Timing the Market
How To Profit in the Stock Market Using the Yield Curve, Technical Analysis, and Cultural Indicators
Wiley Trading Series
1. Auflage November 2005
432 Seiten, Hardcover
Handbuch/Nachschlagewerk
Kurzbeschreibung
It's well established that interest rates significantly impact the stock market. This is the first book that definitively explores the interest rate/stock market relationship and describes a specific system for profiting from the relationship. Timing the Market provides an historically proven system, rooted in fundamental economics, that allows investors and traders to forecast the stock market using data from the interest rate markets???together with supporting market sentiment and cultural indicators???to pinpoint and profit from major turns in the stock market.
The first definitive guide to understanding and profiting from the relationship between the stock market and interest rates
It's well established that interest rates significantly impact the stock market. This is the first book that definitively explores the interest rate/stock market relationship and describes a specific system for profiting from the relationship. Timing the Market provides an historically proven system, rooted in fundamental economics, that allows investors and traders to forecast the stock market using data from the interest rate markets-together with supporting market sentiment and cultural indicators-to pinpoint and profit from major turns in the stock market.
Deborah Weir (Greenwich, CT) is President of Wealth Strategies, a firm that does marketing for traditional money managers and hedge funds. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and is the first woman president of the Stamford CFA Society.
Acknowlegements.
Introduction.
Prologue.
PART I: YIELD CURVE ANALYSIS.
1. Demystifying the Investment World.
2. Back-of-the-Envelope Forecast.
3. Money Markets Matter.
4. Long-term Bonds.
5. Expected Returns for jthe Stock Market.
6. Bond Quality Spreads.
7. Federal Funds Rates.
8. Summary of Yield Curve Analysis.
PART II: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS.
9. Market Breadth: Advancing Issues in the Dow.
10. The Volatility Index.
11. The Put/Call Ratio.
12. Moving Averages.
13. Using Moving Averages: The MACD Line.
14. Leverage: Short Positions and Margin Debt.
15. Summary of Market Sentiment.
PART III: CULTURAL INDICATORS.
16. Changing Standards of Feminine Beauty.
17. Demographics.
18. Corporate Spending.
19. War and Rumors of War.
20. Summary of Cultural Indicators.
PART IV: CHOOSING INVESTMENTS.
21. Asset Classes.
22. Mutual Funds.
23. Electronically-traded Funds.
24. Security Selection.
25. Final Summary.
26. Outrageous Wall Street Stories.
27. America! America! God Shed His Grace on Thee.
Web Sites.
References and Suggested Reading.
Appendices.
About the Author.
Index.
