You're Fired!: A Unique Approach to Rebuilding Your Life

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Hundreds of companies are currently going through the process of downsizing, leaving many loyal and competent people feeling less than adequate. If you are the victim of downsizing, how do you recover your self-esteem and move on? Eileen Berman has come up with a solution in her book You're Fired! A Unique Approach to Rebuilding Your Life. An excellent resource for anyone dealing with downsizing, this book guides the reader through a confidence-building process using questions at the end of each chapter and an easy-to-read story format.

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Not even worth a library visit.......2006-07-24

If you liked "Who Moved My Cheese?" then you'll probably like this book; if you didn't like "Who Moved My Cheese?" then don't bother with this book because it, too, takes five pages worth of single-perspective advice and expands it into nearly 100 pages of mediocre storytelling. I would recommend you try "You're Fired!: How To Turn A Pink Slip Into A Golden Opportunity" instead.

A Solid Effort!.......2001-07-17

Eileen Berman uses two literary devices in her book, You're Fired! The first is a carefully constructed narrative about a fired executive that she uses to describe her approach to rebuilding a shattered life. The man feels a loss of identity when he is laid off, fears the reaction of his wife and becomes intensely depressed before finally consulting a psychologist. The psychologist, unfortunately, introduces Berman's second device: the Emotional House. The upshot: After getting fired, you need to rebuild your damaged Emotional House, which is constructed with the 7 C's of courage, confidence, choice, communication ... you get the picture. The metaphor quickly becomes annoying, since the points that it's used to illustrate are self-evident. Much more valuable are the self-quizzes that follow each chapter, which will certainly provide some much appreciated guidance to the recently downsized. It is primarily to this group that we[...] recommend Berman's book, although these days, it might not be a bad idea for everyone to keep a copy stashed away - just in case.

a must read for those that lost or might be losing a job........1999-10-26

This book is extraordinary. It is a must read for those people that have lost a job or are in a company that is considering downsizing. The illustrations and stories make the book that much more interesting. I learned so much about myself as I read this book.

The stories about "Bob" make the book that much more real. When you finish the book you feel invigorated and will have the knowledge and motivation to go back out in the work force!!

You will enjoy every page!!

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"In Options Made Easy, Second Edition, Guy Cohen clearly explains everything you need to know about options in plain English so that you can start trading fast and make consistent profits in any market, bull or bear!

Simply and clearly, the author reveals secrets of options trading that were formerly limited to elite professionals¿and exposes the dangerous myths that keep investors from profiting.

As you set out on your options journey, you'll learn interactively through real-life examples, anecdotes, case studies, and pictures. Guy Cohen is your friendly expert guide, helping you pick the right stocks, learn the right strategies, create the trading plans that work, and master the psychology of the winning trader.

Master all the essentials¿and put them to work
Options demystified so that you can get past the fear and start profiting!
Learn the safest ways to trade options
Identify high-probability trades that lead to consistent profits
Design a winning Trading Plan¿and stick to it
Understand your risk profile and discover exactly when to enter and exit your trades
Choose the right stocks for maximum profit
Screen for your best opportunities¿stocks that are moving¿or are about to move
Discover the optimum strategies for you
Match your trading strategies to your personal investment goals
No bull! The realities and myths of the markets
What you must know about fundamental and technical analysis

The easy, plain-English guide to making consistent profits with options!

Teaches all the essentials with real-life examples and crystal-clear explanations

No complicated math or confusing jargon: Learn visually with easy-to-understand pictures!

Identify high-probability trades, and design a Trading Plan that works

Master practical, easy strategies for succeeding in any environment¿even bear markets

Updated for today's markets with even more dynamic graphics, intuitive explanations, and valuable information!

For every investor interested in trading options

When you read this book, you'll be amazed how quickly you understand options¿and how quickly you can start profiting from them!"

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A Terrific informative read!.......2007-09-30

For me the title says it all. This book really does make options easy and the author goes the extra mile by explaining everything in multiple ways. If you're logical, he covers it, if you're visual, he covers it and I'm a bit of both. I also appreciated the way in which every trade example was documented in a table and compared with a different type of trade. Great book.

Apik untuk pemula, good for beginners.......2007-05-21

Bukune apik, untuk tingkat pemula, good for beginners, with detail explantions, but still need in depth about special tricks in difficult conditions.

