Investing is all about common sense. Owning a diversified portfolio of stocks and holding it for the long term is a winner’s game. Trying to beat the stock market is theoretically a zero-sum game (for every winner, there must be a loser), but after the substantial costs of investing are deducted, it becomes a loser’s game. Common sense tells us—and history confirms—that the simplest and most efficient investment strategy is to buy and hold all of the nation’s publicly held businesses at very low cost. The classic index fund that owns this market portfolio is the only investment that guarantees you with your fair share of stock market returns. To learn how to make index investing work for you, there’s no better mentor than legendary mutual fund industry veteran John C. Bogle. Over the course of his long career, Bogle—founder of the Vanguard Group and creator of the world’s first index mutual fund—has relied primarily on index investing to help Vanguard’s clients build substantial wealth. Now, with The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, he wants to help you do the same. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing will show you how to incorporate this proven investment strategy into your portfolio. It will also change the very way you think about investing. Successful investing is not easy. (It requires discipline and patience.) But it is simple. For it’s all about common sense. With The Little Book of Common Sense Investing as your guide, you’ll discover how to make investing a winner’s game: Why business reality—dividend yields and earnings growth—is more important than market expectations How to overcome the powerful impact of investment costs, taxes, and inflation How the magic of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs What expert investors and brilliant academics—from Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham to Paul Samuelson and Burton Malkiel—have to say about index investing And much more You’ll also find warnings about investment fads and fashions, including the recent stampede into exchange traded funds and the rise of indexing gimmickry. The real formula for investment success is to own the entire market, while significantly minimizing the costs of financial intermediation. That’s what index investing is all about. And that’s what this book is all about. JOHN C. BOGLE is founder of the Vanguard Group, Inc., and President of its Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He created Vanguard in 1974 and served as chairman and chief executive officer until 1996 and senior chairman until 2000. In 1999, Fortune magazine named Mr. Bogle as one of the four “Investment Giants” of the twentieth century; in 2004, Time named him one of the world’s 100 most powerful and influential people, and Institutional Investor presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Author:  John C. Bogle Hardcover: 216 pages Company:  Wiley (2007-03-05) ISBN:  0470102101 List Price:  $19.95 Amazon Price:  $9.99 Used Price:  $8.35

Anyone can learn to invest wisely with this bestselling investment system! Through every type of market, William J. O’Neil’s national bestseller, How to Make Money in Stocks , has shown over 2 million investors the secrets to building wealth. O’Neil’s powerful CAN SLIM® Investing System—a proven 7-step process for minimizing risk and maximizing gains—has influenced generations of investors. Based on a major study of market winners from 1880 to 2009, this expanded edition gives you: Proven techniques for finding winning stocks before they make big price gains Tips on picking the best stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs to maximize your gains 100 new charts to help you spot today’s most profitable trends PLUS: Strategies to help you avoid the 21 most common investor mistakes! “I dedicated the 2004 Stock Trader’s Almanac to Bill O’Neil: ‘His foresight, innovation, and disciplined approach to stock market investing will influence investors and traders for generations to come.’” —Yale Hirsch, publisher and editor, Stock Trader’s Almanac and author of Let’s Change the World Inc. “ Investor’s Business Daily has provided a quarter-century of great financial journalism and investing strategies.” —David Callaway, editor-in-chief, MarketWatch “ How to Make Money in Stocks is a classic. Any investor serious about making money in the market ought to read it.” —Larry Kudlow, host, CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report” Author:  William O’Neil Paperback: 464 pages Company:  McGraw-Hill (2009-05-18) ISBN:  0071614133 List Price:  $16.95 Amazon Price:  $10.16 Used Price:  $10.19

A Highly Visual Guide To Developing A Personal Forex Trading Strategy Getting Started In Forex Trading Strategies “A great next step to read for the beginning trader. It contains practical advice and resources on trading FOREX that only come with experience.” -Derek Ching, President, Hawaii Forex “We have members from over 125 countries on our Web site and plan to make Getting Started in ForexTrading Strategies a ‘must read’ for those looking to trade the FOREX market. It is good to see a book that emphasizes the importance of other elements, such as money management, which are crucial to master if one is to stay in this game. Well done!” -Jay Meisler, cofounder, Global-View.com Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies is a highly visual guide to foreign exchange trading that introduces you to the Codex Method-a proven process that allows you to tailor a trading strategy to your own personal preferences. Divided into four comprehensive parts, this reliable resource opens with a brief overview of traditional FOREX strategies. From here, author Michael Duane Archer outlines his own personal codex-as he guides you through the process of developing yours-and reveals how to use this approach to make, monitor, and exit a trade. Along the way, Archer reveals the best ways to implement your strategy and discusses the importance of consistently keeping trading records. In his previous book, Getting Started in Currency Trading, Archer set a solid foundation for trading the currency market by illustrating how it operated. Now, with Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies, Archer goes a step further by showing you how to cultivate a personal trading strategy that will allow you to succeed within this dynamic environment. Author:  Michael D. Archer Paperback: 190 pages Company:  Wiley (2007-11-09) ISBN:  0470073926 List Price:  $19.95 Amazon Price:  $10.24 Used Price:  $10.14

