Fast Forward - How to Win a Lot More Business in a Lot Less Time

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Fast Forward - How to Win a Lot More Business in a Lot Less Time
Michael LeBoeuf
Manufacturer: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993
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Stock Market Rules, 70 of the Most Widely Held Investment Axioms Explained, Examined and Exposed, Second Edition
Michael D. Sheimo
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
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Good help for the beginning invester

A great guide for beginners

If you have bought it then read it, otherwise don't bother

Only for the novice investor

Disgracefully ignorant

Stock Market Rules: 70 of the Most Widely Held Investment Axioms Explained, Examined and Exposed
Michael Sheimo
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Wall Street traders live by time-honored rulesaxioms like "Follow a Few Stocks Well", or "Buy On the Rumor and Sell on the News"but only Stock Market Rules tells traders which to trust! A sleeper hit in its previous edition, this instantly accessible book uses an analytical aproach to verify or debunk Wall Street's 70 most followed rules. Investors of all levels, always on the lookout for an edge, will appreciate how it offers guidelines for virtually every market situation. In this updated edition, Stock Market Rules explains 20 all new axioms not previously covered, in a concise and easy-to-reference format, and also reflects the dramatic changes in the market.

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This instantly accessible book uses an analytical aproach to verify or debunk the top 70 rules of Wall Street. Investors of all levels, always on the lookout for an edge, will appreciate how it offers guidelines for virtually every market situation.

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Good help for the beginning invester.......2000-04-29

Stock Market Rules (second edition) is a good basic book on stock investing, it is interesting to read and explains many well-known stock trading axioms. Old sayings like: "Sell the losers and let the winners run, Never short the trend, Buy when there's blood in the streets," are explained and examined. Although many of these sayings may be true, some have changed (such as; "Buy on Monday, Sell on Friday"). The book's approach is very helpful to me as a beginning investor, but it should also be useful and interesting to the experienced investor who wants to learn more about the stock market. The chapters are short and to the point, with excellent charts and clear examples. I recommend it to anyone interested in stock investing.

A great guide for beginners.......2000-02-15

If you are just starting out as a trader, I think this book is incredibly helpful. Beginners with no experience will find the 70 rules to be very insightful. It will answer a lot of questions about why a stock moves up or down on a given day and give you valuable tips on when to get in and when to get out. It's easy reading and you can apply the knowledge immediately. You can always check this out from your local library to see if you like it first. The library has tons of trading books, for free!

If you have bought it then read it, otherwise don't bother.......1999-12-26

For the least, Mr. Sheimo's writing style is boring and inconclusive. Many times he tries to make a point but is poorly supported. Many are hindsights, few are based on in-depth analysis. However, it does cover a big spectrum of so called 'rules'. Readers are advised that nothing new will be learned, no teaching of 'how-to' but tons of if, but and may be....

Only for the novice investor.......1999-10-12

This book is useful for people just starting out in the field of investing, however doesn't go into any specific detail of each of the axioms. Some of the axioms are Biased and dont fully examine the creditabilty of the stratagy. Bottom line: If you've been investing for over a year this book will prove useless and won't help you in your investing careers. Try another book!

Disgracefully ignorant.......1999-05-20

According to the dust jacket, the author earns his living as an investment adviser. One can only marvel at the generosity of his clients in retaining him if this book is anything to go by.

Mr Sheimo affects to "explain" and "examine" some investment notions, and to "expose" the ones he finds contentious. In order to do any of these things, it would help if he were actually to trouble to acquaint himself with what these "axioms" are in the first place. All too often he merely displays his own ignorance by getting them not only comprehensively wrong, but wrong in such a form as to constitute a schoolboy howler.

