The New Sell and Sell Short: How to Take Profits, Cut Losses, and Benefit from Price Declines, Expanded Second Edition

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to my editor, Kevin Commins, for being “present at the creation”—encouraging me to write this book. Many thanks to the good folks at John Wiley & Sons, with whom it has been my good fortune to work on a number of books. Outside of Wiley working with Joanna V. Pomeranz, Gabriella Kádár, and Nancy W. Dimitry felt like repeating a journey with a group of old friends. Ted Bonanno, my agent, helped ensure the smoothness of this as well as many other projects.

Both my daughters helped edit this book. Miriam is a journalist in Moscow and Nika is working on her doctorate at Princeton, but both found the time in their busy schedules to review the manuscript and make constructive suggestions. Carol Keegan Kayne, the reliable guard against sloth and imprecision, performed the final check of the book, weeding out mistakes that had eluded everyone else’s eyes.

Kerry Lovvorn, a trader in Alabama and my co-director of the Spike Group, generously helped produce many charts for this book. Jeff Parker, a trader and a member of the Spike group in North Carolina, has read the manuscript and asked tough questions that helped improve the book. Patricia Liu was an invaluable sounding board, as I read the manuscript out loud to her, making sure it flowed just right. All the while, Inna Feldman, my manager at elder.com, ran the company alone for weeks, making sure I had enough time to write and edit.

I am grateful to all of you. Without your help this book would probably ...