CFDs Made Simple: A straightforward guide to contracts for difference

Everything you thought you knew about financing a house has changed. Your future depends on knowing today’s mortgage and credit realities: Relying on older information could cost you a fortune or keep you from buying a house altogether. In Homebuyers Beware: Who’s Ripping You Off Now? – What You Must Know About the New Rules of Mortgage and Credit, Carolyn Warren reveals the new realities of home financing and shows exactly how to take advantage of them, whether you’re buying your first home, refinancing, struggling with imperfect credit, or planning to invest in real estate.

Homebuyers Beware reveals new secrets homebuyers simply can’t afford to miss and exposes new scams that target today’s eager consumers--including new loans that look great on paper but are every bit as dangerous as yesterday’s subprimes. Unlike other mortgage guides, this book fully reflects today’s radically new mortgage requirements, in addition to the latest federal housing legislation and how to improve your credit rating. Warren covers topics from real estate negotiation, to powerful tips on getting lower interest rates, to avoiding bogus junk fees, and everything in between:

·    High-tech “smoke and mirrors” that can trick you into overpaying

·    Quick, easy, powerful ways to fix your credit

·    Uncovering the costly secrets of the Yield Spread Premium

·    The latest laws and credit rules and what they mean to you

·    New plans for recovering from bad credit, foreclosures, or short sales

“Carolyn Warren is my go-to expert for mortgage industry information. She not only helps you avoid rip-offs, she helps you know what questions to ask and how to ask them. Full of tips, scripts, and sample letters, Homebuyers Beware is an extremely valuable book that I recommend to all my readers!”
--Alison Rogers, “Ask the Agent” columnist, CBS Moneywatch.com

“In this fun-to-read volume, mortgage industry insider Carolyn Warren tells you what real estate cheats and mortgage scammers do NOT want you to know: the tricks, the deceptions, and the outright frauds that would otherwise add thousands, maybe tens of thousands of dollars to your mortgage. Get it. Read it. And take it to the mortgage broker with you. You’ll be glad you did!”

--Clayton Makepeace, The Total Package, Makepeacetotalpackage.com

“In Homebuyers Beware, Carolyn Warren directs her keen eye at the mortgage and credit markets in the wake of the housing bubble. With an insider’s knowledge, plenty of interesting anecdotes, and helpful reference information, Warren is a cheerful teacher leading readers down the path to homeownership and pointing out pitfalls along the way.”

--Ben Meyer, InternetBrands.com

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Master the Low-Risk ETF-Based Investing Strategy That Gives You the Chance to Make Money in Any Market Climate

–Bob Pisani, CNBC Reporter

–John L. Jacobs, EVP and CMO, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.

“There are hundreds of writers, speakers, and advisers clamoring to get a seat aboard the ETF bandwagon. However, if you’re looking for genuine insight from a real pioneer, then read Tom Lydon. Not only is Tom’s The ETF Trend Following Playbook a principled how-to guide for individual investors, it is requisite reading for money managers.”

–Gary Gordon, Editor of ETFExpert.com

“Tom Lydon has put together a concise handbook for the active ETF trader outlining the key drivers of successful trend investing. The ETF Trend Following Playbook provides sound advice for traders as well as a comprehensive and up-to-date tour of all the ETF world has to offer.”

–Scott Burns, Director of ETF Analysis at Morningstar

The need to switch to a new approach for investing has never been more urgent. The Crash of 2007 revealed in dramatic fashion that there are glaring flaws in the theory that underlies all of the prevailing investment strategies—efficient market theory. This theory, and all of the most popular investing strategies, fail to account for major, systematic errors in human judgment that the powerful new research in psychology David Dreman introduces has revealed, such as emotional over-reactions and a host of mental shortcuts in judgment that lead to wild over and under-valuations of stocks, bonds, and commodities and to bubbles and crashes. It also leads to horribly flawed assessments of risk.

"This book will let you see the little-known but effective trading tactics and methods of today's top market makers."
—Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities

“Suprisingly a good book written by a Wall Street market maker. There is a lot of insightful information for stock traders. As an insider, Lukeman is fully aware of the tricks a market maker plays. There is good information that every trader can learn to avoid costly mistakes.”
--Traders Laboratory

“Regardless of whether you are a scalper, swing trader, or even a buy-and-hold investor, The Market Maker's Edge is your key to foreseeing, understanding, and profiting from the little-known but effective trading tactics and methods of the competitiontoday's top market makers. It will help you dramatically increase your risk/reward ratio, time your trades with the skill and experience of battle-hardened market makers, and gain a one-of-a-kind, valuable perspective for making money in today's fast-moving, unforgiving markets.”
--ActionForex

Active traders must get inside the head of the all-important market maker—"The Ax"—before they can begin to truly compete.

The Market Maker's Edge, written by longtime ax Josh Lukeman, is the first inside look at how axes think, what they look for, and, most important, how they can be beat.

Josh Lukeman has worked at Morgan Stanley, where he was a Nasdaq market maker, concentrating on technology stocks, and an index option trader. He has been featured on Bloomberg radio, and other national media.

The stock market is not only for rich people, or those intent on gambling. ‘Value Investing’ is how Warren Buffet became the richest man in the world. A method of investing in the stock market without taking crazy risks, ‘Value Investing’ will help you build your fortune, no matter the economic climate.

Clem Chambers is the CEO of ADVFN, Europe's leading stocks and investment website. He has been described as “A market legend” by Robbie Burns, author of The Naked Trader. In this book he explains how value investing works in seven, easy-to-digest chapters.

Perfect for novice investors, the book clearly outlines how to choose the best stocks and how - thanks to the Internet - it’s now possible to access trading tools that would have once cost thousands of pounds, completely free.

With added advice on how to monitor your stocks and when to sell them, and Chambers’ own special rules for weeding out bad companies that appear good on the surface, A Beginner’s Guide to Value Investing is the perfect way to ensure you ‘get rich slow’ with minimal stress.