Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side by Howard Marks

Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side

Book by Howard S. Marks

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One of the most successful Wall Street investors of all time provides practical insight and keen analysis on how to track, and react to, the ups and downs of the stock market. Marks reveals the hidden logic in carefully pinpointing market trends so that every investor can profit.

The legendary investor shows how to identify and master the cycles that govern the markets.

We all know markets rise and fall, but when should you pull out, and when should you stay in? The answer is never black or white, but is best reached through a keen understanding of the reasons behind the rhythm of cycles. Confidence about where we are in a cycle comes when you learn the patterns of ups and downs that influence not just economics, markets and companies, but also human psychology and the investing behaviors that result.

If you study past cycles, understand their origins and remain alert for the next one, you will become keenly attuned to the investment environment as it changes. You’ll be aware and prepared while others get blindsided by unexpected events or fall victim to emotions like fear and greed.

By following Marks’s insights — drawn in part from his iconic memos over the years to Oaktree’s clients — you can master these recurring patterns to have the opportunity to improve your results.

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Originally published: October 2, 2018

Author: Howard S. Marks

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Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Van K. Tharp

Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom

Book by Van K. Tharp

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"Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom" is filled with the kind of information that will help virtually all traders and investors substantially increase their income. Dr. Tharp covers it all: The psychological biases against good system developmentIngenious concepts of orderliness that help you accurately predict turning points in the market--and work them to your advantage!Expectancy and position sizing--the most important, yet least understood, aspects of profitable tradingStock and futures trading models--from Warren Buffett to Perry Kaufman--that examine setups used by the mastersPosition sizing variables, and how to use them to consistently carve out the optimal profits.A free website to let you practice your new trading skills without risk, develop plans, and even compete against other traders!

Originally published: December 1, 1998

Author: Van K. Tharp


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My Best Reading 3: Student's Book + Audio

My Best Reading is a six-level reading comprehension series for young learners. The series includes school subject-related fictional and nonfictional passages and meaningful activities, which help learners enhance their academic vocabulary and acquire informative knowledge connected to a school curriculum to become independent readers eventually.

 

Part 1. Real Life

Unit 1. Canape? Yes, We Can!

Unit 2. A Flight Back in Time

Unit 3. Cleaner, Greener Cities

Unit 4. The Amazing Multiplying Bottle

 

Part 2. Social Studies

Unit 5. Little Boy, Big Heart

Unit 6. The Darkest Hour

Unit 7. The Two Histories of Printing

Unit 8. Korean Vacation

 

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Unit 9. The Flag Bet

Unit 10. Peace on the Earth

Unit 11. The Cabbage pH Test

Unit 12. Heart Smart

 

Part 4. Art & PE

Unit 13. The Dark Side of Junk

Unit 14. Ideas Are Property

Unit 15. The Come-Back Stick

Unit 16. You Can Yoga!

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The Campbell Plan: The Simple Way to Lose Weight and Reverse Illness

The Campbell Plan: The Simple Way to Lose Weight and Reverse Illness, Using The China Study's Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet

Book by Thomas Campbell

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In 2005, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, and Thomas Campbell, MD, co-authored The China Study. In it, they detailed the groundbreaking research results showing that a whole-food, plant-based diet has the potential to prevent and reverse many chronic diseases. The China Study became a worldwide phenomenon, selling more than a million copies and inspiring countless readers to reinvigorate their health by making better food choices.

Now The Campbell Plan, by Thomas Campbell, MD, goes beyond the why and shows you how to make the transition--and enjoy the journey--with practical guidance and a simple plan to make a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle easy and sustainable.

The Campbell Plan is full of cutting-edge nutritional research that fans of The China Study have come to expect. Dr. Campbell addresses the most contentious questions: Is soy healthy? Should you eat gluten? Do you need to eat organic? Should you eat fish? Is GMO dangerous? How should you feed your kids?

Just as important, you will learn the behavioral principles to succeed in your journey, as well as what to stock in the kitchen, how to read labels and shop, and how to navigate social and eating-out situations. Included are more than 55 delicious and easy recipes from favorite recipe sources and a 2-week menu plan.

Whether you wish to lose weight, reverse disease, or just have the best health of your lives, The Campbell Plan provides the step-by-step guidance to achieve their goals. This combination of practical tools, along with the research-based evidence of The China Study, will change people's lives for generations to come. ...Google Books

Author: Thomas Campbell

Genre: Diet book

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The How Not To Die Cookbook: Over 100 Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

Book by Gene Stone and Michael Greger

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FFrom the author of the international bestseller How Not To Die comes The How Not To Die Cookbook – a lavish, beautifully illustrated cookbook full of delicious recipes based on the groundbreaking nutritional science of the original book.

Dr Michael Greger, founder of the wildly popular website NutritionFacts, takes his comprehensive, lifesaving science into the kitchen. Why suffer from disease and ill health when the right food is proven to keep you healthy, and without the side effects of drugs? We can avoid heart disease, cancer and our other biggest killers if we use food as medicine, and the How Not To Die Cookbook offers a sustainable and delicious guide to preparing and eating the foods that will prevent and reverse fatal diseases.

