Provides investors with simple timing techniques to use on entering rising markets and exiting falling markets.

A comprehensive overview of the capital market theory behind asset allocation as well as systematic guidelines for designing and implementing appropriate asset allocation strategies.

How to assess how risk according to personal needs, and the fundamental relationship between risk and reward in financial markets.

A framework for using asset allocation as an investment strategy in bull, bear or non-trending markets.

The application of modern statistical modeling of time-varying risk and return to the study of global asset allocation, with empirical results and methodologies that shed light on the benefits of international diversification.

Published in 2000, this book warned that Americans were living in an economic dreamland, and that the long bull market and low unemployment had made people immune to economic reality.

This Wall Street classic is a thinly disguised biography of Jesse Livermore, a remarkable character who first started speculating in New England bucket shops at the turn of the century.

The excerpts of these two classics — first published in 1841 and 1688, respectively — show that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds.

The stock-market boom of the twenties, the crash of 1929, the Depression, and the coming of the New Deal. Its leitmotif is the truly tragic personal history of Richard Whitney, the aristocrat Morgan broker and head of the Stock Exchange, who ended up in Sing Sing.

Rollo Tape is the colorful pen name of Richard D. Wyckoff. This 1910 classic on tape reading and stock market tactics is by one of its most astute students. Wyckoff for many years was a publisher of the Ticker Magazine which was later changed to The Magazine of Wall Street. He contributed more to the study of price movements than anyone else in America.

First published in 1930, The Art of Speculation by Philip Carret has long been praised for its perceptive examination of the various ways that speculation impacts the worlds of both business and financial trading. Now, almost seven decades later, a newly updated edition proves as instructive as ever on this and related investment topics such as short selling, government regulation, options, and arbitrage. Chapters on reading a balance sheet and an income statement remain classics.

First published in 1933, this book contains principal articles, editorials and correspondence originally published in the magazine Stock Market Technique from March 1932 to July 1933, inclusive.

This is a compilation of articles, editorials, correspondence and good sayings originally published in the magazine Stock Market Technique between August 1933 and May 1934, inclusive.

Watts was president of The New York Cotton Exchange between 1878 and 1879, which was then one of the greatest arenas of speculation in America.

Draws upon Schumpeter’s theories of the clustering of innovations to explain why each technological revolution gives rise to a paradigm shift and a ‘New Economy’

An account of how bubbles and crashes and various other phenomena can occur.

Professor Garber debunks the myths surrounding tulip mania, as well as its sisters in mythology, the South Sea bubble and the Mississippi bubble.

A meticulous examination of the economic cycles, legendary financiers, and monumental transactions that have shaped the fiscal structure of the United States.

The most complete profile of the world's greatest financial center—celebrating the beauty, strength, and resiliency of an extraordinary community.

A close look at Barings Brothers, one of England's most prestigious banks (used by the Queen) and how it went bust after a young employee working out of its Singapore office managed to 'lose' £860 million over 32 months without anyone apparently being the wiser.

What ADRs are and how they work, which companies offer them for sale, how ADRs have performed historically and how they can be expected to perform now and in the future.

One of the best NOVA productions, ever, this tape covers the 1998 financial collapse of Long Term Capital Management.

A comprehensive economic assessment of institutional investment

The rise and fall of Drexel Burnham and Michael Milken.

Auletta chronicles the activity at Lehman Brothers during the months between July 1983 and April 1984, immediately preceding the firm's takeover by Shearson/American Express.

As terrorism grows more powerful and the 'premodern' world more unstable, sophisticated weaponry becomes more readily available to terrorist organizations. It then falls to the enlightened 'postmodern' countries to intervene militarily, taking a preemptive approach when necessary, to contain threats, root out bad guys, and defend the world.

America's most significant threats come from within, rather than without.

A popular, commonsense work on stock speculation.

As stock options became a major element in executive compensation and the consulting role of audit firms increased while the SEC neglected to pursue fraud on any major scale, corporate executives' motives to manipulate 'the number' met with a perfect opportunity to defraud unsuspecting investors.

Using interviews with 'old-timers' who lived through the events of the Street from the 1920s to the 40s and memoirs, and letters, the author has produced a sweeping narrative of 'the games people played' in establishing America's financial center.

About trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade and the rules that govern it.

One of the greatest and most influential books of social psychology ever written, brilliantly instructive on the general characteristics and mental unity of a crowd, its sentiments and morality, ideas, reasoning power, imagination, opinions and much more.

The harrowing and humorous story of the growth stocks of the 1960s and how their meteoric rise caused a multitude of small investors to thrive until the devastating market crashes in the 1970s.

Explains the stock market crash of 2000 and the ensuing corporate scandals. The ingredients are familiar: executive overcompensation and stock options, irrationally exuberant shareholders, friendly auditors, short-term focus by financial professionals and overemphasis on shareholder value.

The history of Wall Street and its transition from a backwater trading post to the core of global financial power.

Written in 1934, this is still one of the best investment books of all times.

As author G.S. Selden says in his original preface, 'This book is based upon the belief that the movements of prices on the exchanges are dependent to a very large degree on the mental attitude of the investing and trading public.' Originally published in 1912.

How economic activity affects asset prices and the financial market and how asset prices and financial market volatility feed back to economic activity

Carefully dismantling the myths and hype that surround the US expansion, Brenner shows that transcending economic stagnation in the near future is anything but a foregone conclusion.

World Bank economist concludes that the supply of capital will be tight in the years ahead.

Behind the bewildering diversity of historical speculative episodes it is possible to find hidden regularities, thus preparing the way for a unified theory of market speculation.

A comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability

According to Partnoy, a former trader at Morgan Stanley, the derivatives market is an elaborate illusion performed with smoke and mirrors, with slick deals that are just this side of outright fraud.

Bernstein traces the merging of academic research with the curbstone techniques of Wall Street.

How the pension fund industry came to dominate the financial markets and how its growth is likely to have an affect in the years ahead. Reveals what is expected once the Baby Boomers begin to cash in on 401(k) as opposed to the traditional pension managers.

An insiders view of Goldman Sachs written by a former vice president.

Adam Smith understood that free markets could only flourish in societies with generous amounts of social capital and strong institutions of civil society.

Unlike those who see the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as the outbreak of a new war between radical Muslims and modern Americans, Harris views those attacks as the decisive reemergence of an ancient cultural conflict stretching back to Sparta and Rome.