借运借势

最近疯了。。。上一轮来了本医学书，这回回归大自然。。。风水，命理的书籍也登场了，呵呵。。。

李宗驹这本书是我在书局翻一翻就爱上的书籍。它是一本把风水逻辑化的作品。因此，读者很容易接纳作者的一系列“借运借势”的手段。书中一开头关于【风水创富系统】来源自古人“一命，二运，三风水，四积阴德，五读书”的概念足于显示作者很逻辑性的思维。再来，作者在每一个理论上都给出许多生活中很实际的例子。比方说，针对白手起家和富二代如何在循环图把自己的角色摆错在不对的位置上，就是一个很有说服力的例子。风水能够做到逻辑性肯定更能凸显它的说服力。而且，整本书就是有那一些你我都很熟悉的例子。。。因此，李宗驹这本书真的很容易引起读者的共鸣。。。

但是，读着读着，好像越读越模糊。。。作者好像讲的很清晰，但却总是漏掉一些什么似的。。。最后，当整本书都啃完了之后。。。顿然发觉；哈，好像上当了！！！作者真的是一个很厉害的写作者。书的内容就是能轻轻松松的带我们进入主题。但，关键的时候，作者又很恰当的隐藏一些玄机。结果，读者虽然觉得好像吸收了很多，但更多的是纯粹的理论。书后尾的一小段就很明显：“如果你对人生要求的不多，那么第一个操作层次应该是你的选择。。。如果你对于人生有一些特殊要求，那么你就要考虑第二层次的操作方法。。。当然，如果你对于人生要求更多，那么学习八字或我的【风水创富系统】可能就是你必须考虑的方式。。。”很明显吧？呵呵。。。

基于以上的褒贬，我不得不在这本一开始就让我一见钟情的书籍上大打折扣。。。10分满分，就给个6分吧。。。作者写作的功力真的一流。但，诚意度，个人倒是蛮怀疑的。。。整体来说，这是本值得探讨的书籍。虽不完整，但至少足于提醒一般民众关于什么才是真正的风水。老实说，这一点，作者是做到了。赞！

不被医生杀死的47心得

朋友老刘看到我拿这本书，简直就是吓到了。。。这类书我好像第一次看（老了，越来越怕死了，哈哈）。。。因此，老刘还以为我病了。在此，借这个机会跟大家交代一下：本人除了肠胃问题惯性的到访以外，其它一切安好。谢谢大家的关心。。。读这本书纯粹是想补充关于养生的心得。。。想活久一点，就那么简单，呵呵。。。

这还真的是一本很奇特的书。作者非常有勇气的揭露很多作者所谓的心得和真相。基于本人对于医药领域并不是很在行，因此我很难去判断书里的真伪。好彩，家里有两个未来医生（侄儿）。因此，还真的要和他俩求证一下。。。

抛开真假的问题。。。再假设这本书的论点是正确的。。。哇！这还真的是医学界的一大批判！！！诚如书中所说。。。这是一本“你去医院之前非读不可的救命书”。。。读者们必须放下无谓的惯性念头，以免错失接受另类观点的可能性。我个人还蛮能接受作者的几个论点。比方说，“癌症是误诊最多的疾病”，“早睡早起的健康法”，“癌症越治疗越短命，放着不管越好”等等都是我个人非常推崇的说法。恰巧娱乐圈高凌风高大哥就是一个活生生的例子。高大哥选择不治疗的手法一开始就得到各界的关注。诚如作者所说，治疗只能给身体带来无谓和多余的痛楚。关于治疗的真正意义有时还真的太肤浅了。。。

这本书肯定会引起很多人的热烈讨论。论坛上已经不断的有两群人在互相攻击。。。我的看法是，预防始终胜过治疗。因此，作者第五章（健康活到百岁的生活心得）真的值得大家关注。评分方面，如果书里所说的是事实，作者的这本勇气之作真的值得满分。但，基于个人还想向两个侄儿求证，10分满分暂且给个7分。希望求证后能帮作者平反，让这本书帮助更多的人获得健康。。。

