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Table of Contents

Below are the table of contents for both 2009 editions of my two books.

Trend Following: Table of Contents

Below is the complete Table of Contents for Trend Following: Learn How to Make Millions in Up or Down Markets (New Updated Editon). Release date March 2009.

Foreword - Larry Hite
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Trend Following
The Market
Winning Versus Losing
Investor Versus Trader
Fundamental Versus Technical
Discretionary Versus Mechanical
In Plain Sight
Change
Modus Operandi: Price
Follow the Trend
Loss
Conclusion

2. Great Trend Followers
David Harding
Bill Dunn
John W. Henry
Ed Seykota
Keith Campbell
Jerry Parker
Salem Abraham
Richard Dennis
Richard Donchian
Jesse Livermore and Dickson Watts

3. Performance Data
Absolute Returns
Fear of Volatility and Confusion with Risk
Drawdowns
Correlation
Zero Sum Nature of the Markets
George Soros and Zero Sum

4. Big Events, Crashes, and Panics
Event #1: 2008 Stock Market Bubble and Crash
Day-by-Day Analysis
Event #2: 2000-2002 Stock Market Bubble
Event #3: Long-Term Capital Management Collapse
Event #4: Asian Contagion
Event #5: Barings Bank
Event #6: Metallgesellschaft
Final Thoughts
The Always “New” Coming Storm

5. Baseball: Thinking Outside the Batter’s Box
The Home Run
Moneyball and Billy Beane
John W. Henry Enters the Game
Red Sox 2003-2007

6. Human Behavior
Prospect Theory
Emotional Intelligence: Daniel Goleman
Charles Faulkner
Ed Seykota’s Trading Tribe
Curiosity Is the Answer, Not Degrees
Commitment to Habitual Success

7. Decision Making
Occam’s Razor
Fast and Frugal Decision Making
The Innovator’s Dilemma
Process Versus Outcome

8. Science of Trading
Critical Thinking
Chaos Theory: Linear Versus Nonlinear
Compounding

9. Holy Grails
Buy and Hold
Warren Buffett
Losers Average Losers
Crash and Panic
Analysis Paralysis
Final Thoughts

10. Trading Systems
Risk, Reward, and Uncertainty
Five Questions for a Trading System
Your Trading System
Frequently Asked Questions

11. The Game
Slow Acceptance
Blame Game
Understand the Game
Decrease Leverage; Decrease Return
Fortune Favors the Bold

Afterword
Acceptance
Inefficient Markets
Trend Following Critics
Critic Geetesh Bhardwaj
Final Thoughts

Foreword to the First Edition by Charles Faulkner

Introduction to Appendices
A. Trend Following for Stocks
Does Trend Following Work on Stocks?
Short Selling
Tax Efficiency
The Capitalism Distribution: Observations of Individual
Common Stock Returns, 1983-2006
Charts

B. Performance Guide
Trend Following Historical Performance Data
Abraham Trading Company
Campbell & Company, Inc.-Financial Metals & Energy-Large Program
Chesapeake Capital Corporation-Diversified Program
Clarke Capital Management, Inc.-Millennium Program
Drury Capital, Inc.-Diversified Trend Following Program
DUNN Capital Management, Inc.-World Monetary Assets
Eckhardt Trading Company-Standard Program
John W. Henry & Company, Inc.-Financials and Metals Program
Millburn Ridgefield Corporation-Diversified Program
Rabar Market Research, Inc.-Diversified
Sunrise Capital Partners LLC-Expanded Diversified
Superfund
Transtrend B.V.-Diversified Trend Program-Enhanced Risk (USD)
Winton Capital Management Ltd-Diversified Winton Futures Fund
Risk Disclaimer

C. Short-Term Trading

D. Personality Traits of Successful Traders

E. Trend Following Models

F. Trading System Example from Mechanica
System Background Information
System Details
A Canadian Dollar Trade
System Performance
Summary

G. Critical Questions for Trading Systems

Resources
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

The Complete TurtleTrader: Table of Contents

Below is the complete Table of Contents for The Complete TurtleTrader: How 23 Novice Investors Became Overnight Millionaires. Release date February 2009.

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xvii

1 Nurture versus Nature: page 1
2 Prince of the Pit: page 9
3 The Turtles: page 29
4 The Philosophy: page 51
5 The Rules: page 67
6 In the Womb: page 99
7 Who Got What to Trade: page 113
8 Game Over: page 129
9 Out on Their Own: page 135
10 Dennis Comes Back to the Game: page 145
11 Seizing Opportunity: page 153
12 Failure Is a Choice: page 167
13 Second-Generation Turtles: page 173
14 Model Greatness: page 187

Afterword: page 191
Appendix I: page 209
Appendix II: page 215
Appendix III: page 217
Appendix IV: page 221
Endnotes: page 245
Index: page 257
About the Author: page 267

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