Trading Books

I chose this book for my 3-year-old daughter who is so curious about animals especially birds and nests. It is factual and the illustrations are rather sweet. Discusses how a mother bird builds a nest and raises her family with the daddy bird. It is a fairly fast read but not too short, making it perfect for a bedtime story.

All the picture books on www.suesbooks.info are great bedtime reads. They are all beautifully illustrated, colorful, easy reads, and sturdy, which is important because this book will be read over and over. There is a great deal of information that is found in these books and a great deal that you can improvise and talk to them about.

The author starts out by building confidence in investing on-line. His eleven Getting Started points (Decide how much you can save and invest, Master the terms, Understand the difference between being an active and passive investor, etc.) set the tone for the entire book. He assumes you have never invested on-line and then shows you exactly how to do it. Not only does he explain how to invest at your computer but he also explains basic terminology (selling stock short, buying a call in options, shareholders' equity, etc.) so that you are never lost in his explanations. Thankfully, he reserves the deeper topics (Capital-gain distribution nightmare, stock splits, etc.) for the gray sidebars. The hundreds of internet addresses he provides are enough to fill anyone's bookmarks. This is the kind of book you read with your laptop so that you can check out the references and bookmark those which have meaning to you.

I started out on computers 15 years ago and loved the Dummies books. They made learning fun.
I have now moved into investing and enjoyed the cutting edge articles I read in this book. Much reading and learning is required in stock investing in order to prepare oneself for stepping onto Wall Street. This new 2008 edition of Online Investing is a big help.

Investor Skills Training: Managing Emotions And Risk In The Market by registered financial consultant and clinical psychologist Rob Ronin describes the ways in which emotions can undermine sound investment decisions and how technical skills play a key role in reducing financial losses. Recent years of stock market activity have once again demonstrated how many investors fell prey to unfamiliarity with basic investing skills combined with strong and often volatile emotions resulting in bad acquisition and sales decisions arising form a unrealistic expectations exacerbated by a "herd mentality" with respect to stock market fluctuations and broader sociopolitical events and corporate malfeasance. Investor Skills Training provides the novice investor with a simple, seven-part, step-by-step program specifically designed to help them acquire both the technical skills and the psychological stamina to become consistently effective decision-makers. Reader friendly, Investor Skills Training should be considered an essential and mandatory study for anyone making investments in the complex and competitive stock and bond markets of today.

Anyone who can't figure out why they do what they do concerning finances should read this book. It deals with investing mainly but really touches on how people make financial decisions and there's also a great survey on his site, www.drronin.com that asks questions to see what type of financial person you are.

Nice ideas for using Japanese art and furniture.

Book contains abundant pictures with full descriptions of items and history. Also contains excellent resource section for U.S. and Japan. Terrific book for anyone interested in Japanese style interior design

This series is the best I've found after floundering off and on for years. I am a visual learner and the best way for me to learn is to read, but reading Japanese has always been presented as something difficult and fearful. Traditional courses put it off as long as possible and you are always taught "polite" language first. However, most of us who want to learn the language are used to hearing the extremely colloquial language found in our favorite anime and/or reading manga. This course does just the opposite. Polite language is not ignored, but colloquialisms that would only be taught to advanced students elsewhere are brought up right from the first.

More importantly, this course hits reading head on from the first page. While it's true that they hang on to romaji throughout the first book, it is eliminated in the two that follow. As the author warns in the preface to Vol. 2, it's time to strap on a headband and get to work after you've made it through the introductory first volume.

I'm now nearing the end of the second volume and ready to tackle the third in preparation for the JLPT in December. The author claims that you should be ready for the level 3 after Vol. 3, and I intend to put that to the test...literally.

Frankly, I would like to see this series repackaged for college use with more workbooks like that accompanying the first volume (and the answers only found in the teacher's edition!), it's that good and most college course books that I've seen are that BAD. (Don't even get me started on the dense, dry style and confusing romaji in "Japanese: The Spoken Language". It's horrible, and is yet one of the more commonly used series. *sigh*)

The format changes slightly after the first volume, with in depth work with those evil particles and verb conjugations. But to get to the heavy hitting work, you first must make it through the first volume.

My suggestion is to buy all 3 and the workbook for volume one and give yourself the goal of passing the level 3 JLPT (there are 4 levels with 4 being the easiest and 1 the hardest). With a definite goal and a once a year testing schedule with a definite date that YOU have no control over, it's much easier to buckle down and study.

It's working well for me, anyway. I've already noticed myself automatically reading the signs in pictures I took on vacation in Japan a few years ago..and not just the ones in English or kana!

I've found this book to be very useful. Especially for those who are obsessed by Manga, because it about normal colloquial speech and consider subject which are not treated by regular schoolbook.

That's by far the best method of learning Kanji I ever met.
It combines traditional carving-by repeat method with visual method.
You have to write a lot in order to master Kanji, but there is no other way, I am afraid, to master Japanese writing and, most important of it, not to forget it the day after.
Drawings are wonderful, and even if it's aimed to teen-agers, it's good for elderly ( like me, fori instance) too.
I hope to be able to purchase the entire serie as quick as possible.

This book is a supplement for people who want to study kanji in addition to their Japanese text books. Kanji in Mangaland Volume I covers around 240 kanji, the Kyoiku kanji taught in the first two years of elementary school in Japan, and also the kanji for Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) level 3 & 4. Unlike other kanji studying materials such as Kanji flashcard, this book provides more than kunyomi, onyomi, and a list of jukugo (compound words). It illustrates the kanji stroke ordering sequence, uses a picture representing the kanji to help reader's memorization, and demonstrates the usage of different kanji via manga examples. The best part of the book is the history overview of where and how the kanji got imported to Japan and the influence on the Japanese language phonetic symbols: Katakana & Hiragana. However, few manga dialogs have some kanji that never been covered in the book, this may cause confusion to the readers. Overall, like Vitamin-C to your body, this book is a pretty good supplement to your Kanji studying.

