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Summary: Best stock investment book ever written
Review: This book changed my whole outlook on investing. It gives you the confidence to get rid of mutual funds and strike out on your own.Excellently written, with REAL, and USABLE strategies and methods - no theorical dancing around here. This book is perfect for learning exactly what you need to know about investing in stocks.
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Summary: Makes sense, yet hard to believe the Wise are "that" dumb
Review: I know absolutely nothing about investing, but am willing to learn. Now, this book makes it sound like fun and maybe I'll take the plunge. But first, to the web site to learn more. This may take some time to learn the ropes. Thanks to the Fools for making it seem doable. Hope this works.
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Summary: Great for them, not so great for you.
Review: Enjoyable reading, but missing some key points. The biggest in my mind being that you can rarely trade stocks in a tax sheltered account, therefore you have to WAY outpreform the market to make it worth a good mutual fund. Play money- follow them, your serious money, professional money management is the way to go (i.e. mutual fund)
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Summary: Sloppy and full of errors.
Review: The themes of the book are basically good advice. The problem is that their homework is very sloppy. Lots of factual errors and no backtesting of their statements. In fact, many of their supposed unbeatable strategies haven't worked since the book was published!!! It's easy to find strategies that have worked in the past. Can they provide us with information on what will work in the future? Not in this book.
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Summary: Easy reading, helpful hints
Review: Great book for any level of investor. Easy reading makes it enjoyable. Gives helpful tacticts and ways to make money. Humorous.
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Summary: Investing For Dummies...
Review: A funny, easy-to-read book which I wish I had 15 years ago. What they say makes a lot of sense, a good book for the beginner as well as the seasoned investor, I read my copy 3 times already.
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Summary: Get a little bit more serious for a lot more expertise
Review: It's all very well to be jovial about investment and the Fools are to be congratulated for removing the cob-webs of this stuffy world, but at the end of the day making money is also serious if you want to make a serious amount. That is why although I enjoyed this book, I preferred The Mind of a Trader (FT Pitman, May 1998) which thorugh interviews and insights from incredibly profitable traders (one made an average of $250,000 each trading day for 8 years, gave more insight and taught more. And it still kept a light hearted appraoch (eg. in terms of taking profits too quickly and letting losses accumulate, one trader said "You can't eat like a bird and shit like an elephant!"
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Summary: Great for beginners, but not for the established investor
Review: A really solid book if you're interested in dabbling in the stock market. The Gardners give some good solid, albeit basic, advice for "beating the market average". It's a good place to get a foothold if you've never invested. As far as their online forum goes, you can probably find all of this same information, but having a print version for bedtime reading is better.
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Summary: A "foolish" book with plenty of good investment advise.
Review: When I picked up this book I thought I would have to take its advise with a grain of salt. These two do a good job informing the reader how to be a foolish investor. They contend the wise men of wall-street, the ones who know everything, constantly underperform the market averages. Therefore one needes to be a fool when investing. It's a book that is ver informative and helps the novice invester get started on wall-street.
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Summary: Wish i'd read it 10 years ago!!!
Review: A lot of common sense about personal money management. They take the mystic out of stock selection. They are funny and correct on most counts. My broker has performed like crap and when i ask about his poor choices he responds "ooop's".
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