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Whether you are an investment professional managing billions of dollars or an individual investor with a small nest egg, TrimTabs Investing shows you how to beat the major stock market averages with less risk. This groundbreaking book begins by comparing the stock market to a casino in which the house (public companies and the insiders who run them) buys and sells shares with the players (institutional and individual investors). TrimTabs Investing argues that stock prices are primarily a function of liquidity—the amount of shares available for purchase and the amount of money available to buy them—rather than fundamental value. Finally, it outlines the building blocks of liquidity theory and explains how you can use them to predict the direction of the stock market.
“Charles Biderman, a savvy and battle-scarred veteran of the investment wars, has fashioned an intriguing approach to making money in the stock market that adroitly avoids both heavy-breathing speculation and the standard Wall Street practices that enable investors, big and small, to lose money in good markets as well as bad. Aimed at the sophisticated investor (which may or may not be an oxymoron), the book is written in blessedly straightforward prose and is a worthwhile read for anyone with an urge to have a fling at investing.--Alan Abelson
Barron’s
“Since the days of Joseph and Pharaoh, it has been axiomatic that the size of the grain harvest affects the level of grain prices; but today’s investors have been slow to appreciate the fact that the supply of stock shares significantly determines the level of stock prices. Biderman’s long overdue book outlines the theory and evidence behind ‘Trading Float,’ the actual—and exploitable—power behind major moves in the stock market. --Paul Montgomery
CEO and CIO of Montgomery Capital Management
“‘Trade as corporate execs do, not as they say.’ Charles Biderman has built an impressive list of hedge fund clients from this essential insight, and this book does a great job explaining exactly how retail investors can incorporate it into their investing.” --Eric Zitzewitz
Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
“Charles Biderman is a smart thinker, clear writer—and he offers here some very interesting ideas. This book is for the little guy who enjoys reading about money and economics, even if he doesn’t adopt the strategies offered here; and for the professional or sophisticated investor, who, to a greater or lesser degree, just might.--Andrew Tobias
author of The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need
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Whether you are an investment professional managing billions of dollars or an individual investor with a small nest egg, TrimTabs Investing shows you how to beat the major stock market averages with less risk. This groundbreaking book begins by comparing the stock market to a casino in which the house (public companies and the insiders who run them) buys and sells shares with the players (institutional and individual investors). TrimTabs Investing argues that stock prices are primarily a function of liquidity;the amount of shares available for purchase and the amount of money available to buy them,rather than fundamental value. Finally, it outlines the building blocks of liquidity theory and explains how you can use them to predict the direction of the stock market.
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Fresh ideas.......2006-01-30
The author claims to have altruistic motives and does present some new ideas, which likely work. Unfortunately, it is difficult to collect all the data by oneself. The subscription service is expensive. If Mr.Biderman is truly altruistic, he will keep his subscription cost low.
Predicting the short term direction of market.......2005-08-03
Charles Biderman thinks about the stock market differently. In his book, he uses liquidity analysis to very effectively predict the short term direction of market. He does it in a clear, simple and concise way. Is it a silver bullet? Of course not. There is no silver bullet! However, I have been an independent sales contractor selling TrimTabs Investment Research for nearly ten years and I can tell you that 29 of the largest over $1-5 billion hedge funds buy TrimTabs research. Why? Because it is original and unique research. I have come across no other similar research in all my years selling it. The book is worth reading for this reason alone.
Michael Alexander
Started off great, ended poorly.......2005-06-17
I was riveted to the first several chapters because I came to the same conclusions concerning the "Stock Market Casino" that the author did. As the book went on, I learned about liquidity theory and was all excited that I was "on to something". As I read the recommendations for dollar cost averaging Vanguarg Mutual Funds and ETF's, I started to disconnect with the author. And then the author explained that it is difficult to compute liquidity theory because the data supplied to the public is delayed by at least a month making the data unreliable for timely investment decisions. I was also disappointed at the explanation of why the liquidity theory would have you getting out of the market during the big bull run of mid 2003 - 2004. He mentioned that the theory can sometimes be an art.... So, now I believe in the liquidity theory but I'll have to figure my own strategies to use it.
