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This was, by far, one of the best books I've ever read. Melvin Rabinowitz doesn't miss a beat in this twisted sci fi/history saga. Definitely check this one out - it's a winner!

When I read all the rave reviews about "The Lincoln Exchange" I could not believe them. Now I do.

I loved this book! I loved it! Loved it! Loved it! It was so real that I actually believed everything I was reading. Mr. Rabinowitz left nothing to chance. Everything was explained in such realistic detail, that I even felt as if time travel was really possible. When I put the book down, and came back to reality, I was almost dissapointed that this was, indeed, science fiction. Keep up the good work. I hope you continue using the Alan Gentry character in other stories.

I grabbed this book online on a lark... and am I ever glad I did! I couldn't put it down! From the opening bell of the trading pit in the first paragraph, the author takes off at the speed of the markets, sidetracking only to share the lessons hard-learned along the way. For the first time ever I read about an "Everyday Joe" who buckled up for daily war and successfully fought to win in the greatest financial wars our society knows. He also lets us in on his REAL personal life, his fears, and the dichotomies and dilemnas of being a devout Christian operating ethically and morally in a world that most Christians neither understand nor condone. This is a work that stands for ANYONE trying to succeed in an arena that at first appears counter to their chosen values, regardless of religion or career. If you're reading these reviews to help you decide, STOP HERE! CLICK THE BUY BUTTON! It's the best trade you'll make today!

"Lessons from the Pit" is a page-turner! It is an honest and easy-to-read account of life in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. What makes it so fascinating is the way Joe and Terry bring characters and scenes to life and use them to show how God worked in Joe's life. No matter what their career, all readers will come away with valuable insights and helpful suggestions. My only wish is that the book had been longer. I didn't want to put it down.

Joe Leininger provides great insight in his daily efforts to be both a good and Christian person with his success as a commodities trader.

Few businessess are as brutally competitive as trading in Chicago exchanges. However, with great faith and works, Joe obviously holds to his strong Christian values in this tough environment.

This book helps me come to grips with striving for success while hoping to maintain the fundamental value of helping and loving one's fellow man (or woman).

This book was the one of the last two books I bought on Exchange 2000 administration. I had already read Microsoft's Resource Kit, Administrators Companion, MCSE Guide, and Sybex's mastering Exchange 2000. Those books now hold up desks or collect dust on my shelf as they did not help much in the real world of Exchange administration, at least not compared to this book. If you want one Exchange 2000 book and are tired of the detail lacking information from Microsoft get this book! My only regret is it was the fifth book I read and not the first...what a waste.

BIG BOOKS turn me off. But dealing with Exchange 2000, there's no escaping big books. This one was far too interesting, and I read it almost cover to cover - all 800+ pages - except the TOC & index.

This is almost like the Bible of Exchange 2000 - deserves more than 5 stars. If you have time/resources to spend on or read just one Exchange Server 2000 book, buy this book without any hesitation.

Great book for Exchange 2000 administration. Great coverage on almost everything about Exchange 2000. Also serves as a great resource for the 70-224 test, in addition to the MS Press Exchange Server 2000 Impl. & Admin. Training Kit.

Particularly excellent coverage of the Exchange databases & disaster recovery. Clustering coverage is good. Can do with more coverage on messaging infrastructure design, but overall this book is perhaps the best book on Exchange 2000, (Not to say the Digital Press books which are more focussed on particular aspects are any less perfect - just different focus).

Bharat Suneja
MCT

This is the best exchange book out there for the "Real world" exchange administrator. If you own the exchange system in your company, you dont want to miss this one...

I have read many books on investing and would have to say Sy has covered many topics that you don't see in most. Sy gives you a good look at how the securities industry works and a system for investing that is easy to implement. He addresses the fact that there is risk in the market, something most investors don't seem to respect. It is written very clearly making it an easy read. If you are looking too learn more about investing, do yourself a favor and read this book. Not only could it make you money, it could save you money as well.

