Profiting in Bull or Bear Markets

Content: Copyright
 Contents
 Foreword
 Preface
 Acknowledgments
 About the Author
 Introduction
 Chapter 1 USING RISK TO MANAGE YOUR MONEY SUCCESSFULLY
 Games and Strategies
 Assessing Risk and Using It to Manage Money
 The Dynamics of Risk Management
 What's Wrong with Buy and Hold and Averaging Down?
 Chapter 2 ECONOMIC INDICATORS
 Economic Indicators
 Broad Measures of Economic Activity
 Consumer Indicators
 Manufacturing and Investment Indicators
 Construction Indicators
 Inflation Indicators
 Productivity and Profit Indicators
 Where to Get the Data
 Conclusion. Chapter 3 RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ECONOMIC INDICATORSThe Consumer Cycle
 Manufacturing and the Investment Cycle
 The Real Estate Cycle
 The Inflation Cycle
 Productivity and Profit Cycles
 Conclusion
 Chapter 4 THE COMPOSITE INDEXES OF LEADING, COINCIDENT, AND LAGGING INDICATORS
 Leading Indicators
 Coincident Indicators
 Lagging Indicators
 Other Experimental and Coincident and Leading Indicators
 Conclusion
 Chapter 5 THE BUSINESS CYCLE: A PRACTICAL USE OF ECONOMIC INDICATORS
 The Phases of the Business Cycle
 What Happens in the Phases of the Business Cycle?
 Investment Implications. Chapter 6 LONG-TERM ECONOMIC AND INVESTMENT TRENDSLearning from History
 Real Short-Term Interest Rates
 Assessing Changes in Long-Term Investment Trends
 Using Interest Rates to Assess the Risk of Foreign Investments
 Investment Implications
 Chapter 7 THE CENTRAL BANK AND YOUR INVESTMENTS
 The Federal Reserve System
 What Guides Monetary Policy?
 Tools of Monetary Policy
 Financial Cycles
 Assessing Monetary Policy
 Investment Implications
 Chapter 8 INFLATION AND YOUR INVESTMENTS
 Inflation and the Business Cycle
 Commodities and the Business Cycle
 Wages and Inflation. Currencies, Inflation, and Foreign InvestmentsInvestment Implications
 Chapter 9 BONDS AND BUSINESS CYCLES
 Bond Features
 Bond Yields and the Business Cycle
 Factors Influencing Bond Price Fluctuations
 The Yield Curve
 The Credit Cycle
 Forecasting Bond Yields
 Investment Implications
 Chapter 10 THE STOCK MARKET AND BUSINESS CYCLES
 Long-Term Stock Returns and Strategies
 Stock Prices and Business Cycles
 Assessing Stock Market Risk
 The Technology Dimension
 Investment Implications
 Chapter 11 TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF STOCK MARKET TRENDS
 What Do We Mean by "the Market"?
 Moving Averages. Moving Averages CrossoversMomentum Indicators Using Moving Averages
 Market Breadth Indicators
 Rate of Change as Momentum Indicators
 Chart Patterns
 Trading Volume
 Sentiment Indicators
 Moving Averages Envelopes and Bollinger Bands
 Seasonality
 Dow Theory
 Investment Implications
 Chapter 12 MANAGING YOUR STOCK PORTFOLIO RISK
 Frame of Mind, Investment Style, and Risk Management
 Stock Selection: What Portfolio Would You Like to Have?
 When to Start Selling
 Portfolio Management Strategies and Stock Market Cycles
 Issues
 Chapter 13 IMPROVING SHAREHOLDER VALUE.