Perfect introduction to options trading.......2007-05-13

Serious option traders will want much more in-depth education on the ins and outs of option trading, but I would still recommend Cohen's "Options Made Easy" as the introductory book on options trading to anyone who wants to learn. He has a way of taking very complex topics and breaking down the basics into something the uninitiated can comprehend. More importantly, reading his book gave me confidence that I could learn this subject and successfully trade options myself.

Easy to understand.......2007-05-05

I found this book easy to understand. It's a very good introduction to the world of options trading and I would recommend it to anyone considering trading in options. It covers topics that some courses costing thousands just gloss over.

A must read for the beginner,,.......2007-04-11

In a world which focuses more on entertaining the reader rather than actually providing them with consistent useful information, Cohen actually believes in teaching. Although a tough subject (to me), he really breaks the information down and builds the reader up to a level of understanding and confidence to begin.

I especially liked how he helps you to start and construct your own plan of attack after realizing how to enter the game but without a biased opinion on which one is better.

(The area on Technical Analysis was great, however I do wish that he would of spent a little more time on breaking some of the charts down).

Even with that I learned quite a bit.

I am a young college student with lots of enthusiasm about entering the options game and will be getting his Bible Of Options Strategies as well.

Option Pricing: Black-Scholes Made Easy (With CD-ROM)

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A Must-Have for Any Options Trader
Outstanding!
Informative book read...
Can't praise this interactive book highly enough
First Rate

Option Pricing: Black-Scholes Made Easy (With CD-ROM)
Jerry Marlow
Manufacturer: Wiley
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A intuitive and powerful approach to mastering one of the most important options trading tools
In 1997, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded for the work that led to Black-Scholes Options-Pricing Theory. Black-Scholes has become the dominant way of understanding the relationships among options prices, stock forecasts, and expected stock-market volatility. Option Pricing: Black-Scholes Made Easy, a book and interactive, animated tutorial, makes this sophisticated way of thinking accessible to everyday traders. Animations and simulations present the material in a simple, visual and interactive manner. They allow readers to understand easily and intuitively the concepts and outcomes of Black-Scholes and probability distributions. Black-Scholes Options-Pricing Theory revealed that investing in options is a probability game. Option Pricing: Black-Scholes Made Easy shows you your odds.
Jerry Marlow (New York, NY) is a freelance financial writer and marketing consultant. For investment firms, he creates marketing and educational presentation that bridge the gap between how sophisticated financial mangers think about investing and how the firms' clients think about investing.

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A Must-Have for Any Options Trader.......2007-10-02

This book makes it relatively easy to understand the mathematical principles behind the Black-Scholes theory. The CD guides you through various scenarios and plots everything for you. You don't have to be a mathematician with a PhD from the University of Chicago to appreciate the explanations and diagrams depicted. A "must-have" for every options trader or investor - a definite "keeper"!

Outstanding!.......2003-01-16

Fantastic software!

The book is really a step by step tutorial on how to use the
probability forecasting software that is on the CD.

Excellent learning tool as well as a decision-analysis tool for investments.

Really great. Loved it. Learned a lot!

Many thanks to the author.

One Caution: It doesn't work on a Macintosh
(unless you have PC emulation software for your Mac).

Cheers,
---Freddy

Informative book read..........2002-08-14

I was skeptical to buy it since there were more than 100 different books available on options... but I am glad I choose this book. Its easy and the software developed beats anything I have seen yet... All the free softwares available are excel based but do not offer such insight on the subject as this book.
I would strongly recommend it to anyone. Only hitch is that the software is bit slow to run but it performs...

Can't praise this interactive book highly enough.......2002-05-10

Any student or trainee having to study this topic really should buy this tutorial.

Having a degree in Mathematics and a professional accountancy qualification did not prepare me for the explanations of Black Scholes to be found in most text books.

They may have got a Nobel prize for their option pricing model but Black and Scholes were never going to get an award for clarity of explanation.

Having grappled with this area for a few months, I decided I needed a little more innovative help; hence my purchase of Jerry Marlow's interactive tutorial.

Two days later and I feel I could go for the next Nobel prize myself!

So many things click into place so quickly, it's marvellous.

Jerry gives his email address which I had to resort to for one query. He answered most helpfully within a couple of hours.

I suspect that it helps to have had an overview appreciation of the area before starting the tutorial but this shouldn't deter first timers from starting with this.

First Rate.......2002-02-08

The visual presentation the book offers combined with the interactive CD-ROM make this indispensable to anyone who really wants to understand how option pricing works. It's right here on my desk for easy and quick reference - which is my advice to everyone!

