Profiting in bull or bear markets / George Dagnino

Recognize, Predict, Plan for, and Profit From Bull and Bear Markets Investment professionals know that business and financial cycles drive the prices of stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, and other assets. This price action, in turn, creates regular, foreseeable investment opportunities. Profiting in Bull or Bear Markets shows you how to identify price distortions and imbalances, minimizing investment risk while achieving superior, more predictable returns. Author George Dagnino, whose newsletter was named one of the past decade's top five investment letter by Forbes, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, combines disciplines from economies and finance to investment management and decision-making into one unified approach. He gives you plain-English, easy-to-understand criteria for making profitable investment decisions in any market — regardless of prevailing economic and market conditions. You're shown how to: Identify sources of risk using business and financial cycles Calculate the best times to buy and sell stock, bonds, and other assets Implement strategies geared toward personal business interests Learn what types and mixtures of investments to hold as the economy changes 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. Business cycles create investment opportunities. Profiting in Bull or Bear Markets shows how to interpret economic and financial data to identify business cycles, then take advantage of the rhythms of those cycles to minimize losses while achieving superior, more predictable returns. It is nothing less than a blueprint for assembling the different factors needed for developing a sound, consistent investment strategy. George Dagnino--recognized by his peers as one of today's top investment minds--explains how business cycles drive the prices of stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, and other assets. He provides a blueprint on how to: - Identify sources of risk using business and financial cycles - Calculate the best times to buy and sell stocks, bonds, and other assets - Implement strategies geared toward personal business interests Business cycles create investment opportunities. Dagnino's guide shows how to interpret economic and financial data to identify business cycles, then take advantage of those cycles to minimize losses while achieving superior, more predictable returns. This is a blueprint for assembling the different factors needed for developing a sound, consistent investment strategy. The main objective of business and financial strategies is to maintain a desired level of finacial performance.