A Bargain Price for an Inside Look at Investing.......2005-06-03
This book is really different for the world of finance because it is frank and down-to-earth without making a lot of grandiose claims. As an individual investor, I am not interested in tracking company earnings but want to time my buy, move and rebalance decisions.
I could relate to the character in the first chapter. I was not as interested in the looking back section as much as the liquidity in action and the looking ahead sections. So, it's about reading the chapters that pertain to your investment goals.
There, I confess to skipping the more aggressive strategies but the point is that Biderman makes these strategies available. The view of supply and demand in the market is intriguing. This liquidity view seems to be an important piece of the puzzle. The author's voice is loud and clear. I like his candor. I think it's irrelevant what his company charges for research because this book gives me a rare inside look at how professional money managers might operate. Biderman sounds like someone I'd like to sit down with for a consultation.
Save your money!.......2005-06-02
I spent almost 20 bucks for this e-book that was written to pump their website and service.
Biderman claims altruistic intent to help the investor win the "stock market casino" against the corporate "house".
He charges $6,000 a year for his Trimtabs.com newsletters for "mostly institutional" investors but this 6K a year is the 60% off sub rate for individual investors. Some altruistic intent huh?
He does collest information but I found a website that gives away for free most of the info he collects and wants to sell for 6K a year. http://www.capital-flow-analysis.com/
Most of the information he talks about in his book is freely available if you want to dig for it. On the the flip side he gives an interesting account of the rise and fall of the stock market in the 90's and early 00's in regards to "liquidity" theory.
In a nutshell, bet with the corporations and against the individual investor they are usually wrong. Like in 1929, 1987 and 2000, when the individual investor is hyped about the market, buy bonds. When everyone thinks the market sucks, buy stocks. There, you saved $20 to $30 bucks.
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This brief, reader-friendly guide focuses on the kinds of persuasion employed by business people in their day-to-day work. It considers such factors as organizational relationships and culture, and the context of every persuasive act of communication.
KEY TOPICS Specific chapter topics cover developing your argument, checking your logic, analyzing your audience, motivating your audience, studying the organization, and considering the intercultural environment. For managers and assistant managers—and anyone responsible for a staff—who needs to communicate in a persuasive and compelling way.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Book.......2007-02-08
Excellent book! Quite possibly the best in the market on managerial persuasion and influence. A MUST read for every business person!
Book Description
Identifies the crucial elements involved in the operation of a restaurant, and their interrelationships that are necessary to achieve success. Structured around the three parts of the meal experience—the customers, the operation (consisting of food, beverage and the physical facility) and the employees—the book examines how to effectively manage an existing restaurant operation. This edition continues its strong coverage of marketing, promotions, and employment issues, and captures the essential elements needed to produce satisfied customers and a profitable restaurant operation.
Offers fully updated material including: Updated figures and numbers, Longitudinal analysis of recent trends, The latest demographic projections and the implications for managers, Added section on ergonomics and its impact on layout and design and New material on energy conservation and cost savings. Strategies for using the Internet as a promotional tool shows readers how to use technology to run and increase their business. A focus on profitability addresses common reasons restaurants fail. Examines factors to success, such as concept, creativity, menu, pricing, productivity, cost control etc.
Restaurant managers. For anyone interested in “the meal experience,” or thinking about becoming a restaurant entrepreneur.
Customer Reviews:
Very usefull.......2006-03-11
Although this book is expensive, the quality of its contents justifies the aquisition. It's a comprehensive manual of all the aspects the you must take into account when you are running a restaurant or you wish to start one. Nobody should start a business in this industry without reading books like this.
Awesome in understanding all aspects of the restaurant.......2003-06-04
It's been a year since we opened our restaurant in Chicago without any prior experience in the food industry. Having read this book helped me create and maintain our financial controls and understand our customer expectations. For less than 90 bucks, this book has provided me with invaluable, easy to understand and directly applicable concepts. A must read for anyone starting out in the restaurant business.
