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I have seen good and bad reviews at amazon.com. If there are several
reviews, you can decide whether you really want the book or not.
A while back I reviewed a book, I forget the name, but I remember that I
thought the book was useless. My review wasn't posted, but the book was
delisted.
Lionel Issen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen Davies" <owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 1:55 PM
Subject: Chick Goslin's boo, among other things (Was Re: bonds & the BB
Histo)
> Steve Karnish offered this link to reviews of his favorite books:
>
> >http://www.abbracadabra.com/cybercast/TPBSbooklist.htm
>
>
> To my surprise, one of Steve's recommendations was for Chick Goslin's
> "Intelligent Futures Trading." This surprised me because I had read
> two reader reviews at Amazon.com, both of which said, in essence,
> "This is a vacuous POS. Don't buy it!" So I went back to Amazon.com
> to see whether there were any more recent reviews that took Steve's
> side of things. (Not that I really need one; Steve's recommendation is
> enough to get me interested all by itself.) And, in fact, there is now a
> review giving Goslin's book five stars. The write-up itself sounds more
> like 3.5 stars, maybe 4, but in any case it was positive. However, the
> two original reviews have disappeared!
>
> I don't like this. I don't like it at all. In my view, it comes
extremely
> close to fraud. I have bought quite a few books from Amazon.com,
> but I'll think long and hard before doing so again.
>
> For whatever it's worth.
>
> Mandatory trading content: If anyone else has thoughts about
> Goslin's book and trading methods, I'd be interested.
>
> Owen Davies
>
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