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Success in commodity trading depends on good price forecasting. That's what this market classic is about. Using price charts (and other simple technical indicators) to time your trades better, spot price trends, estimate the distance a new price thrust will travel, locate logic points for "buy" and "sell" stops, and identify potential trend reversal points.Deceptively simple strategy and tactics coaxes price charts to give up their secrets. ... Read more

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more techniques than you can shake a stick at!
180 pages of more techniques than you could possibly use. The formulas are well explained, the strategies (series of 7, magic number of three, moving averages, exponential moving averages, stochastics, csi, rsi, regression analysis, etc) are also well explained. As somone who has searched for the ultimate formula, oscillator, technique or what ever for trading commodities, after reading this book, I've concluded that you can find a chart or group of charts to justify ANY idea. Given any market, depending on which combination of indicators one chooses, one could justify any decision. Now what good is that? ... Read more

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Straight from the CEO reveals the practical, far-reaching insights of the world's top CEOs, including:

Royal Dutch/Shell's Cor Herkströter, mastermind of the most ambitious makeover among the world's energy behemoths;
British Airways' Sir Colin Marshall, the market genius who powered the carrier's celebrated turnaround;
Chase Manhattan's Walter Shipley, architect of one of the largest mergers ever to take place in the financial sector;
Monsanto's Robert B. Shapiro, who has raised the hurdle bar on growth and profitability goals, although the company is at the peak of its form;
British Aerospace's Sir Richard Evans, developer of one of Britain's biggest and boldest corporate-change management programs;
Compaq Computer's Eckhard Pfeiffer, who has transformed himself from a successful turnaround artist into a hard-driving champion of continuous corporate renewal.

Straight from the CEO is a major event, providing the rare opportunity to hear directly from the world's greatest business leaders. No ivory-tower theorizing, no speeches, no "consultant speak," these are the practical insights of leaders who every day must find ways to test and validate new ideas, implement change to improve the bottom line, and ultimately focus on the core ideas that will truly reshape their corporations. Straight from the CEO is an invaluable tool for managers at every level. ... Read more

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Straight from the CEO
Very persuasive book, with new and bright ideas for the future. It has motivated me to become a more people oriented person. I will take closer looks and my employees needs and wants, taking care of the customer has become one of my greatest concerns. Thank you for the edge on life. Omar Cumberbatch, CEO Royal Family Pro.

Each piece is too short to provide any satisfying insight
Straight from over thirty of today's most innovative CEOs come the ideas that are reshaping and reinvigorating the modern corporation-written exclusively for this book. Straight from the CEO is a major work, because the world rarely hears directly from the great contemporary business leaders-the chief movers and shakers of major corporations. Working closely with the Price Waterhouse management team, a wide variety of chief executives who are successfully managing today's rapid pace of economic change present their ideas about leading and motivating people, unleashing innovation and creativity, and learning from customers to revitalize their businesses. Among the CEOs represented in the book are the heads of British Airways, Compaq Computer, Monsanto, Royal Dutch/Shell, Enron, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Warner-Lambert. The scope is worldwide: from Bangkok to Jakarta, from Dusseldorf to Dallas. No ivory tower theorizing, no speeches, no "consultant speak," these are the practical insights of leaders who every day must find ways to test and validate new ideas, implement change to improve the bottom line, and ultimately focus on the core ideas that will truly reshape their corporation.

Straight from the CEO is an important tool for managers at every level, focusing on such issues as creating loyalty to customers, organizing globally, fostering individual employee motivation, and leveraging corporate values to enhance performance. These are the pressing issues that face every manager who strives to sort out valuable contributions from impractical ideas, the gold from the dross, and then take action that gets results. As intellectually stimulating as it is practical, Straight from the CEO is an invaluable report from the executive trenches.

By necessity brief, the many pieces (I hesitate to call them chapters or even articles) lack depth, assume much and as a result are quite unstatisfying; but they do leave the reader hungry for more!

