Wave Theory For Alternative Investments: Riding The Wave with Hedge Funds, Commodities, and Venture Capital

Wave Theory For Alternative Investments: Riding The Wave with Hedge Funds, Commodities, and Venture Capital
Author: Stephen Walker
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2010-12-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780071742863

A Strategy That Helps You Weather Any Economic Storm "Wave Theory for Alternative Investments is not just a guide; it is the holy grail for understanding alternative investments." -- Matt Emmens, Chairman, President, CEO of Vertex and Chairman of the Board of Shire "Walker's book provides investors and managers with an intriguing walk through the history of venture capital as an alternative asset class, while demonstrating the important contribution VCs have made and continue to make to innovation, economic growth, and job creation." -- Bryan Pearce, Americas Director, Ernst & Young Venture Capital Advisory Group "If you want to learn about alternative investments, there is one book which must be on the very top of your reading list, Wave Theory for Alternative Investments. The author delves behind mere analytics and algorithms with a behaviorably based, verifiable tool." -- Stephen M. Goodman, Senior Partner and Cofounder of the Emerging Growth Practice, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP "If you want to understand the history of venture capital in the context of its current manifestation, there is only one book: Wave Theory for Alternative Investments." -- Bo Peabody, Managing General Partner, Village Ventures "Venture capital helps fuel the growth of America's finest companies, the leaders of tomorrow. Wave Theory for Alternative Investments is a must-read for [entrepreneurs and] those who wish to invest in the technologies of the future through the venture capital process." -- Mark Heesen, President, National Venture Capital Association The 2008 crash taught quite a few intelligent, high-net-worth, and institutional investors the hard lesson that equities and bonds can carry a fair degree of risk. Many of these investors mistakenly cashed out of their plummeting investments at precisely the wrong time--and completely missed the recent wave of recovery. Wave Theory for Alternative Investments helps avoid poor decision making and costly mistakes. Consistently ranked among the nation's top wealth managers, Stephen Todd Walker explains how to catch the waves of potentially lucrative yet volatile alternative markets--and ride them to unprecedented profits. Wave Theory for Alternative Investments is an insider's guidebook to some of the fastest-growing segments of the investment world, including hedge funds, commodities, and venture capital. Wave Theory for Alternative Investments is your first lesson in using alternatives to keep surfing--and avoid wiping out in the next financial meltdown. This excellent resource includes: A brief history of alternative investments Numerous risk/return profiles Critical tools, including fundamental and technical analysis Walker shares his extensive knowledge, top-tier experience, and proven strategies to help you maximize return-on-investment on a consistent basis. The complex process of alternative investing can take years of practice to master. Wave Theory for Alternative Investments helps you adjust your approach right now, so that you'll be in prime position to catch the best waves in the next financial storm.

Understanding Alternative Investments

Understanding Alternative Investments
Author: S. Walker
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017-02-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113737019X

Walker outlines the tools necessary to evaluate alternative investments and further diversify your portfolio using hedge funds, real estate, venture capital, gold and more. Using ground-breaking data on alternative investments, the author explores how to apply new risk measurements for building a portfolio with these investment vehicles.

Investment Beliefs

Investment Beliefs
Author: K. Koedijk
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2010-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230307574

Having the right investment beliefs and putting them into practice is key to delivering the right results. Decision makers in the investment industry should worry less about the stocks and products they pick for their clients and more about getting the big picture right; developing investment beliefs are instrumental in making the right choices.

Getting Started in Swing Trading

Getting Started in Swing Trading
Author: Michael C. Thomsett
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2007-03-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470127929

An accessible introduction to A PROVEN TRADING STRATEGY GETTING STARTED IN SWING TRADING Swing trading is not a new idea. But, only recently—with the Internet opening up markets to virtually everyone—has this short-term technical trading strategy become a viable option for individual investors. There are many ways to profit from the swing trading method, and with Getting Started in Swing Trading, author Michael C. Thomsett will show you how to use this approach to quickly take advantage of short-term price movements found in today's dynamic markets. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Getting Started in Swing Trading: Explores many of today's most popular charting signals and explains how to recognize them Provides suggestions for picking stocks appropriate for your swing trading strategy Illustrates how options can be used within your swing trading program to mitigate risk and improve performance Analyzes the effectiveness of short selling within a swing trading strategy Outlines some restrictions on swing trading, including brokerage rules and requirements, and regulations about high-activity trading And much more Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, Getting Started in Swing Trading will enhance your understanding of this proven trading method as well as improve the overall profitability of your portfolio.

