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Conventions Used in This Book |
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How This Book Is Organized |
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Part I: Commodities: Just the Facts |
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4 | (1) |
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Part III: The Power House: How to Make Money in Energy |
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Part IV: Pedal to the Metal: Investing in Metals |
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Part V: Going Down to the Farm: Trading Agricultural Products |
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Part VI: The Part of Tens |
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6 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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Part I: Commodities: Just the Facts |
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Investors, Start Your Engines! An Overview of Commodities |
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Going for a Spin: Choosing the Right Investment Vehicle |
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14 | (5) |
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14 | (2) |
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16 | (2) |
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18 | (1) |
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Checking Out What's on the Menu |
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19 | (4) |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (1) |
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Benefiting from Commodities Creatively |
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Earn, Baby, Earn! Why You Should Invest in Commodities |
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You Can't Argue with Success |
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The 21st Century Is the Century of Commodities |
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Ka-boom! Capitalizing on the global population explosion |
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Brick by brick: Profiting from urbanization |
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Full steam ahead! Benefiting from industrialization |
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It's All about Me! Why Commodities Are Unique |
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Is it safe in here? Commodities as a safe haven |
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Hedge-hogging galore! Commodities as a hedge against inflation |
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Could you hurry up, please! Bringing new sources online takes time |
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Sell in May and go away? Definitely nay! |
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Time to Get Down to Business: Commodities and the Business Cycle |
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Is Investing in Commodities Only for the Brave? |
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Biting Off More Than You Can Chew: The Pitfalls of Using Leverage |
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Watch Your Step: Understanding the Real Risks behind Commodities |
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43 | (2) |
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Corporate governance risk |
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45 | (1) |
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Due diligence: Just do it |
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Diversify, diversify, diversify |
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Get Ready to Rumble! Commodity Bulls vs. Bears |
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Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees |
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Ride the Wave? Kondratieff and the Super Cycle Theory |
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Keeping It Simple: Looking at the Laws of Supply and Demand |
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Feel the Love: Welcoming Commodities into Your Portfolio |
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The Color of Money: Taking Control of Your Financial Life |
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Looking Ahead: Creating a Financial Road Map |
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Figuring out your net worth |
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Identifying your tax bracket |
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Are you hungry? Determining your risk appetite |
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Making Room in Your Portfolio for Commodities |
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69 | (1) |
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Fully Exposed: The Top Ways to Get Exposure to Commodities |
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Looking towards the future with commodity futures |
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Funding your account with commodity funds |
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You're in good company: Investing in commodity companies |
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74 | (3) |
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Show Me the Money! Choosing the Right Manager |
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79 | (18) |
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Mutually Beneficial: Investing in Commodity Mutual Funds |
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Riddle me this, riddle me that: Asking the right questions |
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Taking a look at what's out there |
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83 | (1) |
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Examining Exchange Traded Funds |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (8) |
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86 | (3) |
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The nuts and bolts of MLP investing |
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Relying on a Commodity Trading Advisor |
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Jumping into a Commodity Pool |
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Track and Trade: Investing through Commodity Indexes |
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Checking Out Commodity Indexes |
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What's the use of an index? |
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So how do I make money using an index? |
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From Head to Toes: Anatomy of a Commodity Index |
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99 | (2) |
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Goldman Sachs Commodity Index |
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101 | (3) |
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Reuters/Jefferies Commodity Research Bureau Index |
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104 | (2) |
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Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index |
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106 | (2) |
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Rogers International Commodities Index |
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Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index |
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Which Index Should You Use? |
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Understanding How Commodities Exchanges Work |
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Why Do We Have Commodities Exchanges, Anyway? |
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Identifying the Major Commodity Exchanges |
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117 | (3) |
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Ready, Set, Invest: Opening an Account and Placing Orders |
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Choosing the right account |
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121 | (2) |
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Tracking your order from start to finish |
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Owning a Piece of an Exchange |
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Back to the Future: Getting a Grip on Futures and Options |
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The Future Looks Bright: How to Trade Futures Contracts |
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The competition: Who trades futures? |
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Contract specs: Keeping track of all the moving pieces |
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138 | (4) |
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For a Few Dollars Less: Trading Futures on Margin |
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Taking a Pulse: Figuring Out Where the Futures Market Is Heading |
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143 | (2) |