William Dauphinais is Vice Chairman, Human Capital for PricewaterhouseCoopers. He co-authored with Colin Price two previous books, The Paradox Principles and Better Change. He has 25 years of business experience covering a broad range of organizational change, business reengineering, financial planning, and information technology issues. He received both his undergraduate degree and his MBA from the University of Michigan. Colin Price was previously a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he oversaw a Strategic Change Consulting, a practice of 3,000 consultants working with global clients in managing large-scale corporate transformations. He has a BA in Economics and graduate degrees in Organizational Psychology. Married with one child, he lives outside London.

Reviewed by Azlan Adnan. Formerly Business Development Manager with KPMG, Azlan Adnan is currently Managing Partner of Azlan & Koh Knowledge and Professional Management Group, an education and management consulting practice based in Kota Kinabalu. He holds a Master's degree in International Business and Management from the Westminster Business School, London.

BRAINPOWER
Based on a collection of essays by global corporate leaders, the book is structured around 6 themes: globalisation, radical change, leadership, culture, innovation, and customer relationship. Percy Barnevik of ABB, explains how to balance global resources and local autonomy, Richard Evans of British Aerospace shows why radical changes required CEOs to get out of their ivory towers. The book is well illustred and easy to read. It doesn't contain academic theory or consultancy methods. It is a step by step guide explained by experienced CEO who can help solve your company's problems. Franck Renand, Prof. of Strategic Management, ISLA, Oporto, Portugal. ... Read more

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Today's growing fascination with flows of people, commodities, technology, capital, images and ideas across national and other boundaries poses fresh theoretical and methodological challenges to anthropology. Commodities offer a particularly useful window on globalization because they, unlike electronically conveyed capital, transport cultural messages. These ideological or symbolic transfers are of particular interest to economic anthropology. This collection considers how conceptions and roles of commodities may change in response to widening spheres of economic interaction and exchange. The essays in this volume are ordered under two themes. Those included in the first section, "Commodities in a Globalizing Marketplace," address historically and culturally defined variations in meanings and practices associated with commodities in globalizing markets. In Part Two, "The Circulation and Revaluation of Commodities", contributors analyze how commodity producers' experiences are informed by colonial and post-colonial history, state directives in the marketplace, and locations in dependent or marginalized regions. The chapters all focus on the production process as it responds to, is distorted by and increasingly is controlled by the determination of the value of those commodities outside a "locality". ... Read more

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Spread Trading. It's exciting. Stimulating. Highly profitable. Yet - it remains a mystery to most traders. Despite the benefits offered by this dynamic hedge tool, many traders don't understand how to recognize relationships in the commodity and financial markets - and use them to enhance their trading performance.

Now, renowned market maker Howard Abell offers the definitive book on this exciting technique, outlining strategies for analyzing opportunities, tactics for implementation, and savvy advice on overcoming the psychological barriers that hold most spread traders back. Four easy-to-follow sections reveal exactly what it takes to trade based on the concept of differential - or the relationship between commodities or similar products - including …

1) Psychological factors that make for the most successful spreaders, and developing a strategic game plan for spreading success.

2) Technical analysis and spread trading - seasonal, cyclical and historical spread relationships to exploit, such as using spreads in the grain market to profit from summer drought.

3) Spread trading methods of the top market experts. Specific strategies that have proved successful by the specialists in various asset classes.

4) Every principle & benefit spread trading affords from discovering opportunities in seemingly dull markets to earning greater long-term profits with highly calculated risk.

Good spreaders are daring yet disciplined, focused yet flexible, well-prepared yet able to think on their feet - and Abell arms readers with the analytical and psychological skills required to be not just good, but great traders, as he outlines techniques for …

Trading to win, instead of trading not to lose
Building the inevitability of draw downs into your strategy
Identify the market signal, or "spread entry point"
And many more important tools for winning big by spreading trading.

With a foreword by the CBOT's chairman Patrick Arbor, this timely handbook will equip you to face head-on the challenge of spread trading in the real world. ... Read more

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Abell Clearly Defines Spreading
I'm a professional spread trader on the floor of the CBOT and found Spread Trading to be right on the money.I spread Bonds to Ten Years And Grains;not only is this book to the point-no filler-but also covers the all important issue of trader psychology.Howard abell is known on the trading floor and this book reveals why.