Restaurant Management-customers, Operations, and Employees.......2000-05-24
I will soon be opening a cafe and have been desperately looking for a book like this. It is a detailed text book covering everything, plus hundreds of "quick bites" that offer tips and examples to help with understanding. I know its a reference that I will go back to over and over.
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Wisdom at Work: The Awakening of Consciousness in the Workplace
Let Davidson
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Wisdom at Work sparkles with powerful visions and hands-on examples of people doing it well, discovering the workplace as a natural setting for soul-making and deep soul work.
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This digital document is an article from Fleet Equipment, published by Maple Communications on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 611 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Mobile management: GPS and and onboard communication devices moving far beyond basics.(On Technology)(global positioning system)(Remote Dynamics Inc.,)
Author: Carol Birkland
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Date: June 1, 2005
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Volume: 31
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This digital document is an article from Technical Communication, published by Society for Technical Communication on February 1, 2004. The length of the article is 664 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Visual Basic.NET and XML: Harness the Power of XML in VB.NET Applications.(Book Reviews)
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Coaching Tips for Job Seekers: Keys and Secrets for Success
John S., Ph.D. Lybarger , and
William L., M.D. Donelson
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Chris Johnson had everything—a great job, comfortable salary, and bright future—until his company was acquired and his position eliminated.
Follow ChrisÂ's journey as he overcomes unexpected obstacles and challenges. Working with a coach, he creates persuasive résumés and letters that get job interviews. By applying his new interviewing and negotiations skills, he wins and accepts a desirable job offer.
Learn how you can achieve dramatic results by discovering your job matches, creating a plan for getting interviews, and negotiating a new, competitive position!
“In my estimation, a master résumé writer—certainly one of the nationÂ's top writers—is John Lybarger, MBA, PhD.” Gerry Harrington, former executive producer, CNN
“John was a significant resource in my job search. He is extremely creative, resourceful, persistent, and a great source of positive feedback and ideas. I would not have found the opportunities I did without John's help!” Dick Mosher, former associate general counsel, Maytag Corporation
“Résumé revamping is a largely unregulated field, rife with sham grammarians, sloppy formatters, and pricey Â`career-repurposingÂ' poseurs who promise access to Â`hidden job marketsÂ' that donÂ't existÂ…Among those we felt helped craft the clearest, most data-filled résumésÂ…John Lybarger of Career Architects based in Denver.” Michelle Conlin, editor, Business Week,
The Résumé Doctor is In
, July 14, 2003
Customer Reviews:
Buy a new Highlighter.......2001-08-20
I am a technoid (See my about me area) so when I first started reading this book and Kinnard described the tools I thought the book was going to be fairly boring. Later when I entered in the chapters on marketing I was thrilled with an entry level book.
I needed (and still need) good ideas to help me market my business. I used my highlighter a great deal in this book. In almost every one of the later chapters I found really good ideas. Also the structure of the book was wonderful. The beginning of every chapter is a series of descriptive or narrative paragraphs, case study, resources and a cheat sheet. The structure that Kinnard uses makes this a tool for reference as well as a good read.
Finally, I think Kinnard has an excellent style. I think one of the great tasks of writing a book like this one is that most of the audience really is not interested in reading the material. We just want to know it so that we can use it. So, time spent reading and learning about email is tiresome. Kinnard does a good job of making the paint dry quickly.
Wonderful Business Tool.......2001-01-10
For anyone looking for an experienced and relaible method of managing opt-in email marketing this is for you.
The Best Introduction to Low-Cost, Ethical E-Mail Marketing!.......2000-09-05
I picked up this book because I have always found e-mail to be an effective way to begin and develop relationships with interesting people I would never have otherwise met. That's one of the many reasons I like to write reviews on Amazon.com. Since most books about the Internet are extremely simple and out-of-date, I had low expectations. Imagine how pleased I was when I discovered that this book not only answered many of my questions (such as how to get started with e-mailing to opt-in lists of people who have given permission to be contacted with information in certain subject areas) but also provided information that I did not imagine existed (such as sites for posting e-mail press releases and statements of competency to reach the media). Best of all, the ideas here take little capital and expertise so most people who are active on the Internet can use them.
