J.K. Lasser's Pick Winning Stocks (J.K. Lasser)

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A Simple, Breakthrough Stock-Picking System! Pick winning stock after winning stock with nationally recognized financial expert Edward F. Mrkvicka, Jr. Using his proven Trinity Trading System, anyone can enter the market and profit, whether you're a beginning investor on the Internet or a professional trader who needs to supercharge a portfolio. J.K. Lasser's Pick Winning Stocks will put power into your investing as you scan key indicators listed daily in the Wall Street Journal. Then, the resistance barrier breakthroughs you chart today will begin rewarding you with a lifetime of significant returns. This easy-to-understand guide isn't like other investing systems on the market, yet it is so clear and safe, you'll be recognizing buy and sell signals in minutes-with or without a broker. Critical coverage will help you:
* Locate information you thought was available only to Wall Street insiders-and put it to use energizing your investments
* Take the "emotion" out of placing or canceling an order by picking stocks objectively and confidently
* Increase profitability, no matter what kind of market conditions you're investing in

Customer Reviews:

I am going to try this system out.......2002-07-21

I am starting today. I am getting wall street journals and recording the stocks that hit 3 times in the next 24 days.
I read some of the reviews and either people thought the book was written by the Lord above, and made bank, or that it didnt work. This is my guess as to why this is: The book DOES NOT SAY to buy any stock that trips across the radar screen, (like some of these boneheads obviously have done)instead read the book throughly instead of lightly going through it. The book states you have to look at the market conditions, and also the fundimentals of the stocks. Look at the earnings over the last few quarters. Look at the expected earnings for the future. Learn how to read a balance sheet. Two good books by "O'Neal who published Investors Business Daily Newpapers......one is how to invest in stocks. Look him up as a good suppliment to this book. Once you use that to help you filter out the bad stocks and learn how to read a balance sheet and to apply it to the trinity trading system, you should go on to accumilate some pretty nice wealth in your future. Anyway, I will repost in several months to tell you how it went.

Educational and informative.......2001-11-08

I learned a lot from this book - and it was easy and enjoyable to read.
I was impressed by the author's correct prediction of the crash of Nasdaq and the sizable correction of the Dow.
While not a perfect trading system (but then what is), I've done well with it. I suspect I would have done even better if the market wasn't experiencing its present turmoil.
I also noticed this; you have to read and understand the entire book to fully benefit from the trading system; i.e., the trading system is not a stand-alone, but rather a gestalt.

It has worked for me........2001-11-01

I wish this book had been written 15 years ago when I first started trading. No, not every trade has been a winner, but the majority have been. And, by following the author's advice, the few losers I've had have cost me virtually nothing, while my many winners have won BIG.
Bottomline: I've made more money trading this system then any other I've ever used.

Great strategy... if it worked.......2001-10-22

This was a very interesting book. I enjoyed it immensely. Unfortunately, the Trinity Trading System doesn't work. Since I'm a software developer, I created a database and program to automatically alert me to ALL stocks that fit Mrkvicka's strategy, and I've been monitoring it. It just doesn't work. The losers far outnumber the winners, and the winners have not been stellar. Anyone can sell a book that has a "sure-fire system," but in the end Mrkvicka provides only anecdotal evidence to back up the system. If you want an example of a statistically sound book, check out O'Shaughnessy's What Works On Wall Street or Siegel's Stocks for the Long Run. If Mrkvicka really believes in his system, he will publish valid data to prove it, not just list a few winners.