(Reviewed by Otto Yuen, 01-Jan-2008)

Matchmaker, Matchmaker is my favorite Love Inspired book, so this follow-up story had big expectations to live up to. It started out a bit rough for me because of the rather hositle way the protagonists interacted with each other when they first met. I'm pleased that as the story progressed, they redeemed themselves by reacting towards each other in a more Christian manner. The star of the first book is its setting of a faith-based community. The setting of Lasso Her Heart is also the highlight, a beautifully described ranch in Arizona. The older couple were wonderful secondary characters, and the contrast between how Cody and Bethany each handled the losses in their respective lives provided the "lesson". Anna Schmidt has a style of writing that greatly appeals to me, and I enjoyed this book a lot.

I dont pick up a book like this very often. I was excited my the end of the first sentence. I fell in love with Cody Bethany Ian and Erika. The two stories are amazing. I enjoyed reading about the pain that Bethany felt, because it was real. This is an amazing story that will keep you reading from the second you pick it up to the last page.

This is a wonderful book because it is unique,; there are no other books like it out there, at least that I have seen! The projects are beautiful and the directions are easily understood, enen if you are artistically challenged like me! I brought to my favorite stamp store and they liked it so much they are thinking of adding it to their stock.
Anyone who likes papercrafting, ATCs etc should have a copy of this book.

This has some really great ideas and tips, even though I'm not a "beginner" to ATC's - I still enjoyed the ideas and samples in this book.

This is a 100% trading psychology book. No FA, no TA, but ten chapters or the author's so called principles on trading psychology, which are

1. The market is always right.
2. It's all in your head.
3. You cant prepare enough.
4. Supply and demand rule the markets
5. Commit your thoughts to paper
6. Developing and perfecting your trading shtick
7. Enhancing your shtick
8. Discipline
9. Staying the course
10. On becoming the ideal trader

Though the above can be commonly found in most trading books, the author had done it relatively well by drawing many uncommon analogies, stories, idiomatic phrases that put life into the book. In particular I like his description of successful traders as captains in the oceans, mice in the laboratories and actuaries in insurance companies.

In short, if you wanna read a good trading psychology book, this is it. If you want TA or FA knowledge, look somewhere else.

p.s. The seven cardinal sins of trading in the last chaper is a favorite of mine. They are:-

1. Pride, which challenges the first rule of trading: The market is always right.
2. Greed, holding onto trades hoping for more and more profits while all TA signals are telling you the party is over.
3. Envy, drains positive energy from their psyche, leaving them mean spirited and weak.
4. Anger, that when Greek gods decided to destroy a human, they got him angry and let him destroy himself.
5. Lust, equates to ignoring key defensive rules or self control. The unbridled gambler is the epitome of lust, doubling up after every loss.
6. Gluttony, a lack of focus. Trading becomes obsession They eat and sleep trading.
7. Sloth, that a lazy successful trader is an oxymoron. He or she just doesnt exist.

I have read other books by Mr. McCafferty and have found this one to be the most valuable, not to mention entertaining. It seems as though most of the newer books out there are just a rehashing of commonly known techniques and offer little valuable insight into how the market actually operates, that is not the case with this fine book. Mr McCafferty seems to understand the way the markets operate and the players in the trading community. He mentions several successful traders and their methods and explains them very well, probably better than those traders could themselves, which is a true testament to his ability as a writer. I learned specific strategies that have changed the way I trade and have been surprised by how well the simple things Tom mentions (and many of us overlook) have worked for me. I can say that I am a more profitable trader because of what I read in this book and for the [$$] it cost me, that is an unbelievable deal. Thank you for unselfishly sharing your trading experiences with us Tom, my life has been enriched because or your words.

Nailed (Aphrodisia Erotic Romance)

You're in another town in hiding thinking your life is going great until a man comes to town on business. This business is a family business. This man catches her peeping on another couple having sex and she explores herself until she realizes someone is watching. Eventually they hook up.

They come to know each other (trying to not fall for one another, but fate brings them together). They are now working together, even though she is the target. There is something hidden that was left with her without her knowledge. They find out later she has had this item the whole time since her sister and brother-in-law came up missing.

She is forced to leave town and eventually comes to realize exactly what the family was hired to find....

The sex, mystery, emotions and anger makes a hot, steamy, sexy read.

In Cielo, Texas, Bonnie James pays her bills by repairing the other apartments in the complex where she lives. She also relishes peeping at the other residents especially when they are into something erotic; she forges sexual fantasies about many of them from her erotic distance.

On a late night, setting up surveillance at an apartment complex in Cielo where he seeks Julie Burt or her sister Karen Lyons at where he thinks is the end of the world, bounty hunter Wynn Collier notices the beautiful Peeping Thomasina. He knows to ignore her and stick with the stakeout, but she makes the torrid evening sweltering. He decides to pay the voyeur a visit to see if he can teach her a sexual encounter of the first kind is much more gratifying than that of the third kind.

This is an exciting erotic romantic suspense that grips the audience the first time the bounty hunter sees the voyeur and never slows down even with a few obvious but delightful twists. Bonnie and Wynn are a delightful pair as he detours from the mission that his dad sent him on. Amie Stuart NAILED this fine tale due to the lead coupling.

Harriet Klausner