The key to making consistent profits in the stock market is to have a well-defined set of trading rules. Without a solid set of rules to follow, most investors are victims of human emotion and become far better at making consistent losses in the stock market rather than making consistent profits. This book is all about teaching you how to develop an investment strategy for building a world-class portfolio in any market. It takes you through the step-by-step process of managing that portfolio for consistent profits, year-in and year-out.

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Entering & Succeeding in Emerging Countries: Marketing to the Forgotten Majority is a must-read for professionals, business owners, managers, and anyone else considering growing their business in the untapped market of developing countries. An expert in marketing in developing economies, Samli equips readers with proven techniques and practices to uncover and realize profitable opportunities. Extremely practical, he also offers insight into the following: Initiating your global strategy, Determining the best way to enter the market, Establishing Pricing Strategies, Monitoring results, and much more!

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Online auctions are a platform to trade goods on the Internet. In this context, negotiation capabilities for software agents in continuous double auctions (CDAs) are a central concern. Agents need to be able to prepare bids for and evaluate offers on behalf of the users they represent with the aim of obtaining the maximum benefit for their users. For the agents, their bids are decided according to some bidding strategy. However, in CDAs, it is a complex decision problem because of the inherent uncertainty and dynamics of the auction market. In this book, we present a new bidding strategy for agents to adopt in CDAs and propose tools to enhance the performance of existing bidding strategies in CDAs. The superior performance of the new bidding strategy as well as the tools presented in this book are illustrated through extensive experiments.

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The survival of the fastest. Information technology is now essential to business evolution. Companies that invest in IT as a future resource will live to see the future. The rest won't. The hard reality of the new "Information Darwinism," a term coined by author Eric Marks, is brilliantly and provocatively described in e-Darwinism, a look at the make-or-break impact of IT on accelerating the global struggle for market share. The book offers a compelling look at just how the Internet has transformed business strategy and business strategy creation, IT strategy, and manufacturing strategy for manufacturing and service firms, and made significant inroads in driving revenue enhancement and cost savings as well as reducing a firm's time to market. The book also describes how much the ability to leverage IT has become a requirement for measuring-and selecting-future leaders.

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Pro ASP .NET 1.1 in VB .NET' is the core title in the new Apress ASP.NET book strategy. An all-in-one reference for seasoned ASP.NET developers, it is the successor to Professional ASP.NET which has been reprinted. Updated and written new in places, this is a latecomer to the Microsoft web development market.

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Bonds are a vital part of the global capital markets and are essential for any investor's portfolio. This book explains the importance of bonds and why all private investors should include them as part of their investment strategy. It covers, among other topics, government bonds, the yield curve and what drives the market.

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This book focuses upon the role of the sales force in today's changing world and how to design a sales force for strategic advantage. It includes sections on how to assess the current sales force design and how to implement change and covers customer segmentation, market strategy, structuring and sizing, alignment, metrics and managing change.

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The first in-depth analysis of pairs trading Pairs trading is a market-neutral strategy in its most simple form. The strategy involves being long (or bullish) one asset and short (or bearish) another. If properly performed, the investor will gain if the market rises or falls. Pairs Trading reveals the secrets of this rigorous quantitative analysis program to provide individuals and investment houses with the tools they need to successfully implement and profit from this proven trading methodology.

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A market leader, this book has detailed but flexible coverage of options, futures, forwards, swaps, and risk management – as well as a solid introduction to pricing, trading, and strategy allowing readers to gain valuable information on a wide range of topics and apply to situations they may face.

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An overview of the renewable energy sector in South East Europe, with reference to the legislative environment and promotion strategy. This work assesses each market in terms of existing RE capacity, demand, government incentives, drivers and economic viability. It reports on applicable tariff structures for RE projects by market and RE category.

Price: $290.00 USD