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    How Legendary Traders Made Millions: Profiting From the Investment Strategies of the Gretest Traders of All time
    How Legendary Traders Made Millions: Profiting From the Investment Strategies of the Gretest Traders of All time
    How Legendary Traders Made Millions: Profiting From the Investment Strategies of the Gretest Traders of All time
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    How Legendary Traders Made Millions: Profiting From the Investment Strategies of the Gretest Traders of All time

    By John Boik

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    Learn how to generate profit, from history's most celebrated traders including William J. O'Neil, Jesse Livermore, and others.

    In How Legendary Traders Made Millions, award-winning investment author and historian John Boik has created the first book to put the strategies of history's top traders in one place. Revealing how each trader took advantage of distinct market situations, it details the hands-on specifics of each trade as well as the economic, political, and stock market environments in which the strategy flourished.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education
    Release dateApr 7, 2006
    ISBN9780071487146
    How Legendary Traders Made Millions: Profiting From the Investment Strategies of the Gretest Traders of All time

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