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More money machine secrets!
Good, solid advice. On the money.I have been an investor for over ten years and have a brokers license but never knew you could do this. Unfortunately, brokers are never taught these strategies, only license requirements.
I highly recommend Wall Street Money Machine Vol. 5 for anyone who wants to make some real money in the market.
Get your stocks for FREE?There is a saying that when something sounds too good to be true it usually is right? What's the catch you may be asking yourself. Is there a catch? To be brutually honest, yes there is, but it's not what you may think it is.
There is a way to get your stocks for free, which, if you get to the bottom-line root meaning of FREE, is simply that you do not pay for your stocks yourself. We're talking about quality stocks that you get to choose! You can be as diversifiedas you want. And get this-you can pretty much start with any amount of money you have.
This is not a get rich quick plan. Nor is this some ambiguous, nebulous method that only a few people can master and use. It is also not a theory, but an in-the-trenches, workable, cash flow stock market machine. This plan takes a simple yet overlooked aspect of the stock and options markets and puts it to full use. The results are dynamic and far-reaching.
LOCC has a beginning, middle and an end. It puts the emphasis where it should be; on generating income so you can retire. Yes, huge assets are nice, but let's go for simple ways to build steady monthly income so we can do more of the simple yet wonderful things that life has to offer.
If you like the buy and hold strategy of investing, in FREE STOCKS, you will learn how to get the market to pay for your stocks in 5 to 7 months with the LOCC system.
In FREE STOCKS, you will learn:
- Option cycles and market makers
- How implied volatility affects option pricing
- Buybacks and Rolloouts
- Stock Repair Kit
- How to put volatility on your side
- Be a seller, not a buyer
- When to get your money
- Exploration of ways to increase gains and reduce taxes
- What to do if the stock dips-Make more money!
Finally, if you followed more traditional forms of investing and lost a ton of money in the stock market over the last three years, FREE STOCKS may be just what the doctor ordered to get back on track and make that money back.
During the Bear Market of the last three years, I and others used the strategies in FREE STOCKS to recover losses on deep dips. Question: How much money did you lose by not knowing these strategies? And how much money will you lose by not applying these strategies going forward?
Get the book. It's a must read!

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Okay, but nothing new here!However, I did like the opening chapter, and the discussion on convertible bonds for high-tech companies, even though both could have done with a little more "meat" also.
Good for the novice, but anyone with a bit more experience will be frustrated.
Good Teck Stock Book
At last I understand technology
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So how does Kadlec actually get to 100,000? First, he shoots down comparisons to previous periods of boom and bust. The cold war is over, he notes, which represents a new political paradigm. Then there's the oft-discussed drive of the baby boomers to retire in style. And, of course, there's technology, presenting new ways for workers to be more productive and resourceful. Kadlec also sees the worldwide trend toward freedom and democracy as a powerful economic force, as is the need for governments to compete with each other for economic activity. But he cautions that the prosperity he predicts isn't guaranteed: wars (either with bombs or tariffs) could end it pretty quickly. So could terrorism or higher taxes. (He includes some nifty illustrations showing how tax increases on rich people inevitably sock middle-income and poor people harder.) And a currency shock could cause untold economic mayhem. Kadlec notes that even he was surprised by his conclusion that the Dow should travel to this nosebleed height. But if he's right--well, let's just say a lot of investors are going to have very comfortable retirements. --Lou Schuler

A clear roadmap of the 21 year journey to Dow 100,000.
Useful applications for all investors -- new or experienced.In a nutshell, Kadlec points to numerous wealth-creating domestic and global trends which should continue to strengthen during the next century. These demographic, economic, and political forces are explained in a common sense approach that both the novice and seasoned investor could appreciate and, more importantly, apply to their investment decisions. While the title surely provides ammunition for the bears among us, Kadlec deflects the ammunition by not taking a pollyanna approach. The risks to achieving prosperity are clearly defined and explained.
