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Jeff Augen’s Options Trading Strategies (Collection)

Jeff Augen — 2012/02/08

A brand new collection of state-of-the-art options trading insights from Jeff Augennow in a convenient e-format, at a great package price!

Breakthrough option strategies from Jeff Augen: Four eBooks packed with new tools and strategies for earning higher, more consistent profits and systematically controlling risk!

In four remarkable eBooks, Jeff Augen teaches you dozens of up-to-the-minute option trading strategies and techniques for earning powerful, consistent profits! The Option Traders Workbook, Second Edition offers start-to-finish hands-on practice with every leading strategy, including the newest trading techniques. Through hundreds of realistic problems (each with fully explained solutions), youll walk through trades designed to profit from changing prices, volatility, and time decayplus new ways to use CBOE Weekly Options Expiration options, collars, covered calls, covered puts, ratio and variance trading, VIX options, volatility ETFs, and moreall without risking a dime! In Trading Options at Expiration: Strategies and Models for Winning the Endgame, Augen reveals new ways to structure positions that profit from predictable end-of-contract price distortions with remarkably low risk. Packed with brand-new statistical models, minute-by-minute pricing analyses, and optimized strategies, this book teaches you how to create trades that regularly deliver returns of 40%300% with just two days of market exposure per month, or even less. Finally, in The Volatility Edge in Options Trading: New Technical Strategies for Investing in Unstable Markets, Augen introduces breakthrough strategies for identifying and profiting from subtle price distortions that arise from changes in market volatility. Drawing on more than a decade of never-before-published research, Augen shows option traders how to study historical price changes, mitigate risk, limit market exposure, and structure mathematically sound high-return positions. Youll even discover how to build your own customized, low-cost analytical toolset to transform these state-of-the-art strategies into practical buy/sell signals. Finally, in Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders, Augen helps you use the latest versions of Microsoft Excel to perform analyses and execute strategies previously available only to large institutions. Augens easy-to-use programs and macros empower you to create and test custom indicators, perform state-of-the-art statistical and price analyses, mine data, and much moreeven if you have absolutely no programming skills!

This Safari Exclusive Collection contains the exclusive bonus book Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders by Jeff Augen.

Cinema 4D R13 Cookbook

Michael Szabo — 2012/02/08

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Elevate your art to the fourth dimension with Cinema 4D book and ebook.

Master all the important aspects of Cinema 4D
Learn how real-world knowledge of cameras and lighting translates onto a 3D canvas
Learn Advanced features like Mograph, Xpresso, and Dynamics.
Become an advanced Cinema 4D user with concise and effective recipes

In Detail

Cinema 4D is becoming the most popular 3D design program in the world and learning it now will only help you become a better and more valuable designer in the 3D design industry

This book provides all the Cinema 4D knowledge you need to become well-versed with the software in the form of short recipes, which get straight to the point about what you need to know to start designing great 3D projects.

Cinema 4D R13 Cookbook will guide you towards becoming an adept 3D designer, giving you all the tools to succeed in the field of 3D graphics. The book is set up to gradually introduce more sophisticated topics the deeper you go, and by the end of it you'll have a great working knowledge on the program. Early on you'll learn the basics of the program, and then jump right into how to start creating your own 3D objects to use in your designs. Along the way you'll learn how to set up lights, cameras, and materials to turn your work into something that feels more like art and design. Towards the end of the book you will be introduced to powerful tools like Xpresso, Mograph, and Dynamics to take your work to the next level. You'll be impressed by how easy it is to design top quality work once you lay the foundation for the entire program through this book. By the end of this book, you'll have opened new creative doors and given yourself the opportunity to be a more successful and versatile designer.

Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management

Marc Delisle — 2012/02/08

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A complete guide to getting started with phpMyAdmin 3.4 and mastering its features.

A step-by-step tutorial for manipulating data with the latest version of phpmyadmin
Administer your MySQL databases with phpMyAdmin
Manage users and privileges with MySQL Server Administration tools
Learn to do things with your MySQL database and phpMyAdmin that you didn't know were possible!

In Detail

phpmyAdmin is one of the most widely used open source applications, which is written in PHP. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL. Currently, it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges, export data into various formats and is available in 52 languages.

phpMyAdmin is a web-based front-end to manage MySQL databases and has been adopted by a number of Open-Source distributors.

Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management is an easy-to-read, step-by-step practical guide that walks you through every facet of this legendary toolphpMyAdminand takes you a step ahead in taking full advantage of its potential. This book is filled with illustrative examples that will help you understand every phpMyAdmin feature in detail.

This is the official guide to this popular MySQL web interface. It starts with installing and configuring phpMyAdmin, including the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage, which is the key to its advanced features. This is followed by configuring authentication in phpMyAdmin and setting parameters that influence the interface as a whole.

