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TOP TEN MUST READ BOOKS FOR INVESTING AND FINANCE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR, by Benjamin Graham TECHNICAL ANALYSIS EXPLAINED, by Martin Pring ONE UP ON WALL STREET, by Peter Lynch RICH DAD SERIES, by Robert Kiyosaki (Specific books: Rich Dad’s guide to Investing and Cash flow Quadrant) ALL BERKSHIRE HATHWAY NEWSLETTERS (FROM 1971 TO 2009) (VERY VERY IMPORTANT): TREASURE TROVE OF KNOWLEDGE FROM WARREN BUFFET. Download this, read the reports judiciously and I guarantee that the way you perceive investing and analyze investments will change drastically. Go to http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/and click on, “Warren Buffet’s letters to Berkshire Shareholders” 6. INVESTMENT FABLES, by Aswath Damodaran 7. BUFFET: THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN CAPITALIST, by Roger Lowenstein 8. THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG, by David P. Schwartz (Non-finance, but a great read!) 9. THE WORLD IS FLAT, by Thomas L. Friedman (Non-finance, but a great read!) 10. THE HIGH PERFORMANCE ENTREPRENUER, by Subroto Bagchi (Non-finance, but a great read!)

SOFTWARES, WEBSITES/BLOGS AND OTHER RESOURCEFUL LINKS INFORMATION ABOUT THINKORSWIM SOFTWARE: A great resource that you must download if you are passionate about trading, stock markets, technical analysis and global finance. It’s an incredible tool for learning and conducting research. INSTRUCTIONS: Just go to www.thinkorswim.com and under software, click on Desktop – thinkDesktop. There are two links, download now, and open account. You have to open an account so click that to open in a new page, and open an account by filling up just the first page. Registering the first page is sufficient to login and use thinkDesktop after downloading. ASWATH DAMODARAN WEBSITE: Aswath Damodaran is a Finance Professor in NYU’s Stern School of Business. Go to his website at www.pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/ and sign up for his newsletters. They are AMAZING! Also browse the site for lots of incredible information. All his class slides, lectures, etc are given online. You can download years of invaluable data from there for FREE. All you data enthusiasts, you have to check out the tons of free and priceless data available on this website FINANCIAL VISUALIZATIONS OR FINVIZ: Go to www.finviz.com and you will see for yourself how these folks approach technical analysis. Whether it’s a triple top formation, double bottom formation or just a stock at support/resistance, you can find stocks for every technical analysis formation. NOTE: US stocks only, but a great learning resource. THE BIG PICTURE BLOG: A great blog which gives you a daily dose of everything happening in the world of finance and economics with good links, charts and illustrations. Go to www.ritholtz.com/blog/ and sign up with your email. JOHN MAULDIN’S THOUGHTS FROM THE FRONTLINE: This newsletter has over 1 million subscribers. You must subscribe to it to stay in loop with what’s happening in global finance and economics. Just to go this website and sign up with your email id: www.frontlinethoughts.com/subscribe.asp SOME OTHER GOOD WEBSITES TO BOOKMARK AND BROWSE 1. www.iCharts.in : A pretty good website for charting in the Indian markets. 2. www.LearningMarkets.com : A very good website with lots of useful info. 3. www.GregMankiw.blogspot.com : Greg Mankiw is a professor of Economics at Harvard University, and this is his blog. 4. www.econompicdata.blogspot.com : As the name says it, this site gives you info about the economy (mainly US) only in pictures, i.e., charts, graphs and other illustrations. 5. www.seekingalpha.com : Very good website for everything finance, economics and trading. 6. www.rgemonitor.com : Nouriel Roubini’s famous RGE monitor. Very good site with lots of info. 7. www.knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/India : India’s Knowledge and Wharton Portal. Very good site. 8. www.GuruFocus.com: A very informative website about what the big wigs in the investment world are buying and selling. NOTE: I am NOT associated with any of these websites or blogs in anyway. I do not have ANY vested interest in any of these blogs/websites/software’s. I regularly use them and find them extremely resourceful and that’s why I want to share it with you.

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