I take just one example as representative of Mr Sheimo's cluelessness: chapter 65, which attempts to debunk the "random walk hypothesis". The author considers that he has accomplished this task by setting a chart of numbers generated randomly in a lottery draw against a chart of the Dow Jones price index, over two years. And, duh, they look different. It beggars belief that a professional investment adviser should be in business at all let alone could have written stuff like that without first having worked out what variable it is that the hypothesis posits as random. It isn't *prices* that are hypothesised to follow a random walk, but price *changes*. If Mr Sheimo goes back to his database and tries this exercise again, but does it properly this time, I suspect he will see immediately why his published work has - to coin the euphemism to end all euphemisms - somewhat missed the point of the exercise. Having started with a howler of monumental proportions, the author then goes on to a series of misconceptions buttressed by non sequiturs. The most egregious of the lot is his misconception that in an efficient stock market the past doesn't predict the future. Wrong yet again: to the contrary, in an efficient stock market, where all publicly available information is already discounted in market prices, today's price is the best possible predictor of tomorrow's price. It's today's price *change* that has no implications for tomorrow's price *change* - thereby rendering the disciplines of technical analysis and stock market forecasting a damaging irrelevance at best.

It would be difficult to do justice to the sheer awfulness and ignorance of this book in a single review. But the effect after a while is just tedium rather than the majesty that you sometimes get from reading something that is unspeakably bad. Don't bother buying it, in any event.

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Stock Market Rules: 70 Of the Most Widely Held Investment Axioms Explained, Examined and Exposed
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Completely updated for 2004-2005, the Directory of Corporate Counsel remains the only comprehensive source for information on the corporate law departments and practitioners of the companies of the United States and Canada. Profiling over 30,000 attorneys and more than 8,000 companies, it supplies complete, uniform, listings compiled through a major research effort, including information on company organization, department structure and hierarchy, and the background and specialties of the attorneys.

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Directory of Corporate Counsel, 2004-2005 (2 Volume Set) (Directory of Corporate Counsel)
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Insightful analysis of Pre-Con Canada's economic growth

Unequal Beginnings: Agriculture and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario until 1870 (Canadian University Paperbooks; 233)
John McCallum
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Insightful analysis of Pre-Con Canada's economic growth.......2003-06-29

A pared down and supposedly simplified version of the author's Ph.D. thesis, this book discusses the economic development of Pre-confederation Ontario and Quebec. Taking into account geographic, geopolitical and sociological aspects of the two provinces, the author shows how it was that Ontario gradually emerged to be the more vibrant and important economic center. But trust me, this is not exactly easy reading; this is the type of book that must be studied to be appreciated. Anyone seeking to do so will be greatly rewarded.

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The flagship monograph addressing the spheroidal wave function and its pertinence to computational electromagnetics

Spheroidal Wave Functions in Electromagnetic Theory presents in detail the theory of spheroidal wave functions, its applications to the analysis of electromagnetic fields in various spheroidal structures, and provides comprehensive programming codes for those computations.

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The programming codes and their applications are provided online and are written in Mathematica 3.0 or 4.0. Readers can also develop their own codes according to the theory or routine described in the book to find subsequent solutions of complicated structures.

Spheroidal Wave Functions in Electromagnetic Theory is a fundamental reference for scientists, engineers, and graduate students practicing modern computational electromagnetics or applied physics.

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The flagship monograph addressing the spheroidal wave function and its pertinence to computational electromagnetics Spheroidal Wave Functions in Electromagnetic Theory presents in detail the theory of spheroidal wave functions, its applications to the analysis of electromagnetic fields in various spheroidal structures, and provides comprehensive programming codes for those computations. The topics covered in this monograph include: * Spheroidal coordinates and wave functions * Dyadic Green's functions in spheroidal systems * EM scattering by a conducting spheroid * EM scattering by a coated dielectric spheroid * Spheroid antennas * SAR distributions in a spheroidal head model The programming codes and their applications are provided online and are written in Mathematica 3.0 or 4.0. Readers can also develop their own codes according to the theory or routine described in the book to find subsequent solutions of complicated structures. Spheroidal Wave Functions in Electromagnetic Theory is a fundamental reference for scientists, engineers, and graduate students practicing modern computational electromagnetics or applied physics.

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History from its pre-historic origins down to the present

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Frank P. King
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In A Chronicle of World History Frank King gives a centrist and universal survey, in chronological order, of world history, starting with early civilizations all over the globe and ending with contemporary nations and the state of human affairs at the start of the 21st century. King highlights key events and eras in all the most important and enduring areas of human activity.

