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Panic, Prosperity, and Progress
Five Centuries of History and the Markets
Wiley Trading Series
Author: Knight Timothy
Language: English
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timothy knight; tim knight; financial crises; financial market crises; market crises; stock market crises; surviving market crises; thriving during stock market crises; market performance before a crisis; market performance during a crisis; market performance after a crisis; predicting a market crisis; avoiding market crises; navigating market crises; market crisis book
480 p. · 15.2x23.1 cm · Hardback
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With the financial markets seemingly careening from one crisis to another, it's vital for today?s investors and traders to have an historical perspective on market performance during times of great turmoil. In this book, Tim Knight provides an exhaustive analysis of financial market behavior prior, during, and following tumultuous events since 1600.
Making copious use of charts and basic technical analysis, Knight demonstrates how external shocks tend to create extreme reactions in the financial markets and how these predictable reactions provide opportunities for investors and traders to profit. Knight traverses five centuries of financial market history, from Tulipmania in the 1600s to the contemporary sovereign debt crisis. He looks at each event from the prism of the financial markets, examining the market climate prior to the event, during the event, and following the event.
- Draws essential lessons from history providing investors and traders with guidelines to better navigate markets in today's tumultuous times
- Offers valuable insights on understanding and anticipating market responses to shocks and crises
- Companion website with a Q&A section contains charts from key moments in past financial crises and asks readers to choose whether to go long, short, or step aside
If you're looking for a better way to make it today's dynamic markets, look no further than this timely book.
Preface ix
Chapter 1 Tulip Madness 1
Chapter 2 The Mississippi Scheme 9
Chapter 3 The South Sea Bubble 29
Chapter 4 American Revolution in the Colonies 37
Chapter 5 The Panic of 1837 49
Chapter 6 California Gold 63
Chapter 7 The American Civil War 75
Chapter 8 The Panic of 1893 97
Chapter 9 The Rich Man’s Panic of 1907 113
Chapter 10 Billion-Dollar Bread—The Weimar Hyperinflation 131
Chapter 11 The Roaring Twenties 145
Chapter 12 The Great Depression 157
Chapter 13 Postwar Prosperity 189
Chapter 14 Energy, Politics, and War 199
Chapter 15 Precious Metals and the Destruction of a Billionaire 219
Chapter 16 Latin American Debt Crisis 245
Chapter 17 The Reagan Revolution and Crash 255
Chapter 18 The Rising and Setting Sun of Japan 269
Chapter 19 The Savings and Loan Debacle 295
Chapter 20 Fall of the Soviet Union 309
Chapter 21 The Asian Contagion 321
Chapter 22 Russian Crisis of 1998 339
Chapter 23 Captured by the Net 353
Chapter 24 The Great Recession 415
Chapter 25 History in the Making 443
About the Author 449
Index 451
Timothy Knight is a money manager and founder of www.SlopeofHope.com, a popular trading blog started in 2005 that is one of the most active forums for discussion among traders on the Internet. Previously, he was founder of Prophet Financial Systems, a web-based service that was bought by Ameritrade and was consistently rated the number one website for technical analysis by both Barron's and Forbes. Prior to starting Prophet, Knight was vice president of technology products for Montgomery Securities and worked at Apple in Strategic Planning. Knight has traded for over 25 years, primarily using technical analysis and price charts as the basis for his decisions, and he owns and operates a short-bias hedge fund from his home town of Palo Alto, California.