The Speculative Strategist: High Returns from Controlled Risk Strategies in Stock and Futures Markets

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Through a unique blend of technical discourse and historical anecdote, one of today's foremost stock authorities introduces a profitable new investment framework for traders of stocks and futures. Likening today's financial speculators to the pirates of old--a colorful analogy that runs throughout the book--Slayter skillfully guides investment pros over the high seas of controlled risk trading. Readers will learn to: formulate trading strategies; determine tactical entry/exit points; chart the market using various indicators; apply his Woodes Rogers model for speculation; handle day trading.

Planetary Harmonics of Speculative Markets

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Astrological Trading Ideas

Planetary Harmonics of Speculative Markets
Larry Pesavento
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This book provides absolutely phenomenal trend change dates, applies George Bayer's Secrets of Forecasting Prices to financial markets, proves the validity of planetary harmonics, and illustrates hidden Fibonacci ratios.

It was written for 5 reasons: (1) The financial community has become more receptive to the possibility of a connection between planetary events and price activity (fear and greed). (2) George Bayer was virtually unknown for more than 40 years and now is the time that this man's research into astro-harmonics should become part of the public domain. (3) To illustrate the power and accuracy of planetary harmonics and stimulate your thoughts on the subject. (4) It allows us to share some of our continuing research and build a network of very intuitive traders with some incredible approaches to the market. (5) To give you the exact dates of certain events to 1995.

To best benefit from using astro-harmonics, you must first familiarize yourself with the various approaches and how they intermingle. We feel this discipline of market cycles can be used for both short term and long term trading.

The monographs interspersed throughout the book are written by Byron Tucker. Formerly, he managed Goldman-Sachs operation at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

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Astrological Trading Ideas.......2002-04-22

Those without detailed astrological knowledge are sure to have trouble with such concepts as "Mercury changing speed", "Mercury speed in geo longitude of 59'", "Venus Helio Latitude at 0 degrees", "Mars and Venus in perihelion", "Mercury/Mars speed differential of 59'" and "Jupiter declination" which the author does not explain to the uninitiated. He also discusses several other tenets already extensively covered in other texts, namely, that in commodity markets the opening price is usually the high or low of the day about 80% of the time, and that a 3 wave Fibonacci .618 retracement is a reliable trading method. I see that Pesavento has another title devoted solely to the opening price so don't buy this one for that purpose. For astrological indicators, I think his book Astro Cycles, The Traders' Viewpoint is much better especially since it does a decent explanation of the nature and meaning of astrological aspects, suitable for the uninformed.

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Secret within...

Astro Cycles and Speculative Markets
L. J. Jensen
Manufacturer: Lambert Gann Pub
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Secret within..........2001-12-08

A very interesting book on two subjects: Astro and Geometry, applied to the markets. Although, the planetary dissertation is not appropriate for the beginner due to the complexity of the content, the Geometric part of the book is easy enough to follow.

This book helped me finding a 'secret within' on the Geometric side of the book. Since it is a 'secret' i'll not reveal it here and now. It has helped make a lot of money, trading! I must recommend it for the Gann students alike since they will find easy examples on astro aspects and geometric angles, illustrated and explained in an easy way.

If you're into 'traditional' trading styles à lá Dow Theory, you won't like this one...

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“A fascinating ‘what-if’ journey . . . especially recommended reading for Civil War buffs [and] ‘Alternative Universe’ science fiction fans.”
–The Midwest Book Review

In the Battle of Gettysburg, the difference between victory and defeat was as narrow and sharp as a knife edge. And in those three horrific days of sweltering heat and roaring cannon fire, the outcome was decided not only by acts of courage and strategic decisions but by the character of the players, complex relationships, and pure coincidence. What if a few key factors had gone another way?

What if Robert E. Lee’s brilliant young cavalry commander Jeb Stewart had arrived earlier than the second day of battle? What if Pickett’s Charge had been swifter and stronger? What if the Army of the Potomac was commanded by the daring Winfield Hancock instead of the more cautious George Meade? Gettysburg fuses a chaotic clash of arms with a keen vision of how wars are fought and won–or lost. Most of all, this is a monumental, blow-by-blow reimagining of one of history’s most famous battles–the men who shaped it, the events it triggered, and the way it might have been.