You will also learn some advanced features such as defining inter-table relations with the advanced Designer module. You will practice synchronizing databases on different servers and managing MySQL replication to improve performance and data security. Moreover, you will also store queries as bookmarks for their quick retrieval.

In addition to it, this book helps you to learn new features introduced in version 3.4.x such as users preferences, producing charts and the visual multi-table query builder.

Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA

Jonathan Kehayias — 2012/02/08

We spend much of our working life trying to help people solve SQL Server-related performance problems, either hands-on, during consulting, or on various online community forums. Over the years, we've been exposed to a few weird-and-wonderful SQL Server issues but, mainly, we've seen the same problems and the same misconceptions about how SQL Server works crop up time-and-again. This book is our attempt to describe, diagnose, and solve some of the most common problems associated with the currently-supported versions of SQL Server: SQL Server 2005, 2008, and 2008 R2.

Email Security with Cisco Ironport

Chris Porter — 2012/02/08

This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.

Email Security with Cisco IronPort thoroughly illuminates the security and performance challenges associated with today's messaging environments, and shows how to systematically anticipate and respond to them using Cisco's IronPort Email Security Appliance (ESA). Going far beyond any IronPort user guide, leading Cisco expert Chris Porter shows how to use IronPort to construct a robust, secure, high-performance email architecture that can resist future attacks. Along the way, Porter offers specific recipes for solving a wide range of messaging security problems, demonstrating how to use both basic and advanced features - including several hidden and undocumented commands. Writing for experienced messaging professionals, Porter makes specific architecture recommendations for deploying IronPort ESAs in diverse environments to optimize reliability and automatically handle failure. He also offers powerful insights into oft-ignored email security issues, such as preventing "bounce blowback." Coverage includes: * Integrating IronPort with Microsoft Active Directory and other enterprise directories * Measuring, evaluating, and improving email performance while at the same time maximizing security * Ensuring that outbound email is safe and appropriate * Utilizing the latest approaches to authentication Throughout, Porter illustrates his methods with detailed examples demonstrating how to control ESA configuration through each available interface.

Campaign It!

Alan Barnard — 2012/02/08

ERCampaign It! provides a new definition and understanding of what makes a cause. It explains why, in our modern society, a communications campaign is the most powerful way to achieve success. And it demonstrates how it is possible to create and apply an irresistible communications campaign to any aspect of our professional and personal lives. Whatever the situation, we always need to influence others if we are to achieve our goals. Campaign It! can help you do that. It's written by leading professionals who demonstrate that communications can be created in such a way that the message becomes powerful and compelling. At the heart of every successful campaign is a cause that motivates and drives a desire to succeed. With such a cause anyone can apply the Campaign It! model to devise a communications campaign to create success.

Exchange 2010 SP1: A Practical Approach

Jaap Wesselius — 2012/02/08

Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 is the latest incarnation of Microsoft's Messaging and Collaboration platform, and is has a lot of new, compelling features. It is the seventh major version of the product, and it rolls out some important changes and plenty of small improvements. Even better, a lot of complex issues from previous versions have seen solved, or simply removed, making the administrator's life much easier! As a trainer and consultant, Jaap knows exactly how chaotic and frustrating major platform upgrades can be, especially when they need to happen seamlessly. Having watched Exchange Server evolve over the last 14 years, Jaap has seen SysAdmins confronting the same problems again and again. He has also seen how big a difference it makes to have a straight-forward, simple guide to the 'brave new world' that each new platform promises. This book is that straight-forward and, above all, practical guide to Exchange Server 2010 SP1, and Jaap has aimed to give Systems Administrators everything they need to get started as soon as it's available. Inside, you'll find step-by-step guides to Installation, Upgrading from Exchange Server 2010, Coexistence scenarios with Exchange Server 2003 & 2007, Managing your new Exchange server, and information on the new High Availability features.

Machine Learning Techniques for Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval

Chia-Hung Wei — 2012/02/07

Machine Learning Techniques for Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval: Technologies Applications and Perspectives disseminates current information on multimedia retrieval, advances the field of multimedia databases, and educates the multimedia database community. It is a critical text for professionals who are engaged in efforts to understand machine learning techniques for adaptive multimedia retrieval research, design and applications.

Supply Chain Optimization, Design, and Management

Ioannis Minis — 2012/02/07

Supply Chain Optimization, Design, and Management: Advances and Intelligent Methods presents computational intelligence methods for addressing supply chain issues. Emphasis is given to techniques that provide effective solutions to complex supply chain problems and exhibit superior performance to other methods of operations research.

Streaming Media Delivery in Higher Education

Charles Wankel — 2012/02/07

Streaming Media Delivery in Higher Education: Methods and Outcomes is both a snapshot of streaming media in higher education as it is today and a window into the many developments already underway. In some cases, it is a forecast of areas yet to be developed. As a resource, this book serves both as an explication of many practices, including their possibilities and pitfalls, as well as recommendation of the many areas where opportunities for development lie.