Sy Harding's book contains stock market strategies that will prevent you from being a victim (and about 80% of investors do poorly in the market). Many investing books are written by successful and well-known market mavens yet they are often hard to read and their major points murky (Tom Dorsey's 1995 "Point and Figure Charting" is essentially unreadable ...). Not so here. Hardings book is very well-written and complete. It was written in 1999, he warned of a huge bear market coming. Historical perspective is given to show how old man Kennedy and others financially raped the small investor on repeated occasions ... Hardings clearcut explanation of the seasonal effect (buy around Nov 1 and sell around May 1)is noteworthy. Stockcharts dot com provides the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) line info for free, that Sy wrote about. Every small investor needs this book. Sy has a site in his own name that is worthy of your viewing. Can't think of a better gift for an investor than this book.

Written for the average investor (those with IRA, 401K, and perhaps some free cash for individual stocks), this is by far the best book I've ever read on investing. It is not only very entertaining, but is full of practical information. This book was published in 1999 and accurately foretold the stock market crash. (Those who followed his advice saved a lot of money).

After reading this book, you'll realize that most of the "experts" that you see on tv or read about in the paper are just shills for Wall Street. Their interest is in getting you to buy and sell stocks so that THEY can make money.

From a practical point, the author argues convincingly against the "buy and hold" approach, demonstrating with simple graphs and language how devastating this can be to your wealth. For example, the Nasdaq was at 5000 in March of 2000. It's now at 1500. While it may recover to 5000 one day, do you want to wait another 10 or 15 years merely to get back to even?

Finally, and most importantly, his research shows the average investor how to triple the returns of the S&P 500 by following the "seasonal" tendency of the stock market to rise strongly in the November to late April period and then to fall in the May through October period. The data is very, very convincing.

In a word, if you want a clear, simple, and straightforward understanding of the stock market and how to use that information to dramatically increase your returns while lowering your risk, this is the book for you. Those who read the book and follow his advice can look forward to a very comfortable retirement. Those who don't, well, good luck to you.

This book is an attempt to apply the discipline (the science) of software engineering to the art of trading. Further, it is an integration of a trading platform (e.g., TradeStation) with the essence of the most influential technical analysis and trading books. So, we presume that the reader is familiar with the patterns described by Gartley, Dunnigan, and Edwards & Magee; the position sizing models described by Tharp; the trading styles espoused by Crabel, Cooper, and Raschke; and the performance analysis techniques introduced by Stridsman.

The first chapter defines the trading model and the various components: the portfolio, trading systems, position sizing, filters, and trade management. Although the book focuses on automating technical analysis techniques, these systems all work within the same framework introduced in the first chapter.

Chapters 2 through 7 cover a variety of trading systems: pair trading, pattern recognition, float analysis, momentum / range, and volatility. In Chapter 8, we create a "system" system by combining all of the systems into one strategy (a bottoms-up approach) and then compare this approach with a top-down system (a variation of the pattern recognition system) derived from market breadth and sentiment indices such as the put/call ratio, VIX, advancers/decliners, etc.

In Chapter 9, we recount one of our trading days. This was a fun chapter for us because we had no idea how the trades would pan out later in the week. After reading this chapter and our assessment of each chart, judge whether or not you are a better chart reader or system trader (N.B. we are the latter).

Chapter 10 is the day trading chapter (recall Ben Hur on a Roman galley chained to his rowing bench). Yeah, we poke fun at day traders but apply some common-sense technical analysis techniques for intraday trading. Hint: Use the rectangle for intraday trading, especially afternoon breakouts.

Finally, Chapter 11 contains the source code implemented in TradeStation's EasyLanguage: 64 pages of trading systems, indicators, and functions.

Regarding the book itself, many people have asked why we would publish these trading systems. The answer is that the systems are diverse and have an almost infinite number of variations, across time frame and sector. Find your niche and exploit it. As to the rating, we probably could have included more intraday examples and code in Chapter 10. Yes, the book will draw the ire of those who believe that one cannot trade the markets mechanically; however, with the proper software platform, we feel that any market knowledge can be encoded and implemented within a system.