The Little Book of Trading: Trend Following Strategy for Big Winnings

After so many years, Michael Covel's book remains one of my favorite. So far, this is the only book that remains on my shelf for quite some time. Well, just a little book... and another trend following stuff... so, never really eagerly wanna touch it, LOL... After all, I do not want to have repetition on the same theory again and again… However, a buddy thought I love this type of books and it was a special gift from him after some special assignment…

End up… surprisingly… it is still my cup of tea. I thought there is little new under the sun. But, I ended up having few ah-ha moments as below that really inspired me:

Many people over the years trading with scared money – meaning they would make decisions on the value of money to them and not follow the exact rules of their trading plan.

This is not saying that you want to put all your eggs in one basket, that’s not the concept, but the idea is that your weightings of the markets don’t need to be uniform.

Trend following trading is not about being a hero. Said another way, it is not about being right in your opinion, but rather about winning in the long run.

Even though Harding has been very frank, there is some reticence. He knows talking too much about trend following is a retrograde step for his business’s commercial prospects. Why would a competitive man want to encourage you to become the next millionaire? He doesn’t have a mission to spread trend following wisdom or propagate this style of trading. He is not interested in sponsoring academic trend following courses or making the world a better place filled with wealthy trend following traders. He is entrepreneurial man who, after all, wants to win.

The markets are ever evolving. But, certain criteria are forever constant. Changing markets is what we make money off of… If you’ve done your trend trading homework properly, you don’t have to adapt your trend following nonstop to whatever is perceived as world change.

After so many years in this industry… if certain theories still inspires traders (me and my group of friends particularly), the said theories must have its logic and sense behind it. I am with the author in this case since I had been practicing it since day one… Having said that, I find no reason not to rate this book as high as 10/10. After all, stories in the book are real adventures and real insight experiences from experts that had survived for more than a decade. I know readers used to have doubts whether Michael Covel himself is a real trader. In my humble opinions; good traders may not be writing books. So, there is nothing wrong for a good author not to trades… Most important thing is… can we find some gem in this book that inspires us? I think Michael Covel achieve that even though it is just a “little book”… Thumbs up for the hard works!!! Well done…

Portfolio Optimization and Performance Analysis

This could be a very boring book thanks to the complex formulas throughout the book… At the end… yes, it is. It is a real boring book… Tons of formulas and tons of concepts that I might not need it in the first place, LOL…

In fact, I was forced to read on this book by a friend (Ok, potential customer, LOL). I was asked to refer to this book on how to present my trading ideas in a proper way. Gosh… I am backed to academic for a wrong reason. Hey; I thought my end results more important??? Well, people love to have this type of so called “proper” presentation. In real world, how much proper stuff ended up in profitable manners? Hmm...Food for thoughts today…

Having said that… I found myself lost when I am trying to rate this book. This could be a very good book or very bad book depends on a reader’s intention in exploring this book. As mentioned above, I was forced to read this book in the first place. As such, I could not find anything great inside this book. So, allow me to skip in rating this book. I think I am not the appropriate person to judge it. The only thing I know about this book is… this is a real boring book!!! LOL… 

Naked Forex: High-Probability Techniques for Trading Without Indicators

The title of this book is very interesting. Besides, there are free stuff (trading software and video tutorial). As such, since I am lack of investment books on my shelf... I guess this is the right time to turn my attention to this book...

End up… Gosh! What a disappointed book! There is little new under the sun. “Kangaroo tails”, “big shadows”, “ladder exits” and whatever names that are given by the author are just new names to replace the same ideas that existed long time ago. In fact, those new names are created to emphasize that there is a new concept, namely “naked trading”. Newbies may find it amazing. But, old and bold players know that those stuff are available for free everywhere in the internet. In fact, the definition of “naked trading” is kind of misleading too. The author intends to remove all indicators, so that a “naked” chart is available for readers to interpret. At the end, what are the differences if those indicators are replaced by patterns of charting? If “price” is the key, I humbly think that we need nothing except the “price”!!! Naked Trading? More like a disguised “naked trading”!!!

