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This motivational treasury is an expression of the power of words and how they can affect feelings and attitudes. You'll find quotes here from Vince Lombardi, Thomas Edison, and Winston Churchill, and many more. All of them are chosen to inspire you to strive.

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Best Cookbook Ever.......2007-01-18

Being born & raised in Southwest Louisiana, I learned how to cook from generations before me. This cook book is the closest thing to real Southwest Louisiana food. I have had my copy for numerous years and have worn it out but continue to use it. I give this book as a gift on every occasion that is appropriate (& some that are not). This is the only book I would recommend to anyone with an interest in Cajun food. It's awesome! Karen - Lake Charles, Louisiana transplanted to Omaha, Nebraska.

Pirate's Pantry Cookbook.......2007-01-11

I've had (earlier printing - plastic bound) version of this cook book for at least 25 years. I absolutely love it. Unfortunately, after much use the binding broke and my cook book was a total mess, although I still frequently used it. I actually went online to order one for my new daughter-in-law and was delighted to see it in hard cover. So, I bought four (my daughter-in-law, my daughter, one as a gift for a friend and another for myself). I am delighted with the quality of this cook book. I come from a long line of great cajun cooks (my mom and both sister also have the cook book). I've eaten cajun food all of my life. These recipes are delicious, truly cajun and easy to prepare. The informative welcome to each section is a delightful extra. I would strongly recommend this cook book for anyone who enjoys cooking delicious meals. I will purchase them again for gifts for friends and family.

A cookbook to pass down through generations.......2006-11-16

I think every single woman I know has this cookbook. It's as if you get one after a certain age as a "right of passage" or something in this town. I have this cookbook, my mother has it and my Grandmother had it. We have never ran across a recipe in this book that was not great! Buy it! You will NOT be disappointed.

The Best -- Bar none!!.......2004-06-20

I have had this cookbook for many years. I first purchased it back in 1977, and it is without a doubt the best in authentic Cajun cooking. My original Pirate's Pantry finally fell apart from many years of use; but, although I recently replaced it, I still have my old original stuffed into a manila envelope. I love this cookbook!!!

FRIED CHICKEN!!.......2003-06-11

Octavia's Fried Chicken is the best, most foolproof fried chicken in the world. Octavia: whereever you are out there, thanks for making me EXTREMELY popular!

Pirates Pantry (Treasured Recipes of Southwest Louisiana)

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Pirates Pantry (Treasured Recipes of Southwest Louisiana)

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PIRATE'S PANTRY, Treasured Recipes of Southwest Louisiana
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Pirate's Pantry: Treasured Recipes Of Southwest Louisiana

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A Top Rated Traders Book

What's the Point?

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For thinker and veteran type of traders, not for novices

Winner Take All: A Top Commodity Trader Tells It Like It Is
William R. Gallacher
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The futures industry is unique, entertaining and, for far too many people, ultimately heartbreaking. What other industry possesses such an entertaining cast of soothsayers, self-proclaimed experts and charlatans? Where else do people become fabulously wealthy simply by acting on their own convictions? And where else does the possibility of failure loom so large and so constant? No other book captures the essence of the futures industry better than Winner Take All. With a penetrating intelligence and a sharp wit, Bill Gallacher dissects many of the industry's leading lights, exposing the frauds, deflating the pompous and poking fun at the seers who believe they can predict the future. Along the way, he demonstrates why most traders lose and, most importantly, what it takes to win. Winner Take All is a book for all traders. For those who believe in easy-money trading systems, it is a sobering antidote. For those who think the markets can't be beaten, it is a work of great inspiration. And for those who are trading profitably, it is an affirmation of the trading success principles. Winner Take All is a wise and profound book. But it is also perhaps the wittiest book on trading ever written. Read Mr. Gallacher on Fibonacci numbers: "Surely the medieval mathematician would be astounded at his impact on the twentieth-century commodity man. His mathematical series was constructed from observations on the incestuous copulation patterns of rabbits. Let's see, you start with a male and a female, then you take the first female offspring and you...well, better not get into it". Mr. Gallacher, a successful private trader, questions all conventional wisdom. He exposes the false premises that underliemuch of technical analysis, and he demonstrates why mechanical trading approaches - while sometimes producing marginal profits - can never provide truly superior results. Although out-of-favor in today's computer age, Mr. Gallacher shows why fundamental analysis, if con

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Extremely Informative.......2005-12-29

I have hundred of books on the markets and this is one of the best. Gallacher debunks many falsehoods in the futures markets and, quite frankly, after reading the book one is uncertain whether or not trading futures makes any sense at all. That having been said, this book has things about money management that you will not find anywhere else. Gallacher swings his sledgehammer at Ralph Vince's "Optimal f" as well as money management systems involving fixed percentages of capital. Although I did not agree with some of Gallacher's conclusions, this is a well-written book that no serious student of the markets should be without.

A Top Rated Traders Book.......2005-12-20

This book should be on the essential reading list for every aspiring Trader.