Title is misleading....
The title is very misleading due to the fact that this book contains no trading strategies. It does, however, do a good job of talking about the psychology of trading (one of the most important aspects). The interviews are good but contain no real practical knowledge. In my opinion, save the money and go for another, perhaps more advanced book if you're concerned with trading strategies. I will not even recommend this book to the beginner for it requires a broad knowledge of how the trading floor works. This book mentions little about value (the MOST important thing about legging and trading spreads). As far as spread trading goes, this isn't the one. Dan Vassallo (New York Cotton Exchange).

Waste of Money
The book was written 1997, do not get confused with the publishing date of 2003. The printed daily line charts are from 1997 without hardly any description. The same almost applies to the numerous useless pages filled with tables of historical spread trades that could have been done between 1981 and 1996. This book does not contain stategies at all. Furthermore the book is full of sentences of the following kind: "Computer generated Numbers. Most traders have a library of proven computer numbers. They may be applied with success in spread trading. The only caveat however, is that they usually are not self-contained systems and should be used along with the several other devices I have spoken about."
My advice: Walk away from this trade!

Disappointing
If I had wanted a psychology book I would have bought one! Mr. Abell is obviously obsessed with the subject as there is almost nothing in this book that gives the nuts and bolts of spread trading. 45% deals with the psychology of trading, 45% of it are interviews with "successful" spread traders, and the remaining 10% if you discount the charts deals with spreading. Save your money.

Napoleon Hill of Spread trading
It has interviews with spread traders, a Eurodollar spread floor trader, as well as with Steve Moore who publishes daily Internet spread charts. ... Read more

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The key players of the information age come together to discuss the defining issues for business, commerce, and our working lives.Find out what over 50 of the world's most important market movers think about the way we do business and the way we will in the future.This book will transform your understanding of the impact the information age has on business with original contributions from world-renowned leaders auch as Bill Gates, Al Gore, Rupert Murdoch, Edith Cresson, Clifford Stoll, Peter Cochrane, and James Martin. ... Read more

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Alvin Toffler "in the digital age"
He leído un comentario en Financial Times Telecoms/21, Thu 18Mar99. Me ha llamado la atención el título del trabajo de Alvin Toffler: "Shocks, Waves and Power in the Digital Age", (que integra conceptos de sus tres obras famosas). Todavía no le he recibido. Lo espero con interés. ... Read more

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The meteoric rise of electronic trading has swelled the ranks of day traders profiting from minute changes in the value of a given market or investment within the trading day. Without the psychological or technical background to be successful, many traders can lose their life savings "playing" this challenging market.

To have an adviser and mentor with nearly 30 years' professional trading experience, willing to share his techniques as well as the secrets of the best and most successful traders, offers an unprecedented opportunity for every day trader willing to learn the ropes.

In The Day Trader's Advantage, Howard Abell focuses on the dynamic real-time market characteristics, the psychological considerations and changing technologies required to make more winning trades. Here traders will find a wealth of proven, profit-making strategies, including:

*online day trading techniques to maximize profits *how winning day traders think *technical tools to achieve market discipline and consistency *how to predict the best market entry and exit points *day trading opportunities in both equities and futures *the psychology of success and overcoming barriers

Every trader can discover high-profit insights into the dramatically changing face of day trading, including profiles and secrets from top traders and market experts. ... Read more

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A psychological account of day trading.
This book describes the often overlooked psychological aspect of day trading. If you're looking for an explanation of Elliot Waves, you won't find it here! What you will find is an in depth study of the psychy of a winning trader.

What day trading is all about!
The value of this book comes from the interviews with 8 successful day traders. The author asks them the same set of keys questions. Their answers are both similar and different: their mindset is similar, but the way they trade can vary widely.