Furthermore, free stuff (trading software and video tutorial) as mentioned are very annoying at the end. I did surf through and found out that those are just some courses by the author and there is really nothing special in it. Now, I doubt whether the author has time to trade FX… In between running his website and surfing, I think he got no time to implement his “sophisticated” method in trading…

Having said that, this book still offers some nice stuff… Putting aside those sophisticated new name (on old concepts), most of the concepts discussed actually proven to work more often than they do not. Besides, the author did put his effort to illustrate in details on every setup. That in itself makes this a worthwhile book for those who are new to trading. As for me, I just could not accept those new names and the “misleading” definition of “naked trading”. As such, this book does not deserve a place on my shelf and I am going to rate it at 1/10 because of that.  What a disappointment… 

Tactical Trend Trading

This book was recommended by a senior of mine (Someone I very much adore and respect for his experiences in trading). However, I am very disappointed from the very first chapter. Well, this is a more of a book that combines tons of stuff that you and I can find in other author’s books. For example, Michael Covel’s “TrendFollowing” is the better book to explore. Even my friend’s books on "Turtles" are perhaps the better option. Overall, I do not read anything “extra” except some sort of repetition that trend traders are very familiar with… As a conclusion, I humbly think that I had wasted plenty of time in reading this book. 

Anyway, I did my best to finish up the whole book in a quick way. Well, for newbies who had not read Michael Covel or Curtis Faith’s books, this book may serve as a good introduction. Since I humbly do not consider myself as a newbie, I am still puzzled why my senior highly recommended this book to me. Perhaps, there is a hidden gem for me to dig out in the first place. Unfortunately, I failed to do so at the end…

This book was shipped out immediately after I finish the last page. Having said that… I am going to rate it at 2/10. I appreciate the author’s hard work in presenting his idea. However, I really do not see anything “extra” in this book compares to those that I mentioned above. I guess I made a mistake by parting my money with this book in the first place. Ding, ding, ding… next, please… LOL.

专业主义

熟悉我的人应该都知道，这类书籍绝对不是我的那杯茶。第一，工商管理的东西一直不是我很需要的。第二，超讨厌翻译的书籍。英文去中文已经不太有好感。日文去中文？？？我的天呀！！！

但是，世事无绝对。。。这回，破例了。理由很简单。。。第一，这是一本马云，史玉柱都推荐的书籍。。。第二，各大商业论坛都在讨论这本书。。。第三，翻一翻前几页，还真的挺有意思的。单单几个“专业”和“专家”的定义就挺吸引我的：

1.专家的词源本是‘profes’，意思是‘向上帝发誓，以此为职业’。

2.对能够称之为专家的人而言，是不存在退休这个概念的。

3.无论如何完善教育制度，如何增加报酬和改善福利，也不会产生大批的专家。只有纪律，才能培养出专家。

4. 推动未来世界运转的，是个体之间的竞争，而不再是国家之间或企业之间的竞争。

结果，感觉挺好的。好在哪里呢？好在里头有很多我做着却未必懂的道理。好在里头有一些我很不屑但其实很有道理的道理。。。简单来说，的确是一本好书。。。但是，老实说，个人“共鸣”真的不是很多。这纯粹是个人问题（与作者无关）。对于工商管理，我始终是不太热衷。总觉得这是高层管理员的书籍（我超讨厌管人的！）。而且，在这个讯息与网络的时代，“人”还管吗？

基于个人的癖好，这本书在我的私人图书馆不会有太高的评价。10分满分，顶多只值得个6分！这本书个人虽不太喜欢，但它在我的私人图书馆里还是有个位置的。理由是，这类书籍很像我们汽车上的后备轮胎。在一个投机者的世界里，这个后备很少发挥它的作用。但，天有不测之风云，“人”有旦夕祸福（还是要“管”人？？？）。。。因此，我坚信总会有用到它的一天。所以，让它暂时好好躺在我的书架上吧。。。