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| View Larger Image | The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing | Paperbackby Jason Kelly (Author)
| List Price: | $15.00 | | Price: | $9.75 | | You Save: | $5.25 (35%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Plume | | Edition: | Revisedth Edition | | Page Count: | 304 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 18, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 7,785th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS | Product Description A comprehensively updated edition of an essential guide to stock market investing For over a decade, Jason Kelly has provided investors with the insider knowledge and time-tested strategies they need to maximize their investment programs. This thoroughly updated edition of The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing includes: • Kelly’s Maximum Midcap Strategy, an innovative investment program that consistently outperforms the market • Real-life examples of investment strategies that paid big dividends • Tips from master investors like Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, and Bill Miller An accessible, intelligent, and highly effective approach to investing, The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing is an invaluable resource for investors everywhere. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 244 reviews)
| Great book!!!! by Bruno Romano 5 Stars September 08, 2009 Great book, very easy to understand am learning alot. I'm very pleased with the book !
| | Great way to start looking... by Dustin Owen (West Palm Beach, FL) 5 Stars September 07, 2009 I bought this book a few years ago, and it was the first book I read about stocks. I loved it, it gave me a basic understanding of the subject, and encourage me to invest for myself. I always intended on being a trader, not an investor, but this book still gave a lot of value to me. Now, when people ask me about stocks I just offer them to borrow this book from me.
I don't think the book will give you what you need to be a great investor, but the platform in which to build from. The basic concept of what is going on. So buy this book if you have no experience, and want an easy read.
| | Recommendations of Book are fundamentally flawed and produce poor results by Daniel G. George 1 Stars August 21, 2009 The whole thesis of the book is that because stocks rise over time, buying a leveraged ETF will effectively double your return. How could he write an entire book without realizing that the outcome of this investment strategy is disastrous?
These leveraged ETFs are realized on a daily basis. This makes a leveraged ETF a horrible long term investment. For example, if the stock market goes up and down over the course of a year but ends up with no net change over the course of a year, you would expect a doubling of that to result in 0% change, because 2*0=0... However, you will find that due to daily movements and realizations of the fund, it will result in between 10-30% losses over the course of a year if you had used a leveraged ETF. The more volatile the market, the larger the losses over a long period of time. HOW COULD HE FAIL TO SEE THIS AFTER WRITING AN ENTIRE BOOK DEDICATED TO THIS STRATEGY????
Do you need proof? Just look at how this fund REALLY does compared to the market!
If you still don't believe, work it out in Excel by entering random returns each day. Have a column for market returns and a column for doubling the daily returns. You'll see that in the long run, the leveraged solution fails.
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK... You will be a better investor by not reading it.
| | Good introduction to stock market investing by Mariusz Skonieczny (ClassicValueInvestors.blogspot.com) 5 Stars August 13, 2009 The author argues that people should own stocks for two reasons: 1) because they allow individuals to own successful companies, and 2) because they've been the best investments over time. This book is a great and simple introduction to stocks. It explains the basic concepts such as how stocks trade, preferred stocks vs. common stocks, dividends, stock splits, IPOs, and investment philosophies.
Chapter 2 features investment masters such as Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Philip Fisher, Benjamin Graham, and many others. All of these managers have different styles and readers can learn that it is possible to make money and be different.
Chapter 5 discusses topics such as choosing the right discount broker and placing orders. Chapter 6 is the most valuable chapter in my opinion. The author shows investors how to research stocks and what tools to use. Without good research, nothing matters. This book provides a good introduction to stock market investing, and I highly recommend it to beginning investors.
- Mariusz Skonieczny, author of Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market
| | Good summary but misleading on strategy by M. Wang 3 Stars August 09, 2009 I like this book because it is a good summary on many different things and reader friendly to those who don't have much knowledge on stocks.
However, author strongly recommended on using leveraged index fund. This is a very dangerous move and could be devastating. In the recent down turn, we already saw the problem with this strategy. So far we are still lucky because Dow didn't drop more than 50%. If next time, it drops 60-70%, the leveraged fund may never get back to previous levels. And your most of your life savings could be wiped out. This is certainly not a good recommendation for beginners.
The reasoning in the book is also flawed. For example, it says the down turn in 2001 is probably the worst in life time because the Nasdaq drops 78%. But the trading strategy is not about Nasdaq, it is about Dow or mid cap 400. These two were not hit very hard in 2001.
If you are a beginner, just use the book as a starting guide, don't really invest the money as the book suggested.
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