This book was recommended as an excellent source of etchants by David C. Van Aken, Dept. of Metallurgical Eng., U of Missouri-Rolla, in the July 1999 issue of Industrial Heating Magazine.

For those students who plan to digest concepts in digital communications, try this book first before touching other texts. Very well-written, concise, covers many important topics (WAY CHEAPER AT ANOTHER ONLINE BOOKSTORE!!!)

A wonderful book full of shocking yet sadly true information on the terrible acts committed at Auschwitz. A great help to me in my search for family history as well as my research paper for English class. Buy this book! the price is a little high, but it's worth the money and the time. Educate yourself on this senseless tragedy known as the Holocaust, you'll be a better person for it.

I having read this book, I found it to contain a wealth of practical financial strategies. This book contains information of great use for everyone, both those in and out of the financial planning field. It was of great use to me in developing a financial plan specifically tailored to my situation. I am just thirty and this book provided me a paved road map of how to achieve financial security with limited risk. What more could one look for in a book?

I highly recommend this book and its upcoming revisions.

This is a great book if you're a steam fan. It's covers all types of motive power used by Union Pacific during the late 40s and 50s, 4-8-8-4 Big Boys, Challengers, Northerns and so on. All the photos are black and white, but are high quality with detailed captions and chapter descriptions. This book would also be useful for anyone interested in modeling a railroad around this area or for UP steam in general. Another high-quality book from Kalmbach Publishing.

Instills understanding by slowly going through derivations and principles, while at the same time motivating econometric analysis by referring to economic situations where it can be used. Much better than Gujarati (which tends to be a "cookery book" rather than giving an integrated treatment).

The only weakness of the book is that it focusses almost exclusively on estimation under the assumption that error terms are identicallly and independently distributed (iid). However, all other undergraduate econometric textbooks (and a lot of graduate ones too!) display this preoccupation, so Griffiths et al are no worse than their rivals.

An update to this book would also be good, as it's nearly 10 years old now.

However, its good points far outweigh these weaknesses.

This book is excellent for beginners in econometrics. It is particuarly useful for people not wanting to know all the mathematics ( algebra and matrix approach) behind econometrics. Students doing term papers find it very practical as they want to know how to go from theoretical econometrics to empirical econometrics.

This is a great beginner's textbook. Whereas some, like Greene, are going to be too hard for some beginners, and others like Gujarati are far too basic, this book strikes an excellent balance. It's best feature is all the worked examples is gives you, including the raw data used, allowing you to enter the data into a statistical package and make sure you get the same result. This is a great confidence builder!

This was a great course book for use with my business class Itook last term. I had current up to date examples and was veryreadable.

This book was an excellent book on the principles of management. The student CD was a great help in reviewing each chapter prior to class. The quizzes also helped in understanding the objectives. Would reccommend this book to anyone taking a business course.

One of my marketing classes is using this book. I have experienced so much PAIN reading this book that I have to give it a 3 star to release my frustration. The chapters are extremely long. The overall concept of the book is good. There are also interesting facts and exhibits, but sometimes the book keeps repeating itself. For example, in Chapter 16 Sales Promotion, the authors talk about consumer franchise-building promotions. The same concept appears later on in the chapter over and over as individual paragraphs. I understand that a lot of the marketing concepts are interrelated, but they can be expressed much more efficiently.

This book is theoretical and full of examples of applied theories of advertising. It is presently being used at an AACSB accredited University in the Marketing department and students do enjoy it because of its current content and entertaining format.

I have just completed reading Advertising and Promotion: An Integrated Marketing communications Perspective by Belch and Belch. I found it to be the best source of information available on this topic. The text is extremely comprehensive, yet very interesting to read. At my job as a marketing director, this book is invaluable. I strongly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn how to develop an integrated marketing communications plan. I will also suggest it to my advertising agency.