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This guy makes Turtledove look good .......2007-06-18

I read a lot of alternate history over the course of a year. I have rarely in that time read a book this bad. Let me clarify its not that the book is long, dull and tedious there is also nothing really "alternate" about it. There is one case of the good old "magic bullet" at the very end but that's about it. This is not unique in most alternate history produced these days it is in fact quite common but most of the others can at least attempt to make the book fun.

This author doesn't do that, the book just goes on and on. The author gets his check and the reader is left to wonder how in the world he was ever published.

I'm going to read "For Want of a Nail Again"

Overall-Just the worst book I have read in years.

What if the Confederates took their best shot at Gettysburg?.......2004-08-14

The Battle of Gettysburg remains the most compelling topic for "What ifs" in American military history. A large part of the reason for this is the insistent belief that if only the Army of Northern Virginia had won the three day battle in southern Pennsylvania that the Southern Confederacy would have or could have won the Civil War. As is the case in any battle there were strategic and tactical mistakes made by both sides and it is easy to think that knowing where the pitfalls are you can replay the battle and change the outcome.

In "Gettysburg: An Alternate History" author Peter G. Tsouras ("Disaster at D-Day") focuses on four key controversies: (1) Jeb Stuart's failure to arrival at the battle until the close of the second day; (2) the tension between Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet over the nature of the invasion of the North; (3) the poorly co-ordinated and understrength attack of the Union center on the third day; and (4) the failure of George Gordon Meade to order a counter-attack following the repulse of the Pickett's charge.

This alternate history is presented as "an attempt to rationally explore what changed might have occurred and then track their geometric rate of change in the situation, producing in the end a different outcome." Tsouras insists that each of his alternate events is firmly anchored in the context of what actually happened "and are all within the scope of what was genuinely possible." However, I think he hamstrings himself in terms of the conceit he adopts in the writing of this book.

Tsouras writes "Gettysburg: An Alternate History" as if it were a history book from an alternative reality. Specifically that involves providing footnotes from recognized memoirs and histories, such as Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's "'Bayonet! Forward!' My Civil War Reminiscences" and Douglas Southall Freeman's "Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command." However, there are also fictional sources, marked my asterisks, which allow Tsouras to give the same sense of historical weight to the divergent path of his narrative.

But because most of the footnotes are indeed from real works, Tsouras puts himself in the position of cutting and pasting historic testimony into his alternate history. This means that he is constantly compelled to have history repeat itself, albeit in a slightly different way. For example, Chamberlains' 20th Maine is still the end of the Union line and still on Little Round Top on the second day of the battle, but this time the extreme right instead of the extreme left. The 1st Minnesota is still ordered by Winfield Scott Hancock to charge a vastly superior Confederate force, to a different effect, and George Pickett still says the same stirring words before the charge that will no longer bear his name.

Ultimately there is a sense that most of these changes are minor because in the end the final charge still takes place on the third day and still converges on the Angle on Cemetery Ridge. The big difference is that it is now a charge of 35,000 rebel troops, essentially entire strength of the Confederate army on the field. Many readers will also be struck by the idea that in the end Tsouras stacks the deck because to play out his new end game the way he wants he contrives to replace the leadership of both armies for the climax. In other words, having laid the groundwork for the Confederate attack to have its best chance, he tips the scale back the other way with a relatively minor move. Undoubtedly this move will offend some readers while others will be gratified by it.

The thesis of Tsouras' alternate history is clearly that correcting the key mistakes made by the Confederacy at Gettysburg would not have changed the outcome of the battle. In other words, Lee can take his best shot at the Army of the Potomac, it is not going to matter in the end. However, the book ends rather abruptly, with an epilogue devoted entirely to the fact of one key actor in the drama, and without exploring the alternate history that would result from this outcome except for a few footnotes, the most important of which would be the second one in the epilogue.

