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Rogue Trader [1997]
Nick Leeson

Pressure, pace, error: ROGUE TRADER grippingly tells the inside story of how the greatest gamble ever made rocked the City of London to its foundations. Crackling with tension, in a narrative as crisp as any thriller, Nick Leeson's autobiographical account reveals how he 'lost' GBP800 millions as General Manager of Baring Futures Singapore through foolhardy speculations on behalf of his employer, Barings Brothers - the world's first merchant bank. As Leeson's audacity escalated, so did his losses while London continued to pour money down the drain. ROGUE TRADER is a dazzlingly revealing story of a man shaped by events that proved beyond his control.

Confessions of a Street Addict [2003]
James Cramer

Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer, and Cramer knows Wall Street better than anyone. In the most candid and outrageous look at Wall Street since Liar's Poker, Cramer, co-founder of TheStreet.com, radio and television commentator, and for years a premier money manager, takes readers on the wild ride that is Wall Street -- revealing how the game is played, who breaks the rules, and who gets hurt.

Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance [2010]
Boris Groysberg

It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice this can be.

Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications [1999]
John J. Murphy

For both beginners and experienced traders, this work describes the concepts of technical analysis and their applications. Murphy interprets the role of the technical forecasters and explains how they apply their techniques to the financial markets.

Beating the Street [1994]
Peter Lynch, John Rothchild

An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies -- and their stocks -- perform the way they do. In this book, newly revised and updated for the paperback edition, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research. There's no reason the individual investor can't match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how.

Power Hungry: Strategic Investing in Telecommunications, Utilities and Other Essential Services [2002]
Roger S. Conrad

The best strategies for investing in the utilities industry. With the deregulation of the utility industry, the entire landscape of the power economy has greatly changed. This has had a dramatic impact on consumers, corporations, and especially investors. The only book focused on investing within the energy, communications, and water industries, Power Hungry offers a comprehensive look at the considerable opportunities arising from these industries. Along with providing one–of–a–kind investment strategies for investing in utilities and other essential services, Power Hungry provides a framework for readers to construct their own model portfolio of stocks, commission–free, so they can reap the rewards of a field with enormous profit potential. Established companies may no longer hold the lion′s share of the marketplace, but this book corners the market on investing in these profitable industries.

Applied Mergers and Acquisitions [2004]
Joseph R. Perella, Robert F. Bruner

A comprehensive guide to the world of mergers and acquisitions
Why do so many M&A transactions fail? And what drives the success of those deals that are consummated? Robert Bruner explains that M&A can be understood as a response by managers to forces of turbulence in their environment. Despite the material failure rates of mergers and acquisitions, those pulling the trigger on key strategic decisions can make them work if they spend great care and rigor in the development of their M&A deals. By addressing the key factors of M&A success and failure, Applied Mergers and Acquisitions can help readers do this. Written by one of the foremost thinkers and educators in the field, this invaluable resource teaches readers the art and science of M&A valuation, deal negotiation, and bargaining, and provides a framework for considering tradeoffs in an effort to optimize the value of any M&A deal.

Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide [2011]
Roddy Boyd

From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis–that of AIG–has until now remained largely untold. Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG′s Corporate Suicide tells the inside story of what really went on inside AIG that caused it to choke on risk and nearly brining down the entire economic system.

The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession [2009]
Richard C. Koo

This book is about Japan′s 15–year long recession and how it affected current theoretical thinking about its causes and cures. It has a detailed explanation on what happened to Japan, but the discoveries made are so far–reaching that a large portion of economics literature will have to be modified to accommodate another half to the macroeconomic spectrum of possibilities that conventional theorists have overlooked.

The New Sell and Sell Short: How to Take Profits, Cut Losses, and Benefit from Price Declines [2011]
Alexander Elder

In The New Sell and Sell Short, Second Edition, Dr. Alexander Elder explains how to exit a stock at the right time and how to initiate a short position to profit from a stock that is showing weakness. Often overlooked, selling properly enables a trader to cut losses and maximize profits. Moreover, short selling in a weak market can generate big profits and should be a part of every trader′s arsenal of tools. The new edition contains numerous examples of short selling stocks from the 2008–2009 bear market, demonstrating very clearly why traders do themselves a disservice by only focusing on the long side. In addition, the new edition contains an extensive study guide to help readers master the material prior to trading.

A Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader: Lessons from 21 Weeks of Real Trading [2011]
Peter L. Brandt

A top trader takes you through the markets and revels how he succeeded
In Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader, Peter Brandt provides a play–by–play diary of his 2009 trading, offering an inside look at the difficult process and what it takes to excel at such a demanding endeavor. A long–time trader, Brandt clearly explains his thinking as he searches for the right opportunities and executes trades for 21 weeks. And by utilizing a diary format, he reveals exactly what it′s like to trade, communicating the uncertainty that surrounds every trade and the discipline required to make tough decisions in the face of losing money. Along the way, Brandt touches upon his philosophy on speculation, market analysis, trade identification and selection, risk management, and much more.

Rich Dad's Advisors: Guide To Investing In Gold & Silver - Protect Your Financial Future [2008]
Michael Maloney

In this RICH DAD'S ADVISORS guide, Michael Maloney shows readers how to invest in the oft-overlooked market of gold and silver. He covers when to get into the market, how much to invest and when to get out - guiding readers through the complicated steps of investing in precious metals with great rewards.

Drowning in Oil: BP & the Reckless Pursuit of Profit [2010]
Loren C. Steffy

Award-winning Houston Chronicle journalist Loren Steffy delivers an authoritative and hard-hitting account of the Deepwater Horizon disaster that uncovers disturbing patterns and a troubled corporate culture at BP. Written by the reporter widely considered to be the closest to BP and the gulf oil spill, Drowning in Oil combines years of expertise, research and new interviews to provide a behind-the scenes look at BP’s long history of putting profits ahead of safety.

Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports, Third Edition [2010]
Howard M. Schilit, Jeremy Perler

With major financial scandals popping up in greater numbers—and with more inevitably on the way—it has never been more important for you to understand what dishonest companies do to trick investors. Since the early 1990s, Financial Shenanigans has been helping investors unearth deceptive financial reporting at the most critical time— before they suffer major losses. Now, the third edition broadens its focus to include the newest, most sophisticated techniques companies use to mislead investors.

Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett [2008]
Benjamin Graham, David Dodd, Seth Klarman

First published in 1934, Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. Selling more than one million copies through five editions, it has provided generations of investors with the timeless value investing philosophy and techniques of Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd.
As relevant today as when they first appeared nearly 75 years ago, the teachings of Benjamin Graham, “the father of value investing,” have withstood the test of time across a wide diversity of market conditions, countries, and asset classes.

The End Game: The End of the Debt SuperCycle and How It Changes Everything [2011]
John Mauldin, Jonathan Tepper

Greece isn′t the only country drowning in debt. The Debt Supercycle - when the easily managed, decades–long growth of debt results in a massive sovereign debt and credit crisis - is affecting developed countries around the world, including the United States. For these countries, there are only two options, and neither is good - restructure the debt or reduce it through austerity measures. Endgame details the Debt Supercycle and the sovereign debt crisis, and shows that, while there are no good choices, the worst choice would be to ignore the deleveraging resulting from the credit crisis.

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