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Contango: It takes two to tango |
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Backwardation: One step forward, two steps back |
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144 | (1) |
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Keeping Your Options Open: Trading with Options |
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Cutting to the chase: Options in action! |
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146 | (1) |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (3) |
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Technically Speaking: Using Technical Analysis |
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151 | (16) |
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Looking at Charts: A Picture Is Worth More Than a Thousand Words |
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More Than a Thousand Words |
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Line it up: Checking out line charts |
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Lighting up the chart with candlesticks |
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Identifying Patterns: The Trend Is Your Friend |
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Identifying support and resistance |
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156 | (3) |
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Trend lines: Ride the trend till the end |
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159 | (1) |
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160 | (2) |
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Moving Averages: Anything But Average |
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Keeping it simple with the SMA |
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Taking it up a notch with the EMA |
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162 | (2) |
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It's All Relative: Using the RSI |
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164 | (1) |
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Breaking into Bollinger Bands |
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165 | (2) |
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Part III: The Power House: How to Make Money in Energy |
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It's a Crude, Crude World! Investing in Crude Oil |
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169 | (20) |
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170 | (8) |
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No need for a reservation: Examining global reserve estimates |
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Staying busy and productive: Looking at production figures |
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It can be demanding: Checking out demand figures |
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Going in and out: Eyeing imports and exports |
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176 | (2) |
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You want that light and sweet or heavy and sour? |
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Make Big Bucks with Big Oil |
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182 | (7) |
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Oil companies: Lubricated and firing on all cylinders |
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182 | (3) |
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Get your passport ready: Investing overseas |
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185 | (4) |
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Welcome to Gas Vegas, Baby! Trading Natural Gas |
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189 | (12) |
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What's the Use? Looking at Natural Gas Applications |
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190 | (6) |
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Calling all captains of industry: Industrial uses of natural gas |
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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! Natural gas in your home |
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Going commercial: Natural gas's commercial uses |
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194 | (1) |
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Truly electrifying! Generating electricity with natural gas |
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195 | (1) |
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Getting from here to there: Natural gas and transportation |
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196 | (1) |
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Liquefied Natural Gas: Getting Liquid without Getting Wet |
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196 | (1) |
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197 | (4) |
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Natural selection: Trading Nat Gas futures |
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199 | (1) |
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Nat Gas companies: The natural choice |
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200 | (1) |
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Fuel for Thought: Looking at Alternative Energy Sources |
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201 | (16) |
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Out with the Old and in with the New? |
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201 | (2) |
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King Coal: Not as Scary as You Think |
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203 | (5) |
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203 | (3) |
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206 | (1) |
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207 | (1) |
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Investing in Nuclear Power: Going Nuclear without Going Ballistic |
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208 | (2) |
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You've Been Zapped! Trading Electricity |
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210 | (3) |
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210 | (1) |
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211 | (2) |
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Always Brand Spanking New! Renewable Energy Sources |
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213 | (4) |
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Sunny delight: Solar energy |
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Fast and furious: Wind energy |
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Totally Energized: Investing in Energy Companies |
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217 | (16) |
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Bulls Eye! Profiting from Oil Exploration and Production |
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217 | (6) |
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218 | (3) |
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221 | (1) |
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Oh My, You're So Refined! Investing in Refineries |
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223 | (3) |
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How to Become an Oil Shipping Magnate |
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226 | (7) |
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Swimming in oil: Transportation supply and demand |
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226 | (2) |
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228 | (1) |
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Masters of the sea: Petroleum shipping companies |
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229 | (2) |
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Swimming with sharks: Avoiding industry risk |
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231 | (2) |
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Part IV: Pedal to the Metal: Investing in Metals |
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Getting the Glitters: Investing in Gold, Silver, and Platinum |
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235 | (18) |
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235 | (9) |
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236 | (4) |
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240 | (4) |
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Get the Tableware Ready: Investing in Silver |
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244 | (4) |
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Checking out the big picture on the silver screen |
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244 | (2) |
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A sliver of silver in your portfolio |
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246 | (2) |
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Bling Bling: Investing in Platinum |
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248 | (5) |