Trading is an extremely difficult business. It is often difficult to identify charlatans and myth from genuine journeymen and truth. Everywhere there is someone hawking a product with the promise of an easy path to success and riches. A primary focus of "Winner Takes All" is to debunk these people and their products. The real value in this book is that it is written by an insider - someone who has been a broker but who now trades his own account. It is rare to find a writer in this business who is not pushing some personal (and often concealed) agenda. Gallacher is one of those rarities. He is not trying to improve his station or business. He simply sets out to write an entertaining book that sets straight a few solid (and, for some, unpalateable) truths.
The hardcover edition is subtitled " A Top Commodity Trader Tells It Like It Is" . The paperback edition is half the price of the hardback and doesn't suffer the unnecessary hype; instead the subtitle here is " A Brutally Honest and Irreverent Look ..." . This subtitle is much more in keeping with the spirit of the book. Gallacher makes no claims about his own "success", he merely informs us that he has been trading for 20 years and that he has never wiped-out nor has he had to send additional funds to bolster up his account. At the least this makes him a survivor, which already puts him in the top 1% as far as I'm concerned. In any event one of the things that impressed me most in this book is that Gallacher makes no effort to bignote himself.
He readily tells us that he is very conservative (12 trades per year!) and that he strongly favors a fundamental approach. Having said this, and knowing he won't win any votes, he goes on to effortlessly bring a few big-name technicians (and other vendors) down a few pegs. Remember, here is a guy who at least walks the talk.

It is worth reading all the reviews because this book has elicited some extreme reactions( from 1 star to 5 stars). I believe the poor reviews tell us more about the people writing them than about the issues they raise:

The most detailed negative review is by maclee33 (1 star) who goes to much trouble to demonstrate an apparently incorrect argument in the book.

But it is the review that is fallacious, not the book, and here's why. Gallacher uses a chart from Murphy's book "Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets" (and I have this book too, so I can verify the chart) to show that Murphy's use of trendlines is after-the-fact and superficial. There is no discussion here about active and inactive contracts etc. Gallacher simply takes a chart that Murphy himself has used and shows how misleading it is to draw trendlines with 20:20 hindsight. As Alexander Elder points out it is easy to trade the middle of the chart but, in the real world, we have to trade the extreme right of the chart.

"The lesson? All examples of the alleged uselfulness of trendlines, flags, pennants etc. will, under scrutiny, be shown to be the product of hindsight, perceived after the occurrence of the events they are alleged to foresee...Chartists see what they want to see, not what is really there."

Admittedly this is a polemic statement (and I do not personally agree with it) nonetheless this was the point that Gallacher was making and I cannot see anything "egregious and inexcusable"(maclee) in that.

Another reviewer defends Larry Williams (who gets a caning by Gallacher) stating that he (Williams) " made a million in a year" not once but twice ... and then taught his daughter (how to do it)". This anonymous reviewer gave the book 1 star while pointedly overlooking the fact that Gallacher's actual criticism was based on Williams losing more than $6million in one account while "making" the so-called $1million in another account - an event for which both Williams and Robbins Trading Company were taken to court and convicted by the NFA.

Another 1 star reviewer was upset with Gallacher's harsh treatment of neural net systems. Another didn't like the criticism of Elliot.

I think all of these negative reviews miss the point which is that it is very easy to mislead people in this business and we should be thankful for good watchdogs like Gallacher.

The book is humorous, insightful and well-written. I usually prejudge a book through Amazon by how many Customer Rating stars it gets. Sometimes these ratings mislead or disappoint. In this case I think 4 stars is honestly earned.

If you read this book with an open mind you will treasure it.

What's the Point?.......2005-10-01

The author attempts to degrade technical methods of market analysis? Why bother? If they don't work for him, why get so emotional about them? There is maybe one in ten people in the population smart enough to even want to attempt to learn methods like Elliott. Of those who try, maybe only one quarter will apply it properly and not give up. Of course such details will be useless to most traders but it does not mean that they are useless to the handful with the discipline to study and master them.

He doth protest too much. This author is a mental midget compared with Fibonacci, Elliott and Neely. Maybe in time he can learn and be enlighted. But for now, his mind is closed.

Must have for systems traders.......2005-01-09

Two hundred pages into "Winner Take All", you'll find Gallacher dissecting Ralph Vince's optimal F strategy for position sizing, pointing out the obvious ways in which it can result in dangerous levels of overtrading that can put you out of business. At the end is an illustration of a trader aiming a gun at his own head and blowing his brains out, with the caption "optimally f'd". While it sounds kind of tasteless written down this way, when I came across it the first time I was laughing so hard I had to put the book down and catch my breath for a minute.

That's the sort of work you'll find throughout this very contrarian text whose nominal focus is on commodities trading. The scathing commentary wouldn't be so helpful were it just being sensationalist, but the analysis throughout this book is spot on in addition to being extremely funny at times.

