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by Michael Swanson (Author)
The United States stock market began a bull market in 2009 that was powered by low interest rates and quantitative easing programs created by the Federal Reserve. In 2012 that bull market accelerated into a stairway to heaven forty-five degree angle rally that came to an end in 2014.
By the start of 2015 the stock market had reached a crazy valuation level not seen but a few times in its entire history.
By the summer of 2015 the stock market actually completed a top and on August 20, 2015 began a violent bear market when the DOW plunged. By February of 2016 the Nasdaq fell over 20% to fall into a bear market. It bottomed, but the events provide lessons in how to navigate market turmoil. This book will show you what you need to know in order to adapt and to adjust to such events.
This book will show you:
1) Ways to manage your money in order to diversify properly in the financial markets to reduce your risk and maximize your potential returns going forward.
2) Ways you can bet against the stock market to make money.
3) A method to use so you know what sectors and asset classes will break away from the overall bear trend in the financial markets when they hit to provide tremendous profit opportunities for those that invest in them.
This book reveals the fundamental factors that drive bear markets and ways to navigate the market not just now, but in the years to come.
Author Biography
Michael Swanson is the founder and head editor of WallStreetWindow.com. He ran a hedge fund from 2003 to 2006 that generated a return of over 78% for its investors during that time frame and in one year was ranked in the top thirty-five hedge funds among several thousand tracked by hedgefund.net. He received a Masters Degree in history from the University of Virginia in 1998 and since retiring from the hedge fund world writes about global investment trends, the financial markets, and American history.
