| | |  | Spyware | Home » » » » Stock Trader's Almanac 2012 (Almanac Investor Series) | | | | | | | Description: | | A time-tested guide to stock trading market cyclesPublished every year since 1968, the Stock Trader's Almanac is a practical investment tool with a wealth of information organized in calendar format. Everyone from well-known money managers to savvy traders and investors relies upon this annual resource for its in-depth analyses and insights. The Stock Trader's Almanac 2012 contains essential historical price information on the stock market, provides monthly and daily reminders, and highlights seasonal trading opportunities and dangers. The Stock Trader's Almanac 2012 is packed with timely insights and targeted analysis to help you navigate turbulent markets and beat the odds in the year ahead. This trusted guide combines over a century's worth of data, statistics, and trends along with vital analysis you won't get anywhere else. The 2012 edition includes a revision of the Seasonal Switching Strategy that significantly boosts returns as well as new information on the coming Super Boom. Other key seasonal and cyclical updates include pre-presidential election year cycles and perspectives, how the government manipulates the economy to stay in power, incumbent victories vs. incumbent defeats, and the market impact of the lame duck year. - Alerts you to little-known market patterns and tendencies to help forecast market trends with accuracy and confidence
- An indispensable annual resource, trusted for over 40 years by traders and investors
- The data in the Almanac is some of the best in the business
For its wealth of information and the authority of its sources, the Stock Trader's Almanac stands alone as the guide to intelligent investing. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Jeffrey A. Hirsch | | Hardcover-spiral:
| 192 pages | | Publisher:
| Wiley | | Publication Date:
| October 11, 2011 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1118048695 | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 14 reviews |
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11 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Content is great but Kindle Readers CaveatDec 16, 2011
By David A. Seruyange
"sophtwarez"
I am new to investing and, as a beginner, I've been building up a library of books I can use to learn more about the market and different trading strategies. I purchased this book in Kindle format thinking that since it is an annual affair I wouldn't want a physical copy that would just take up space once it became out of date.
I want, above all else, to say that the contents of the book are great. As a budding investor I didn't struggle too much with the conceptual points or strategies the book hones in upon; they are described well in sparse, readable prose. Although I'm not sure I have the ability to employ all the strategies from the book the historical patterns and precedents will inform my intuition and I will probably mark up a calendar so that I can reread sections at the appropriate dates to build up some context for the annual patterns it reveals.
The big HOWEVER for ANYONE PURCHASING THIS IN KINDLE FORMAT is that the material is chock full with graphical content that is rendered as an image with mixed results. I have a Kindle DX2 which has a much larger screen than the normal Kindle and I still had difficulty with the calendar pages (they have quotes for each day) and some of the charts (e.g. Market Charts of Presidential Election Years where the patterns are visible but the names are blurry (in technical terms - they render the text as an image so it anti-aliases the lettering making it fuzzy). Even increasing the font size will make no difference since this content is presented as an image.
Fortunately I also have an iPad 2 with the Kindle reader app - on this device the material is a bit more palatable and the pinch/zoom features of the tablet make it much easier to deal with the image based content. I suspect that this is the same with the Kindle Fire though I do not have one to test with.
One final thought is that the material itself, even though it's tied to a specific year (2012), lends itself to a physical copy since the pages containing calendar dates include space presumably for the reader to make notes in. Although I'm not sentimental about physical copies of a book, this intentionality of space for notes reveals, to me, a broader intent about making the book interactive in a physical way - one which could be simulated with a digital calendar and a bunch of alerts, but not as well.
To sum up: this is a good book full of trading ideas, strategies, and techniques that trading neophytes should not find intimidating. It is well written and designed such that it can be a reference one can return to for the whole year for which it's written. However, if you purchase a digital version, be prepared to do some compensating on your part because of content rendered in small images, and text from those images being blurry and hard to read. If you have an E-Ink Kindle you will struggle. On Kindle tablets or iPads it is less of a problem. I am almost certain the issues have to do with the publisher "converting" the book to digital format without considering what would work best for the reader who views it in E-Ink form.
9 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Indispensable Map to the MarketOct 31, 2011
By Tom Wilson
The October 31, 2011 Wall Street Journal has a great article about how the Stock Trader's Almanac has called the 2011 market to near perfection. In my view, the market anomalies identified by the STA cannot be ignored. No, they are not right all the time, but they are right often enough to bear close watching -- particularly the January Barometer and the Best Six Months strategy.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
If history repeats itself, you need to know about it.Nov 04, 2011
By Susanna Hutcheson
"Copywriting for the Discriminating - - (...)"
I've always found a pattern in the stock market. For example, I find that Friday is usually the best day to buy and the worst day (one of the worst days) to sell. This information is borne out in this fascinating and helpful book. I find it so useful in my investing. I don't follow it, or any book or newsletter, word for word. But I've found that history pretty much always repeats itself. And I'm a big believer in not being a victim when history says I'm doing something that will make me one. By the same token, I like to be a winner if history shows me the way. Why reinvest the wheel?
This book has helped me to make wise investment decisions and, in addition, keep a record of my investment decisions in the pages of the book where the calendar provides for such entries. Being a spiral bound book, it's very handy.
Highly recommended.
-- Susanna K. Hutcheson
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 unreadable fonts/layoutDec 28, 2011
By hmmmm
I may have to send this back because most of the text is in such small fonts and/or and crammed together as to render many parts of it unreadable - and I have decent eyesight. Suggest the company consult an editor who has knowledge of readability principles. Wow. It's really, really, bad. I felt compelled to warn others.
One of the rare must readsMar 02, 2012
By a customer
Visit any trading floor on Wall Street, or spend time at any firm that has substantive trading activities, and you will see the Stock Trader's Almanac. The Almanac is one of the few must reads that all investors should have, and regularly consult. Steve Sears, Barron's.
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