How do I sort through all this material on your site?

We have created special sections to help guide people through this website:

Where to Begin

Presents a general introduction and overview of the sections and features of this website.

Research Maps & Study Guides

Is more specifically focused on introducing and organizing the educational content available here. This section begins by identifying the goals and intentions of various types of traders, students or researchers and will help point them to the specific material, books and courses which will be most appropriate for their goals.

Book Category Lists

We also suggest that you browse our Category Lists, which are quite detailed and precise so as will help you to identify very specific subjects and focuses of study. We have divided them into 3 main subject categories:

• Science Books
• Metaphysical Books
• Market Books

Finally, if there are specific subjects that you are seeking or researching, we suggest that you use our book database to search by author, title, or any kind of keyword. Through that process you can explore our vast catalog and find many titles that cover your subject of interest.

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Do you ship internationally?

Yes, we ship to anyplace in the world that is allowed by law, including to prisons and military bases. We use the United States Postal Service for most of our international shipping which generally goes Priority Mail, but we can also use Federal Express when preferred or required, though the costs are about double the USPS. We only charge our cost for shipping.

Do you offer any kind of physical classes or seminars currently?

We do not offer any physical classes or seminars. We have found over the years that our clientele is scattered across the world so that the expense of people traveling to one location for a class is cost prohibitive and can be done much better as we do it now through a text and an Online Classroom through our Forums.

Also, it is very difficult to communicate a deep level of information in only a few days. Generally, much more time is required to understand the principles in our courses, so the format of a detailed written text combined with an ongoing Online Forum where students can ask questions of the author and engage in discussion and research with the rest of the students provides a much more effective and informative learning environment.

Why are your financial market courses so expensive?

People often see our books and courses in the wrong context, like books you might purchase in a bookstore, which they are not. Our books and courses are much more like courses at a University or Graduate school. Most modern private colleges charge over $5000 for each 1 term college course, which generally includes a core textbook and then a once a week class over a period of several months. People do not generally question the cost of such courses when they are at a college, even though the knowledge and information taught in the course can generally be found in any library for free, or online from many major universities for free or a small fee.

Our courses are equally as intense and involved as any advanced college course. The biggest difference between our courses and college courses, is that none of the subjects we teach are taught in any university anywhere in the world!

You cannot find a single course on trading, Technical Analysis, Cycle Theory, Risk Management, Gann Theory, or Cosmological Economics at any university in the world. Even the best graduate MBA programs teach almost nothing about trading or technical analysis and absolutely nothing about Gann and Market Forecasting.

Our courses are every bit as substantial and serious as any advanced college course, if not more so, and are really more like post-graduate seminars, or technical trade schools. The actual text is only a part of the larger study. Most of our courses include membership in an Online Forum where the student an engage in Q&A with the author, just like in a normal classroom, as well as engage in study and research with other students in the group, creating a fascinating classroom environment which does not last only a few months, but which continues for many years, compiling the ongoing discussion and work for all students to come.

So our answer to this question is that our courses should be thought of in the same way as an advanced graduate program or professional trade school, teaching real skills that will provide the student with practical tools and skills which can be used in real life.

Why are your in-house printed books more expensive than normal books?

Our in-house books are produced on a print on demand basis. We have a catalog of over 500 rare books which we have been making available to our clients from the mid-90’s, and which Dr. Baumring was providing for his students in the 1980’s, all long before the Internet and the current movement to digitize libraries. Such being the case, over 20 years ago we developed our process which would allow us not to have to print multiple copies of and stock a catalog of over 500 titles, but instead be able to offer these rare works to all people at any time. Unfortunately, our costs for such in house printing is more expensive than outside printing, approximately 5-10 cents per page and $9 for our suede hardcover bindings. This makes our smallest books cost approximately $30 and our larger ones of 500 – 1000 pages somewhere from $60 - $100.

We actually are planning to discontinue our in-house printing in the near future as soon as we have made all of our titles available as PDF downloads for much lower prices without shipping costs around the world. We are selecting some of our best titles that are not otherwise easily available and converting them to new outsourced print on demand companies so that we can continue to provide a catalog of quality print books so that they will always remain available and at lower prices.