Finally, Kadlec includes practical strategies for creating and maintaining wealth during this unique period. Kadlec's vision of the future is predicated on the escalation of individual freedom and choice. Reading this book will provide excellent preparation in order to take advantage of this exciting new era.
Dow 100000 is fiction but deserves 5 stars for sheer comedy!The amazon.com blurb above has some revealing lines - stocks 'only' need to grow by 11.1% a year in value for the next 20 years for the Dow to reach 100,000. 'Only' 11.1%/year!!!!! Outstripping real growth in the economy by 'only' 5 to 1!!!! Give me a break.
Baby boomers want to have a prosperous retirement? OK, I'm sure they do, but that doesn't mean they can create real value where none exists by rushing lemming like into the stockmarket. Or the housing market, for that matter.
People love to think they can get rich just by magic, but that's not the way the world works. There'll always be a sucker who'll fall for the latest get rich quick scheme. Unfortunately books like this encourage people to fall for them in their thousands.
How smug I feel to have kept my savings in cash for the past few years!
Dutch Tulips! Dutch Tulips!

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Great Read
Wow! Julie made it so darn understandable.Julie has taken a so called difficult subject and made it really simple to follow. In fact, as simple as 1-2-3 and A-B-C.
Now I can talk the Wall Street lingo with the Big Boys, while laughing all the way to the bank.
Thanks, Julie.
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Get to the PointWaveI thought for a minute Miss Marsha had written an investment book. The second half of the book was ok, the most cogent point was that the only way you make money in stocks is when you sell.
My suggestion, is to pick up a copy of the Gorilla Game which I read a few years ago. It is the same concept, but is much more detailed and useful to individual investors. For the technical analysis/ growth investing segment of the book, How to Make Money in Stocks by William Oneil gives a reader far more insight on how to select stocks and protect profits.
Who dares wins (but not always)
The right stock in the best space at the right time winsChangewave 1st Screen : They must have a growth rate in the top 10 percent companies in the new economy.
Changewave 2nd Screen (Top 10 sectors) : five times S & P 500 growth
Changewave 3rd Screen (Supersectors): Top 10% growth rate in each new economy industrial category.
Changewave 4th Screen (Market): Top 1%
Predicability is essential in changewave. The most predictable winner in a top secular growth space goes to the highest valuation - everytime.
All things being equal, the simplest to understand secular growth and competitive advantage logics wins the growth stock debate.
People buy stocks the same way they buy other products. People buy products they are comfortable with; the product is simple too understand and its indispesible to the consume.
Fundamentalist figure out stock value based on fundamental research and analysis. They predict the stock price will go up. P/E = Price of Share/Retain Earnings. This tells you if the investors are being unrealistic about the price in relationship to earnings growth. However, price is a function of present value and future earnings, It does not consider capital generators, such as, copy rights, intellectual property, and patents. Capital growth companies accounted for 50 percent of all the corporate profits.
When the dust settles in any information technology-based industry, there will be one company with 60 to 70 percent of the market share and the bulk of profits and valuation in the segment. The number two guy will have a 20 percent share.
Technical analysis is employed to decide buy and sell patterns. Technical analysis uses bar charts and indicators to buy and sell.
The momentum investor waits to see what everyone else is doing. If there's momentum behind a stock, he assumes that the momentum will continue and bets on that fact.
The innovators: Because only 3 to 5 percent of the world are innovators. The early adopters: 10 to 15 percent are early adopters. The early majority: "I need more evidence"
Change wave looks at marketing, first, and considers how marketing will use product superiority as a compeling motivator to buy. Product superiority does not guarantee a consumer buy trend. (Beta verse VHS, DVD verse CD,CD verse memory stick). Customer acceptance is more important than product superiority. The winning product will have the best marketing.
