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Financial Independence The Smart Way: Investing For Growth, Income, And Retirement (248 pages, $19.95 paper, 1999, ISBN 0793131146), by Stephen Littauer, published by Dearborn, A Kaplan Professional Company. Are you one of the millions who are currently invested in stocks, bonds, or mutual funds? Do you have the right mix to achieve financial independence? Or do you find the choices so overwhelming you simply do nothing? 

The biggest mistake you can make is to procrastinate about your investing decisions. Remember, history tells us that the stock market goes up about two out of every three days. With those odds, you risk more being out of the market. You can use the strategies outlined in this book to help you invest without a broker, invest online, protect your investments, and balance your portfolio with bonds. If you are looking for advice and an action plan, follow the strategies outlined in this book and reap the rewards. 

    Dearborn, A Kapland Professional Company

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The Equity Risk Premium: The Long-Run Future Of The Stock Market (227 pages, $59.95 hardcover, 1999, ISBN 0471327352), by Bradford Cornell, published by John Wiley & Sons. The equity risk premium -- the difference between the rate of return on common stock and the return on government securities -- has been widely recognized as the key to forecasting future returns in the stock market. Though it’s relatively simple in theory, understanding and making practical use of the equity risk premium concept can be dauntingly complex. But this book makes accessible an authoritative explanation of the equity risk premium and how it works in the real world. It is a nontechnical, step-by-step presentation that leads the reader to a new and more enlightened basis for making asset allocation choices. 
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Beat The Millennium Crash: How To Profit From The Coming Financial Crisis (218 pages, $25 hardcover, 1999, ISBN 0735201196), by Jake Bernstein, published by New York Institute of Finance. In 1989, the author rejected the prevailing financial view: a gloomy picture of America in decline, supplanted by the economic powerhouses of the Pacific Rim. Instead, he predicted not only the huge expansion of the American economy, but also the severe contraction of the then-ascendant Japanese economy. He also predicted an end to inflation, a peak in interest rates, their extended decline, and a war in the Middle East. Ten years later, he envisions a darker economic future. A dramatic decline in world stock markets is coming. It may, or may not, be precipitated by the so-called millennium bug, but Bernstein maintains it is coming. This book answers the tough questions every smart investor should be asking as the market peaks and the inevitable collapse looms. 
    New York Institute of Finance

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Getting Started In Asset Allocation: Comprehensive Coverage Completely Up-To-Date! (257 pages, $18.95 paperback, 1999, ISBN 0471326844), by Bill Bresnan and Eric Gelb, published by John Wiley & Sons. A system for organizing investment holdings according to risk level, asset allocation is an essential component of creating a solid portfolio. Knowing where, when, and how to begin, however, can be confusing. This guide clarifies everything in plain English. Covering the basics of starting an asset allocation program, it offers sound advice, helpful tips, and practical guidelines -- all corresponding to your particular financial situation. 
 
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The Inner Game Of Investing: Access The Power Of Your Investment Personality (198 pages, $29.95 hardcover, 1999, ISBN: 047131479X), by Derrick Niederman, published by John Wiley & Sons. The Inner Game of Investing shows you how to identify your personality quirks and how to build on that knowledge to gain a huge investment advantage. The book explains why knowing yourself is vital to stock market practitioners. Enhanced self-knowledge leads to investment decisions that are more focused and based on what you know best. 

This book guides you to your own best personal strategy by showing you what types of stocks fit your individual style. This book could change the way you invest and raise your stock market skills to a level you never thought possible. 

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Trading For Tigers (174 pages, $139 paperback, 1999, ISBN 0966945905), by Walter T. Downs, published by Walter Downs Market Consulting. While bulls and bears abound in the jungle of short-term trading, often it is only the tigers that survive. This book is a pattern methodology manual that covers multiple high probability patterns in monthly, weekly, and daily time frames. All of the patterns show graphical examples, as well as the programming codes used. Testing of the patterns is also provided. Three of the last four chapters are devoted to the laws and maxims of nature, the market, and the human experience, all of which are designed to keep traders on the right track. 
    Trader's Press

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Patterns In The Dark: Understanding Risk And Financial Crisis With Complexity Theory (222 pages, $39.95 hardcover, 1999, ISBN 047123947X), by Edgar E. Peters, published by John Wiley & Sons. This book offers an entirely new perspective on an issue of ongoing concern to investors: the unpredictability of the financial markets. In this work, the author makes accessible ways of understanding market behavior. He explains how processes with a large number of independent agents, such as free markets, can spontaneously organize themselves into coherent systems. Using everyday examples, Peters shows how complex systems use uncertainty to adapt to changes in their environment and to absorb unexpected shocks. As proof, he cites instructive examples of how rash or heavy-handed attempts to eliminate uncertainty in markets have invariably led to disaster. 
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