Leadership: Theory and Practice Ninth Edition [PDF]

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• Author: Jeffrey A. Hirsch
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 58th edition (October 22, 2024)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Spiral-bound ‏ : ‎ 313 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1394281242
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1394281244
• Price: 13.99$

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From the Publisher

Welcome to the Fifty-Eighth Edition of the Stock Trader's Almanac!

The Stock Trader's Almanac is the most trusted guide savvy investors use to profit year after year.

The Stock Trader's Almanac is a practical investment tool. It alerts you to those little-known market patterns and tendencies on which shrewd professionals enhance profit potential. Even if you are an investor paying scant attention to cycles, indicators, and patterns, your investment survival could hinge on your interpretation of one of the recurring patterns found within the Stock Trader's Almanac pages. Aside from the potential for profitability in seasonal patterns, there's the pure joy of seeing the market very often do just what you expected.

The Stock Trader's Almanac is also an organizer. Its wealth of information is presented on a calendar basis. The Almanac puts investing in a business framework and makes investing easier because it:

• Updates investment knowledge and informs you of new techniques and tools
• Is a monthly reminder and refresher course
• Alerts you to both seasonal opportunities and dangers
• Furnishes a historical viewpoint by providing pertinent statistics on past market performance
• Supplies forms necessary for portfolio planning, record keeping, and tax preparation

Look for these important icons in your copy of the Stock Trader's Almanac

THE WITCH

The WITCH icon signifies the third Friday of the month on calendar pages and alerts you to extraordinary volatility due to the expiration of monthly equity and index options and index futures contracts.

THE BULL

The BULL icon on calendar pages signifies favorable trading days based on the S&P 500 rising 60% or more of the time on a particular trading day during the 21 years from January 2003 to December 2023.

THE BEAR

The BEAR icon on calendar pages signifies unfavorable trading days based on the S&P falling 60% or more of the time for the same 21-year period.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Praise for Stock Trader's Almanac

"Traders and investors alike look forward to getting their copy of the Stock Trader's Almanac each year. It's the perfect way to set our expectations for what's to come and to harvest the lessons of all that's come before."

Downtown Josh Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management and star of CNBC's The Halftime Report

"Investors need to respect the seasonals and other historical factors that can influence stocks. The Stock Trader's Almanac is one of the best references for these factors and cycles."

Thomas J. Lee, CFA, Managing Partner and Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors

"I do not use seasonality in my work yet I find myself reaching for the Stock Trader's Almanac often. It's more than seasonality: it's data, it's sentiment, it's a must-have if you're involved in markets."

Helene Meisler, Columnist for TheStreet and Real Money, 40-year market technician and equity trader

"The Stock Trader's Almanac gives you a daily guide to 2025 ... a year in advance. I've been reading it since the first 1968 edition was published."

Larry Williams, Legendary stock, futures and commodities trader and author

"Churchill told us, 'The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.' Fortunately, Jeff does this for us year in and year out. The Stock Trader's Almanac is an invaluable resource."

Ryan Detrick, CMT, Chief Market Strategist, Carson Group

"The essential guide that deservedly sits on every professional trade desk on Wall Street. Active traders who have overlooked the Almanac are just asking for trouble."

Barry Ritholtz, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and host of Bloomberg Radio's Masters in Business podcast

Description:

58th Annual Edition of the leading resource on US stock market trends, patterns, and cycles

Neatly organized in an accessible calendar format, Stock Trader's Almanac 2025 enables traders around the world to make sense of the complexities of the US stock market by recognizing historical cycles, trends, and patterns that are essential to making sound investment decisions. This 58th Annual Edition has been thoroughly revised for 2025 to help readers on a monthly and daily basis, explaining a wealth of proven proprietary strategies including the “January Barometer,” the “Santa Claus Rally,” the “Best Six Months,” and the four-year “Presidential Election Cycle.”

Edited by veteran trader and market strategist Jeffrey Hirsch, this 2025 Almanac is a testament to the original iconic work founder Yale Hirsch created in the first 1968 edition and the over five decades of behavioral finance thought leadership it has provided since. The Almanac remains the most valuable trader's desk reference on Wall Street and this year's edition is packed with seasonal and historic investing insights for the year ahead including:

• How our Presidential Elections affect the economy and the stock market just as the moon affects the tides

• Post-Election Years Best Year of the 4-Year Cycle Since 1985

• How the passage of the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution fathered the January Barometer

• Why there is a significant market bias at certain times of the day, week, month and year

• Market behavior three days before and after the holidays

• Updates investment knowledge and informs you of new techniques and tools.

• Is a monthly reminder and refresher course.

• Alerts you to both seasonal opportunities and dangers.

• Furnishes a historical viewpoint by providing pertinent statistics on past market performance.

• Supplies forms necessary for portfolio planning, record keeping, and tax preparation

On the desks of Top Money Managers since 1968, Stock Trader's Almanac 2025 is an essential resource for both retail and institutional investment professionals seeking to understand recurring patterns in the US stock market and consistently maximize profit potential.

About the author

Jeffrey A. Hirsch is president of the Hirsch Organization, editor-in-chief of the Stock Trader's Almanac® (Wiley), Almanac Investor newsletter, and www.stocktradersalmanac.com. He started with the Hirsch Organization in 1990 as a market analyst and historian under the mentorship of his father Yale Hirsch. He was handed the reigns in 2000 and continues to run the operation from his Nyack, New York offices. Jeffrey regularly appears on major news networks such as CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, and Fox News. As well as writing numerous financial columns and is widely quoted in all of the major newspapers and financial publications.