Suppose a company builds a car that rides on air and suppose it comes with special safety features than are 80 percent more effective at saving lives. Does everyone go out and buy the new car? Probably not because safety does sell just increases cost. Now suppose other companies are starting to build a similar vehicle. Its radical departure from terrestial ground transportation creates a changequake. It looks like the old transportation technology is being abandoned. Suppose, the technology is the hydrogen cell transportation; the changequake may not be felt, if it is felt than it qualifies; we are not looking for an incremental change; we are looking for radical change. Wealth opportunities are found from rapid and significant changes.
Entrepreneutrial companies harness their innovations and create new, order of magnitude improved ways of doing things. The law of distribution is controlled by product creation and consumer demand. Consumer demands does change suddenly, it changes when their is a disruption.
"Investing in the right stock in the best space gets all the money." This is the law of the free market. This is the law of distribution, its beautiful.
Where is the fastest, biggest, and most locked in sustainable growth in the economy today?
Which sectors are biggest beneficiaries of this hugh, predictable, and sustainable growth?
Which companies are best positioned to capture a disportionate percentage of this locked in growth?
The Top 10 Supersectors
1. optical internet infrastructure
2. wireless internet infrastructure
3. b2c
4. b2b
5. data storage
6. eService
7. digital services
8. eProcessing
9. non-pc computing
10 broadband to the home
The Top 10 Supersectors change from time to time. Optics technology investment continues to be appealing because it offers radical differences in change.
The Value Chain: New Economy -> Change Quake -> Killer Value Proposition -> ChangeWave ->SuperSector->SuperSpace->WaveRider companies
SuperSpace Criteria:
1. is the project growing at least eight to ten times faster then the economy in a three to five year period
2. does it hold an enabling control position
3. does it provide a killer value proposition
4. is it projected to become a billion dollar industry
The big idea
1.Buy on upward price movement trend. Buy above the 50-day average.Sell when the 200 day moving average crosses the 50 day average. (shift in momentum)
2.Select companies with 5 to 6 million available shares (float). Take advantage of the float
3.Buy if the stock moves up 20 percent from a temporary downward trend
4.Double up on the stock if has moved up 20 percent in the past three to four weeks.
5.Rising volumes are required to sustain higher prices. Volume increases as mutal funds and hedge funds start buying

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Good book on covered call writing
Excellent Book
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Amateur at bestA couple of problems with this book:
- the author appears to have no idea regarding the topic of trading;
- it generally has little to do with day trading;
- most subjects in the books are average people who got lucky with apparently no skills (nor common sense);
- the book is written in a style suited to magazines, particularly those for pure entertainment - although unfortunately it is not entertaining at all. The author is unable to direct subjects to the appropriate topics and fails to extract anything substantial in any area; and
- there is very little useful and educational information in it at all (eg statistics / methods / psychology / money management).
There are many other books that are significantly better than this one, particularly Schwager's Market Wizards books.
If you're looking for some possibly fun (for those who haven't read anything in this area), brainless and easy reading - this could be your answer to boredom.
If you want anymore, I'd almost guarantee your disappointment.
Market Wizards it ain'tThe main problem that is that author is not a day trader himself which while not necessairly a bad thing in itself means that half the time he doesn't know where to focus. That's what makes the Schwager books so good. His book is written for traders by a trader.
The second problem is that no strict documentation of trading success was required.
The third is that the interview is all rehashed by the author and so you don't get the real dialogue which makes you wonder what's getting lost in the translation.
Having said all that, every book has some value so if you have the money go ahead and get it. At the very least you can take a look at some traders and their style. You may glean something.
But get Market Wizards or Reminiscences of a Stock Operator if you really want an introduction to trading.
This book is a far cry from those.
Vicarious Thrills
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Stream of ConsciousnessThis story isn't about losing money investing (speculating?) in the stock market. It isn't about getting caught up in a bubble, despite the writer's constant recognition of that very fact. It is more about a guy struggling to cope with becoming a middle-aged divorcee. As the Epilogue tells us, his financial destruction was his way of throwing a temper tantrum. He was being careless and bold for the first time in his life, and he chose the financial markets as his medium.
