A comprehensive guide that lets you play the options game with confidence. Due to the uncontrollable elements associated with options, many traders find themselves without practical strategies for specific situations. The Option Trader’s Guide to Probability, Volatility, and Timing offers traders a variety of strategies to trade options intelligently and confidently in any given situation. [...]
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This earnest guide to career transition periods-when a new job or promotion puts an employee in an unfamiliar role-asserts, reassuringly, that navigating the all-important first 90 days is a “teachable skill.” Business professor Watkins, co-author of Right From the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role, lays out a “standard framework” for leadership transitions, [...]
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Everybody talks about it—how much you can save , and earn, when you start an online investment program. If you’ve decided you’re ready to find out what all the excitement’s about, you’re in luck. Investing Online For Dummies has been completely revised and updated with the latest tools, Web sites, rule changes, and tips that [...]
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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 [...]
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This afternoon, as I sat in my office during a thunderstorm, drinking coffee and watching CNBC on mute, I read through the most recent annual report of the Panera Bread Company (ticker symbol: PNRA). The situation was a real-world example of what I described in an article I wrote several years ago, Does a High [...]
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One of my favorite historical investors had a rule: When profit margins are at an all time high as a percentage of GDP (they are), interest rates have risen substantially in the past few years (they have), and the stock market has reached an all-time high (just happened), it’s probably a good idea to start [...]
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In the words of one famous investor, easy cash sedates reality and leads to sloppy decisions. When a business or person (witness half of Hollywood in the early, ephemeral period of their careers when money and roles are easy to land) finds themselves in the position of having cash poured on top of them from [...]
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You know that share repurchases can be a great way to return value to stockholders. Yet, when management or a Board of Directors makes the announcement, that doesn’t mean you should call your broker and pick up shares. Here are three things to watch out for in a share repurchase plan: Make sure the total [...]
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Hedge funds gained 5.77% in May and 10.75% for the year through May 31, according to research from BarclayHedge. “Equity markets in both developed and emerging countries saw share prices rally in May,” which had positive effects on hedge funds, Waksman, founder and president of BarclayHedge Ltd., said in a statement. All 18 of the [...]
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Warren Buffett once said, “No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” Yet, according to some sources, the average holding period for a common stock is only three years. Is it any wonder that investors statistically experience [...]
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