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Stock Investing for Dummies

Paul Mladjenovic

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The stock market has always been a centerpiece of the American financial scene. With a balanced portfolio that includes stocks you can make a relatively quick profit or save for retirement—if you know what you’re doing.

Whether you’re a beginner that wants to take a crash course on stock investing or you’re already a stock investor who would like to review your current situation, Stock Investing For Dummies has valuable lessons to offer. 

Stock Investing For Dummies will give you a realistic approach to making money in stocks. It offers the essence of sound, practical stock investing strategies and insights that have been market tested and proven from nearly a hundred years of stock market history. This book will help you succeed not only in up markets, but also in down markets. Easy-to-follow and reassuring, this guide will make you a better-informed investor through an exploration of:

• What stocks are and why you should invest in them
• How to create a successful stock portfolio
• The best ways to invest: conservative, aggressive, long-term, short-term
• Information gathering techniques you can use to research stocks before you invest in them
• Investing for growth versus income
• How to analyze industries, companies, and stocks
• Minimizing the tax on your capital gains
• Knowing when not to invest
• How to choose the right broker

Bull markets and bear markets come and go, but the informed investor can keep making money no matter what. Packed with tips for building wealth and holding on to it, Stock Investing For Dummies will show you how to buy and sell with confidence in no time!

One up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know To Make Money in the Market, Miniature Edition

Peter Lynch, John Rothchild

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Total reviews: 165 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Don't get this book 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

It's a small book with no depth. Might be relevant for people who are clueless about stocks but definitely not for people with general idea about stocks.

Not what I expected. 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I thought this book was an abreviated version of the full book, however this book is actually a miniture ~2inch micro-pocket version of the full book. Text is full size, thus it only contains a very few high-level comments. I was hoping for a boiled-down version, but got mini-me.

This book brought me to my senses. 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

I was going to do some online trading and bought this book too learn more about selecting stocks. Mr. Lynchs' statement that he considered himself successful if 6 out 10 stocks he selected increased in value changed my mind. I want to thank him for waking me up. I will stick to index funds and wish all the online traders the best of luck.

Editorial Review:

Peter Lynch's acclaimed New York Times bestseller, with more than one million copies sold, is now a handy, useful Running Press Miniature Edition™! Readers will learn what stocks to avoid, how to decipher Wall Street jargon, how to design a perfect portfolio, and countless other ways to succeed in business and finance. Packed with insightfrul excerpts from essays in the original One Up on Wall Street, as well as original photographs, this little book is full of big insights from big business.

Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders

Jack D. Schwager

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Total reviews: 113 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Inspiration for daytraders 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I generally only read textbooks about trading. Statistics, technical analysis, calculus etc. However, this very entertaining collection of interviews may be my favorite and most informative read. The stories give re-assurance that an individual can succeed through their own studies, analysis and effort. If you read carefully between the lines, you can figure out how the best in the business are operating and how they are formulating their strategies.

Editorial Review:

How do the world’s top traders make millions of dollars in the markets – sometimes in a matter of only weeks or even days? That’s precisely the question Jack Schwager was trying to answer when he interviewed 17 superstar money-makers including Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, Ed Seykota, Marty Schwartz, Tom Baldwin and others. After reading this best-selling book, you’ll know what ingredients enable these top traders to consistently work their financial magic in the markets while so many others walk away losers. One of the top-selling trading books of all-time!

Stock Trader's Almanac 2009 (Almanac Investor Series)

Yale Hirsch, Jeffrey A. Hirsch

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Industry Standard 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.

As the industry "heavies" go, this publication is definitely a standard. Clearly, every trader knows no one book is the answer-all; and, this annual is definitely worth serious consideration for standard trading watch.

good content bad quality of book 2 out of 5 stars.
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the book offers very good stats about the stocm market very very interesting, the cover and pages keep comming out of the cheap made spiral.

best almanac for investors 5 out of 5 stars.
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i have been using this almanac for many many years and i also subscribed to their web services. Just one trade will be worth it.

I believe in probability when it comes to the stock market and one should try to line up everything you could to increase your probability of a successful trade or investment. Why not buy or sell with that in mind over and above the tools you use either foundamentals or technical or both.