Although this is an interesting story, I think the marketing of this book - thanks in large part to the many reviews - paint the wrong story. This is not an interesting book about investing, it more human than that. Perhaps that is one of its greatest strengths.
Do you think Mr. Denby is splitting his royalties with his wife? He wasted away hundreds of thousands of dollars of her wealth. What a grounded person she must be to only respond with "the market will come back." I wish my wife was that understanding.
Worth the read for the issues it raisesNeeding money to buy his soon-to-be-ex-wife out of their Upper West Side apartment, Denby loaded up on NASDAQ mutual funds in Oct 99 and NASDAQ stocks in Jan 00. The rest is history, as they say. But the process (losing $800,000 from March 2000 to October 2002) is what makes this heart warming tale of decline and fall, and redemption, well worth the read.
Taken from an investor's viewpoint, the book should have been entitled "How to lose money doing everything an investor ought not to do." (1) Don't go into the stock market with a goal of making 1 million dollars in one year - if you want to gamble, go to Vegas. At least you get free drinks. (2) Don't ignore history - every possible danger sign was flashing by the end of 1999, a fact Denby acknowledged. (3) Don't attend high-tech investment dog-and-pony shows and blindly step in the manure spread around by the hosts. (4) Don't be afraid to take responsibility for your own investments. Putting the onus off on somebody else to escape the ultimate decisions is a fool's game. (5) Don't give way to emotionalism, especially when your heart doesn't understand what your head is saying.
All of this is instructive, but the true gems come to light when Denby goes searching for the reasons why. Why did he do what he did, and why did the investment process treat him so shabbily? Up front, Denby admits to being politically liberal with a strong distrust of the business community. After all, he's a movie critic by trade. He goes into deep ruminations on the anti-capitalist, anti-materialistic, anti-consumerism philosophies of luminaries from as far back as Thorstein Veblen and as current as Juliet Schor. Still, he wanted to be part of the Wall Street crowd, the wealthy, as he calls them, and he gladly entered into the dance.
His most revealing, and important, commentary is through his love/hate relationship with ImClone founder and now felon, Sam Waksal. Happy to become one of "Sam's pals" and bask in the light of his dinner parties, Denby's exploration of what made Sam tick is worth the whole book. As he pounds the pavement of Manhattan's sidewalks, searching for meaning, Denby conjures up the 7 deadly sins, and settles on envy leading to greed as the two best fitted for himself and his new cronies on his chosen way to wealth. Near the end of the book, he even tries to offer just how much a "wealthy" person needs to have before becoming "greedy." Yet, as if to argue with himself, he makes the following observation, certainly the most cogent of the work: "The one thing shadowing their (the high-tech entrepreneurs) triumph was aging and its scything climax, death. It was the final victory that capitalism, which had swept all before it, could not achieve - immortality, or at least a long, disease-free ascent into a happy and productive old age. And yet they were arrogant enough to want to lick death. And I believe it was that realization, as much as the drive for efficiency and wealth, that pushed the all-optical network (and tech/biotech revolution) forward." And of Waksal in particular: "He looked to be in superb health, but the threat of a sickened old age was haunting him. This specter ('Every man, if he lives long enough, will get prostate cancer.'), he thought, had to be vanquished, - age postponed, vitality prolonged."
But why does this motivation surprise Denby? Is this not why we have an economy - and capitalism - and progress? To supply the necessities of life for as long as life can be sustained? Continuing, on pages 196 and 197, he sums up the driving force of the George Gilders, Waksals, etc.: "These men were not just fighting off thoughts of death, they literally were not going to accept death, and that made them more ambitious than men of all other generations." That's as heroic a vision as mankind has ever had.
Denby also asks the most important questions for our society today as we sort out what happened. "Does speculation like this...do any permanent damage to an economy? Or is it, despite the ruin it sows among the unwise, a useful and socially benevolent event in the end? And the lesser question is: Must speculation always be accompanied by fraud? Is there something inescapably criminal in the process of quickly raising money for some new enterprise?" Later, he responds: "The answer, of course, is that there's something 'escapably' criminal, and that's why we need regulators, prosecutors, and an ethics that the ambitious and wealthy live by."