Trading Day by Day is overflowing with the fundamental truths and reliable trading rules every trader needs to be competitive in any market, at any time. The three natural laws of trading, an intelligent approach and method, a sound mathematical system, the spike rule, the mistake rule, divergences, relative strength, the truth about options, businesslike money management, over a hundred “real time,” day-by-day chart examples, and much more. While specifically about futures trading, its approach and method are equally applicable to forex, stocks and any other market. Author:  F. H. Chick Goslin Hardcover: 375 pages Company:  California Pub (2003-12) ISBN:  0974092118 List Price:  $65.00 Amazon Price:  $52.95 Used Price:  $47.95

You will learn: 1) How to become a better NASDAQ 100 and S&P 500 trader by following 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds. 2) How to become a better FOREX trader by watching the NASDAQ 100, S&P 500, bonds, gold and crude oil. You will learn through studying actual day trading diary entries. Study Muehlberg’s next 3 diary entries free. Visit his website at DayTradingWithLinesInTheSky.com Highlights: In his Quick Introduction, author and trader R.L. Muehlberg presents his day trading diary entries leading up to and including the February 27, 2007 equity market crash and leading up to and including the March 21, 2007 equity market surge. You will see how the NASDAQ 100, S&P 500, 30-year bonds, Euro FX, gold and crude oil interacted during those intense days. You will have in your hands a primer that is dense with trading ideas and includes over 50 linear regression charts. Muehlberg’s day trading approach, the “lines” approach, uses linear regression channel LRC analysis, intermarket analysis and time-of-day analysis to visualize potential price paths, objectives and turning points. The approach uses multiple channels across multiple time periods and instruments, so it adapts to volatility. See how often prices turn with pinpoint precision along linear regression channels. A lines trader looks for a one-day trend or at least a sharp run. You may find one on the edge of the day (before 10:30am ET) or inside the day (after 10:30am). You will be looking to go long when a 1-day linear regression channel is pointing up; buy the 1-day buy-line … buy the slow moving average. You will be looking to go short when a 1-day channel is pointing down; sell the 1-day sell-line … sell the slow moving average. Follow this advice in context, not blindly. 1-day channels can be volatile. They can also be exceptional trading guides. If a 1-day channel points down then don’t go long. Points up, don’t go short. You want the cleanest trades. Author:  R.L. Muehlberg Plastic Comb: 34 pages Company:  The Muehlberg Press (2007-06-12) ISBN:  0965334279 List Price:  $15.95 Amazon Price:  $15.95 Used Price:  $36.66

An accessible introduction to A PROVEN TRADING STRATEGY GETTING STARTED IN SWING TRADING Swing trading is not a new idea. But, only recently-with the Internet opening up markets to virtually everyone-has this short-term technical trading strategy become a viable option for individual investors. There are many ways to profit from the swing trading method, and with Getting Started in Swing Trading , author Michael C. Thomsett will show you how to use this approach to quickly take advantage of short-term price movements found in today’s dynamic markets. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Getting Started in Swing Trading: Explores many of today’s most popular charting signals and explains how to recognize them Provides suggestions for picking stocks appropriate for your swing trading strategy Illustrates how options can be used within your swing trading program to mitigate risk and improve performance Analyzes the effectiveness of short selling within a swing trading strategy Outlines some restrictions on swing trading, including brokerage rules and requirements, and regulations about high-activity trading And much more Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, Getting Started in Swing Trading will enhance your understanding of this proven trading method as well as improve the overall profitability of your portfolio. Author:  Michael C. Thomsett Paperback: 214 pages Company:  Wiley (2007-04-06) ISBN:  0470084618 List Price:  $19.95 Amazon Price:  $10.88 Used Price:  $10.00

