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If you’re trying to build wealth, sharp market downturns are your worst enemy. And nowadays, they’re happening far more often: in the last 18 years, the S&P 500 has experienced sixteen violent declines. Institutions and professional investors have mastered powerful hedging techniques for dramatically reducing the risks of market volatility. Now, you can do it, too–and you can’t afford not to. In Buy and Hedge, two leading investment experts show how to apply hedging as part of a long-term program for growing and preserving your assets. CNBC Fast Money guest Jay Pestrichelli and seasoned financial industry veteran Wayne Ferbert show how to systematically protect yourself against violent downward moves while giving your portfolio maximum room to run in upward markets. The authors’ techniques are easy to use, can be applied to most investment vehicles, and–once implemented–require surprisingly little “care and feeding.” You’ll discover how to take advantage of the hedge-building mechanisms built into low-cost index funds… invest in your ideas with confidence, because you’ve hedged the downside… systematically manage portfolios for risk as well as return… master and apply the “5 Iron Rules of Buy & Hedge”… use options to manage risk, not to create excess leverage… generate more dividends… effectively manage cash… and much more!

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Grow Your Assets and Reduce Your Risks the Way Top Money Managers Do

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Companies in highly regulated industries face unique challenges in optimizing business performance and profitability while maintaining strong governance and regulatory adherence. In this start-to-finish guidebook, leading business performance consultant Hillel Glazer shows how to achieve these goals through the successful integration of lean and systems thinking. Written for operations managers, process professionals, and lean systems managers, Glazer shows how to systematically incorporate compliance into planning for overall performance, value, and profitability, rather than viewing compliance as an end in itself. High Performance Operations will help operations professionals and managers:

• Clarify the competing interests that challenge them, and implement pre-conditions for success.
• Learn how a systems-thinking approach can promote achieve operational excellence.
• Uncover the “secret sauce” that enables great organizations to scale their successes, eliminate single points of failure, and get more of “what went right”.
• Define what value and operational excellence look like in their organizations, and all the costs of achieving them.
• Create solutions, establish proof-of-performance, justify investments, measure performance, and implement continuous improvement.
• Translate solutions into working policies, patterns, processes, and procedures.

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“Hillel Glazer has deftly synthesized all that he’s learned from flying Download Now »

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Want to be a successful trader? It’s not enough to master generic trading strategies: you must first know yourself. You must understand your own emotional predilections and psychological tendencies. You must learn how to match your strategies to your own personality. You must choose strategies that are sustainable over the long haul, that you can tolerate–and execute.

Michael Martin’s The Inner Voice of Trading explains why deep self-knowledge is so crucial to successful trading, helps you gain that self-knowledge, and guides you in applying it. Drawing on interviews and discussions with great traders like Michael Marcus and Ed Seykota, he shows how to quiet your mind, develop an “inner voice” you can rely on, and make it your most important trading ally.

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“In The Inner Voice of Trading, Michael Martin recounts his own quest to become a successful trader, illuminating his journey with engaging trading episodes. Join Martin at his trading desk as he provides important insights into the art and science of balancing thoughts and feelings—and catching the big one.”
—Ed Seykota

“Some people trade and either don’t or can’t teach; some people teach and have never traded; Michael Martin can teach extremely well and is an experienced trader. This rare combo is a necessity to those who want to succeed in the markets. Read and learn!”
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Trade More Profitably by Exploiting Excel’s Powerful New Statistical and Data Mining Tools!

• Uncover subtle anomalies and distortions that signal profit opportunities
• Create powerful new custom indicators, alerts, and trading models
• Visualize and analyze huge amounts of trading data with just a few clicks
• Powerful techniques for every active investor who can use Excel

Now that high-speed traders dominate the market, yesterday’s slower-paced analysis strategies are virtually worthless. To outperform, individual traders must discover fleeting market trends and inefficiencies and act on them before they disappear.

Five years ago, this required multimillion-dollar data mining and analytical infrastructures. Today, you can do it with Microsoft Excel, a powerful PC, and this book.

Step by step, world-class trader Jeff Augen shows how to use Excel 2007 or 2010 to uncover hidden correlations and reliable trade triggers based on subtle anomalies and price distortions…create and test new hypotheses others haven’t considered…visualize data to reveal insights others can’t see!

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Have you realized yet that when you trade you are not just trading stocks? You’re trading against expert traders who care about only one thing: taking your money. Most traders fail miserably because they never grasp this #1 reality of trading. Successful trading takes much more than just opening an online account and learning a few basic technical analysis patterns.

In Trade the Trader, top trader and hedge fund manager Quint Tatro shows you how to build a solid strategy to win consistently in the extremely competitive world of trading, where sometimes you can’t just trade the stocks before you, but you must trade the trader who’s trading against you. You’ll master the real psychology and gamesmanship of trading and learn how to outsmart your competition at every step–from choosing target investments to knowing when to move.

• Know your adversaries: “smart” money and “dumb”
  Beating the fools, surviving the geniuses
• Get beyond the basics with charts and patterns
  What amateur chart readers know–and how to play several moves ahead of them
• Plan your trade; trade your plan
  Optimize your entire trade, from entry point through exit strategy
• Be ready if you’re wrong
  Implement the disciplined stop system that’s crucial to consistent success Download Now »

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” at 7:48 a.m. on a Tuesday, I am showered, cleaned, shaved, pruned, fed, and deodorized, wearing a pressed shirt and shiny shoes, in a cab on my way to the San Francisco waterfront I’m far from home, going to an unfamiliar place, and performing for strangers, three stressful facts that mean anything can happen “

In this hilarious and highly practical book, author and professional speaker Scott Berkun reveals the techniques behind what great communicators do, and shows how anyone can learn to use them well. For managers and teachers-and anyone else who talks and expects someone to listen-Confessions of a Public Speaker provides an insider’s perspective on how to effectively present ideas to anyone. It’s a unique, entertaining, and instructional romp through the embarrassments and triumphs Scott has experienced over 15 years of speaking to crowds of all sizes.

With lively lessons and surprising confessions, you’ll get new insights into the art of persuasion-as well as teaching, learning, and performance-directly from a master of the trade. Download Now »