Biography

Mark Shipman is a highly successful investor and has made a personal fortune from backing his own judgement with his own money. He has been in the financial industry since 1979, initially joining a major international investment bank training in accountancy, he was rapidly promoted to the dealing room where he specialised in futures and options. In 1990, Mark left the City to establish one of the UK's first hedge fund management companies and the following year achieved personal success by winning the World Professional Futures Trading Championship. As well as participating in long-term investment trends, Mark consults to numerous City institutions; is a sought after key-note conference speaker and makes regular guest appearances on the Sky News and CNBC television channels and on BBC Radio Five. In addition, he is the author of the ground-breaking investment book and number 1 bestseller, "The Next Big Investment Boom". Away from the world of finance, Mark is an accomplished tournament poker player and a highly successful racehorse owner/breeder, with his distinctive maroon and light blue racing colours recently carried to victory in one of Europes's richest races.

Books by Mark Shipman

Big Money, Little Effort
Practical and Effective Strategies for Stock Market Investment
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The Next Big Investment Boom: Learn the Secrets of Investing From a Master and How to Profit from Commodities

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The Next Big Investment Boom
Learn the Secrets of Investing from a Master and How to Profit From Commodities
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Book Recommendations

Trend Following, New Expanded Edition
How did John W. Henry quietly become rich enough to buy the Boston Red Sox? How have traders like Keith Campbell, Bill Dunn, Jerry Parker, and Salem A... Read more at the GI Bookshop
Fooled by Randomness, 2nd edition
This book is a synthesis of, on one hand, the no-nonsense mathematical trader (self-styled 'practitioner of uncertainty') who spent his life trying to... Read more at the GI Bookshop
The 80/20 Principle
The 80/20 Principle - that 80% of results come from 20% of the causes - has greatly influenced today's world: but this is the first book showing reade... Read more at the GI Bookshop
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited as the best book ever written about market psycholog... Read more at the GI Bookshop
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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Investment Madness
Book Description Why'd you fall for that Internet stock? Why do you always seem to buy high and sell low? Investing is a human endeavour. As such... Read more at the GI Bookshop
Market Wizards
How do some of the world's most successful traders amass millions of dollars in a year - or sometimes in hours? Are they masters of a priceless wizard... Read more at the GI Bookshop
The New Market Wizards
Some traders distinguish themselves from the herd. How do these spectacular winners whose success occurs across a spectrum of financial markets do it... Read more at the GI Bookshop
The CRB Commodity Yearbook 2006
Since 1939, traders, investors, analysts, portfolio managers, and speculators around the world have relied on the Commodity Research Bureau to help th... Read more at the GI Bookshop
Hot Commodities (Hardback)
The next bull market is here. It's not in stocks. It's not in bonds. It's in commodities - and some smart investors will be riding that bull to record... Read more at the GI Bookshop
The Bull Hunter
Proven strategies for finding - and profiting from - imminent bull markets in every corner of the globe Right now, somewhere on earth, a bull marke... Read more at the GI Bookshop
The Next Big Investment Boom
In this his first book, Mark Shipman draws on his 20 years' experience of building a personal fortune to reveal the secrets of successful investing. ... Read more at the GI Bookshop
Trader Vic
This book covers all the important aspects of making money and integrates them into a unifying philosophy that includes economics, trading methods, ri... Read more at the GI Bookshop
Trader Vic 2
Vic Sperandeo - Barron's 'Ultimate Wall Street Pro' - didn't rack up a remarkable nominal rate of return 70.7% without a losing year between 1978-89 b... Read more at the GI Bookshop
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
One of the foremost investment classics of all time Jesse Livermore won and lost tens of millions of dollars playing the stock and commodities mark... Read more at the GI Bookshop
The Great Boom Ahead
In The Roaring 2000s, Harry Dent explores the changes that will define the turn-of-the-century economy. These predictions are based on Dent's groundbr... Read more at the GI Bookshop
The Roaring 2000s
With new research tools applied to the tyrends that have developed within the last few years, The Roaring 2000s reveals concrete predictions and in-de... Read more at the GI Bookshop