That alternate history after the battle's conclusion matters because if the Civil War essentially ends in July 1863 with a decisive Union victory at Gettysburg coupled with the surrender of Vicksburg to U.S. Grant in the West, then we avoid both the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the destructive march through Georgia of William Tecumseh Sherman's Army of the Tennessee. Avoiding the blight of Reconstruction, which was not undone until the Civil Rights movement a century later, is certainly a laudable goal in constructing an alternate history and one that I believe is the driving force of the trilogy being written by Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen. Their novel "Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War" strays far a field, literally, from the original battlefield in marked contrast to the constraints Tsouras chooses to work under in his own novel.

But one of the goals of these alternate histories is to be provocative and Tsouras surely meets that goal. Besides, it is not like anybody is ever going to have the final word on this debate and the two camps regarding the pivotal question of whether the Confederacy could have won the war at Gettysburg are even more firmly entrenched that the red and blue sides fighting out the electoral map this November. That is merely presidential politics whereas here we are talking about the Civil War. Final Note: Readers are warned to ignore the photographs and illustrations collected in the center of the book, or at least their captions, until they finish reading the book, because they give away many of the key details of the game.

A novel about Gettysburg.......2002-09-17

I expected something different from this book. I thought the author was going to analyze what might have happened at Gettysburg if the facts were tweaked. For example, if Stuart had come onto the battlefield on day 1 instead of day 3, what might have Lee done differently and what would have been the possible outcomes? This sort of speculation would have been interesting from a writer of talent such as Mr. Tsouras.

Instead, what the author has produced is a speculative novel, in which fiction is woven seamlessly in with fact and it is left to the reader to determine which is which. I became impatient with trying to sort out what was fact and what was fiction and gave up. In his quest to confuse the reader, the author has even included fictional footnotes from fictional books.

Some who enjoy speculative fiction might like this book. I think I prefer to stick with the facts. Coddington's book on Gettysburg indulges in some speculation that is far more interesting.

What might have happened if there were a few twists of fate.......2002-09-14

Gettysburg: An Alternate History is an epic saga by Peter G. Tsouras that explores what might have happened if a few twists of fate had significantly altered the course of the battle at Gettysburg, and therefore the American Civil War. Written with close heed to the actual events, Gettysburg: An Alternate History is a fascinating "what-if" journey of speculative fancy, often told through the eyes of soldiers struggling to survive the bloody battlefield. Gettysburg: An Alternate History is especially recommended reading for Civil War buffs, and will have great appeal for "Alternate Universe" science fiction fans as well.

A fascinating "what-if" journey of speculative fancy.......2002-09-05

The Causes of the 1929 Stock Market Crash: A Speculative Orgy or a New Era? (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)

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The Causes of the 1929 Stock Market Crash: A Speculative Orgy or a New Era? (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)
Harold Bierman
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Attempting to reveal the real causes of the 1929 stock market crash, Bierman refutes the popular belief that wild speculation had excessively driven up stock market prices and resulted in the crash. Although he acknowledges some prices of stocks such as utilities and banks were overprices, reasonable explanations exist for the level and increase of all other securities stock prices. Indeed, if stocks were overpriced in 1929, then they more even more overpriced in the current era of staggering growth in stock prices and investment in securities. The causes of the 1929 crash, Bierman argues, lie in an unfavorable decision by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities coupled with the popular practice known as debt leverage in the 1920s corporate and investment arena. This book extends Bierman's argument in an earlier book, The Great Myths of 1929 and the Lessons to Be Learned (Greenwood, 1991), in which he discussed and refuted seven myths about 1929 but could not explain the crash. He now believes he has a reasonable explanation. He also examines the actions of Charles E. Mitchell and Sam Insull and their subsequent unjust criminal prosecution after the crash of the 1929 stock market.

