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<i>Acknowledgments.<br /> </i><i>Introduction.<br /> <br /> </i><b>Part I</b> <b>Measuring Investor Actions.<br /> </b><b>1</b> Clues from the Options Market.<br /> <b>2</b> Big Money on the Move.<br /> <b>3</b> Fast Money on the Move.<br /> <b>4</b> Follow the Money: Cash, Debt, and Shorts.<br /> <b>5</b> Too Far, Too Fast.<br /> <b>6</b> Relative Value.<br /> <br /> <b>Part II</b> <b>Considering the Human Element.<br /> </b><b>7</b> Sentiment Surveys.<br /> <b>8</b> Analyzing the Analysts.<br /> <b>9</b> Reporting the Financial News, Gauging the Investor’s Psyche.<br /> <b>10</b> Sitting and Watching.<br /> <br /> <b>Part III</b> <b>Following the Smart Money.<br /> </b><b>11</b> The Insiders.<br /> <b>12</b> Looking to the Futures.<br /> <b>13</b> Giving Credit to the Bond Market.<br /> <b>14</b> Money In, Money Out (IPOs, Secondaries, Mergers, Buybacks, and Dividends).<br /> <b>15</b> Tracking the Trailblazers.<br /> <br /> <i>Conclusion.<br /> </i><i>Notes.<br /> </i><i>Index.</i>

<p><b>RICHARD SIPLEY</b> is a senior portfolio manager at Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, where he manages investment portfolios for individuals and institutions. Sipley has more than fourteen years of experience as a senior portfolio manager. He holds an MBA with concentrations in finance and economics from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He was certified as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) in 1998. He lives in Andover, Massachusetts. <p>The author can be reached at <b>rsipley@gmail.com.</b>

<p><i>"In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine."</i></br> <b>—Benjamin Graham, <i>The Intelligent Investor</i></b> <p>From the player who fiddles with his chips when he's bluffing to another who whistles when she has a good hand, the game of poker is full of "tells"—and so are the financial markets. In <i>Market Indicators</i>, Richard Sipley unveils the signals that can help observant investors better their odds of success in the financial markets. <p>Sipley, a senior portfolio manager at Boston Private Bank & Trust Company, uses clear prose, charts, and resource lists to explain how individual investors can find, understand, and employ the market information of greatest interest to professional traders. Deriving clues from sources that include the options market, institutional traders, insiders, the financial press, relative value models, the bond markets, and the mysterious world of futures trading, Sipley initiates readers into time-tested methods that can reveal what other traders are doing and suggests ways to take advantage of that information. <p><i>Market Indicators</i> will dramatically improve understanding of the financial markets, for both new investors as well as experts seasoned in managing a portfolio.

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