Imprint Name: FT Press
ISBN-10: 0137038496
Sug. Retail Price $26.99
Pub Date: 06/10

Summary:
The world's savviest investors are those who can recognize when the herd is running headlong in the wrong direction and can take advantage of their fear and confusion. That's never been truer than it is right now. Now, there's a book that will show you how to earn the same outside returns these savvy value investors do. Buying at the Point of Maximum Pessimism will help you uncover enormous value opportunities that keep on emerging even as the economic crisis keeps spreading. Lauren Templeton Capital Management principal D. Scott Phillips, Jr., co-author of the best-seller Investing the Templeton Way, has systematically updated the proven techniques of value investing for today's radically new markets. Phillips carefully identifies crucial changes underway in the financial system and investing landscape, and offers investing solutions that respond to today's crucial new risks. You'll learn how to invest in markets facing an increased government role and lower access to capital; manage growing risk of inflation spikes; scavenge for profits in distressed sectors; find winning opportunities overseas; and much more. Every market offers opportunity to those who can find value where others aren't looking. Today, there's no more important investing skill and Buying at the Point of Maximum Pessimism is the one book that will teach it to you.

Imprint Name: FT Press Delivers
ISBN-10: 0131388231
Sug. Retail Price $5.99
Pub Date: 06/10
Format: e-Book

Summary:
Why covered calls are so popular, how they limit your risks, and how to use them successfully.

Most traders who consider options have heard of the popular strategy, the covered call. This is a very safe options strategy because it produces a profit better than just owning stock in most possible outcomes. A “covered” call exists when you own 100 shares of the underlying stock, and sell a call....

Imprint Name: FT Press Delivers
ISBN-10: 013247865X
Sug. Retail Price $9.99
Pub Date: 06/10
Format: e-Book

Summary:
Use futures and options to reduce margin requirements and alleviate margin calls--without liquidating holdings or adding funds to your trading account!

Margin calls are the necessary evil of trading leveraged instruments. Without margin, speculators would be subject to substantial default risk in addition to the risk of market losses. Unfortunately, many traders allow the fear of a margin call to drive their strategy. Margin calls don’t have to be a horrifying experience. There are tactics you can use to avoid them--or avoid scrambling to meet them.

Imprint Name: FT Press
ISBN-10: 0137052642
Sug. Retail Price $27.99
Pub Date: 06/10

Summary:
This is the only complete, up-to-date, and practical guide for financial industry professionals seeking new or better jobs in today's brutally competitive environment - where fewer opportunities exist and the marketplace is flooded with out-of-work candidates. Authored by Roy Cohen - who spent 14 years as Goldman Sachs' sole "in-house" career and outplacement counselor - this book delivers industry-specific insider insights not found anywhere else. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience helping financial industry executives succeed in their job searches, Cohen tells readers what to do when and if they are fired or are seeking new employment opportunities: how to develop a "game plan" and job search targets, how to build your "story," how to position a move from sell-side to buy-side, and more. He offers finance-focused guidance on interview strategy, resumes, follow-up, references, and even negotiation, with examples from his practice. The career advice delivered in this book will be indispensable for readers who want to successfully navigate the forces that are transforming the finance industry and prosper in it.

Imprint Name: FT Press
ISBN-10: 0137072996
ISug. Retail Price $24.99
Pub Date: 05/10

Summary:
Is the world economy already at risk of another, even more catastrophic financial collapse? How do so many investment bubbles form at once, across the world? Why are so many markets that "seemed" disconnected now able to collapse all at the same time? In The Fearful Rise of Markets, award-winning Financial Times journalist and editor John Authers takes on these critical questions, and offers real, deeply sobering answers. This remarkably clear and readable book helps you understand how the first truly global super-bubble was inflated - and now appears to be inflating again. Authers illuminates the multiple roots of repeated financial crises, including massive shifts in the global balance of economic power; the migration of key decisions from banks to capital markets funded with "other people's money"; the wholesale financialization of key asset classes; and massive failures of both academic theory and government policy. This book presents a truly global view, avoiding oversimplifications and ideology as it outlines how we got here and where we now stand. Even more valuable, it offers realistic solutions -- for both global decision-makers and individual investors who want to evade the fallout of the next financial collapse.

Imprint Name: FT Press
ISBN-10: 0137142862
ISBN-13/EAN # 9780137142866
Sug. Retail Price $39.99
Page Count 288
Trim Size 6 X 9
Binding Cloth
User Level Beginner
Audience General/Trade
Pub Date: 01/09

Summary:
Commodities are hot! Investors worldwide are discovering the huge opportunities available through commodity options trading. However, because commodities have differing underlying characteristics from equities, commodity options behave differently as well. In this book, two of the field's most respected analysts present strategies built from the ground up for commodity options. Carley Garner and Paul Brittain begin with a quick primer on how commodity options work, how they evolved, and why conventional options strategies often fail in commodity options markets. Next, using detailed examples based on their own extensive research, they show how to leverage the unique characteristics of commodity options in your own trades. You walk through trades from "top to bottom," master both long- and short-option approaches, and learn powerful strategies usually ignored in options books. For example, the authors introduce synthetic swing trading strategies that systematically remove volatility from the market; and demonstrate the best ways to cope with margin calls. The characteristics of each strategy are illuminated through easy-to-understand bullet points. The authors emphasize profit and loss potential, and provide break-even calculations. Examples are presented in both text and charts, together with their potential risks and rewards.