Speculative Contagion: An Antidote for Speculative Epidemics

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Speculative Contagion: An Antidote for Speculative Epidemics
Frank, K. Martin
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How did an investment advisory firm in obscure Elkhart, Indiana, find the antidote to remain rational in the highly contagious speculative pandemic of the late 1990s? At that time the crowd of true believers, in what was to become the Great Bubble, was swelling exponentially to number in the millions as irrational exuberance reached full flower. From the ill-equipped wage earners on the factory floor deluded by slick pitches evoking images of 401(k) financial independence to the institutional investors, the fate was often the same-except for the parasites who were knowingly complicit. When the Great Bubble inevitably imploded, few were spared the financial fallout. Speculative Contagion is an insider's riveting real-time and real-money account of the inflating Bubble, accented with the genuine suspense to be found only in real-life drama. The epidemic of tech-driven lunacy gradually affected more and more feverish investors all too prone to be infected by the insidious absurdity of the times. In the midst of it all, Frank Martin found sanctuary in the treasure trove of history. As he reflected on the unremitting succession of other departures from reality in the past, along with the madness of crowds, he was able to grasp shreds of sanity, at least partially muting the Sirens' call of speculative contagion. Spared the emotional devastation and accompanying paralysis that shocking losses inevitably and cruelly visit upon the unprepared, Martin commanded the capital and the conviction to be able to step up to the plate and lay wood to the fat pitches that at last came floating his firm's way. While the path to investment success is arduous at best and assured for no one, the eye-strained yet battle-hardened reader-from student to amateur or seasoned investor to rattled professional-is forearmed by this book to face the future with a short list of foundational antidotes. Rationality is their common thread. We can thus combat the ill effects of whatever may yet come at us from the perilously unorthodox and persistently unrepentant current episode, as well as those that lie in wait beyond the horizon. With both colorful anecdotes and timely antidotes coming as thick and fast as baseballs to a hitter in batting practice, the reader is in for a delightful and eye-opening romp through an extraordinary era in U.S. financial history.

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Dispatches from the front line of investing.......2007-03-23

Every so often someone will ask me which I consider the best investments books. This is not an easy question to answer, firstly there is an enormous amount written on finance every year (much of it pure junk, of course), and secondly if you miss off someone's personal favorite they take it as a personal affront. So it was with some trepidation that I put together my ideal investors reading list. In my "modern" category (to qualify to be in this section the book must have been written within the last ten years, but have the potential to become a classic given time), I included Frank Martin's Speculative Contagion, which is a book that represents an investor's real time experience of dealing with the market. Several books could have fitted the bill; Cunningham's edited version of Buffet's letters was a front runner (The Essays of Warren Buffett), as was Chancellor's edited version of Marathon Asset Managements' views (Capital Account). However, in the end I settled on Frank Martin's Speculative Contagion. This book pulls together the annual reports that Martin had written to his clients throughout the bubble and burst years. It is source of much investment insight. I recently used Martin's trinity of risks as a basis of a better way of thinking about the nature of risk from an investment perspective. Martin's book provides us with opportunity to see exactly how bad it feels to be on the wrong side of a bubble, but also delivers insights into the discipline needed to stick to sensible investment process though thick and thin.

Time for Revolution (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)

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A groundbreaking materialist theory of time.
At the tip of time's arrow

Time for Revolution (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)
Antonio Negri
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Time for Revolution explores the burning issue of our times: is there still a place for resistance in a society utterly subsumed by capitalism?

Written in prison two decades apart, these two essays reflect Antonio Negri's abiding interest in the philosophy of time and resistance. The first essay traces the fracture lines which force capitalist society into perpetual crisis. The second, written immediately after the global best-seller, Empire, develops the two key concepts of empire and multitude.

Time for Revolution illuminates the course of Negri's thinking from the 1980s to Empire and beyond.

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A groundbreaking materialist theory of time........2006-02-04

This book contains two books written by Antonio Negri in a span of 20 years. Negri was involved in the Italian far left Operaismo and Autonomia movements and is deeply inspired by the philosophies of Marx, Deleuze/Guattari and Spinoza.

The first book - 'The Constitution of Time' is written from a Marxist materialist perspective. It starts with the aporias of time in Marx's works, especially 'Capital', 'Grundrisse' and 'Theories of Surplus Value' such as between intensive and extensive labour time, or between the time of historical materialism and subsumed labour time as values in economic circulation. Negri distinguishes three kinds of time in the subsumed time of captialism - collective, productive and constitutive. In each, he distinguishes a concept of time that is oriented to control and another that is oriented to freedom. Finally, he distinguishes positive and negative variants of the 'time for revolution'.

