The Trader's Great Gold Rush - Must-Have Methods for Trading and Investing in the Gold Market

An eye-opening look at how investors can take control of their financial life

Buy and Hold Is Dead provides actionable strategies and disciplines, which can be used to earn positive results in any market environment. Money managers rarely outperform the stock market over time, and this has become a sticking point for many people as our uneven economic landscape continues to unfold. This timely guide is designed around a step-by-step educational process in which traders and investors lean how they can protect their wealth and make money regardless of market direction. The goal of Buy and Hold Is Dead is twofold: to dispel old-school investment techniques and to show you how to maximize your returns without sacrificing time or lifestyle and without the use of a money manager.

• Identifies the duration of the current economic down cycle and warns of a Greater Depression
• Encourages readers to use proactive trading strategies that can protect their wealth and make them money in any market environment
• Discusses why investors cannot afford to rely on the selfish guidelines imposed by big brokers and money managers

"Josh does an outstanding job of capturing all his trading experience into an invaluable memoir detailing specific rules for both the inexperienced and experienced trader. Anyone interested in trading professionally should read this book as they will learn invaluable lessons."
—Stephen Ehrlich, CEO, Lightspeed Financial, LLC

"Having been a trader for over twenty years myself, I’ve read my share of books about the financial markets. Josh’s book is one of the few which doesn’t sugarcoat the fact that successful trading is both hard work and takes a long time to master. These lessons and guidance are drawn from real-life experiences, not hypotheticals, which simply adds to their weight. Active traders who are serious about their success need to read this book."
—Tim Knight , founder of Prophet.net, author of Chart Your Way to Profits

Candlesticks Made Easy–Finally! Better buy & sell timing, more profitable trades!

“Michael Thomsett has made the rather obscure strategy of technical trading based on candlesticks as easy and accessible as possible, so average investors will be able to put his advice to use right away and substantially improve their trading returns.”

–Jordan Goodman, author, Fast Profits in Hard Times

“Michael Thomsett is an expert technical analyst and trader who, more importantly, can communicate often complex subjects in a way the reader can apply effectively and profitably. In his latest work, Trading with Candlesticks, Thomsett illuminates the powerful charting techniques which are essential tools in any trader’s toolbox. This book should be on the shelf–or better yet, desk–of every investor looking to profit from essential technical indicators.”

–Scott Kyle, CEO, Coastwise Capital Group, and author, The Power Curve

Want to consistently outperform other traders? Candlestick charts represent one of the most valuable tools available to you. As savvy traders around the world have discovered, candlesticks can help you more effectively anticipate stock price trends and improve the timing of every buy and sell order you place. In Trading with Candlesticks, best-selling author Michael C. Thomsett completely demystifies candlesticks. Using plain English and easy-to-understand visuals, Thomsett shows how they’re constructed, how to decode them, and how to apply them in real trades. You’ll start with the absolute basics, and then discover how to recognize subtle moves and patterns you never knew existed. Next, Thomsett reveals how to combine candlesticks with other technical indicators to sense market signals even more reliably. Whether you’re a day trader, swing trader, speculator, or long-term investor, candlesticks offer you a powerful edge–and this book makes them easier to use than ever before.

Typically generating a great deal of interest, excitement, and volatility, initial public offerings (IPOs) offer investors and traders with opportunities for both short-term and long-term profits. In the Third Edition of High-Profit IPO Strategies, IPO expert Tom Taulli explains all facets of IPO investing and trading, with a particular emphasis on the industries that are fueling the next generation of IPOs, from social networking and cloud computing to mobile technology.

In the past year alone, many of these types of IPOs have provided enormous opportunities for nimble traders as prices have fluctuated widely for several months following the offering. This new edition reflects the new IPO environment and presents you with the insights needed to excel in such a dynamic arena.

• Discusses more sophisticated IPO trading strategies, explores the intricacies of the IPO process, and examines the importance of focused financial statement analysis
• Contains new chapters on secondary IPO markets, reverse mergers, and master limited partnerships
• Provides in-depth analysis of other major industries generating worthwhile IPOs
• Covers IPO investing from basic terms to advanced investing techniques

This just-in-time book will help any investor find safe havens that will turn the economic downturn into a unique wealth-building experience. As long as stocks continue to post new highs and surprising lows, investors will need dynamic strategies to make a profit. Wealth Building Strategies in Energy, Metals, and Other Markets explains that money management and long-term trend identification are the keys to investing success. This groundbreaking book includes a proprietary investing system that targets the widest possible array of global indexes with low correlations.

• Examines what's next for the housing and energy markets
• Breaks down major topics such as banking, credit, inflation and deflation, and the mortgage bubble, and shows investors what to expect
• Offers a key to turning finances around and a path for continued successful investing

In print for over 10 years, Rental Property and Taxation debunks the many myths surrounding tax and real estate investment, and takes an objective look at how a loss from a rental property can affect your tax situation.

In this fully updated fourth edition, practising accountant Tony Compton arms rental property owners and would-be owners with the information they need to be better informed about tax as it relates to their own circumstances. It covers all aspects of rental property ownership, including:

• allowable deductions
• decline in value and construction cost write-offs
• negative and positive gearing
• record keeping
• structures and ownership, and more!

With its plain-English explanations, real-life case studies and the latest updates to tax laws, Rental Property and Taxation will take the 'buy now and hope for the best' factor out of tax planning for rental property investments.