Jacket Description: Avoiding Option Trading Traps * What to Look For * Strategies for Success with Larry McMillan “I was right – but I’m still losing money.” Sound familiar? Frustrations abound in the options arena. Learning what to expect, and how to react, are the real keys to option trading success. Now, renowned author and “Trader’s Hall of Famer” Larry McMillan shows you how to avoid the 5 most common – and costly – mistakes option traders make. Benefit from the guidance of this options guru, as he highlights the 5 major problem areas traders frequently fall victim to. McMillan shows you what to do in typical tough spots – and how to avoid them in the future. Master his methods for … – Using put-call ratios as a critical timing tool – Picking the right option for your trading style & goals – Deciding how many dollars to risk – Determining the correct number of options to buy – Creating a scenario for covered call writing play Not a “how to trade” course – this presentation is a “what to do” playbook, as McMillan focuses on fresh methods and tactics you need to make every trading move a winner, including … – Recognizing the classic “disaster pattern” in covered call writing – How the underlying “Delta” impacts your trading strategies – Understanding – and using – “what if” analysis – Contrarian thinking: How to avoid running with the crowd – Finding -and profiting from – cheap options With its comprehensive online companion this video is must viewing for any investor looking to move beyond the realm of options theory – into the world of option profits. DVD: Color, DVD-Video, Live*Using put-call ratios as a critical timing tool,How the underlying “Delta” impacts your trading strategies, *Picking the right option for your trading style & goals, *Deciding how many dollars to risk,Recognizing the classic “disaster pattern” in covered call writing, *Determining the correct number of options to buy, *Creating a scenario for covered call writing play Company:  Marketplace (2005) List Price:  $99.00 Amazon Price:  $9.98 Used Price:  $13.99

The proactive approach to the stock market – don’t be a victim – there is something you can do about it. Swing trading is an approach to the stock market which is concerned less with value (a moveable feast as many have found out), and more with exploiting short-term upswings and downswings in share prices and market indices. Although the ranks of swing traders swell daily, not many traders know that there is a type of chart, a swing chart, which is designed specifically for swing trading. In this ground-breaking book, Marc Rivalland, author of ‘The Trader’ column in Investors Chronicle, shows how swing charts can be used to perfect market timing. Moreover, Marc reveals his hitherto secret modifications to Gann swing charts which make them even more effective for stock market traders. W. D. Gann said “a study of swings in active stocks will convince a man that he can make far greater profits in swings than in any other way of trading”. With this book, you get Gann and more. In addition, Marc uses his two decades of experience with point & figure charts to bring to readers an up-to-date and thoroughly modern evaluation of the best point & figure signals to use when trading individual equities. Point & figure is enjoying an enormous resurgence. Readers of this book will discover new insights into this proven and popular 100+year old method of charting share prices. Marc reveals his proprietary method of integrating swing charts and point & figure charts to further increase the chances of success. There is a chapter on the vital RSI indicator and a chapter devoted solely to those more passively inclined – long-term buy-and-hold investors. In every case, the best trading tactics are discussed. Each technique is critically examined. The advantages are highlighted but the disadvantages are not glossed over. In all, the reader will receive a uniquely informative evaluation of the best, most disciplined way to approach the markets. The style of the book is highly practical. Over 100 colour charts of real-life trading situations are used to illustrate the points being made. The charts are carefully annotated, and accompanied by clear and thoughtful commentary. The exact point where buy and sell signals occurred is shown. ‘Marc Rivalland on Swing Trading’ is THE essential book for stock market investors and traders. Author:  Marc Rivalland Paperback: 214 pages Company:  Harriman House (2002-12) ISBN:  1897597193 List Price:  $64.99 Amazon Price:  $39.43 Used Price:  $34.97

The proof is in the patterns – and so are the trading profits! Being able to precisely time your market moves by reading cycles and patterns is the key to sustained trading success. Now, the world’s foremost authority on pattern recognition and cycles and author of over 25 trading books, Jake Bernstein, guides you step-by-step through the process, as he reveals several of his preferred, most effectives pattern strategies. Leading off with his personal favorite – a high-yielding pattern for trading S&P Futures on Monday based on price action from Friday – Bernstein also features … · A key method for using moving averages with his price patterns · Tips for identifying new trends in every time frame – ideal for short-term traders and long-term investors alike · Patterns based on trader psychology · Precise entry & exit methods Thorough, fast-paced, even funny – this persuasive presentation, with full online support manual, is a “must have” for today’s active trader. See why even professional traders are raving that … “Bernstein’s approach is so simple – yet so powerful – I wish I had this video years ago.” Director: John Boyer DVD: NTSC Company:  Marketplace Books (2005) (2005-04-01) List Price:  $99.00 Amazon Price:  $9.99 Used Price:  $14.99

Expert tactics to become make the most of every swing trade In Mastering the Trade, veteran trader and educator John Carter shares his hard-won five-point technique for successful swing trading. In addition, Carter helps you move to the next level of confidence by explaining how markets really work and detailing behind-the-scenes market mechanics. Author:  John F. Carter Hardcover: 388 pages Company:  McGraw-Hill (2005-12-07) ISBN:  0071459588 List Price:  $59.95 Amazon Price:  $31.60 Used Price:  $28.00