Featuring over 100 easy-to-follow, beautifully photographed plant-based recipes, with plenty of recipes suitable for vegetarians and vegans, the How Not To Die Cookbook merges cutting-edge science with everyday ingredients from the supermarket to help you and your family eat your way to better health and a longer life.. ... Google Books

Originally published: December 5, 2017

Authors: Michael Greger, Gene Stone

Genres: Literary cookbook, Diet book

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Unclutter Your Life in One Week by Erin Rooney Doland

Unclutter Your Life in One Week

Book by Erin Rooney Doland

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Organization expert and founder of Unclutterer.com Erin Rooney Doland shows you how to declutter and simplify your surroundings, and create the stress-free life you deserve—in just one week.Simplicity is revolutionary! ... Google Books

Originally published: November 3, 2009

Author: Erin Rooney Doland

Genre: Self-help book

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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury

Getting to Yes

Book by Roger Fisher and William Ury

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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In is a best-selling 1981 non-fiction book by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury. Subsequent editions in 1991 and 2011 added Bruce Patton as co-author. All of the authors were members of the Harvard Negotiation Project. The book made appearances for years on the Business Weekbestseller list. The book suggests a method called principled negotiation or "negotiation of merits". Wikipedia

Originally published: 1981

Authors: William Ury, Roger Fisher

Publisher: A Perigee Book/Penguin Group

ISBN: 9780395317570

Genre: Non-fiction

LC Class: BF637.N4 F57

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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Dana Mackenzie and Judea Pearl

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Book by Dana Mackenzie and Judea Pearl

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Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking and cancer and carbon dioxide and global warming. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by world-renowned computer scientist Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed cause and effect on a firm scientific basis. Now, Pearl and science journalist Dana Mackenzie explain causal thinking to general readers for the first time, showing how it allows us to explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It is the essence of human and artificial intelligence. And just as Pearl's discoveries have enabled machines to think better, The Book of Whyexplains how wecan think better.. ... Google Books

Originally published: May 15, 2018

Authors: Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie

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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

Book by Scott Adams

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Blasting clichéd career advice, the contrarian pundit and creator of Dilbert recounts the humorous ups and downs of his career, revealing the outsized role of luck in our lives and how best to play the system. 

Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you’ve ever met or anyone you’ve even heard of. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world’s most famous syndicated comic strips, in just a few years? In How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Adams shares the game plan he’s followed since he was a teen: invite failure in, embrace it, then pick its pocket.

No career guide can offer advice that works for everyone. As Adams explains, your best bet is to study the ways of others who made it big and try to glean some tricks and strategies that make sense for you. Adams pulls back the covers on his own unusual life and shares how he turned one failure after another—including his corporate career, his inventions, his investments, and his two restaurants—into something good and lasting. There’s a lot to learn from his personal story, and a lot of entertainment along the way. Adams discovered some unlikely truths that helped to propel him forward. For instance:

• Goals are for losers. Systems are for winners.
• “Passion” is bull. What you need is personal energy.
• A combination of mediocre skills can make you surprisingly valuable.
• You can manage your odds in a way that makes you look lucky to others.

Adams hopes you can laugh at his failures while discovering some unique and helpful ideas on your own path to personal victory. As he writes: “This is a story of one person’s unlikely success within the context of scores of embarrassing failures. Was my eventual success primarily a result of talent, luck, hard work, or an accidental just-right balance of each? All I know for sure is that I pursued a conscious strategy of managing my opportunities in a way that would make it easier for luck to find me.”

Originally published: 2013

Author: Scott Adams

Original language: English

Genre: Non-fiction

Subject: Self-help

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Super Trader: Make Consistent Profits in Good and Bad Markets by Van K. Tharp

Super Trader: Make Consistent Profits in Good and Bad Markets

Book by Van K. Tharp

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How do you transform yourself from mild-mannered investor to Super Trader? Think clearly. Plan accordingly. Commit completely. In other words, become a trader. And no one is better suited to help you make the transformation than legendary trading educator and author Van K. Tharp.

Combining the sharp insight and technical brilliance that has drawn legions of investors to his books and seminars, Tharp provides a holistic approach for becoming a successful full-time trader. His system—a meld of investing psychology and sound trading practice—is the secret to achieving optimum conditions that produce results in both bull and bear markets.

Using the lessons of Super Trader, you will approach trading as you would a small business—realistically, systematically, and enthusiastically. Drawing on his decades of experience, Tharp has created a simple plan designed to help anyone master the market. You can put this plan to use immediately in order to:

• Master the psychology of trading
• Craft a “business plan”—a working document to guide your trading
• Develop a trading system tailored for your personal needs and skills
• Create position-sizing strategies to meet your objectives
• Monitor yourself constantly to minimize mistakes

Throughout the book, Tharp asks the pertinent questions you must ask yourself about becoming a trader, being a trader, and succeeding as a trader.

The rewards that come with being a Super Trader—both financial and personal—make you feel as if you can leap small buildings in a single bound. Whatever your skill level, Tharp provides the formula for succeeding in a field where most people fail. ... Google Books

Originally published: July 30, 2009

Author: Van K. Tharp

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