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Platinum facts and figures |
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249 | (1) |
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249 | (4) |
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Metals That Prove Their Mettle: Steel, Aluminum, and Copper |
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253 | (12) |
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Building a Portfolio That's As Strong As Steel |
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254 | (3) |
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254 | (1) |
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Investing in steel companies |
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255 | (2) |
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Aluminum: Everything Is Illuminated |
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257 | (3) |
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257 | (1) |
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258 | (2) |
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260 | (1) |
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260 | (5) |
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260 | (2) |
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262 | (1) |
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263 | (2) |
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Weighing Investments in Heavy and Not-So-Heavy Metals |
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265 | (8) |
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Palladium: Metal for the New Millennium |
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265 | (4) |
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You Won't Get Nickel and Dimed by Investing in Nickel |
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270 | (3) |
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Mine Your Own Business: Unearthing the Top Mining Companies |
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273 | (10) |
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Diversified Mining Companies |
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274 | (4) |
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274 | (1) |
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275 | (1) |
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276 | (2) |
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Specialized Mining Companies |
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278 | (5) |
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278 | (1) |
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Silver Wheaton --- Silver |
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278 | (1) |
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279 | (1) |
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280 | (1) |
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281 | (2) |
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Part V: Going Down to the Farm: Trading Agricultural Products |
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283 | (32) |
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Breakfast of Champions: Profiting from Coffee, Cocoa, Sugar, and Orange Juice |
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285 | (12) |
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Give Your Portfolio a Buzz by Investing in Coffee |
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285 | (4) |
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Coffee: It's time for your big break |
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286 | (1) |
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Brewing the right investment strategy |
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287 | (2) |
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289 | (2) |
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Invest in Sugar: It's Such a Sweet Move! |
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291 | (2) |
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Orange Juice: Refreshingly Good for Your Bottom Line |
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293 | (4) |
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How to Gain from Grains: Trading Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans |
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297 | (10) |
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Field of Dreams: How to Invest in Corn |
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298 | (2) |
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Welcome to the Bread Basket: Investing in Wheat |
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300 | (2) |
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Trading Soybeans: It's Not Just Peanuts |
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302 | (5) |
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303 | (1) |
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304 | (1) |
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305 | (2) |
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Alive and Kicking! How to Make Money Trading Livestock |
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307 | (8) |
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Holy Cow! How to Invest in Cattle |
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308 | (3) |
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309 | (1) |
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310 | (1) |
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Lean and Mean: Checking Out Lean Hogs |
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You Want Bacon with That? How to Trade Frozen Pork Bellies |
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312 | (3) |
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Part VI: The Part of Tens |
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315 | (16) |
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Top Ten Ways to Invest in Commodities |
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317 | (4) |
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Futures Commission Merchant |
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317 | (1) |
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Commodity Trading Advisor |
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318 | (1) |
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318 | (1) |
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Integrated Commodity Companies |
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318 | (1) |
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Specialized Commodity Companies |
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318 | (1) |
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Master Limited Partnerships |
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319 | (1) |
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319 | (1) |
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319 | (1) |
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320 | (1) |
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320 | (1) |
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Top Ten Market Indicators You Should Monitor |
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321 | (6) |
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321 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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323 | (1) |
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323 | (1) |
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Purchasing Managers Index |
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324 | (1) |
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Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index |
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324 | (1) |
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324 | (1) |
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324 | (3) |
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Ten or So Resources You Can't Do Without |
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327 | (4) |
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327 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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329 | (1) |
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329 | (1) |
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
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329 | (1) |
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The Energy Information Administration |
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329 | (1) |
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Stocks and Commodities Magazine |
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330 | (1) |
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330 | (1) |
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National Futures Association |
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330 | (1) |
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331 | (12) |
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Appendix: Glossary of Technical Terms |
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333 | (10) |
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