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The Little Book That Makes You Rich

The Little Book That Makes You Rich is the latest book in the popular "Little Book, Big Profits" series.

Written by Louis Navellier–one of the most well-respected and successful growth investors of our day–this book offers readers a fundamental understanding of how to get rich using the best in growth investing strategies.

Navellier has made a living by picking top, actively traded stocks and capturing unparalleled profits from them in the process. Now, with The Little Book That Makes You Rich, he shows readers how to find stocks that are poised for rapid price increases, regardless of overall stock market direction.

Navellier also offers readers the statistical and quantitative measures needed to measure risk and reward along the path to profitable growth stock investing. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Little Book That Makes You Rich gives individual investors specific tools for selecting stocks based on the factors that years of research have proven to lead to growth stock profits.

These factors include analysts' moves, profit margins expansion, and rapid sales growth. In addition to offering readers tips for not paying too much for growth, it also addresses essential issues that every growth investor must be aware of, including which signs will tell you when it's time to get rid of a stock and how to monitor a portfolio in order to maintain its overall quality.

Accessible and engaging, The Little Book That Makes You Rich outlines an effective approach to building true wealth in today’s markets.

October Bulletin

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Gi Bookshop Bulletin
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1. New: Riccardo Rebonato's Plight of the Fortune Tellers
2. New: The Effective Director
3. Harriman House: New Books Checklist
4. Gerald Ratner: 'The Rise and Fall ... and Rise Again'
5. Another new thriller: Nick Louth's 'Bite'

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Note from the Editor
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Hello,

Today's top financial-risk professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading - and it puts us all at risk. This is the case that Riccardo Rebonato makes in Plight of the Fortune Tellers - and coming from someone who is both an experienced market professional and an academic, this heresy is worth listening to.

There's a new book on building individual and board success, The Effective Director by IOD chairman Neville Bain, and we list no less than six important new Harriman House titles publishing between now and Christmas.

Gerald Ratner may have committed one of the most celebrated PR gaffes in modern times but in 'Gerald Ratner: The Rise and Fall... and Rise Again' we find a man who has bounced back - with a vengeance.

Last week we surprised ourselves by including a thriller in the bulletin (Joe Kolman's 'Naked Option'), and here we are again with another - 'Bite' by financial journalist and investment commentator Nick Louth.

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1. New: Riccardo Rebonato's Plight of the Fortune Tellers
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A must-read for anyone concerned about how todays financial markets are run, Rebonato argues that we must restore genuine decision making to our financial planning, and he shows us how to do it using probability, experimental psychology, and decision theory. Risk managers have become obsessed with measuring risk and believe that quantitative results by themselves can guide sound financial choices - but they can't. In Plight of the Fortune Tellers: Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently , Rebonato offers a radical yet surprisingly commonsense solution, one that seeks to remind us that managing risk comes down to real people making decisions under uncertainty.

Buy Plight of the Fortune Tellers now and save 20%

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2. New: The Effective Director
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The Effective Director is a best practice guide for improving your personal effectiveness and that of the board on which you serve - whether its for a FTSE company, a small business, a public sector body or a board of trustees. Using case studies and research from the Institute of Directors it provides you with useful insights into the workings of an effective board and the real importance and benefits of good governance. Dealing with core issues such as the role of the board and the duties of directors, the book moves onto more practical topics such as building effectiveness, leadership and using existing talent to deliver extra competitive value.

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3. Harriman House: New Books Checklist
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Christmas may already be in the shops, but November and December are big publishing months for Harriman House. Here's a taste of what's due for publication:


Shares Made Simple
A Beginner's Guide to the Stock Market by Rodney Hobson
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Tears away the mystique and jargon. Publication Mid-November


Marber on Markets
How to Make Money from Charts by Brian Marber
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One of the world's most widely experienced technical analysts reveals his methods. Publication Mid-November


Investing in Funds Online
Everything You Need to Know about Investing in Funds by Jonathan Davis
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An easy-to-follow guide to help you make better investment decisions. Publication End-November



Naked Trader 2
How Anyone Can Still Make Money Trading Shares by Robbie Burns
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Eagerly awaited new edition gives all the information you need to trade successfully. Publication Early December