Here is the table of contents to give you a sense of how the book is organized:
Chapter 1: E-Mail Newsletters
Chapter 2: Discussion Lists
Chapter 3: Online Networking
Chapter 4: Signature Files
Chapter 5: Autoresponders
Chapter 6: Customer Relationship Management
Chapter 7: Promotions and Direct E-Mail
Chapter 8: Online Public Relations
Chapter 9: Advertising in E-Publications
Chapter 10: E-Mail Marketing Rulebook
Chapter 11: Technical Know-How
Chapter 12: Measuring Results
Chapter 13: Opt-In List Brokering
Chapter 14: Worksheets
Chapter 15: 20 Recommended E-Mail Publications
As a result of reading this book, I began to wonder if I should also offer a free e-mail newsletter of more analytical and detailed book reviews covering those books I like best, with the reviews organized to be easier to access. Your opinions on that subject are most welcome!
The technical support in the book can save you some money on implementing by allowing you to do more of the work yourself. You are also directed to examples and organizations that can help you. I wrote down more than 30 web sites I want to investigate as a result of reading this book. That's about 27 more than I got out of the last 400 books I have read.
Another positive feature of the book is that it is anti-Spam. If you are like me, you get about 40 Spam messages a day that have no connection to any interest you have and seem to be created by people with little talent. One reason I have been slow to use more e-mail marketing is because I am very anti-Spam and didn't want to become a Spammer even by accident.
The best advice from the book is to build your own lists from people who reply to you and give you permission to contact them again, and use those to establish and maintain mutually supportive relationships. That makes sense to me. My web designer has been urging me on with this idea for years, but I never quite got the point before. Now I see what I should be doing. Even though I have read and liked Permission Marketing, the idea just hadn't clicked before.
Even if you don't plan to do e-mail mass marketing, the ideas in here for online public relations will make the book valuable all by themselves.
The authors also offer you access to their web site for more information and help.
A revised edition is planned for a few weeks from now, and I suspect that it would be a good idea to see what is in that edition as well. I wouldn't wait for that one, however, to get started. You can make significant progress in the meantime with this edition.
After you have finished reading this book, ask yourself what is the one thing you could do today that would help get valuable knowledge out to those who need it most. Then take that action. I also urge you to make that question and action step a daily process thereafter. This book should make you very capable of doing this!
E-mail with permission, do not spam your audience!.......2000-08-07
Marketing With E-Mail is a quick reading that broadens your horizon by giving you a concise, to the point overview of the different tools available to market a company and its products/ services through e-mail. Permission marketing is the mantra of Marketing With E-Mail and her author, Shannon Kinnard. E-mail marketing, though important, is not a stand-alone communication channel. By offering your prospects and customers multiple response paths, you increase the probability that they will respond to your product offering. In addition, Marketing With E-Mail and the companion web site refer to many resources that you can explore to get additional insights into that new field of marketing. Shannon Kinnard, however, does not cover the economics of e-mail marketing thoroughly. Case studies are not usually backed up by any in-depth financial analysis that should definitely convince you that investing in e-mail marketing provides a sensible return on investment and positively influences customer lifetime value. Hopefully, Shannon Kinnard will further share her (financial) expertise with you in the second edition of Marketing With E-Mail that will be released soon.
Buy One for Yourself and One for a Friend.......2000-07-18
As a web designer for small businesses, the task of bringing visitors to a site often falls into my lap. It's a daunting task and with internet marketing still in it's infancy it's difficult to look to anyone as an expert. Ms. Kinnard is worth her weight in gold; demonstrating how to handle the new field of e-marketing and expertly giving how-to advice.
Many of my clients are regional shops and businesses that do not have the big business (big $$) marketing budgets. Not only do I often find myself referring to this book often, but I recommend it to all of my clients as well.
Business owners are often one of the biggest draws for a business; their personality, eye for detail, or craftsmanship is what attracts customers. By reading this book, my clients are able to market themselves, which my all accounts is a win-win scenario.
If you own a business or if you represent a business that is trying to increase their market share on the Internet, make this mandatory reading.
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Mercosur Southern Common Market Business Law Handbook: Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil (Global Investment and Business Library)
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