Make your picks carefully.......2001-10-17

I put the book's principles to work, and got mixed results. I would say roughly 75% of my picks based on this system produced gains in the first few days/weeks. I've probably traded 40 different stocks. I took the authors advice and moved my stops up as the price increased. However, after posting nice gains in the short term, and subsequently upped the stops as they moved, most of the stocks pulled back and hit the stop for a small gain or small loss. I had one stock post a 70% increase in a few of weeks. Check out CHH bought in early July. However, the stock had strong earnings, strength and it was also being heavily accumulated at the time I bought it. Most days 4 times the average daily volume, and up to as much as 20 times normal volume. Also, CHH is in the leisure industry which happened to be in the top 3 industries at the time. And it just so happens that it was pulling out of price consolidation or base - a perfect 'cup with handle' formation. See investors.com for further detail. It looks like all of these things made a difference in my best performing stock. I would suggest using TTS to alert you to stocks, but also check their fundamentals, volume and industry strength. Don't just buy any stock that hits your radar screen. In a bear market, I would suggest targeting a small profit, then sell it once it hits. I know that the author states that you should go long in a bear market, and short in a bull market, based on his belief that a stock that is bucking the trend shows real strength in whichever direction it is moving. But, I've found that most stocks will eventually follow the market in either direction. If I would have sold at a small profit, say 10-15% which most of the stocks that I picked made, I would have done better. Also, I would pick one stock at a time and let it prove itself instead of picking many stocks just to be fully invested. And I wouldn't limit myself to the prices that he recommends based on your portfolio, nor the number of stocks. I believe it's better to have a few good stocks and feed them, then to have many mediocre ones. Like he says, don't alter the princples of TTS, but feel free to tailor it to your needs. An interesting and good read even if you don't try it.

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Quantum Investing is a book about today's ascendant quantum-physics-based industries, such as communications, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Author Stephen Waite makes clear why these areas are the most important investment opportunities today and how these industries will have a profound impact on our economy. “Waite nails the big ideas that will create the next revolution. Don't leave the 20th Century without it.” - Christopher Meyer, Director, The Cap Gemini Center for Business Innovation

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Tremendous vision and a bold framework for new ideas.......2004-10-04

Waite lays waste to the idea that the bursting of the NASDAQ bubble was the end of the technology revolution, and instead puts forth the idea that the "emergence" of nanotech (quantum) capabilities mean this is only the beginning. The book makes a compelling case for the non-linear nature of growth in a knowledge based (as opposed to resourse based) economy.

Perhaps, more importantly, Waite introduces the science of complexity and it's framework for understanding complicated systems (as are markets, mutli-celled organisms, weather systems, etc). Complexity theory, developed by the Sante Fe Institute over the last 15 years, is a mechanism by which investors in the modern era can develop a tool kit to read and react to a world of constant change, contagion, evolution and catalytic shock.

This is important stuff; well written, concise and comprehensive. It include both the raw information and the framework with which to manage it. It's a body of knowledge the well equiped investor needs in their arsenal.

Quite disappointed. Not an investment book at all........2003-08-16

Though the authors emphasized that the purpose of the book was to pursue what Munger of Bershire Hathaway preached about the "lattice of models" approach to investing that successful investors should read as much as he could on as many diverse subjects as possible, and that development in Quantum physics would bring 2/3 of the existing 30 DJI stocks out of their places in the index in less than 2 decades. this book was far too repetitive and clumsy in elaborating the same idea of the importance of Quantum Physics. The amateur knowledge and so so writing skill of the authors would drive nearly half of the readers to confusion because they would still have close to nothing clue about Quantum Physics, whilst those who know Quantum Physics would be bored to coma. Perhaps the best part of the book was the definition they quoted from Feynman, that it was the description of the behaviour of matter and light in all its details and, in particular, of the happenings on an atomic scale. Besides that, the whole book read like a product of copy and paste here and there from science journals more than anything else.

Despite the above, the authors were clever at choosing the right facts and figures. Some astounding items include:-

1. The only original DJI stock left behind after a century was General Electric.
2. In 1989, Intel launched i486, a chip that features 1.2 million transistors. In 2001, Intel launched P4 which contains 43 million transistors.
3. In 1997, IBM installed Deep Blue. It could evaluate 200 million chess positions per second, and defeated the world chess champion Gary Kasparov. In 2001, IBM installed ASCI White, which is 1000 times faster than Deep Blue.

In short, this book is far from what the title projects to say. Little is talked about investment at all. The authors could have written a much better book with much fewer words. To make it better, the authors should have written much more on how complexity theory, a branch in Quantum Physics could really help market and investment analysis.

Let's face it folks, this is a deep book........2003-08-14

Let's face it folks, this is a deep book. Spend some time with it - mull it over. It's not People Magazine. The insight it gives us on who we are, and where we are going as a society and an economy is quite profound. We are living today, and have been living for quite some time, in a world driven by quantum discoveries. Tie the threads together - and realize that we're on a spaceship earth that is moving through the universe in surprising ways. "Quantum Investing" opened my eyes.

