Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom

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McGraw Hill Professional, May 22, 2004 - Business & Economics - 350 pages

Commonsense Rules for Financial Freedom--Anyone Can Do It!

Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom shows you how to know in 30 seconds whether you should be in or out of the market. The authors show you how great investors avoid mistakes--and win big. With Van Tharp's legendary risk-control techniques, learn how the world's most profitable investors reduce their risk and leave their wealth-generating potential unlimited, and how you can too. You'll learn how to invest wisely--in every type of market, protecting what you earn, and developing sources of regular income to achieve financial independence. Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom provides you with a specific program for freeing yourself from the workplace--forever. Let it show you how to seize control of your financial life by investing in the assets that will provide you with steady income until the day when your investment income surpasses your monthly expenses--and you are, once and for all, financially free.

 

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Contents

Developing Your Plan to Quit Work Now
1
Profitable Stock Market Strategies for Good Times and Bad Times
55
More Profitable Strategies for Financial Freedom
123
Safeguarding Your Financial Freedom
195
The Future
283
Index
325
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D.R. Barton,Steve Sjuggerud,Van K. Tharp
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About the author (2004)

Van K. Tharp Ph.D., is president of the International Institute of Trading Mastery (IITM). A globally recognized coach for traders and investors, he is the bestselling author of Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom and publisher of the successful monthly newsletter Market Mastery and the free weekly email, Tharp's Weekly Thoughts.

D.R. Barton, Jr., P.E., MBA, is chief operating officer and risk manager for the Directional Research and Trading hedge fund group and a lead instructor with IITM. He is the editor of the newsletter Ten Minute Trader, and is a sought after speaker and developer of seminars for traders and investors.

Steve Sjuggerud Ph.D., is president of Investment University, an educational program with more than 250,000 students, and editor of the investment newsletter True Wealth with over 40,000 subscribers. He is a former portfolio manager, hedge fund manager and equity research director.

Bibliographic information

TitleSafe Strategies for Financial Freedom
AuthorsVan K. Tharp, D. R. Barton, Steve Sjuggerud
Editionillustrated
PublisherMcGraw Hill Professional, 2004
ISBN0071442901, 9780071442909
Length350 pages
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Business & Economics / Public Finance
  
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