Buy this book if you want to understand the attitude required to day trade, but don't look in here for a magic system to get rich. One major lesson of the book is that there is value in finding it by yourself, in an almost never ending process.

you too can be a trading guru
Here is my take on Mr. Abell: he is the Tony Robbins of the trading world. He is the feel-good psychology guru of trading. If you want to know what's in his books, and how to enjoy similar success, here is the formula:

First, start with a handful of old-as-dirt trading cliches (cut your losses, let your profits run, be confident, etc.). Come up with a bunch of analogies to dress up these old cliches and say them in new ways (for example, 'you can't score touchdowns if you don't have the ball' or 'when you start feeling bulletproof, that's when bullets pierce flesh' etc.). This should cover the first 30 pages or so. Second, find a couple of friends or acquaintances who you can pass off as successful traders (they might not be able to trade their way out of a paper bag, but it doesn't matter because no track records will be posted). Interview these 'traders,' and have them make similar observations. This should get you well past the 100 page mark- maybe even further if you are using nice sized print and putting plenty of space between the paragraphs and bullet points. Third, spice up the visual presentation by occasionally mixing in charts with the text. It doesn't really matter if the charts have anything to do with the stuff you wrote; people just like to look at charts. (You might want to add some technical notes, though, to add credibility.) Then, finally, if you still need more filler to get to the publishable stage, add in a chapter or two of public information- on the different exchanges, lists of different stocks and futures you can trade, details of order entry systems- basically some free info that takes up space.

If you follow this tried and true formula, you too should be able to crank out close to a dozen books on trading. And there will always be a fresh crop of beginners, not yet beat over the head with rehashed trading rules, to rave about how good your books are and what insight they hold.

hmm.
another book by a supposedly successful trader. Outlines the authors subjective methods. Lots of fluff.

The Day Trader's Advantage, How to move from one winning pos
Because of the author's name and reputation, I was anxious to open this book, read and gain something. Within forty minutes of the read, I found myself skimming through the book to find something with some meat in it. Instead, I found the first 24 pages covering "The Psychology of . . .", "Overcoming the Psychological Barriers . . .", etc., etc. Then we go to 8 pages that touch on "Market Analysis & Day Trading," and then, "The Innergame Trading Approach." Mind you, 8 pages, or a little longer than most forewards. The vast remainder of the book is the author interviewing several well know traders about this and that. The questions are general and as often as not the trader being interviewed rambles on in generalities. My impression of this work is the author was evidently long on positions in the market and decided to write this book while he waited for a price move. Conversely, a book I purchased at the same time,"Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom," by: Van K. Tharp is excellent. This book has something to say and information for anyone to consider or incorporate. ... Read more

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Deterrence of market manipulation is central to the entire regulatory and legal framework governing the operation of American commodity futures markets. However, despite all of the regulatory, scholarly, and legal scrutiny of market manipulation, the subject is widely misunderstood. Federal commodity and securities laws prohibit manipulation, but do not define it. Scholarly research has failed to analyze adequately the causes or effects of manipulation, and the relevant judicial decisions are confused, confusing, and contradictory.The aim of this book is to illuminate the process of market manipulation by presenting a rigorous economic analysis of this phenomenon, including the conditions that facilitate it and its effects on market users and others. The conclusions of this analysis are used to examine critically some legal and regulatory anti-manipulation policies. The Economics, Law and Public Policy of Market Power Manipulation concludes with a set of robust and realistic tests that regulators and jurists can apply to detect and deter manipulation. ... Read more

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The perspectives brought together here provide a practical look at the impact and role of women in organizations. The volume explores the various initiatives that leading-edge organizations have implemented to support the career advancement of managerial and professional women, and analyses which measures worked, and which did not. The current directions in business that underpin changes in policies adopted for women managers are highlighted and linked to this discussion.

The contributions to the book come from leading scholars and researchers as well as human resource professionals responsible for implementing specific organizational efforts. ... Read more

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This book outlines the history and cultivation of rice, and the workings and problems of the international rice trade. ... Read more

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Agricultural markets have entered a long-term process of liberalization, with the aim of reducing imposed market imperfections such as monopolistic public trade, entry barriers and subsidies. The experience of more than a decade of agriculture liberalization offers a good opportunity to review and analyze the outcome of this process and to draw lessons for the future. The central topic in Agricultural Markets Beyond Liberalization is the relationship between market structure and how markets perform in a dynamic context during a liberalization process. The topic is studied from both a micro and macro viewpoint and refers to different types of agricultural markets. This volume brings together the dynamics of agricultural markets in several parts of the world, with a special focus on transition economics and Africa. The different studies cover geographical areas as wide as a district as well as a group of countries, and institutions from individual contracts to multi-national organizations. The analysis of liberalization under different circumstances, and the different methods of analysis used by the authors provide a valuable foundation for the assessment of liberalization. ... Read more