Imprint Name: FT Press
ISBN-10: 0137021143
ISBN-13/EAN # 9780137021147
Sug. Retail Price $18.99
Page Count 208
Trim Size 5-7/16 X 8-1/2
Binding Paper
User Level Beginner
Audience General/Trade
Pub Date: 01/09

Summary:
So, you've been laid off. Or you see it coming. You're not alone. And it's not your fault: you're just one of millions of smart, high-quality people who are being shown the door. But none of that makes it feel any better! What can you do? What should you do? How do you cope with the havoc that losing your job can cause? This sympathetic, practical book brings together all the answers you need to empower yourself, and come back stronger than ever. Author Martha Finney is one of the nation's leading workplace experts: her research has been featured on CNN, NPR's Morning Edition, and in major newspapers across the country. Drawing on powerful insights and personal stories from an enormous network of experts, she brings together all the knowledge and resources you'll need to regain mastery over your life. Finney answers questions like: How can I keep getting laid off from wrecking my life? How can I protect my professional reputation and career path? How do I get past the anger? Why haven't I heard from my coworkers? How do I keep all my options open? How do I tell my family, without damaging their faith in their own futures? What are my rights? Can I sue? Should I? How do I keep this from happening again? From start to finish, this book will help you identify your best next steps: the steps that'll help you get past the trauma and move forward, emotionally, financially, in your career, and in every part of your life.

Imprint Name: FT Press
ISBN-10: 0132439786
ISBN-13/EAN # 9780132439787
Sug. Retail Price $22.99
Page Count 192
Trim Size 5-3/8 X 8
Binding Cloth
User Level Beginner
Audience General/Trade

Summary:
Over the past 25 years, Charles D. Kirkpatrick's exclusive stock-picking technique based on the relative strength of prices and has outperformed the S+P 500's performance by a whopping 7.7x. That's right: if you'd invested $10,000 in the S+P 500, you'd have $130,000 now... but if you'd followed Kirkpatrick's published picks, you'd have $1,000,000! If that's not amazing enough, Kirkpatrick's system is remarkably easy to use and in this book, he'll teach you everything you need to know to put it to work in your portfolio. Kirkpatrick reveals why an active strategy based on relative stock rankings is the surest route to profit, and how just a few pieces of publicly available information lets you create rankings that virtually guarantee exceptional performance. You'll learn how to use his techniques to organize stocks into a portfolio that maximizes returns while reducing risk... uncover trigger points that tell you when to buy and sell... systematically protect yourself against bad stocks and bad markets.

This is the first book in the new FT Press Beat The Market series: brief books for the individual investor that are focused on strategies and techniques proven to significantly outperform the market indexes over a substantial period of time.

Imprint Name: FT Press
ISBN-10: 0137142900
ISBN-13/EAN # 9780137142903
Sug. Retail Price $24.99
Page Count 288
Trim Size 6 X 9
Binding Cloth
User Level Beginner
Audience General/Trade

Summary:
The subprime financial crisis is the decade's #1 financial story. What happened? How did it occur? And how can we prevent similar crises from happening again? Dr. Mark Zandi answers all these critical questions - systematically, carefully, and in plain English. Zandi begins with a fast-paced "history" of the crisis: where it started, how it spread, and where the fallout has landed. Next, he illuminates its deepest causes, ranging from the psychology of homeownership to Alan Greenspan's missteps. You'll watch the "flippers" at work and the real estate agents who cheered them on. You'll learn how Internet technology and access to global capital transformed mortgage lending, helping irresponsible lenders "drive out" good ones. Zandi demystifies the complex financial engineering that enabled lenders to hide growing risks...reveals how rating agencies relied on poor data and naïve assumptions to approve risky instruments...shows how global investors eagerly bought in, despite key warning signs. You'll discover how homebuilders contributed to the crisis, and how flummoxed regulators and policymakers failed to prevent it. Most important, Zandi previews tomorrow's financial shocks, offering indispensable advice for everyone they will impact: investors who must recognize emerging bubbles, policymakers who must improve oversight and citizens who must reduce their risks, so they can survive whatever comes next.

Imprint Name: FT Press
ISBN-10: 0132360098
ISBN-13/EAN # 9780132360098
Sug. Retail Price $24.99
Page Count 304
Trim Size 6x9
Binding Cloth
User Level Beginner
Audience General/Trade

Summary:
ETFs offer exceptionally low expenses, outstanding performance, and unparalleled transparency. With over 200 new ETFs added in just the last year, for typical investors, the variety is simply overwhelming. With this new edition one of the field's leading experts cuts through the ETF marketing hype, offering a start-to-finish plan for choosing the right ETFs, today and for years to come. Dr. Marvin Appel reveals what ETFs can and can't do, explains why they're not all equally attractive, and shows exactly how to use them to beat the market, year after year. Drawing on objective data and proven, backtested strategies, Appel shows how to quickly move into the right ETFs at the right time, consistently staying on the winning side of major market trends. Appel starts by explaining how ETFs work, then illuminates every facet of ETF investing: quantifying potential risk and reward; using ETFs to improve diversification; implementing simple 'active strategies'; deciding when to move from ETFs into cash; and much more. This book includes a full chapter on international ETF investing, as well as the most clear-headed assessment of taxoriented ETF investing ever written. From start to finish, this book candidly assesses risks, costs, and rewards -- helping you become an informed ETF consumer, and an exceptionally effective ETF investor.