Wave Theory For Alternative Investments: Riding The Wave with Hedge Funds, Commodities, and Venture Capital

Wave Theory For Alternative Investments: Riding The Wave with Hedge Funds, Commodities, and Venture Capital
Author: Stephen Todd Walker
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2010-12-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071746455

A revolutionary new alternative-investment approach that protects investors from another meltdown High-net-worth investors are allocating about 20% of assets into alternative investment strategies—up from 3% in 2000 Walker was named one of Barron's 2009 Top 1,000 Advisers and one of the Top 25 Wealth Advisers by the Philadelphia Business Journal He worked for Alex.Brown, which took Starbucks and Microsoft public

Hegel, Institutions and Economics

Hegel, Institutions and Economics
Author: Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 131790754X

Hegel’s philosophy has witnessed periods of revival and oblivion, at times considered to be an unrivalled and all-embracing system of thought, but often renounced with no less ardour. This book renews the dialogue with Hegel by looking at his legacy as a source of insight and judgement that helps us rethink contemporary economics. This book focuses on a concept of institution which is equally important for Hegel's political philosophy and for economic theory to date. The key contributions of this Hegelian perspective on economics lead us to the synthesis of traditional approaches and new ideas gained in economic experiments and advanced by neuroeconomists, sociologists and cognitive scientists. The proper account of contemporary 'civil society' involves comprehending it as a historically evolving totality of individual minds, ideas and intersubjective structures that are mutually dependent, tied by recognitive relations, and assert themselves as a whole in the ongoing performative movement of 'objective spitit'. The ethics of recognition is paired with the ethics of associations that supports moral principles and gives them true, concrete universality. This unusual constellation of seemingly remote fields suggests that Hegel, read in a pragmatist mode, anticipated the new theories and philosophies of extended mind, social cognition and performativity. By providing a new conceptual apparatus and reformulating the theory of institutions in the light of this new synthesis, this book claims to give new meaning both to Hegel as interpreted from today, and to the social sciences. Seen from this perspective, such phenomena as cooperation in games, personal identity or justice in the version of Amartya Sen's 'realization-focused comparisons' are reinscribed into the logic of institutional theory. This 'Hegel' clearly goes beyond the limits of philosophical discussion and becomes a decisive reference for economists, sociologists, political scientists and other scholars who study the foundations and consequences of human sociality and try to explore and design the institutions necessary for a worthy common life.

Trading the Measured Move

Trading the Measured Move
Author: David Halsey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2013-12-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118251830

A timely guide to profiting in markets dominated by high frequency trading and other computer driven strategies Strategies employing complex computer algorithms, and often utilizing high frequency trading tactics, have placed individual traders at a significant disadvantage in today's financial markets. It's been estimated that high-frequency traders—one form of computerized trading—accounts for more than half of each day's total equity market trades. In this environment, individual traders need to learn new techniques that can help them navigate modern markets and avoid being whipsawed by larger, institutional players. Trading the Measured Move offers a blueprint for profiting from the price waves created by computer-driven algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies. The core of author David Halsey's approach is a novel application of Fibonnaci retracements, which he uses to set price targets and low-risk entry points. When properly applied, it allows traders to gauge market sentiment, recognize institutional participation at specific support and resistance levels, and differentiate between short-term and long-term trades at various price points in the market. Provides guidance for individual traders who fear they can't compete in today's high-frequency dominated markets Outlines specific trade set ups, including opening gap strategies, breakouts and failed breakout strategies, range trading strategies, and pivot trading strategies Reveals how to escape institutional strategies designed to profit from slower-moving market participants Engaging and informative, Trading the Measured Move will provide you with a new perspective, and new strategies, to successfully navigate today's computer driven financial markets