Editorial Review:

Turn to Stock Trader's Almanac 2009, the indispensable annual resource, trusted for over 40 years by traders and investors. This practical investment tool includes historical patterns and little-known market trends and tendencies to help market participants forecast market trends with accuracy and confidence. Savvy professionals like money managers and journalists use this guide, which encapsulates the historical price information on the stock market, provides monthly and daily reminders, and alerts you to seasonal opportunities and dangers so that you can avoid making costly mistakes.

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

Nicolas Darvas

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Total reviews: 122 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Gems for a lifetime.....but beware! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Back in 1980, I came across a copy of the original version of this book in a used book store. I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed it. I had been floundering around in the stock market for a year or two, and suddenly, after reading this book, I knew what I was up against, and why it was so hard.

This book is one of my favorite books of all time, on any subject. It's an absolute must read for anyone interested in stock trading. William O'Neill's methods as used in Investors Business Daily, is mostly based on Darvas' method, and Jesse Livermore's.

I'm not going to repeat all the details that can be found in other reviews, but I would like to add a few things.

The first one is this quote by Darvas, that was the culmination of all the trials and tribulations that had gone on before:

"The only sound reason for my buying a stock is that it is rising in price. If that is happening, no other reason is necessary. If that is not happening, no other reason is worth considering."

I point this out because anybody who has ever bought an IBD 100 stock knows that all of the stocks at the top of the list are stocks that have been rising in the immediate past. I also point this quote out, because of my next point.

Two, the Darvas method, like the IBD method ONLY works in rising markets. In sideways or down markets, you can get creamed. In my 30+ years of trading, I've tended to use this method MUCH LESS than other methods, for the simple reason that it doesn't work year in and year out, and that one tends to buy stocks at the top so that you're forced to keep selling stocks you just boought.

Sure, when it works, man is it great. I guess if a person only used it at the right times it would be wonderful, but year in and year out you are constantly faced with times when it doesn't work very well.

Even Darvas lost huge amounts of money after writing this book, and the next one in 1964. By time he wrote "You can still make millions in the market" in 1977 you could tell he was a beaten man when he ventured back into the market.

C.C. Hazard (pseudonymn), in his book "Confessions of a Wall Street Insider" {1972} talks about how no method really works all that well over time. As a life long stock broker, he saw it all. One time (around the time of the writing of his book) he had a broker friend of his check on Darvas' account balance. He wasn't surprised to find that Darvas had lost most of his money that he made in the 60s.

Also, I was amazed to see that Darvas' estate (or whoever owns the rights to the story) has published so many other books recently. Why would they need to do that? I would think they would be using his method to make millions in the stock market, wouldn't you?

So, BEWARE of this method and the IBD method. Over the long run you will find that they work less often than they don't.

Editorial Review:

How did a world-famous dancer with no knowledge of the stock market, or of finance in general, make 2 million dollars in the stock market in 18 months starting with only $10,000? Darvas is legendary, and with good reason. Find out why.

Irrational Exuberance

Robert J. Shiller

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In this timely and prescient update of his celebrated 2000 bestseller, Robert Shiller returns to the topic that gained him international fame: market volatility. Having predicted the stock market collapse that began just one month after the first edition was published, he now expands the book to cover other markets that have become volatile, particularly the recently red-hot housing market. He includes a full chapter on domestic and international housing prices in historical perspective.

Shiller amasses impressive evidence to support his argument that the recent housing market boom bears many similarities to the stock market bubble of the late 1990s, and may eventually be followed by declining home prices for years to come. After stocks plummeted when the bubble burst in 2000, investors moved their money into housing. This precipitated the inflated real estate prices not only in America but around the world, Shiller maintains. Hence, irrational exuberance did not disappear—it merely reappeared in other settings.

Building on the original edition, Shiller draws out the psychological origins of volatility in financial markets, this time folding real estate into his analysis. He broadens the evidence that investing in capital markets of all kinds in the modern free-market economy is inherently unstable—subject to the profoundly human influences captured in Alan Greenspan’s now-famous phrase, “irrational exuberance.” As was true of its predecessor, the second edition of Irrational Exuberance is destined to be widely read, discussed, and debated.