I advise potential traders to buy this book. It has some good ideas although the specific results on backtesting is not always provided. I liked larry williams book on long term secrets of short term trading because most time he mentioned a strategy he would show the results of backtesting it. The hill book does have good ideas and the assessment of trading systems which have been succesful such as ABERRATION makes you think about losses to be endured on your way to bill gates fortune. May be the best option is to give your money to a broker and ask them to trade a proven long term system eg Mystery system (see the book ), Clearly simple systems are robust and work over time. The channel breakoutsystem still appears to work if you can stand the drawdown. Some apparently highly rated by thier own futures truth magazine systems such as DUAL THRUST are not mentioned.

Overall a useful contribution. I am sorry but the book does not live up to its title although it is good.

Don't let the title fool you -- this book is not an ultimate compendium in any way. You won't find anything on candlestick charting nor anything on volume-based indicators. With such large omissions the book doesn't deserve to use the title "Ultimate" -- that said, though, this book is a welcome addition to the trading literature.

If I were to nename the book I would title it "A Good Little Book on Trading." The chapter on 2- and 3-day bar chart patterns has some new ideas and the chapters on evaluating and using mechanical trading systems are very worthwhile. I am impressed by the material on historical backtesting because it addresses the statistical problems and pitfalls that many traders make (too many systems are optimized to produce statistical false positives). The authors backtested a non-optimized system and compared it with dynamic optimization and found optimization underperformed the static version of the test!

In a nutshell, despite it not being "ultimate" this book is "quite good" and will give you fresh insights not seen anywhere else.

Having traded futures for over 20 years, the last five full time, I have read countless books and articles on trading systems. The Ultimate Trading Guide brings together the wisdom of a trio that has probably seen more systems than virtually any other threesome on the planet. This invaluable book provides practical guidance on how to design, develop and trade a winning system. Traders who ignore the book's precepts do so at their own risk.

Much of the text here is already covered in TradeStation's free EasyLanguage reference. The book is sloppily written and edited, and the coding style leaves much to be desired. It is a weird combination of EasyLanguage syntax, trader interviews (get Market Wizards series instead), and a few "winning" trading systems, which really are not winners at all. Basically, the text was cobbled together without any underlying insights into how to really build winning trading systems.

I gave this book the maximum 5 stars because its overall impact on me as a trader was so profound. I would say it catalyzed a revolution in my success rate to such an extent that I now feel capable of making a living at this profession for the first time in my career. Obviously (as the title suggests) the book is primarily about how to use Tradestation software, or more specifically, the programming language that comes with TS known as Easylanguage. Long regarded as an oxymoron by those in the know, 'Easylanguage' is in fact anything but easy...it can be downright daunting at times. But this book really helps to break the ice by enabling dedicated students to get a working feel for the ins and outs of Tradestation and its various idiosyncrasies. Worth the price of the book alone is the chapter about trading strategies (chapter 6), subtitled by the authors "The Big Damn Chapter on Trading Strategies". A word to the wise - the SuperCombo System elucidated in this chapter contains all the elements to propel the reader much closer to that final elusive goal of consistent profitability. Perhaps you will need to modify it a bit here and there to suit your chosen market, but in the final analysis the seed concepts embedded within this single mechanical trading approach are robust and universal enough to grind out real money day in and day out for a long, long time to come. Please don't get me wrong - this is not so much a ready-made formula as it is a theoretical framework which needs to be "fleshed out" through hard work in order to be fully viable. I have always had a great deal of respect for John Hill and George Pruitt, both because of their candor and straightforwardness and because of their willingness to tirelessly follow a lead through to the end in order to discover the truth. "Building Winning Trading Systems with Tradestation" is more than a book about Easylanguage, it is a Magnus Opus of sorts, weaving many different ideas on many different levels in order to reveal a tapestry of trading that borders on something resembling a Rosetta Stone for the aspiring trader. Highly recommended.

When the two biggest names in system tracking get together to write a book, a prudent investor buys.
For the price of a few commissions, this writing has substance.
This is one of the few books that not only demonstrates varias trading systems, but provides one with a CD to download the material!
The systems alone could sell for thousands of dollars apiece.
When the professionals give you this much information, buy.

Robert Estill
Former NBC Sportscaster
Current Active Trader