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[davidosh] 19/1/2014 08:49

zangdook....the book was launched at our Mello investor event in December and you will find some comments and reviews of the book linked here...





I featured his top ten here...

[zangdook] 19/1/2014 04:32

Looks like John Lee's written his own book



Anyone seen it?

[zangdook] 26/8/2013 10:06

btw, if you change the tt in the http of the URL to capital TT it'll get around advfn's helpful URL-wrecking software and make the link clickable.

[zangdook] 26/8/2013 10:04

Thanks

Are there any significant changes to the existing chapters?

[freecapital] 26/8/2013 09:58

Free Capital 2nd edition

All investors re-interviewed and epilogue chapter added

Stand-alone version of the new chapter free at Harriman site

hxxp://intel.harriman-house.com/investing/free-capital-what-happened-next/

[brer rabbit] 13/2/2013 13:39

Having a clearout; I have listed the following books on EBay; all 3 are hardbacks, all in excellent condition ...

Virtual Trading, by Lederman


Using Technical Analysis, by Pistolese


Design, Testing, and Optimization of Trading Systems, by Prado

[praipus] 07/1/2013 14:28

Doh.. So it is! Think I need new glsses:-)

[stegrego] 07/1/2013 13:47

It's already on kindle, has been from day one.

[praipus] 07/1/2013 13:22

Happy New Year.

Is there any chance of an iPhone or kindle version of "Free Capital" being made available?

[praipus] 04/10/2012 05:55

Hi freecapital yes there was something about DIVA here. An email from FRM resolved it and as it was off topic so I moved it to the DIVA thread. Apologies for any confusion.

[freecapital] 03/10/2012 20:20

Thanks. I thought I saw you post about DIVA somewhere, was it here? Anyway I will answer now on the DIVA thread.

[praipus] 02/10/2012 15:15

Re-reading Free Capital again and think the idea of explaining technical methods like merger arbitrage, option arbitrage, closed end fund arbitrage and capital structure arbitrage etc is brilliant.

Many thanks
P.

[stegrego] 19/9/2012 07:19

I expect it would be easy to find enough people to fill a whole encyclopaedia Brittanica format for losers.

[zangdook] 19/9/2012 07:16

Next book should be on losers. I might even volunteer (though there would be stiff competition for a place).

[davidosh] 18/9/2012 21:31

I think there are still a good number of well known and colourful investors and their strategies still to cover within equities for a follow up book and ideally a few female investors in the next one.

[freecapital] 18/9/2012 17:48

Yes I've looked at the Trading Blox forums from time to time over the years. But other authors will have to write the options, futures and ETFs books. I just don't know that world well enough. But I'd buy the book!

[praipus] 17/9/2012 16:50

Ok thanks, I've updated the link if still incorrect please advise.

Half way through Free Capital now. Didn't know it included John Lee until I got to his chapter. Fascinating glimpses into their worlds, I'm surprised how many are my age or older so there is still some hope of catching them up:-)

"trustafarian" lol

Also commonality of theme's I too programmed Sinclair ZX80's to graph mining stock prices until the cassette data storage snapped! Stagged the privatisations, had a couple of winners in the Tec boom what happened next is where the paths diverge.

Do you think there would be enough subjects to write Free Capital's second, third and fourth editions covering people who made their way Options Trading, Futures Trading and ETF trading?

The ADVFN OPTS (writing traded options for income) thread has a group of contributors who seem to have been there for some time and talk reasonable numbers from what I can tell. Also I use TradingBlox.com software to generate Futures entries and exits. The forum at the TB website is very good some of the contributors there are based in the UK at least some of the time. If to be believed a few are running very large leveraged futures portfolios on their own account.

Thanks again, back to reading Peter Gyllenhammars' chapter:-)

[freecapital] 17/9/2012 15:35

Hi glad you like the book.

Hazell Carr Edwards FURB has separate beneficial ownership hence declared separately, albeit the ideas are often mine. You are probably better off tracking them separately.

Some of the holdings are out of date (note Hazell Carr Edwards website lists present and past over 3% holdings).

The only current over 3% [or 1%] ones per RNS are

DTE, FCAP, HYD, [KBT].

[praipus] 13/9/2012 12:54

Hi just taken delivery of your book browsed one chapter on Owen and love it:-) Great book, great idea, well laid out inspiring thank you.

Also noticed your holdings RNS overlap some of the arbitrageurs I track on the ADVFN WAM thread below, at least I assume they are yours?



I also track Peter Gyllenhammars holdings (chapter 10) in post 4 link below

[zangdook] 09/7/2011 08:17

2G thanks for the offer, but I wanted a copy then and there, to read on the plane. I could have downloaded an e-book from Amazon for less than half what I paid but no.

[freecapital] 08/7/2011 19:51

I guess a writer of investment books can't complain about arbitrage!

[charlie] 08/7/2011 19:48

secondhand on Amazon - but dearer than the new price??

[2gekko] 08/7/2011 19:04

zangdook,

you could have mine for a fiver as I have already read it

[zangdook] 07/7/2011 05:50

Thaks for replying - I found two copies in the end, on a shelf at the Commercial Press shop downstairs at 132 Nathan Rd. They wanted HK$240, about £20, which is a bit steep compared to Amazon etc, but what can you do? I bought it anyway.

[freecapital] 05/7/2011 12:20

Thanks for the intelligence zangdook. I will ask Harriman. Also Nigel in the book, as he's based in Hong Kong.