In the end, Denby comes to terms with his losses and his failings. It was the breakup of his marriage, the apparent worldwide victory of capitalism (supposedly commercializing all the arts), and the threat that creativity had been siphoned off from the arts into science and technology that had blown a hole in Denby, causing him to question his whole life's purpose. I'm not so sure that Denby didn't secretly rejoice that Wall Street failed him as a God. It freed him to return to his chosen profession, giving two thumbs up to Eminem's "8 Mile" for its "renewal out of economic decline and cultural despair." But as he comes closer to that dreaded "threat of a sickened old age" that drove the Waksals of the world, Denby just might go looking for life's renewal in the companies that the Waksal's of the world built. And then, perhaps Denby will question whether he really was a sucker after all.
Not Just A Financial Story....A Human StoryDenby is a long-time film critic (New York magazine, The New Yorker) and author of "Great Books," a passionate account of his return to college in middle age to rediscover the seminal works of western civilization. Although ostensibly about his financial quest, the reader slowly discovers this book is really about his quest to rebuild and maintain a meaningful life. He comes under the spell of New Economy stars who would fall mightily within a couple of years, including ImClone founder Sam Waksal and Merrill Lynch Internet analyst Henry Blodget. Denby adopted a course he knew was risky (though how risky, he didn't realize) by focusing on new technologies such as ImClone's cancer drugs and the firms producing the tools that would usher in the true Information Superhighway, with the entire contents of the Library of Congress transmitted to the other side of the globe at light speed. Denby works to learn as much as he can about those to whom he has entrusted his money and dreams, and the more he learns, the more aware he becomes of the betrayal that eventually wiped out the savings and shattered the faith of tens, if not hundreds of thousands.
Throughout, Denby is engagingly, openly frank about the impacts of the financial roller coaster ride he experienced. At one time or another, his sleep habits, his bowel habits and his sex life suffered. But what seemed to have been at stake most of all was his sense of self and the realization of the things that really matter in life, including making the most of the limited days we are given. His narrative closes with a hopeful reaffirmation of these core values.
This is passionate, vivid book with lessons for us all.--William C. Hall

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Great Introductory Piece!
Helpful with trading.
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Don't waste your money on this one.
A valuable overview of the investment landscape...No question, it's the new or inexperienced investor who has the most to gain from a read of this book. For one thing, Glassman's review of the many investment vehicles available today provides, in one readily accessible volume, the information needed to make intelligent decisions regarding asset allocation. And the explanations that attend the presentation are written in language that even the novice will understand.
If you've already made your millions and view playing the market as a pastime, this book is not for you. But if you believe that there must be a better way to select from among the many investment theories touted and to identify, and invest in, preferred investment vehicles appropriate to your age and temperament, purchase of The Secret Code of the Superior Investor may well be among the best investments you could make.
Enjoyable and Important to ReadGlassman takes the fear, uncertainty and doubt out of investing heightened if not created by the broadcast media's constant focus on what the fed, economy or Osama Bin Lauden will or won't do next and what it all means for the price of stocks tomorrow. He deals with the implied "action imperative" using what amounts to a logical, easy to read and understand three step process. First, he provides basic, factual and well-researched information that every investor should know. Second, he details a sound and time-tested investment strategy that anyone can understand. Third, he provides the information sources, tips and techniques to execute against that strategy. The sort of how to information that moves concept to action. Along the way he explains what is important to consider and to ignore. He also offers some really good advice on things to avoid.
The Secret Code of the Superior Investor has the rare qualities of being informative, enjoyable and actionable. The content is as superb as the writing. I am 53 years old, financially independent and retired. I have been an investor for nearly 30 years and read many books on investing. Take it from me. Glassman nailed it! Turn off the TV and read this book.