UK Stock Market Almanac 2008
Seasonality Analysis and Studies of Market Anomalies, edited by Stephen Eckett
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Comprehensive information on the next financial year. Publication Mid-December



A Beginner's Guide to Charting Financial Markets
A Practical Introduction to Technical Analysis for Investors by Michael Kahn
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The nuts and bolts of chart analysis. Publication Mid-December

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4. Gerald Ratner: The Rise and Fall ... and Rise Again
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In 1991 Gerald Ratner was booked to make what should have been an everyday speech at the Institute of Directors. It should have been, but when the words "total cr*p" come out of his mouth in connection with a decanter and glasses set sold by his company, H. Samuel, it all turned out slightly different. Here, in Gerald Ratner's own words, is the full story of what lead him to that point at the IoD, the horror of what happened in the immediate aftermath, the fallout and the spectacular comeback. This is the first time Gerald Ratner has given his side of the story. And what a story it is.

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5. Another new thriller: Nick Louth's Bite
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Nick Louth writes regular columns for the Financial Times, Investors Chronicle and MSN Money website. He is the creator of 'Funny Money: The Investment Diary of Bernard Jones' which is both a successful book and weekly IC column. Now, by contrast, he has written Bite - a fast-moving thriller based not in the world of high finance, but about pharmaceutical companies and tropical diseases. Erica Stroud-Jones, a brilliant young British scientist, has found a revolutionary way to beat a deadly tropical disease. Millions of lives could be saved, a Nobel Prize beckons. Tomorrow she is due to present her secret research to a scientific conference.
But Erica vanishes during the night....

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Definition of the Week
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SHORT SQUEEZE


Situation in which investors who are short want to repurchase their equities or contracts, in the face of higher prices. As they do so, the price rises forcing others who are short to buy the stock, in turn raising the price.

Taken from Harriman's Financial Dictionary edited by Simon Briscoe and Jane Fuller
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Global Investor Bookshop Bulletin

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Gi Bookshop Bulletin
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1. September Previews
2. New: Getting Started in Commodities
3. Bulletin Special Offer: Binary Betting
4. In Paperback: "Dragons" Farleigh and Bannatyne
5. Available Again: 100 Minds That Made the Market

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Note from the Editor
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Hello,

There's a plethora of interesting new books coming into stock over the next couple of weeks and we preview some of the best. With names like Warren Buffett and Alan Greenspan, Bill Bonner's eagerly awaited 'Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets', the eerily evocative 'The Panic of 1907' by Robert F. Bruner, as well as a fast-paced, new financial thriller by Joe Kolman, there is plenty of variety.

There is new introduction to commodities, two "dragons" make their paperback debuts, and Ken Fisher's '100 Minds That Made the Market' has been reissued in Wiley's 'The Fisher Investing Series'

This week's special bulletin offer is John Piper's 'Binary Betting'

editor@global-investor.com

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1. September Previews
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THE AGE OF TURBULENCE by Alan Greenspan
The post 9/11 global economy is a new and turbulent system - vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self directing, and fast changing than it was even twenty years ago. In this part-autobiography, part-personal legacy Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board through 14 extraordinary years, reveals the universals of economic growth, delves into the specific facts on the ground in each of the major countries and regions of the world, and explains what the trend-lines of globalization are from here.



MOBS, MESSIAHS AND MARKETS: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics by William Bonner and Lila Rajiva
Bonner and Rajiva use literary economics to offer broad insights into mass behaviour and its devastating effects on society. To understand such behaviour, the authors weave a light-hearted journey through history, politics, and finance to show group mentality at work in an improbable array of instances.


WARREN BUFFETT SPEAKS compiled by Janet Lowe (Second Edition)
Significantly updated to reflect Warren Buffett's life over the last decade, this is a delightfully entertaining collection of quotes, writings, and favorite sayings from the world's most successful investor.



THE PANIC OF 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm by Robert F Bruner
An inside look at the financial crisis of 1907 - what happened, why it mattered, and what we've learned. Intended as a warning, the Financial Times recently described the book as uncannily like reading a description of the market events of the last few weeks.



