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Summary: Beware
Review: This book, though clever, is dangerous. Don't ever buy a stock unless you have first consulted its chart, which contains essential information about a stock's prospects. You cannot simply by a stock and put it away. The movements of stocks are too unpredictable and too volatile to trade without using pre-determined stop loss points. You will lose money, as I did. I recommend instead O'Neil's How to Make Money in Stocks and Stan Weinstein's Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets, both excellent primers on how to invest like a pro.
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Summary: STOP FOOLING AROUND, FIND YOUR 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTIONS
Review: Fools they are not. The age of innocence has past. This is a savvy and smart book for anyone who wants to build a long-term portfolio of high-quality companies and avoid getting ulcers and reading the stock pages daily. Instead, the Gardners recommend reading the company's financial statements and analyst reports to learn about the company, analyze the numbers and make your own decisions. They explain what to look for and how to do it. And, so far, their returns have beaten the market averages. One thing they do not mention is what to look for in companies that indicate that they will vastly outperform in the future. I have just read a new book that teaches companies how to make progress at 20 times the average rate, or get there 20 times as fast, or do it with only 1/20 the cost. The process described in THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION, by Mitchell, Coles and Metz tell us what these companies do. Make sure they understand the importance of measurements and measuring everything about their key activities. Ask if they have identified where today's best practices will be in five years and started to move in that direction. Have they identified what the ideal best practice could be and begun to approach that ideal (perhaps designing a new computer chip in one hour when it used to take seven months)? Are they matching the people, incentives and tasks to get the best results? When they finish a process, do they rethinking these steps, because each time they do they will have new and better ideas. If you use the advice in THE MOTLEY FOOL INVESTMENT GUIDE and choose companies to invest in that follow the process in THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION, you will be a very happy investor indeed.
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Summary: Excellent introduction to the novice investor
Review: This book will explain to you the basics of investing in a user friendly way. It is full of common sense. It warns of the pitfalls in allowing other people manage your finances, people who get to make money out of you even if they do not perform. It also shows how you can do better than them with a small investment of your time. I highly recommned everyone read this book before they are too old to do anything about their retirement funds.
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: This book is very easy to read and it makes it easy to understand how the market works. I would reccomend it to anyone who is just entering the investment world.
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Summary: Mistaken
Review: I thought the book would be about buying and selling shares for the short to medium term, but this book is for the long term investor.. so why not read Warren Buffett?????Or for short/Medium term stuff - Market Wizards by Schwager or Mind of a Trader by Patel?
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Summary: Highly recommended. A treatise on more than just investing.
Review: An absolute must. Some readers have missed the point and have been dismayed by, among other things, the lack of active trading as part of the Fool philosophy (which isn't necessarily true) or that the Fool methods can't be this simple and straightforward-- the Wise Wall Street Wonders must know something after all. One of the marvelous things about this book is that the Brothers G tackle the question of investing from a life perspective (for example; sure, one can be an active day trader, glued to his/her computer screen awaiting stock micro-movements, but who wants to live this way, especially when very few who do so even manage to meet or beat the SP500 for all the work and ulcers involved?) They don't just dive off the cliff in the first chapters with esoteric techniques as in so many other (yawn) books, either. They offer straight talk about who they are, why they do what they do, why and how Wall Street strives to maintain its mystique, and above all, the concept of investing successfully and still remaining both sane and human. In today's extremely hectic fast lane, that extra bit of advice is worth its weight in stock certificates. This book has opened the eyes of a very average guy who previously shunned the stock market as an unfathomable, shark infested hole. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: I liked it.
Review: It seems as though you need quiet a bit of money tucked away before you start investing this way. I'm a mother of two little children and I just got out of major debt. The highest yielding Dow stocks cost a heck of a lot for a woman in my position. Lowest is at least $45 up to $90 per share. So you figure if I have to at least invest in 4 stocks with at least 25 shares than lets see......well you figure it out. I'm already frustrated from reading the book trying to narrow out the statistics. Don't get me wrong I liked the book it's just that I don't think it's for me until I actually win a lottery or something. I live pay check to pay check just barely making rent. Geeh...I don't think any of the investment books are for me???? But to those who have won a lottery than I highly recommend this book to y'all. Though, I would also recommend just borrowing it or any book from the library. (Gosh..I hope this message gets posted?!)
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Summary: Good, but difficult to believe some points.
Review: I enjoyed this book (although checking it out at the library takes some of the pressure off). It helped me understand some things about investing, and the mutual fund section was one heck of an eye opener! Next month, I'm switching over to the Vanguard Index Fund, for sure! But I found their "foolish Four" dividend investing thing hard to believe. It can't be THAT easy to beat the pros, can it? I'd love to hear from people that have actually tried it since the book came out. Email me, if you've tried it. Let me know how it went.
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Summary: Readable, knowledgable, historic and real.
Review: In the world of investment books, quality and intelligence of advice varies considerably. This book continues the Motley Fool's well-thought-out and truly valuable advice how-to's in the field of investing, using a variable of the Dow Dividend Theory. This approach is not new; I have just finished Dodd and Graham's 1938 The Intelligent Investor, which predates the Motley Fool by quite a few years. But the veracity of the claims are the same and still ring true after 60 years. This is an easy-to-read-and-understand lesson in modern stock picking; a good starting point for any investor, and a good reference for those more experienced.
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Summary: Better a Trader than a Fool
Review: I was expecting a book about being an active trader, but this one is for a comotosed investor. Active trading is what all the press coverage mentions, and this book turns it nose up at the activity that is makin so many people rich. Instead it favours buying and holding which is a bit dull. I bought this book at the same time I bought Mind of a Trader (FT Pitman 1998) which is a lot better for beating Wall Street by far greater margins than the Fools. Better a Trader than a Fool
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