A Good Read!.......2003-04-11

Author Stephen R. Waite is a Wall Street veteran, but despite its title Quantum Investing is not about investing (the few investor-oriented tips are at the end of each chapter and at the book's conclusion). Rather, it is a futurist manifesto, an infectious, heady hodgepodge of science textbook and thought experiment, which reads like a sequel to Future Shock. Waite takes you on a whirlwind tour of quantum theory, which has enabled astounding technological advances (note the glossary of physics terms and the timeline of relevant scientific developments). He assesses the accounting industry as hopelessly out-of-date when it comes to valuing intangible assets, and offers a thought-provoking discussion of the stock market, chaos theory and complex systems. You'll probably be skeptical of - but intrigued by - the discoveries he predicts for the twenty-first century. We from getAbstract recommend this to executives who are interested in a big-picture treatment of the economic evolution, or who are science (or science-fiction) buffs.

Scientific advances are increasing exponentially.......2003-02-17

Waite presents a fascinating description of how the coming (next 25 years) technological advances will have a tremendous influence on the economy, stock market, and our lives. Businesses must be flexible enough to change with the times, or may not survive. The change in the companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrual Average changed drastically over the years, and the trend will continue. The majority of stocks currently listed in the Standand & Poors top 500 companies will no longer exist 25 years from now.

The process of creative destruction will allow those companies benefiting from yet-to-be-invented technologies to grow at amazing rates, replacing those business that fail to keep pace. Noting that more welath was created during the past 100 years than in all previous history combined, Waite feels the rate of wealth creation will accelerate, with the next 25 years producing more wealth than was created during the entire 20th century.

The Industrial Revolution was made possible by technologies generated from Newtonian physics, and our future will be enhanced with inventions from quantum based technologies.

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As the population ages and the health care system focuses on cost-containment, family caregivers have become the frontline providers of most long-term and chronic care. Patient care at home falls mainly on untrained and unprepared family members, who struggle to adjust to the new roles, responsibilities, and expenses. Because the culture of family caregivers -- their values, priorities, and relationships to the patient -- often differs markedly from that of professionals, the result can be conflict and misunderstanding.

In The Cultures of Caregiving, Carol Levine and Thomas Murray bring together accomplished physicians, nurses, social workers, and policy experts to examine the differences and conflicts (and sometimes common ground) between family caregivers and health care professionals -- and to suggest ways to improve the situation. Topics addressed include family caregivers and the health care system; cultural diversity and family caregiving; the changing relationship between nurses, home care aides, and families; long-term health care policy; images of family caregivers in film; and the ethical dimensions of professional and family responsibilities. The Cultures of Caregiving provides needed answers in the contemporary crisis of family caregiving for a readership of professionals and students in medical ethics, health policy, and such fields as primary care, geriatrics, oncology, nursing, and social work.

Contributors: Donna Jean Appell, R.N., Project DOCC: Delivery of Chronic Care; Jeffrey Blustein, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Barnard College; Judith Feder, Ph.D., Georgetown University; Gladys Gonzalaz-Ramos, M.S.W., Ph.D., New York University School of Social Work and NYU Medical School; David A. Gould, Ph.D., United Hospital Fund in New York City; Eileen Hanley, R.N., M.B.A., St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan / Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, New York City; Maggie Hoffman, Project DOCC: Delivery of Chronic Care; Alexis Kuerbis, C.S.W., Mount Sinai Medical Center; Carol Levine, M.A., United Hospital Fund, in New York City; Jerome K. Lowenstein, M.D., New York University Medical Center; Mathy Mezey, R.N., Ed.D., New York University; Thomas H. Murray, Ph.D., The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York; Judah L. Ronch, Ph.D., LifeSpan DevelopMental Systems; Sheila M. Rothman, Ph.D., Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Rick Surpin, Independence Care System.

Justice and Caring: The Search for Common Ground in Education (Professional Ethics in Education Series)

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Katz, Noddings and Strike

Justice and Caring: The Search for Common Ground in Education (Professional Ethics in Education Series)

Manufacturer: Teachers College Press
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ASIN: 0807738190

Customer Reviews:

Katz, Noddings and Strike.......2004-08-10

This is a unique book that is indispensible in a graduate course in educational (administrative, teaching) ethics. It is dominated by Noddings whose orientation is based on the notion of caring first put forth by Carol Gilligan. Though the book is still in print, it wants updating, as it is more than 5 years old (hence the loss of a star in the rating).

