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• The Essence of Market Profits by Victor Sperandeo

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Essence of Market Profits by Victor Sperandeo The key to making money in the markets is having the major trends at your back. This well-known money manager points to the importance of looking at the big picture. Popular beliefs about investment profits reflect a number of divergent points of view. These beliefs range from microfundamental analysis -- otherwise known as "stock picking" -- and technical analysis, both of which rely on the skill of the money manager, all the way to the random walk theory, which states that skill plays no part whatsoever in achieving attractive returns. The i...

AUTHOR: Victor SperandeoDATE: APR 1997SUBJECT: Basic Techniques

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• Managing the Future with Managed Futures by Victor Sperandeo

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Managing The Future With Managed Futures by Victor Sperandeo The stock market has been trending higher for a record period, and a correction is long overdue. What can you do to stay in the game, besides reduce your risk? Consider diversifying your assets beyond just a basket of stocks. Here's the rationale. When the equity market tops, what should you expect to happen? We can't know for certain, but we do have a model on which to base our expectations. The Japanese market is on record as having had the longest bubble in history, a span of 288 months between 1965 and 1990 - a total of 24 year...

AUTHOR: Victor SperandeoDATE: OCT 1996SUBJECT: Money Management

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• Are Managed Futures the Future? by Victor Sperandeo

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Are Managed Futures The Future? by Victor Sperandeo This well-known money manager believes that managed futures should be a part of your portfolio. Here's why. Very little can drastically alter the economy and financial markets more than a change in monetary or fiscal policy; no better modern example of this can be found than in the activities of the early 1980s. At the time, government bonds were yielding 15%, and anyone holding a note or bond for a year or more had a real loss. Sentiment had virtually all the popular forecasters long-term bearish on bonds. What finally ended this 30-year d...

AUTHOR: Victor SperandeoDATE: NOV 1995

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• The Technical Basis Of Risk-Reward Analysis by Victor Sperandeo

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...The Technical Basis Of Risk-Reward Analysis by Victor Sperandeo Author and money manager Victor Sperandeo offers details on his investment approach in this excerpt from his latest work, Trader Vic II: Principles of Professional Speculation. Here, Sperandeo explains the dos and don'ts of risk-reward analysis. Risk and reward are two of the most commonly used words on Wall Street, and yet, they are probably the most ill-defined. They represent concepts that few ever bother to spend time refining because "everyone knows what they mean." Risk is generally associated with losing money, and reward...

AUTHOR: Victor SperandeoDATE: MAY 1994