The Forever Portfolio: How to Pick Stocks That You Can Hold for the Long Run

James Altucher

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How to find companies with high long-term value by understanding key trends

Warren Buffett once said that his favorite holding period for a stock is “forever.” Now James Altucher shows how to find “forever” stocks—ones you can safely buy and hold for at least twenty years. These companies will profit from broad demographic trends and can ride out any short-term market fluctuations.

For instance, Altucher says it’s smart to invest in:

• Obesity: 33 billion dollars are spent each year on services for the obese
• Dirty Water: Developing countries are finding it much harder to deliver clean water to their growing populations, and companies that sell clean water treatment technologies will thrive
• Luxury: The rich are recession-proof, and the stocks of luxury producers make a great hedge against any slowdown in the global economy

The Forever Portfolio shows investors how to build a strong, consistent, long-term portfolio, diversified enough to withstand the various cycles of the market.

The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders

Jack D. Schwager

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Total reviews: 63 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Excellent Book - great for newbies 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 11 people found this review helpful.

I read the books backwards - New Market Wizards first and then Market Wizards. I liked them both. To me it was like trading food. Here is a group of rather normal people who have mastered the art of making money. The books fed my appetite for trading knowledge and developed my willpower to trade.

These are a great read - I will, no doubt, probably read these often just to get the mental boost that they offer. Highly recommended!

Not as good as the first book 4 out of 5 stars.
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I'm a huge fan of the first book in the "Market Wizards" series which I have now read several times over. With this book however, I have to say I was a bit disappointed because I expected it to be just as good as the first. Some of the traders seemed to be a bit withheld and they didn't share as much insight as did those in the first book. I was especially disappointed that the "turtles" interviewed were not very open. It's understandable for traders to be tight-lipped about their strategies, but it makes for a less interesting book. That being said, there are some great traders interviewed here and I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who liked "Market Wizards".

Editorial Review:

In this sequel to the bestselling Market Wizards, Jack Schwager taps into the minds of top financial wizards and reveals the secrets of their astonishing success. Asking the questions that readers with an interest or involvement in the financial markets would love to pose to these financial superstars, Schwager gets the answers and shares their valuable insights. Entertaining, informative, and invaluable, The New Market Wizards is a must-have for any trader s bookshelf.

Options made easy

Guy Cohen

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Total reviews: 49 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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When you read this book, you'll be pleasantly surprised how quickly you'll start to understand this fascinating trading approach. In Options made Easy Guy Cohen simplifies options by using charts and diagrams, and guides you on an interactive journey. This helps you to build your confidence because it's practical, easy to understand and easy to follow. Using plain English, dynamic pictures and real-life examples throughout, Options made Easy demystifies the world of options and, whatever your current knowledge level, you will be amazed at how quickly you're learning: *Options fundamentals on a realistic and practical level, right through to the most advanced strategies *The facts and myths of Technical and Fundamental Analysis and how to match the context with the right strategy *How to filter for moving stocks *How to select your optimum strategy *How to design your own Trading Plan for high probability trades and consistent profits *The secrets of trading psychology, how to increase your confidence and eliminate the gambling mentality from your investing and trading decisions.As you're reading this book by now you'll discover that you're learning with a user-friendly interactive guide that you can reference time and time again. Keep Options made Easy with you as your essential companion for both stocks and options trading.

Common stocks and uncommon profits

Philip A Fisher

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"You will find lots of jewels in these pages that may do as much for you as they have for me."— from the Introduction by Kenneth L. Fisher Forbes columnist Widely respected and admired, Philip Fisher is among the most influential investors of all time. His investment philosophies, introduced almost forty years ago, are not only studied and applied by today's finance professionals, but are also regarded by many as gospel. He recorded these philosophies in Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, a book considered invaluable reading when it was first published in 1958, and a must-read today. Acclaim for Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits "I sought out Phil Fisher after reading his Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits...When I met him, I was impressed by the man as by his ideas. A thorough understanding of the business, obtained by using Phil's techniques...enables one to make intelligent investment commitments."— Warren Buffett "Little known to the public, rarely interviewed and accepting few clients, Philip Fisher is nevertheless read and studied by most thoughtful investment professionals . . . everyone will profit from pondering— as Warren Buffett has done— the investment principles Fisher espouses."— James W. Michaels Editor, Forbes "My own copy [of Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits] has underlinings and marginal thoughts throughout."— John Train Author of Dance of the Money Bees