“Capturing Profit with Technical Analysis: Hands-on Rules for Exploiting Candlestick, Indicator, and Money Management Techniques” By Sylvain Vervoort - A Book Review

Posted on November 25th, 2009 in Famous investors, Forex, famous investment authors by RaduH

Technical analysis is one of my passions, so here we go with another recent release of a book focusing on that topic. Given the recent advent of the online trading platforms (e.g the MetaTrade 4 or MT), trading has ecome much easier than a few years ago. In the same time, it has become also much more dangerous, since the easiness of trading is simply translated into a greater risk for the trader. And risk means the possibility to have huge profits in a short time, but also the possibility to be wiped out from the market very quickly. Being wiped out from a trading platform means loosing all the money you deposited as a leverage (your trading capital, of course).

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How to Value / Evaluate a Website (part 2)

Posted on October 21st, 2009 in Famous investors, Investing strategies, investing citations by RaduH

Well, we continue our previous blog about the website valuation methods and considerations… right now :)

As mentioned in our previous post, the vast majority of the 11 million or so links can be summarized in two extreme positions:

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How to Value / Evaluate a Website (part 1)

Posted on October 20th, 2009 in Famous investors, Stocks, investing techniques by RaduH

zurich-airport-main-lounge-september-2009-switzerland-300x225 How to Value / Evaluate a Website (part 1)I was recently thinking that buying a website is a form of investing too. And some of our competing investing blogs say that investing is an art. Does this mean that you should pay on a website the value asked by the artist owner? No way!

A search on Google using the keywords “web site valuation method” shows that there are almost 11 million search results.

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A Book Review – “The Only Three Questions You Need to Ask” by Ken Fisher

Posted on September 29th, 2009 in Famous investors, Forex, famous investment authors by RaduH

ken-fisher A Book Review – The Only Three Questions You Need to Ask by Ken FisherWell, a book on investing on shares by a Forbes columnist who has more experience than my professional age? Could be interesting, don’t you think?

 

And indeed it was. Ken Fisher writes in a somehow difficult manner. He sidetracks with his three questions back and forth on the same subject. And repeats quite obsessively some of his ideas in the 400+ pages of this project. But at the end of the day I found “The only 3 questions you need to ask” informing and well documented. And full of (arguably) useful insights on shares investing.

 

What is the book about?

 

Well, about investing in shares and about how you can sustainably beat the markets.

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A Book Review – “Jack Schwager’s Complete Guide To Mastering The Markets”

Posted on July 24th, 2009 in Famous investors, famous investment authors by RaduH

Jack Schwager was one of the first investment authors to write a pretty comprehensive guide to trading in various markets, a guide fully dedicated to the so well developed nowadays field of technical analysis. The guide contains a pretty classic structure, also used quite often by the other authors in their books. (Which, in my opinion, represents a sort of a tacit recognition of the fact that Schwager was one of the first authors to formalize its method.)

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Famous investors - Pierre Omidyar and his selling adventure

Posted on September 22nd, 2008 in Famous investors by RaduH

Timeline
1967 Born.
1988 Graduates from Tufts University.
1991 Co-founds Ink Development Corporation in 1991.
1995 Starts eBay as homepage hosted by the local ISP.
1996 Ink Development, renamed eShop, sold to Microsoft.
1996 eBay profitable by February.

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Famous investing citations 18 - God and power

Posted on September 17th, 2008 in Famous investors, famous investment authors by RaduH

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of
the weak, and that it is doing God’s service, when it is violating His laws.

John Adams (1735–1826) US president. Letter to Thomas Jefferson (2 February 1814)

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Famous investing quotes 8 - about ideal things

Posted on August 16th, 2008 in Famous investors, famous investment authors, investing citations by RaduH
When you consider something ‘ideal’, you lose the opportunity to improve it.
Shoji Shiba (b. 1933) Japanese academic and author. Quoted in ‘Toyota’s Fresh Look at JIT [Just-In-Time]’, Financial Times (10 September 1990)

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Famous investing quotations 7 - about growth (again)

There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.

Gary Hamel (b. 1954) US academic, business writer, and consultant.

Digital Britain  (Janua ry2000)

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Famous investors (1) - Warren Buffet and his lessons in investments

Posted on June 30th, 2008 in Famous investors, Uncategorized by RaduH

Let’s be honest and face it - the big shots, the people who did a hell of a lot of money from their investments, will rarely go public about their methods. Yet Warrent Buffet, the Sage of Omaha, has constantly promoted transparency and openness in investing for more than 40 years.
How did Warren do it without damaging his investments?

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