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  The Little Book That Still Beats the Market About Author Joel Greenblatt (born December 13, 1957) is an American academic, hedge fund manager, investor, and writer. He is a value investor, alumnus of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He runs Gotham Funds with his partner, Robert Goldstein. He is the former chairman of the board of Alliant Techsystems (1994-1995) and founder of the New York Securities Auction Corporation. He is also a director at Pzena Investment Management, a high-end value firm. Summary of Book What should you be doing with all your hard-earned money? You could put it under a mattress, lend it to a bank, lend it to a company or you could invest it in a company and/or in the stock market. This is probably the best alternative. The problem is just that most people have no business investing in individual stocks on their own, or, as Joel Greenblatt puts it: "C...

  A Beginner's Guide to Trading Tools and Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology : How To Day Trade For A Living About Author Andrew Aziz (Ph. D., P. Eng.) is a Canadian stock market trader, official Forbes Council member, investor and #1 best-selling author. He has ranked as one of the Amazon top 100 best-selling authors in the "Business and Finance" category for over 4 consecutive years (2016-present). Summary of Book Have you ever considered quitting your 9 to 5 job for a career in day trading? Well consider this: - Day trading has a steep learning curve - Day trading is very competitive Only 16 percent of day traders are profitable after their first six months. Day trading is a profession and not a strategy to get rich quick But!...   Day trading can be executed from anywhere in the world where there's a proper internet connection, including the beaches in Bahamas. Day trading is flexible. You can be finished by 10:00 a.m. and then do...

  The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime! About Author DeMarco was the Founder and CEO of Limos.com, a global ground transportation marketplace, before selling it to a private equity firm in 2007. In his avid attempts to acquire wealth at a young age and escape the "settle-for-less" lifestyle that so many of his peers had embraced, he became a self-made millionaire who is currently the Founder of Viperion Publishing Corp. and The Fastlane Forum. Summary of Book We've all heard the kinds of strategies that are supposed to make us rich get a good education work hard save up retire and roll around in your savings like scrooge mc duck. But what if you don't want to only enjoy your riches in the last part of your life and anyways what if the stock market collapses and you lose all your savings, there has to be another way thankfully the millionaire fast lane explains a better approach to getting wealthy and in this summary I...

Things Fall Apart About Author Chinua Achebe (/ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbeɪ/; born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart (1958), often considered his masterpiece, is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Summary of Book Things Fall Apart is set in what is now Nigeria during the late 19th century, but it was written in 1958, as the colonial system was falling apart in Africa. And one of the reasons Things Fall Apart is so important is that prior to it, most novels about Africa and Africans in English had been written by Europeans. Achebeturned the traditional European notion of Africans as savages on its head, and confronted the great failure of people to, quote see other human beings as human beings. With characters that you can feel with and think with and breathe with, layer after layerof the reality of the colonial situation in Igboland is exposed, and we se...

The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management About Author: Alexander Elder, M.D., is a Russian-American professional trader and a teacher of traders. He is the author of Trading for a Living, considered a modern classic among traders.[citation needed] First published in 1993, this international best-seller[citation needed] has been translated into more than a dozen languages and is being used to educate traders around the world. His Come into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading was named a 2002 Barron's Book of the Year. His Entries & Exits: Visits to 16 Trading Rooms was named a 2007 SFO Magazine Book of the Year. His latest book is The New Sell & Sell Short: How to Take Profits, Cut Losses, and Benefit from Price Declines (2011). Summary of Book Freddy has always, for as long as his friends can remember, been fat. Furthermore, for as long as his friends can remember, he's been "on...

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life About Author: Alice Schroeder (born December 14, 1956) is an American author and former insurance analyst. In the first week of October 2008, she published The Snowball, Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, a The New York Times Bestseller List bestseller. As a project manager for the US FASB, she managed SFAS No. 113. Since 2008, Schroeder has worked as a columnist for Bloomberg News. Summary of Book: Warren Buffett is arguably the most successful investor of all time. He has been averaging approximately a 20% growth of his capital per year, which has turned his small fortune of a thousand bucks in the early 1940s, into quite an outstanding one of 86 billion as of 2018. In 2007, he became the richest man in the world for the first time, and lately he's been having a back and forth with the likes of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. His complete focus on investing can't be overstated. He always tried to save a buck in or...

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger About Author: Charles Thomas Munger (born January 1, 1924) is an American investor, businessman, former real estate attorney, and philanthropist. He is vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate controlled by Warren Buffett; Buffett has described Munger as his partner. Munger served as chairman of Wesco Financial Corporation from 1984 through 2011. He is also chairman of the Daily Journal Corporation, based in Los Angeles, California, and a director of Costco Wholesale Corporation. Summary of Book: People in general, think that the individual investor doesn't stand a chance against the professionals. Pointing to high-frequency trading and the complexity of the financial instruments that Wall Street has become renowned for, many argue that this must be true. And besides, why would the professional analysts have such high salaries otherwise? In this book Burton Malkiel argues that this couldn...