It's an enjoyable book. Discretionary trading strategies are incorporated into a mechanical frame by means of a Tradestation platform. Most of the systems incorporate well-known price pattern concepts, with the exception of the float analysis system. The novice trader will obtain some good ideas on how to develop a trading system, with the exception on the issues regarding testing and optimization.

Most of the systems incorporate the concept of price contraction/expansion and trading performance is mainly dependent on price volatility. These types of systems are a natural consequence of the bubble trading environment where prices surpassed normal levels of historical volatility by leaps and bounds. The trading environment is quite different now, as the recent rise in the markets is marked by low price volatility. This environment tends to favor trend following systems, something that the book does not present.

Stock selection and stop placement is a bit confusing. First, the position modelling incorporates an ATR factor of 1. The entry/exit default models call for a 0.3ATR trigger above and below the high/low. From the get go, the max. loss potential is 2*0.3+body of the bar, which in most cases will be greater than 1ATR. The exception to the case will be in the narrow range models, where the body of the previous bar may be small enough to limit stop loss at 1ATR. The other dubious issue is stock scanning and selection. It is not clear whether the authors trade the system on a stock for an extended period of time, or whether they scan the markets for stocks that meet the filtering criteria and perform a quick test to determine performance. If the latter, then the trading system works as an automated discretionary system rather than "mechanical" on its true meaning. The latter approach does not take advantage of the statistical edge of a system when only traded a few times in a certain stock, and becomes a random event.

The filtering seems somewhat very restrictive and the ATR trigger rather than the high or low of the bar is not convincing. I have developed and traded narrow range systems where the high/low of the bar works as a better triggering mechanisms. This is because of the nature of the stocks that the authors tend to favor in their selection. The filtering on the narrow range system is restrictive, and when traded on a single stock for a considerable period of time on a daily timeframe, the user might be disappointed.

But overall, the book is an excellent addition to your trading library.

It's rare when someone goes out on a limb and actually shares the realism of system trading -- warts and all. Ever wonder why vendors are reluctant to tell you the performance of their systems? I use two of the systems from this book every day, especially the R system for intraday and daily breakouts (these patterns have been killer the past few months). Some of the other systems do not seem to be as useful now, as all systems seem to cycle in and out of favor. But I find it comical that one of the reviewers can find nothing of value in this book -- apparently missing all of the free code in the appendix -- I counted 65 pages of code in total. Did he really expect the authors to hand out a dozen perfectly working systems? Sounds like someone who is too lazy to do the work... At the very least, there is a huge library of TradeStation code with two very simple but elegant daily systems that work on the indices, confirmed by my own backtesting on historical data. Lots of great ideas, plenty of charts, and some non-traditional technical analysis. Well worth the money. Great job guys.

I bought this book for our Exchange admin when we were moving to Exchange 2000 from 5.5. Two months later I was going to be the one implementing Exchange and this book came to the rescue in a big way. As a total Exchange newbie I learned everything I needed (and now know) about Exchange from this book. Sure there are bigger books but not better books. If you are a Exchange guru, this book will be a little on the basic side for you. However, if you are anything less than a guru or if you are a new I would highly recommend this book.

Out of all the Exchange 2000 Server books I purchased, this one is the only one I used regularly. I have since purchased Stanek's Exchange Server 2003 book and it is equally as good if not better. For admins, it provides the essential details with clear, precise steps for implementing common features. For devs, it provides the cut to the chase info you need to get in there and get out quickly. I would recommend this very highly.

This book has saved me a lot of time that I would have otherwise spent combing through huge Exchage reference books. As an Exchange Administrator, I have already found this book to be an invaluable asset in my reference library. Answers to many common administrative questions and "How To's" are easily found in this handy little volume. You gotta love its size.