NAKED OPTION by Joe Kolman
"Joe Kolman, a respected financial journalist, uses deft touches, unexpected plot shifts and mordant wit to create a fast-paced and entertaining financial thriller with a decidedly firm sense of location in New York in the days after 9/11." - Satyajit Das, author of 'Traders, Guns & Money'


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2. New: Getting Started in Commodities
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A handy new roadmap to making money in the commodities market. George Fontanills shows how to successfully invest in the commodities market in futures, stocks, stock indices, and options, as well as explaining how the commodities market works and how investors can identify and track commodity opportunities using fundamental factors such as supply and demand and technical analysis tools.

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3. Bulletin Reader's Offer of the Week: Binary Betting
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The "Bulletin Reader's Offer of the Week" is a new promotion where purchasers using the link below can benefit from an extra value discount. The promotion runs for two weeks and gives you a special opportunity to acquire a great book at a great price. John Piper's introductory guide to making money with binary bets is the first book on binary betting and explains in simple language what binary bets are, how to trade them profitably and how to reduce risk.

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4. In Paperback: "Dragons" Farleigh and Bannatyne
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100 SECRET STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL INVESTING by Richard Farleigh
From the Dragon's Den the secrets of investment success is revealed. From modest small-town beginnings to fame on the runaway hit TV show "Dragons' Den", Richard Farleigh has built his hugely successful career on smart investments. This is the paperback edition of Farleigh's acclaimed 'Taming the Lion' in which he reveals the strategies that have guided him through his extraordinarily successful career.


ANYONE CAN DO IT by Duncan Bannatyne
In his remarkable book (updated for this paperback edition) Bannatyne relives his colourful path to riches, from ice cream salesman to multi-millionaire, explaining how anyone could take the same route as he did - if they really want to. Hugely articulate, and with numerous fascinating and revealing stories to tell, this is an autobiography and a business book unlike any other.


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Now reissued in Wiley's 'The Fisher Investing Series' Ken Fisher delivers cameo biographies of his favourite 100 pioneers of American financial history. Whether little known names, or famous figures like Joe Kennedy (who many people forget was the first head of the Securities and Exchange Commission), Fisher digs through the detail. He describes their business careers, their personal lives, their contributions to our money markets - plus the key financial lessons to be learned from their lives.

Buy 100 Minds That Made the Market here and save 35%



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Definition of the Week
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HEAD AND SHOULDERS TOP

In technical analysis, a common chart formation in which a share price reaches a peak and declines, rises above its former peak and again declines and rises again but not to the second peak and then again declines. The first and third peaks are 'shoulders', while the second peak is the formation's 'head'. When the price falls from the right shoulder and breaks through the neckline the head and shoulders top formation has been confirmed and it is regarded by technical analysts as a signal to sell the share.

Taken from Harriman's Financial Dictionary edited by Simon Briscoe and Jane Fuller

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Duncan Bannatyne - Anyone Can Do It

At 30, Duncan Bannatyne had no money and was enjoying life on the beaches of Jersey. He saw a story of someone who had made himself a millionaire, and decided to do the same. Five years later he had done it, and now he is worth 168 million. In this remarkable book, Bannatyne relives his colourful path to riches, from ice cream salesman to multi-millionaire, explaining how anyone could take the same route as he did - if they really want to. Hugely articulate, and with numerous fascinating and revealing stories to tell, this is an autobiography and a business book unlike any other - but then Bannatyne isnt like any other businessman, either.

Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin

Peter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius' great wisdom: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." Seeking Wisdom is the result of Bevelin's learning about attaining wisdom.

His quest for wisdom originated partly from making mistakes himself and observing those of others but also from the philosophy of super-investor and Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charles Munger.

A man whose simplicity and clarity of thought was unequal to anything Bevelin had seen. In addition to naturalist Charles Darwin and Munger, Bevelin cites an encyclopedic range of thinkers: from first-century BCE Roman poet Publius Terentius to Mark Twain - from Albert Einstein to Richard Feynman - from 16th Century French essayist Michel de Montaigne to Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett.

In the book, he describes ideas and research findings from many different fields. This book is for those who love the constant search for knowledge. It is in the spirit of Charles Munger, who says, "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there."