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Ok Elementary-Intermediate Book
Does a good job of what it claims.
Easier yes. Easy ... no.
As the title says! - & excellent non-option context chapters
Best book to start in options trading!

Options Made Easy
Guy Cohen
Manufacturer: Financial Times Prentice Hall
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Ok Elementary-Intermediate Book.......2005-10-21

"Options Made Easy" is a good book to start off with if you have no experience with Options, but still have lots of experience trading stocks. Author Guy Cohen does a good job of introducing definitions and backing them up with examples.

The book falls a little short in a few places. This first is the writing style, where Guy expects the reader to have a good understand of trading jargon. Second, in some parts of the book he uses a particular term that isn't defined until later in the book. An author should never use a term until after is has been defined. And finally, the book does a good job of defining different techniques, but does little to say what trades situation are good; ones that he would invest in.

Thus I can only give this book 3 stars out of 5. Still, it's a good starting place if you are new to options.

Does a good job of what it claims........2005-05-24

Very good for starters! Easy to read and good graph illustrations. I must add, well placed illustrations also.
I found it useful for my first steps, especially with the basic "safe" strategies discussed.

Easier yes. Easy ... no........2004-11-13

Guy Cohen has done a remarkable job making the world of options more reasonable for the begining investor (such as myself), however I consider myself reasonably intelligent and I struggled with some of the risk profiles. After I gained an understanding of what the author was explaining I felt that some aspects of the book could have been explained more completely.(An example would be explaining that the break even mark on the risk profile was calculated using only the time value of the option and not the intrinsic value and this only applies if the option is sold at expiration.)

Overall I feel that this book is the best content value I have found on the subject and I highly recomend it for beginning traders who may find it difficult to shell out some of the big ticket prices charged by people teaching this subject.

As the title says! - & excellent non-option context chapters.......2003-10-22

Having read a large number of stocks and trading psychology books and trading stocks/CFDs and moving on to Options I bought and read this and Michael Thomsetts 'Getting started in Options' book. Choose this one. Its an easy read style, clear text and graphs and makes it all understandable. As a bonus, the best thing is for new traders are the excellent chapters on Psychology and Technical Analysis which could stand alone as mini-guide on these subjects.(Intermediate/advanced traders could skip them but they are a useful reminder). There are a couple of references to his software but that is fine (in fact while this is a book review I have also benefitted from his course and using the software). At the end is also a good 'Putting it all together' section to actually DO the option trading as well as a useful strategy summary. I am now successfully trading options, initiated to a large to degree by this book.

Best book to start in options trading!.......2003-09-19

I read dozens books about options. I only came across four, which have a real practical value about real options trading. This one - "Options made easy" - the first one. It's a very good introduction to option theory and practical approach of trading. Three others - "Options Workbook" by Tony Saliba, "Volatility" by Natenberg and "Options: Perceptions and Deceptions" by Cottle. All other books so far - theoretical garbage by people who want to make money by only selling books and useless services, but not trading options!

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Option Spreads Made Easy
George Fontanills
Manufacturer: Marketplace Books
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Binding: Audio CD
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Option Spreads Made Easy with George Fontanills

The popular author of Trade Options Online and The Options Course presents his proven techniques in a viewer-friendly, 90 min. video workshop that shows how to expand profit opportunities and manage risk with options.

Using the basic bull call spread as his focus, Fontanills features simple strategies for structuring debit and credit spreads, the best market conditions for each, and how to achieve your trade goals by adjusting strike-price levels.

George makes spreading strategies understandable and easy to implement. His thorough coverage includes an overview of equity options. Plus, he reveals ...

* Why the lowest-priced option isn't always the cheapest
* How "in-the-money" spreads can be safer, even if they cost more
* The "Sketch-pad" method of risk analysis - drawing a picture of your trade probabilities
* Making time-value decay your ally, instead of your enemy
* Understanding how volatility patterns impact your trading selection

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In real life, as well as in economic models, individuals often make decisions in an uncertain environment. In many cases, a problem which an optimizing agent faces can be formulated or reformulated as a problem of optimal timing of a certain irreversible or partially reversible action or optimal stopping problem. In this book, the authors present an alternative approach to optimal stopping problems. The basic ideas and techniques of the approach can be explained much simpler than the standard methods in the literature on optimal stopping problems. The monograph will teach the reader to apply the technique to many problems in economics and finance, including new ones. From the technical point of view, the method can be characterized as option pricing via the Wiener-Hopf factorization.