I purchased this book as a sys admin working with Exchange Server for the first time, and this book took an already complex product and made it more frustrating. I was looking for a book that would explain the capabilities of Exchange Server and how to configure it to exploit these capabilities. This book seems much more concerned with migration of existing enterprise messaging systems to Exchange and upgrading existing Exchange installations than actually setting up Exchange from scratch.

While I am sure that there is good info in this book that I will eventually use, I would definitely not recommend this book to someone who didn't know quite a bit about Exchange Server to begin with.

PURCHASE THIS BOOK I read this book in 4 days. As an ex-military sys admin of over 20 Exchange 5.5 servers, running 5 for the #3 ranked web host, and now 15 for another company, I have been working with Exchange since the beta of 4.0, and loving 5.5. I have experienced all sorts of disasters, site migrations, and many other situations (sure boss, we can do that), I thought I knew just about everything there was to Exchange 5.5. But I wanted to learn more about this powerful software application, and this book was the trick. Jim begins with the preparation phases, organizing your thoughts so that you have a successful roll-out/upgrade. It covers in great details day to day operation. Jim also gives some great advice for disaster recovery, but he first spends time explaining what you need to do to avoid disasters to begin with. He then covers routine maintenance (and automating those tasks) some additional bells and whistles that I've been trying to learn for months now. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK if you are an experienced beginner or an expert administrator with Exchange 5.5. If you love Exchange like I do, you will not be able to put it down til you are done. Make sure you read the scenarios, the book is full of them, from situations he's lived through. Many of these will help you to learn the real-world scenarios that you might encounter and how to help you survive. With this book in hand, you'll impress everyone around you with your new knowledge. The only regret I have is that it is paperback and not hardcover.

Working with Exchange everyday this is a book I recommend to any IT person wanting to know more about Exchange. This is the best Exchange book I have purchased so far. Don't pass this book up.

This book is awesome at explaining the world of investing. It covers almost all aspects of trading and Wall Street a person would need to know. With just a couple of exceptions, the examples were extremely easy to understand. The one draw back to this book is its age. Some of the info in the book is no longer applicable due to the rapidly changing global economy, and it does not cover internet trading. Given this, I still consider this a must read for anyone considering investing.

This book is like a "Dummies Guide" to Wall Street. It covers all the basic concepts and theories at a low level or introductory level. The book is one of the best books available on Wall Street investing for the general reader. But the book is more technical like a dictionary or text book. It does not tell you what to do to invest.

If you are a general investor do not rush out and buy stocks - unless it is mad money for fun based on the book. You need to read more books. Here are some more books to read on the actual investing and market trends.

As a general investor I like three books. They are "Common Sense on Mutual Funds" by John C Bogle the founder of the Vanguard Group, and "Irrational Exuberance" by professor Robert J. Shiller. If you can read these books you will have the basic information needed to become a successful and diversified investor, Also I like "Random Walk down Wall Street" by Burton G. Malkiel. If you follow these three books, for the most part you will yield superior investing results. If you follow these books you will understand the markets, the trends, the volatility, the rewards and required patience - and you will not need a pesky and expensive stock broker/financial advisor.

4 stars.

Jack in Toronto

This is a great book on how Wall Street works, both in regards to its general mechanics and trends, as well as specific investment strategies. Its a bit from the old-school days before the rise and fall of NASDAQ, but its principles are time-tested and still apply today. It has some interesting history about Wall Street with some old photographs as well. The book often explains concepts by employing charts and specific examples, which is very helpful. Overall its intimations lean less toward the speculator and more toward the slow-growth investor, but it is essentially 'non-partisan' save for overall strategies and trends. This book is a must for the beginning investor and seasoned (might I say 'weathered') investor alike. Highly recommended.

I bought this book because of the high ratings in Amazon. I must say that I fail to see why it deserves such high ratings.

