinted with permission from CHOICE http://www.cro2.org, copyright by the American Library Association.




Jiggle


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Jiggle: (Re)Shaping American Women explores the relationship between American women and their bodies as mediated by both traditional and contemporary foundation garments. This post-corsetry study begins in the 1930s with a discussion of traditional foundation garments and continues with an analysis of contemporary shapewear as these garments shape women physically, culturally, and socially. Jiggle focuses on the corporate, cultural, and individual practices and meanings of women's experiences with foundation garments. Referencing trade journals, industry data, statistics, advertisements, and telephone surveys and interviews with women, author Wendy Burns-Ardolino examines how the contested terrain of fashion and beauty culture reflect larger cultural power struggles. Jiggle argues that women should not be complicit in alienating themselves from their bodies, but rather should embrace their bodies' multiple capacities as they practice fasion, femininity, and gendered performatives.




Personal Finance


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Personal Finance, 2nd Edition offers essential skills and knowledge that will set students on the road to lifelong financial wellness. By focusing on real-world decision making, Bajtlesmit engages a diverse student population by helping them make personal connections that can immediately impact their current financial situations. Using a conversational writing style, relatable examples and up-to-date coverage on important topics like student debt, students gain the knowledge they need to avoid early financial mistakes. By the end of the course, students have identified their goals and developed the problem-solving skills they need to build on as they progress to the next stages of life.




Shares Made Simple


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At last a book that champions the small investor, the growing bank of potential shareholders who have cash to spare but fear entering the jungle that is the City of London. "Shares Made Simple", written by highly respected financial journalist Rodney Hobson, tears away the mystique and jargon that surrounds the stock market. It takes you step by ......




The Future of Management


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What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence, technology breakthroughs, or new business models, but management innovation—new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and formulating strategies. Through history, management innovation has enabled companies to cross new performance thresholds and build enduring advantages. In The Future of Management, Gary Hamel argues that organizations need management innovation now more than ever. Why? The management paradigm of the last century—centered on control and efficiency—no longer suffices in a world where adaptability and creativity drive business success. To thrive in the future, companies must reinvent management. Hamel explains how to turn your company into a serial management innovator, revealing: The make-or-break challenges that will determine competitive success in an age of relentless, head-snapping change. The toxic effects of traditional management beliefs. The unconventional management practices generating breakthrough results in “modern management pioneers.” The radical principles that will need to become part of every company’s “management DNA.” The steps your company can take now to build your “management advantage.” Practical and profound, The Future of Management features examples from Google, W.L. Gore, Whole Foods, IBM, Samsung, Best Buy, and other blue-ribbon management innovators.




Penny Stocks For Dummies


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Want to make a big bet for an even bigger return? Start thinking small! While the majority of penny stocks are very risky, choosing the right ones can be extremely lucrative. Written by penny stock expert Peter Leeds—also known as The Penny Stock Professional—this hands-on, friendly guide takes the guesswork out of investing in penny stocks and gives you the knowledge to make smart investment choices that can yield big returns. In no time, you'll have the confidence and know-how to properly identify and purchase winning penny stocks—and get in on the ground floor of small cap stocks that can bring you high rewards. Updated and expanded since its previous publication, this new edition of Penny Stocks For Dummies provides the latest information, advice, and tools you need before considering investing in penny stocks. Once you determine investing in penny stocks is for right you, you'll find expert guidance on identifying growth trends and market sectors positioned for rapid growth, finding undiscovered penny stocks, and understanding the fundamentals of a potential investment in penny stocks. Get the knowledge to better identify and purchase lucrative penny stocks Identify growth trends and market sectors positioned for growth Grasp the basics of penny stocks and make sound investments Find undiscovered penny stocks If you don't have a lot to invest right now but want to multiply what you do have, penny stocks are for you!




The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2017


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Vols. for 2013- by Peter Sander and Scott Bobo.




How to Turn $ 5,000 into a Million


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How to Turn $ 5,000 into a Million Can you become a millionaire on the stock market? The question of how to grow a small account undoubtedly occupies every trader’s mind. How do you manage to make a fortune out of a small amount? And preferably really fast? Just as it is possible to build a real estate empire without a dollar of equity, so it is also possible to achieve high profits on the stock market with a small amount of starting capital (USD 5000 or less). In this book, Heikin Ashi Trader presents a stock market strategy that will help the trader to succeed in this endeavor. Above all, he explains that the factor of position size plays a much more decisive role in trading success than is commonly assumed. The right question is not: how often are you right or wrong, but how big is your position if you are right? This method is just about finding the markets where a significant movement can be expected. And once he has identified one, the trader should build a big position in that market, so that he can fully benefit from this movement. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Can You Become A Millionaire On The Stock Market? Chapter 2: Trade with the market's money, not with your own! Chapter 3: Learning from the Grand Master of Speculators Chapter 4: Scaling in – Scaling out Chapter 5: Should You Use Stops? Chapter 6: What do you do if the market is going in the wrong direction? Chapter 7: Go Global Macro Chapter 8: Look at the "Big Picture" Chapter 9: Look for a catalyst Chapter 10: Mistakes to Learn From Chapter 11: Success with cotton Chapter 12: My ruble trade Chapter 13: Thanks to Presidents Erdogan and Trump! Chapter 14: Speculating with stocks Chapter 15: Trade what you see Chapter 16: How and When Should You Buy? Chapter 17: Speculation is easier than day trading Chapter 18: A separate account for each speculation Chapter 19: with which financial instruments should I trade? Chapter 20: Maximum risk and Margin Call Chapter 21: Keep your trades to yourself Chapter 22: On the way to the first million Chapter 23: The Final Goal: Financial Freedom Addendum 1: Past financial crises Addendum 2: useful websites Glossary