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The Investment Strategy That Keeps on Making Money While Everyone Else Is Losing It:
How Trend Followers Made a Fortune During the 2008 Stock Market Crash
Did your buy and hold investments survive the crash of 2008? While many were getting hammered, trend followers were earning profits ranging all the way up to +40% for the month of October 2008 alone!
Now, the #1 guide to trend following has been thoroughly updated to reflect 2008’s cataclysmic events. Michael W. Covel reveals exactly how the trend followers achieved those amazing results. Using simple, up-to-the-minute charts from top traders, he doesn’t just prove this strategy works: He shows why only a technical system based on following price trends can win over the long term.
Best of all, he shows you exactly how to apply the same strategies in your own portfolio--so you, too, can keep on profiting no matter what happens next!
For more than 30 years, trend following has been the one trading strategy that’s consistently delivered extraordinary profits in bull and bear markets. While most investors were losing a fortune in the 2008 stock market collapse, stuck in buy and hold investments, trend followers were earning huge profits...up to a whopping +40% in the single month of October 2008! The proof’s in this book: brand-new data you can view for yourself, plus all the information you need to know to utilize the same timeless strategies in your portfolio...

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Real Solutions for Saving Your Retirement! No Matter Where You Stand Right Now! Step-by-step plans you can use if you're planning to retire in! 5 years | 10 years | 15 years | over 20 years | or tomorrow! "The market meltdown has all of us worrying about whether we will ever be able to retire. Worrying doesn't help you. Planning does. Save Your Retirement by Frank Armstrong, III and Paul B. Brown can--and should--serve as your battle plan." --John A. Byrne, Executive Editor, BusinessWeek "Convinced the sinking economy has dragged your retirement plans down with it? Save Your Retirement shows there's still treasure inside that wreckage-- and provides a map to help you find it." --Josh Hyatt, Money Magazine "Whether you're just beginning a career or you're five years from retiring, the authors show you how to take a realistic look at your current financial status and your retirement goals. With a refreshingly positive approach, they give all of us, no matter our life stage, a blueprint for successful retirement."...

The Definitive Guide to Valuing Hard-to-Value Companies: Now Fully Revised for Today’s Financial Markets
Financial professionals have long faced the challenge of accurately valuing companies that are difficult to value using conventional methodologies. Years ago, this challenge was most keenly felt in the “dot-com” industries, and many professionals fell victim to the “dark side,” creating values that were simply unsustainable. Now, amidst today’s global financial crisis, the same challenge applies to a far wider spectrum of enterprises and assets, ranging from Asian equities to mortgage-backed securities and financial services firms...

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Why are we sometimes so unhappy and unfulfilled? Why do we sometimes get into the wrong relationships, take the wrong jobs, and make the wrong choices? The answers and solutions to these everyday plights are revealed by today's "scientists of the mind," evolutionary psychologists who have discovered stunning new lessons about the power of instincts and their capacity to transform lives positively. But too many of us have lost contact with our instincts. We don't hear them. We don't use them. And that gets us in trouble--over and over again. Now, Dr. Hendrie Weisinger shows how to reconnect with the instincts Mother Nature gave you. You'll rediscover the six most indispensable human instincts that have evolved over millions and millions of years...

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