The book introduced one central theme - look for a big volume jump when the price crosses the 150-day moving average - and was repetitive after that. The book tried to discuss chart patterns (e.g. head-shoulders) but was pretty lame. The book did not mention anything about other market indicators such as MACD, RSI, etc. Were these indicators unimportant? Were these indicators not in fashion back in 1990? I was perplexed.

If you are looking for an introduction to technical analysis, there are better tutorials out on the web than this book (just google "technical analysis"). Save your money for your next investment.

In the past 6 months, I have bought and read over 15 books on trading and investment (Van Tharp, LeBeau, Nison, Oz, O'Neill, Murphy) and this is by far one of the best books out there. At first, I was reluctant to purchase this book based on the date of publication (Pre 1990). But, as other great trading books, this one is a classic that should be in every library of technical investors/traders at an extremely affordable price.

Key points:
- Very practical, systematic and clear. Excellent communication. You don't get bored reading it.
- Sound trading system.
- Stan's stage analysis is a tremendous help to separate the stock price movement in stages. Very valuable insight.
- His stop loss explanation on both and long are extremely valuable and clear. He explained it in a step-by-step fashion. This alone can save you $$$ by locking-in your profit.
- Other excellent explanation: important chart patterns to be considered (he only selects the best ones), volume analysis, importance of Relative Strength and moving averages. What to buy, When to Buy, When to Sell, How to Short....And he separated those key processes between Traders and Investors. So, you will have a clear understanding of what to do. A step by step explanation on how you can find the A+ stocks using his "Forest to Trees" approach.
- Excellent Quiz & Answers and the end of each chapter that tremendously re-test you understanding of the important concepts.

If you're a beginner or intermediate, this book will certainly give you a huge boost in mastering chart reading as well as execution. Unlike any books that sort of short in explaining one critical area, I find Stan's book very clear and entertaining as well. It opens your eyes on what to look for in a chart.

Highly recommended!

To anyone who wants to beat the market and improve their success rate by learning and using Technical Analysis this book is a gauranteed way to get started. Its written in simple terms, has excelent examples and offers advice based on time-proven methods. Compared to other similar tomes on this subject it uses no math or formulas but relies on actual charts of stocks. The method teaches how to view price, volume and trend data so that stock picks yield winners 60 to 80% of the time and with gains (for me) 2x to 10x! It also provides lessons on the how to cut losses and how to learn the discipline of selling for maximum profit. This is a book which can (and must) be reread over and over as one gains expertise at Technical Analysis. The methods learned provide logical procedures which eliminate the hype of the stock market and turns the hype into profits. Weinstein's motto of the "Tape Tells All" is the foundation for success because it places stock action as the primary source of information over OPINION.

I think most people who are somewhat clueless to the stock market would benefit from reading this book. What I like is that it is full of easy examples. Even though I have read some books concerning the same issue, this book was helpful to me. He gives you lots of hints, or should I say quotes other investors, in how to be a good investor, i.e CANSLIM , and basics things like beating the Dow. The downside is, however that if you're not from U.S.A, including me, you will find many pages that are not worthy reading, like Internet resources for American companies. This equals a very good book, which is worth every minute.

Seth Godin discusses the stock market and other investment instruments in a serious but interesting and fun manner. The book is written for an audience that has little or no understanding of the investment world. Even though the audience has very little experience, the book accomplishes the task of warning you about the high risk of investing while giving you the knowledge and steps to get started. He discusses how to manage the risk but makes the point clear, there is no such thing as a risk free investment in the stock market. The book is resource rich (identifies needed tools and where to get them) and right on time for the year 2000 market place. It addresses the bull and the bear market. It is a easy read and a great introduction to investing. When you complete the book, you will have a basic understanding of the stock market and how to get started. I highly recommend this book to all beginners and people with light experience or knowledge of the investment world.

If you want to understand how the stock market works get this book. Its written with the assumption that you know little or nothing about finance or how the market works. It include info on income statements and balance sheets. Also, it is written in an entertaining manner so you won't be bored.