His aim is to lay the foundation for a time of resistance in a world of control. However, his Deleuze/Guattari borrowings and his dogmatic materialism mar his first book. The first book also suffers from an excess of assertoric rather than logico-analytical statements.

The second book - 'Kairos, Alma Venus, Multitudo' represents a real breakthrough in the philosophy of time. Written 20 years later it represents greater intellectual clarity and helps understand the previous work.

Negri says that time is always the tip of the arrow that has been released. Accordingly, being is always in a state of transformation. Past is a psychological construct and so is future. Neither past or future is experienced time. Time as becoming, as tip of the arrow - is neither past nor future but a time when being transforms itself by inaugurating the new or 'to come'. He also criticizes the focus on being and neglect of time in ontology and launches an attack on spatial metaphors of time which represent time as a sort of plane with past, present and future arranged in a line.

He then goes on to explain other concepts like language, love, multitude, power etc. based on his concept of an ontology grounded in time. This second book is remarkable for the step by step way it builds up its arguments.

Despite his strong anti-Hegelianism and rejection of 'dialectics', he uses a very dialectical method of developing his own arguments , in both books. But, that is one of the strengths of the books and not the soruce of their weaknesses.

His weaknesses lie elsewhere. His materialism and his Deleuze/Guattari heritage, leads him to resort to contortions in order to deal with the question of subject and resistance - because like all materialists he seeks to avoid questions about consciousness and will and like post-structuralists he is uneasy with the question of the 'subject'. However, unlike Deleuze/Guattari he does not bypass the question of the subject by reducing living beings to desiring machines or in any other way, but comes with as good an explanation of the concept of 'subject' as is possible from a strictly materialist perspective.

At the tip of time's arrow.......2005-08-23

A time for revolution contains two volumes from distinct points in Negri's career. The essays written in prison, which form the latter half of the book, are what I have read in depth and are what I would like to discuss.

Kairos, Alma Venus and Multitudo represent concurrent and cumulatively logical essays outlining a materialist ontology, tying together as primary concepts a temporal epistemology, ontology of the common, and conceptual framework for differentiated action. To explain this, jargon free, Negri claims that through most of the history of philosophy and of knowing subjects there has been a false transcendental illusion of knowledge that exists external to time, and that this form of knowledge is privileged and replicated by the interests of the powerful. His project is to restore the belief among subjects that change can be affected and of the possibilities time affords. He wishes to tie in this priviledging of the tempral nature of knowledge to a logically consistent ethical basis of the common and refutation of power.

These essays are prefaced by an insightful and absorbing introduction in which Negri explains his tribulations with the state of Italy, and through his elaborate articulation sets himself within the pantheon of philosophical minds. It is not surprising then, especially considering the aim and extent of this project, that a Time for Revolution often comes off as a quasi-mystical Platonic text, evading specificity, and tending towards the very transcendentalism loathed by Negri. Strangely, however, for this reader this logically inconsistent facet of the text is perhaps one of the greatest draws; to enact hope of change: hearts and not just minds are in need of being won over.

Like Spinoza Negri pushes his philosophical message through with sheer eloquence at times, the very mysticism of what is sometimes being proposed gated into sequenced paragraphs.

This book has been an inspiration to me. The density of the writing is so heavy, you feel that perhaps a whole life's thoughts have been compressed into these essays, meaning that with each reading the writing reveals something new. I am currently working on a film about Savonarola that draws on many of the themes in these essays, if you are interested in discussing Negri's work or my film email me at ncoombs@fastmail.co.uk

Destinies: The Paperback Magazine of Science Fiction & Speculative Fact Vol. 1 No. 1

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Premier issue. The paperback magazine of science fiction and speculative fact.

Clarion III: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction and Criticism

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Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (S U N Y Series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations)

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Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (S U N Y Series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations)
Dan Krier
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