There are roads that lead to unhappiness. An understanding of how and why we can "die" should help us avoid them. We can't eliminate mistakes, but we can prevent those that can really hurt us. Using exemplars of clear thinking and attained wisdom, Bevelin focuses on how our thoughts are influenced, why we make misjudgments and tools to improve our thinking.

Bevelin tackles such eternal questions as: Why do we behave like we do? What do we want out of life? What interferes with our goals? Read and study this wonderful multidisciplinary exploration of wisdom. It may change the way you think and act in business and in life.

How to Have a Baby on eBay

How to Have a Baby on eBay
Your one-stop shopping guide to pregnancy, birth and beyond
by Wiz Wharton

Research suggests that parents now spend in the region of £50,000 on their children in the first five years of their lives, £7,000 of it in the first 12 months alone! When Wiz Wharton found out she was pregnant in 2005, she was living in rented accommodation in London with no regular income. Determined to provide her baby with everything he might need but knowing she'd have to do it at a fraction of the normal cost, she found her solution on eBay, the world's largest online auction site.

With the sort of military precision only reserved for the truly obsessed or the truly pregnant, Wiz compiled a file of everything she was going to need, from maternity wear, to nursery equipment, via sterilisers, nappies and toys. What she discovered was that with a little bit of research, some streetwise bidding tactics and patience you can pick up all you need in next-to-new condition for far, far less than normal retail prices; "I eventually managed to buy all of my son's items from 0 to way beyond 3, including all my maternity items, for about £500", she writes.

Some of Wiz's online triumphs have included:

- A £200 cot for £11.50.

- A £400 designer buggy for £200.

- A £175 one-off maternity dress for £15.

All brand new, boxed and delivered.

In this unique book, Wiz tells other mums-to-be and their partners how to save themselves literally thousands of pounds by doing what she did, and have fun in the process. The first part of the book reproduces and builds upon her own detailed product research, telling parents what equipment they are going to need and - just as importantly - what they won't. The eighteen Buyer's Guides are the most comprehensive and up-to-date research of their kind, and invaluable for parents lost in the confusion of what to buy, when and for how much.

The second part of the book offers a detailed explanation of how eBay works, with step-by-step instructions for readers new to the site, plus advanced tips and tricks for those who already have some experience. With humour and insight, Wiz reveals the mistakes she made, and shows how her techniques improved to the point where she could be confident of winning items that had previously eluded her. Basic errors are highlighted, myths exposed, and 'golden rules' stressed. There is even a section on how to avoid the much-publicised eBay scams.

The final section of the book instructs parents in the 'selling' side of eBay. Wiz tells you how to turn the products that you have bought back into hard cash by listing them either in an eBay auction or in a Buy It Now sale. Threaded through the narrative is her desire not only to help other parents achieve what she did, but also to encourage the principles of recycling

Whether you are a mother-to-be, a father, or just know someone about to have a baby, 'How to Have a Baby on eBay' is an invaluable, money-saving, planet-friendly guide.

7 Winning Strategies For Trading Forex

7 Winning Strategies For Trading Forex
Real and actionable techniques for profiting from the currency markets
by Grace Cheng

Many traders go around searching for that one perfect trading strategy that works all the time in the global FOREX (foreign exchange/currency) market. Frequently, they will complain that a strategy doesn't work. Few people understand that successful trading of the FOREX market entails the application of the right strategy for the right market condition.

7 Winning Strategies For Trading Forex covers:

- Why people should be paying attention to the FOREX market, which is the world's largest and most liquid financial market
- How understanding the structure of this market can be beneficial to the independent trader
- How to overcome the odds and become a successful trader
- How you can select high-probability trades with good entries and exits.

Grace Cheng highlights seven trading strategies, each of which is to be applied in a unique way and is designed for differing market conditions. She shows how traders can use the various market conditions to their advantage by tailoring the strategy to suit each one.

This revealing book also sheds light on how the FOREX market works, how you can incorporate sentiment analysis into your trading, and how trading in the direction of institutional activity can give you a competitive edge in the trading arena.

This invaluable book is ideal for new and current traders wanting to improve their trading performance.

Filled with practical advice, this book is a must-read for traders who want to know exactly how they can make money in the FOREX market.