While Gallacher's coverage of commodities is solid, albeit fairly pedestrian, his discussion of trading gurus is simultaneously informative, entertaining, and controversial. Ralph Vince gets off pretty easy compared with how other revered industry fellows are lampooned. You'll find plenty of dirt on popular trading role models like John Murphy, W. D. Gann, Elliot, Larry Williams, Richard Dennis (and the turtles), Bruce Babcock, and Welles Wilder (not to mention a thoroughly deserved bashing of Neural Networks). Anyone who is following techniques proposed by those gentleman should consider reading "Winner Take All" just to make sure you're seasoning their claims with a healthy enough skepticism. As other reviews here claim, Gallacher may be doing his own manipulation on the data in order to prove his own points in this area, and you'd be wise to apply the same level of skepticism he brings to other figures to his own claims. Very interesting reading, and written in a thoroughly enjoyable style.

The centerpiece of the book is one of the most real-world discussions of an working trading system I've found. A standard trend-following breakout system is presented and shown to make 385% annually; pretty good, right? It's then shown rather realistically how commissions, slippage, and stop order issues will eat into that. Then, he analyzes the real capital required to actually run that system through its expected drawdowns. When
it's all done, that magic winning system is lucky to hit 17% across the amount of capital actually required to run it. Having built multiple trading systems myself with multi-hundred percent per year predicted results that actually lost money once the entirety of actual trading and money management was factored in, I'm shocked that more books on trading systems don't cover this topic. Note that some of the things that really bash the profits in the examples down are specific to commodities (like the limit down/up problem), but stocks have their own issues that are of equal magnitude (in my own systems, I've noted that the bid/ask difference on stocks going through a breakout on volume are dramatically higher than any model I've ever seen suggests).

In short, those looking for a healthy dose of anti-holy grail trading advice might do well to read "Winner Take All", and those building any sort of trading system should consider it essential. You won't get much advise on what to do unless you're specifically looking for information on trading commodities on fundamentals, but there's a lot of solid material on what to make sure you don't do.

For thinker and veteran type of traders, not for novices.......2004-08-03

I was really surprised by the hard core negative stance taken by the author, presumably a successful commodity trader who prescribed fundamental analysis as the only means to "not luck driven" survival in commodities trading. He had used 76 out of his 229 page book to elaborate the "real failure stories" of Gann, Larry Williams, Richard Dennis, and the absurdities of Elliot waves and Fibonacci numbers.

I am not going to judge this book by its controversial opinion which most TA traders would disagree (please refer to the spotlight review by trader75. It's excellent). I just want to warn all novice trader readers that in case you dont know well about your own trading style or trading edge, dont read this book. In my opinion, both TA and FA are simply tools for profit making, the choice of it depending much on the traders' own personalitites, strengths and weaknesses that nobody else can really tell. Unless you had been completely ripped off twice (the author's standard of a successful trader, if the trader can still persist), I am afraid that you might not truly understand what your true nature is and may get confused by the author's very sophisticated arguments. Afterall, reading is meant for profitable trading, isnt it?

To me, this book is quite a fun read with good coverage on money management and trading psychology (discipline/technical (not TA)/mechanical trading), a good reminder of the limit of TA and a mind cleansing tool for the unwanted residue of my unplesant trading life. If you enjoy reading something really skeptical, go for it. Otherwise, please give it a pass.

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FDR, the other side of the coin: How we were tricked into World War II
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FDR, The Other Side of the Coin; How We Were Tricked into World War II
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The Insanity of Christianity: Or the Other Side of the Coin
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In this book I have tried to point out that there are always two sides to every story, a lesson that is applicable to every conflict of life. If you don't know both sides of the story, how can you make a rational decision as to what the whole truth is? The Gospel of Jesus Christ is based on the foundation of the virgin birth; His holy and miraculous life; His death, burial, and resurrection; and His imminent return in glory. Apart from that, everything else is what I call an "elective" subject. I doubt if there are any two people in my church that agree on every point. But we can all agree on the foundational truth of the Gospel and then give each other the liberty to examine and discover truths in Scripture that enhance our faith, hope, vision, and calling in Christ Jesus. If there is a bottom line to these writings, it would be that all of the above have given me greater vision, faith in God, hope for the future, and a deep-seated desire to be faithful to my Lord, my family, my congregation, and my calling. May the material I have presented do the same for you as you open your mind and reread these passages. God bless and keep you in His loving care. All of the above subjects are dealt with in books, CDs, and DVDs from our resource library. They can be obtained by ordering from our main office at 1+866-341-2425 or through our website at www.bcisa.org. For deeper messages, you may check my personal website at www.biblecontroversy.org for DVDs, CDs, and books of special interest to those who love to delve into a greater understanding of the Bible.

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Using simple, unpretentious language, he examines the financial aspects of a deal from a variety of perspectives. Recognizing the concerns of all parties--buyer, seller, accountant, lawyer, broker, and lender--equals a negotiating advantage. In addition, you will receive:

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