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• Over 900 tables, charts, and graphs for more than 100 commodities and futures markets
• Seasonal patterns and historical data since 1992
• Articles by prominent professionals, including "Understanding and Analyzing the Coffee Market" by Walter Spilka and "Small Markets in a Big World: Commodity Market Volatility in the Information Age" by David C. Hightower

Since 1939, professional traders, commercial hedgers, portfolio managers, and speculators have come to regard The CRB Commodity Yearbook as the "bible" of the industry. Here is a wealth of authoritative data, gathered from government reports, private industry, and trade and industry associations, all compiled by the Commodity Research Bureau, the organization of record for the entire commodity industry itself.

Absolutely essential for identifying changing trends in supply and demand and for projecting important price movements, the Yearbook gives the investor:

• Worldwide supply/demand and production/consumption data for all the basic commodities and futures markets–from A(luminum) to Z(inc), including all the major markets in interest rates, currencies, energy, and stock index futures
• Over 900 tables, graphs, and price charts of historical data, many of which show price history dating back to 1900
• Concise introductory articles that describe the salient features of each commodity and help put the quantitative information in perspective
• Articles by prominent professionals on key markets and important issues concerning the commodity industry. The 2002 Yearbook features "Understanding and Analyzing the Coffee Market" by Walter Spilka and "Small Markets in a Big World: Commodity Market Volatility in the Information Age" by David C. Hightower

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Great resource for both industry professionals and clients
I really enjoy this yearbook. It's jam packed with information that will help you improve your trading strategies and give you a long term perspective of the industry as a whole. 11 years as a futures investor, broker, and author, I never miss getting this Yearbook annually. ... Read more

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Whether your organization is applying for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award or not, this handy pocket guide will serve as a quick reference for employees at all levels.

The 64-page booklet is a guide to interpreting the 1998 criteria in the seven Baldrige categories to help your organization improve quality.

It begins with answers to commonly asked questions about the Baldrige Award criteria. Then it breaks down the 24 items under the seven category headings of the Baldrige criteria with a concise explanation, and lists quick tips of what excellent companies do in each of these areas.

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The fourth edition of this pocket guide is also available, while supplies last
The Pocket Guide to the Baldrige Award Criteria (Fourth Edition)
Mark Graham Brown
66 pp., 1997, ISBN 0-527-76331-4, Item No. 763314 / paperback, $4.50 ... Read more

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A comprehensive reference source containing over 20 years ofdata from more than 45 stock markets worldwide. Exchange and GovernmentRegulations - Listing and Disclosure Requirements; Restrictions onForeign Investments; Taxation and Repatriation Regulations; Rules ofMergers and Acquisitions; Investor Protection Rules. Stock Indices -Monthly High, Low, Close and Average; Calculation Methodology;Component Stocks Organized by Industry. Stock Market Statistics -Market Capitalization; Trading Volumes & Values; P/E and P/BV Ratios,Dividend Yields; Share Ownership Profiles. Figures provided in thelocal currency and in US$ with inflation adjustments to allowcomparisons across exchanges. Stock Exchanges covered - American,Amsterdam, Athens, Australian, Barcelona, Bogota, Bombay, Brussels,Budapest, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Copenhagen, German, Helsinki, HongKong, Istanbul, Italian, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Korea, Kuala Lumpur,Lisbon, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mexican, Montreal, NASDAQ, NewYork, New Zealand, Oslo, Paris, Philippine, Prague, Rio de Janeiro,Santiago, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm, Swiss, Taiwan, Tel-Aviv,Thailand, Tokyo, Toronto, Vienna, Warsaw. ... Read more

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The ongoing evolution of international commodity markets is a fscinating aspect of globalisation, inasmuch as many basic commodities are traded globally on international physical markets, often associated with efficient and global futures markets.
International Commodity Trading

• offers a comprehensive discussion of the specific mechanisms that apply to physical and futures markets
• discusses the various techniques associated with the management of market operations
• presents and analyses the various types of commodity markets
• provides an in-depth coverage of trading companies, of their role and of their strategies
• gives techniques for forecasting commodity prices
• gives practical examples and case studies