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Options Made Easy Workbook

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146 pages - includes glossary.

Optimal stopping made easy [An article from: Journal of Mathematical Economics]

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Optimal stopping made easy [An article from: Journal of Mathematical Economics]
S. Boyarchenko , and S. Levendorskii@?
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Mathematical Economics, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper presents a simple discrete time model for valuing real options. A short and simple proof of optimal exercise rules for the standard problems in the real options theory is given in the binomial and trinomial models, and, more generally, when the underlying uncertainty is modelled as a random walk on a lattice. The method of the paper is based on the use of the expected present value operators. With straightforward modifications, the method works in discrete time-continuous space, continuous time-continuous space and continuous time-discrete space models.

Royalty reporting and payment collection made easy: is it fast and easy for franchisees to make royalty payments? Do they have payment options? Is receipt ... An article from: Franchising World

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Royalty reporting and payment collection made easy: is it fast and easy for franchisees to make royalty payments? Do they have payment options? Is receipt ... An article from: Franchising World
Lynne Testa
Manufacturer: International Franchise Association
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Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from Franchising World, published by International Franchise Association on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1979 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Royalty reporting and payment collection made easy: is it fast and easy for franchisees to make royalty payments? Do they have payment options? Is receipt of royalty payments timely and accurate? (Management & Operations).(use of online accounting and payment services)
Author: Lynne Testa
Publication: Franchising World (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: International Franchise Association
Volume: 34 Issue: 6 Page: 44(3)

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Optionetics Option Spreads Made Easy (Option Spreads Made Easy)

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Optionetics Option Spreads Made Easy (Option Spreads Made Easy)

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8 Videos/DVDs 1. Option Basics 2. Introduction To Spreads & Debit Spreads 3. Credit Spreads 4. Ration Back Spreads 5. Delta Neutral & Straddles 6. Trading Sideways Markets 7. Advanced Strategies & The 5 Minutes-a-Day Strategy 8. Finding the Best Trades 15 audio CD set : CDs 1 and 2 Stocks and Stock Options Trading CDs 3 and 4 Beyond The Basics CDs 5 and 6 High Profit-Low risk Debit Spreads CDs 7 and 8 Directional Trading for Instant Success CD 9 Starting the Trading Day and Ratio Backspreads CD 10 Ratio Backspreads and The 5 Minute Success Formula CD 11 Trading the Markets CD 12 Straddling the Markets CDs 13 and 14 Tracking the Sideways Market CD 15 Protecting Your Portfolio

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Options Made Easy
Walter T Harrison
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Legalines: Wills, Trusts, and Estates: Adaptable to Seventh Edition of the Dukeminier Casebook (Legalines)
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Legalines gives you authoritative, detailed briefs of every major case in your casebook. You get a clear explanation of facts, the issues, the courts holding and reasoning, and any significant concurrences or dissents. Even more importantly, you get an authoritative explanation of the significance of each case, and how it relates to other cases in your casebook. And with Legalines detailed table of cases, you can quickly find any case or concept youre looking for. But your professor expects you to know more than just the cases. Thats why Legalines gives you more than just case briefs. You get summaries of the black letter law as well. Thats crucial because some of the most important information in your casebooks isnt in the cases at all its the black letter principles youre expected to glean from those cases. Legalines is the only study aid that gives you both case briefs and black letter review. With Legalines, you get everything you need to know whether its in a case or not!

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Legalines offer the best in review materials.......2004-03-10

I have come to expect the best from the Legalines series, and they have usually delivered. These are the best of the variety of legal supplements and hornbooks I have used in my 2 years at law school (including Nutshell, Emmanuel and Casenotes). This book offers a compact, yet fairly detailed, look at wills and estates. It is keyed directly to the Dukeminier casebook, so it is easy to locate the section of the text you need help in. I appreciated this exactness when making my own outline...I didn't need to constantly flip through pages to match my notes, text and supplement. I also liked the plain, succinct explanations the book gave on each section of the law. I found their treatment of the degree of relationship scheme and various inheritance order systems and particularly helpful. Their case summaries are also well organized, dividing each case by its facts, issue(s) and holding(s). I would recommend this series of supplements to anyone, even if just used to assist in your own outline.

Wills, trusts & estates: Adaptable to courses utilizing materials by Dukeminier (Legalines)

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Wills, trusts & estates: Adaptable to fourth edition of Dukeminier casebook (Legalines)

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