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Brilliant book:.......2003-05-03

If ever there were the opportunity to grasp the scope, meaning and lessons of history, The Chronicle affords the conscientious reader that opportunity. Despite divisive passions and ideologies, humankind's search for their own identity and concept of justice finds expression and definition here. In Dr. King's vivid and incisive description of our resourcefulness, creativity and developing humanity, we awaken to a transhistorical sense of universal human destiny. The Chronicle not only provides acute analyses of humankind's collective conscience, it shows humanity's capacity for intelligent survival across the millennia. To read The Chronicle is to assimilate the significance of history through the matured insights of a true historian.

A book for every historian.......2003-02-09

This book should be on the self of every historian for a proper orientation into his research. It is a gifted work providing unknown historical details with a flowing narration, connecting the passing of people andevents. Perhaps a quote from its pages will relate its value. Who wouldthink the brutal Vikings of old would destroy the beautiful inland Paris,illustrating their long extensive game of warfare in the "dark" period:"854: the Vikings burned the new city of Hamburg and looted Paris."
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one fine referance.......2002-12-20

in these pages is a massive amont of information. this book can lead one to much more research in a very timely manner. if one had any idea of a date, they can find out much about the subject and then be able to research further.

History from its pre-historic origins down to the present.......2002-12-09

A Chronicle Of World History: From 130,000 Years Ago To The Eve Of A.D. 2000 by independent scholar and freelance writer Frank P. King is an impressive, 480-page compendium of human history from its pre-historic origins down to the present day. The brief and succinct entries are organized by date and rang from a single sentence to a small paragraph. Ideal for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in history, A Chronicle Of World History is as much fun to simply browse through, as it is informative. Highly recommended for personal, school, and community library collections.

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Support vector machines (SVMs), were originally formulated for two-class classification problems, and have been accepted as a powerful tool for developing pattern classification and function approximations systems. This book provides a unique perspective of the state of the art in SVMs by taking the only approach that focuses on classification rather than covering the theoretical aspects.

The book clarifies the characteristics of two-class SVMs through their extensive analysis, presents various useful architectures for multiclass classification and function approximation problems, and discusses kernel methods for improving generalization ability of conventional neural networks and fuzzy systems. Ample illustrations, examples and computer experiments are included to help readers understand the new ideas and their usefulness.

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better ways to classify data?.......2006-05-22

When you have data that is present in some n-dimensional space, you often want to make clusters. The problem is that most methods have a subjective component. What is a cluster is sometimes a matter of definition, within a given method. Clusters can also be used to try to draw up regions of that n-dimensional space. This constitutes a classification of future data. Well, how to do so?

Abe explains an idea that has gained recognition recently. The concept of support vector machines. The label is perhaps a little clumsy. But Abe's book gives a good geometric understanding of current classification ideas and their limitations. And how these can be overcome using support vector machines.

Several variants are explored. Along with a tie-in to neural networks for training. The computations can be intensive for real data. But these days, that is less and less of a limitation.

Advances in Kernel Methods: Support Vector Learning

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The Support Vector Machine is a powerful new learning algorithm for solving a variety of learning and function estimation problems, such as pattern recognition, regression estimation, and operator inversion. The impetus for this collection was a workshop on Support Vector Machines held at the 1997 NIPS conference. The contributors, both university researchers and engineers developing applications for the corporate world, form a Who's Who of this exciting new area.

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a summary of research on support vector machines.......2000-05-17

This is a collection of papers presented at a NIPS workshop held in 1997. So it provides a good entry point for access to forefronts of this rapidly developing field. Many leading researchers have contributed to this volume including V. vapnik who wrote a very succinct and readable survey. The introduction (Chapter 1) is also very useful. Though all chapters are written by leading experts in their areas and are enjoy to read. Personally I like particularly Part II on implementation in large data sets. G. Wahba provides some background on RKHS theory and a statistical perspective from GACV, for which she is mainly responsible for its popularity in statistics. I recommend this book for researchers and practitioners who may want more details and update recent developments.

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