All New Tricks for Trainers

57 tricks and techniques to grab and hold the attention of any audience and gets magical results
By Dave Arch
ISBN 0-87425-448-5

Introduction

How do your participants expect you to open your training sessions? How do they expect you to close? How do they expect you to deliver your content in the body of the session? How do they expect you to review? These are important questions every trainer should ask . . . and answer.
Then . . . DON’T!
By that I mean, don’t open the way they expect you to, don’t close in the manner they’ve become accustomed to, don’t play into their expectations if you desire to maximize their attention and retention! Have the courage to use the element of surprise and curiosity to keep positive energy flowing throughout the session.
Between the covers of this book you’ll find 57 new ways to open, close, and energize training sessions, taken from my monthly “Tricks For Trainers” column in the Creative Training Techniques Newsletter.

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Market Neutral Strategies

ISBN: 0-471-26868-2
Published by John Wiley & Sons,
By Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy

Introduction

“Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy have done a masterful job of collecting information useful to market neutral investors. The presentation is clear and concise. The topics covered are wide-ranging and up to date, including the current hot topic of alpha transport. My favorite features are the unique question-and-answer sections, which provide answers to typical investor questions in an easily accessible format. Anyone who plans to invest in market neutral strategies should read this book.”

__Brian Bruce, Editor-In-Chief, The Journal of Investing

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The Little Book That Beats the Market

By Joel Greenblatt
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,2006
ISBN-13 978-0-471-73306-5
ISBN-10 0-471-73306-7

Introduction

This book was originally inspired by my desire to give each of my five children a gift. I figured if I could teach them how to make money for themselves, then I would be giving them a great gift—truly one that would keep giving. I also figured that if I could explain how to make money in terms that even my kids could understand (the ones already in sixth and eighth grades, anyway), then I could pretty much teach anyone how to be a successful stock market investor.

While the concepts covered in this book may seem simple—perhaps too simple for sophisticated investors— each step along the way is there for a reason. Stay with it, and I assure you the payoff for both beginning and experienced investors will be huge. After more than 25 years of investing professionally and after 9 years of teaching at an Ivy League business school, I am convinced of at least two things:
1. If you really want to “beat the market,” most professionals and academics can’t help you, and
2. That leaves only one real alternative: You must do it yourself.


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Options and Options Trading

A Simplified Course that Takes You from Coin Tosses to Black-Scholes
By ROBERT W. WARD
2004 by The McGraw-Hill

Introduction

This book is about learning options the easy way. That does not mean it will be a breeze, for anything worth knowing cannot properly be learned via speed-reading. It just means that there is a difficult, complex way to learn options (one that requires a Ph.D. in math) and an easier, more basic way for those of us who don’t consider ourselves math geniuses. We are going to present the more basic course, and we think we can teach it better than anyone else has been able to. We also believe that a lot more people would learn options if they had the opportunity to learn about them in this simplified fashion.

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Mechanical Trading Systems

Pairing Trader Psychology with Technical Analysis
2005 by Richard L. Weissman
John Wiley & Sons, Inc

Introduction

Critics of books on trading system development suggest that no one would give away a successful trading system and that if a profitable system were given away, it would no longer work since everyone would be using it. Such criticism suggests a naivete regarding market dynamics and trader psychology. This book argues that the primary reason for failure as a speculator is a lack of disciplined adherence to successful trading and price risk management strategies as opposed to an inability to discover profitable trading methodologies. The text shows that the development of rock-solid discipline is among the most challenging endeavors to which a trader can aspire. If this were not the case, anyone could master discipline and there would be no financial rewards associated with successful speculation.

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Come Into My Trading Room

A Complete Guide to Trading
By Dr. Alexander Elder
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Introduction

How long will it take you to become a competent trader and how much will it cost? What rules do you set, what methods do you use, and how do you split your trading capital? What should you study first, second, and third? What markets should you trade, and how much money can you expect to make? If these questions interest you, you picked the right book. You can succeed in trading. It has been done before, and it’s being done right now, today, by people who started from scratch, learned to trade and are making a good living at it. The best ones make fortunes. Others fail, out of ignorance or lack of discipline. If you work through this book, ignorance will not be a problem, and you will hear me yell at you again and again, pointing you towards disciplined, responsible, professional trading.

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Currency Trading for Dummies

By Mark Galant, Brian Dolan
360 pages
Publisher: For Dummies (August 6, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0470127635
ISBN-13: 978-0470127636

Introduction
The fun and easy way to get started in currency trading.
Want to capitalize on the growing forex market? This nuts-and-bolts guide gives you a step-by-step action plan for understanding and trading the forex market. It offers practical guidance and savvy tips in everything from comprehending currency quotes to using leverage, trading with fundamentals, and navigating technical analysis

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