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The Ground of Professional Ethics
Daryl Koehn
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415116678

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As each week beings more stories of doctors, lawyers and other professionals abusing their powers, while clients demand extra services as at a time of shrinking resources; it is imperative that all practising professionals have an understanding of professional ethics.

In The Ground of Profesional Ethics, Daryl Koehn discusses the practical issues in depth, such as the level of service clients can justifiably expect from professionals, when service to a client may be legitimately terminated and circumstances in which client confidences can be broken. She argues that, while clients may legitimately expect professionals to promote their interests, professionals are not morally bound to do whatever a client wants.

The Ground of Professional Ethics is important reading for all practising professionals, as well as those who study or have an interest in the subject of professional ethics.

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Great topic

The Higher Ground: Biomedical Ethics and the Physician Executive

Manufacturer: Amer College of Physician
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ASIN: 0924674075

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Great topic.......2004-06-03

I find books on medical ethics very interesting. I would be particularly interested in what the editor has to say about lying under oath.

Practical ethics for the federal employee: Staking out the high ground

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Practical ethics for the federal employee: Staking out the high ground
Susan McGuire Smith
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Conduct unbecoming a member: the bar is set high for CPM[R] Members, who must act in strict compliance with any written contracts. (Higher Ground).(Code ... article from: Journal of Property Management

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Conduct unbecoming a member: the bar is set high for CPM[R] Members, who must act in strict compliance with any written contracts. (Higher Ground).(Code ... article from: Journal of Property Management
Alexandra Jackiw
Manufacturer: Institute of Real Estate Management
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Property Management, published by Institute of Real Estate Management on May 1, 2003. The length of the article is 621 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Conduct unbecoming a member: the bar is set high for CPM[R] Members, who must act in strict compliance with any written contracts. (Higher Ground).(Code of Professional Ethics of Certified Property Manager)
Author: Alexandra Jackiw
Publication: Journal of Property Management (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: Institute of Real Estate Management
Volume: 68 Issue: 3 Page: 22(1)

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WARNING! INTERESTING BUT OLD

Good Intro for Beginners

Don't waste your time or money

Painful to Read

A good start

Tax Lien Certificates: A Little Known Government Program That Can Make You Financially Independent
Jim Yocom
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WARNING! INTERESTING BUT OLD.......2006-11-10

This is a little bit old in terms of tax liens, a venture that is dependent on making sure you have the most accurate info. I suggest reading The Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Tax Lien and Tax Deed Auctions, ISBN: 0978834607, a newer release.

Good Intro for Beginners.......2006-04-11

This is the first book on tax liens I've read so I don't have anything to compare it to. However, the info. presented in the book was very easy to understand and gives you a good grasp of why you would want to add this to your portfolio. I wish more states were covered; but that's okay. Overall, if you are wanting to become educated on the topic, this is a good place to start. However, if you want everything detailed and outlined; you're probably better off going to one of those seminars where they sign you up. This book will give any beginner a good first step. I plan on reading "16% solution" as well as doing more research on the internet...but overall, excellent first place to start.

Don't waste your time or money.......2005-03-12

This book has little to offer. Anybody who is impressed with this book must be related to Yocom or is comatose to the business world. The 16% Solution ... is much better albeit dated.

Painful to Read.......2004-12-04

I couldn't get through this. The fourth time I read "you gotta do this!" I felt my time was better spent reading something without all the hype.

A good start.......2004-10-13

Yes, this is a very basic beginning to tax sales, but it really helped me to get a foot in the door. I used to know virtually nothing about tax sales, and this was the first book that I read. (I've been researching tax sales for quite a while now.) Regardless of how basic it is, I came away with the beginning of an understanding to tax sales. Some books throw you right into all of the complications and details of tax sales, but I think it's important to make sure you have the elementary concept of them in the first place.
However, after this I read "The 16 Percent Solution" by Joel Markowitz and would recommend it to anyone who already has a basic knowledge of tax sales. Also, there's a website called www.taxsale.com that teaches you even more and also shows when and where tax sales take place in each jurisdiction of every state.

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