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Summary: Jason Winklers book club evaluation
Review: "Praise for 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success," explains what every investor should know going into the stock market. O'Neil does a great job of explicating that when it comes to getting started, there's no time like the present. Passages on fundamental and technical analysis elaborate on how you are to use the stock market to your benefit. I think he has radiant ideas pertaining to ways of picking big winners in the stock market. Such as, most all of the brokers encourage you to buy low and sell high. O' Neil on the other hand takes a different approach in figuring to buy high and sell higher. The madness behind that theory is that you buy the best performers in the market which will be priced high. He creates a splendid scenario of his thesis for you. When you go purchase a car do you want a good car or a bad one? The obvious answer is a good one. Well in stocks it's the same way. It's worth the price to buy a good stock and as for the cheap stocks, there's a reason why there cheap. The best advice he gave was to cut your loses by selling your worst performing stocks rather then holding on to them for a possible comeback. I think this book is a great source and easy to understand. If you like making money you should pick up a copy. I give "24 essential Lessons for Investment Success" five stars.
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Summary: Another Great book by O'Neil
Review: Another great book from a proven, winning stock market investor. I loved O'Neil's first classic, How to Make Money in Stocks and I liked this one too. Although, if you have too choose between the two, I would recommend you get his first book first.
Zev Saftlas, Author of Motivation That Works: How to Get Motivated and Stay Motivated
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Summary: Ad for O'Neil's IBD
Review: Bill O'Neil is certainly an experienced Wall Street trader, but he, talking bussiness, "tends" to use his books as an advertisement campaign for Investor's Business Daily, a newspaper he created and own. To have an idea the book offers 2 weeks free of Investor's Bussiness Daily, wich you also can get on it's website at [URL].The book has certainly good tips and some others not that good. For example, he suggests that a broker is only good if it subscribes to the Investor's Business Daily. He could be a little more discreet! Some of the 24 lessons are only helpfull if you subscribe to the Investor's Business Daily, so unless you subscribe or plan to, this book is not worth the money.
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Summary: Ad for investor's business daily
Review: Bill O'Neil's 24 Lessons were nothing but an advertising plot for his Investor's Business Daily. However annoying to be constantly reminded of his paper, it worked. I learned alot of valuable information and I am now a subscriber to the Investor's Business Daily. I would recommend the book and paper to any investors just getting started.
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Summary: A Must-Read Book for Beginning Investors!
Review: For those just entering the stock market "24 Essential Lessons..." serves as an excellent primer. This book is generally an abridged version of Bill O'Neil's previous best-seller "How to Make Money in Stocks." Written in a question/answer format, the book's short chapters are filled with valuable, yet practical information on how to set up your own investing rules that result in rewarding returns and, at the same time, minimize your risk. Despite his tremendous knowledge in stocks, O'Neil's writing style is simple and is not full of confusing jargon. Although, some may find O'Neil's references to "Investor's Business Daily" to be self-serving, can you blame him for describing a method that has made him millions of dollars? I found his "24 Lessons" to be of immense importance whether one subscribes to IBD or not.
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Summary: Consider it a beginners guide to Investor's Business Daily
Review: Honestly, you should not pick up this book if you are looking for a comprehensive guide to investing. Instead O'neil's "How to Make Money..." is what you should be looking at. Consider this a guide to investing principles as applied to using Investor's Business Daily. If you keep that in mind you'll stay happy reading William O'Neil's latest book. You'll draw out useful nuggets and basic investing principles, but most of all, you'll better understand how basic principles well help you get the most out of IBD. The book is written in a basic interview approach-- someone probably asked questions and then recorded the answers over a period of years. That makes the volume consise and very easy to read. In fact, you'll barrel through it in no time. If you are relatively new to IBD, you need to read this. And, if you are a new subscriber you've probably received a copy with your subscription! If you didn't-- with patience, over time you can read through the book as it is reprinted chapter by chapter in the paper itself. O'Neil does this from time to time. Someone in another review said this book is a giant advertizement for the Daily. No denying that-- but rather than seeing the comment as a criticism, look at it as a worthwhile suggestion. If you are considering getting into investing, I'd strongly recommend Investor's Business Daily as one of your first steps toward starting your learning curve. And, if the book isn't included with your subscription, then be sure to pick it up at the same time.
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Summary: Another good book from O'Neil
Review: I liked this book although I would recommend you read O'Neil's classic, How to Make Money in Stocks, before reading this one. That's because this book basically begins where that one leaves off, and concentrates on which indicators and information to focus on as a further aid to analyzing and buying a stock. And not too surprisingly, O'Neil emphasizes that you can get all this information from the IBD. I recently looked at getting a subscription, but unfortunately, the relative strength and sector strengths info only come with the premium, or more expensive version of the subscription, but many experts regard getting and reading the IBD an essential component of their investing success. While I myself have never used that particular info myself, and have been able to do just fine in the market without it, the stock tables and indicators in the IBD do boil a lot of information and research down into such famous indicators as O'Neil's relative strength and sector strength ratings, EPS and volume information, and so on. Although you could get most of this information from other sources for no charge, IBD puts it all under one cover, and the relative strength indicator is something you can't get anywhere else. This is probably worth the price of the subscription as a time-saver, especially if it helps you make money. So I would essentially say this book is mainly for those who want to use O'Neil's system in conjunction with the info contained in the IBD, and are willing to put out the money for a subscription to get it.
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Summary: Beginner's Guide
Review: I must admit I am an amateur when it comes to the stock market. William J. O'Neil's 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success help put me on the right track to succeed in the market. This book is an in depth report on when to buy and sell stocks, and how to read graphical analysis of a stock. O'Neil makes it clear that the only difference between the successful person and everyone else is determination and persistence. O'Neil states that one has to pay close attention to each stock, mutual fund, etc... Also, he points out that investing in too many stocks can come back to haunt you. Keep it simple and you will see results. O'Neil is a big advocate of keeping your basket small. O'Neil goes over buying and selling stocks in depth. He goes into cutting your loses (8% below purchase price). Also, he talks about when to buy at the right time (pivot point). This book will without doubt help any person deciding to invest their hard earned money in the stock market. I know it helped me.
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Summary: Excellent book for the "serious novice"
Review: I thought it was a great book for someone like me who knew ablsolutely NOTHING about investing in the stock market. I found it while browsing in a book store. Although I bought several books on investing that day, this one is my favorite primarily because of it's readability. One of my favortite features is the bulleted summary at the end of each chapter. Now, I have a basic understanding about how to pick stocks which was exaclty what I was looking for. Although the book discusses fundamental and technical analysis of stocks, I did not find it overly technical. The day after I completed the book, I went to my local library to take a look at IBD and 'lo and behold' it wasn't Greek to me. "24 Lessons" has opened my eyes to the world of trading stocks which to me was an invaluable lesson. True, it's not a comprehensive book about the stock market, but no single book can be. I viewed it simply as a place to start. Halfway through the book I had already trained myself not to be irritated by the excessive advertising for IBD because I liked what I was learning. Bottom line? I guess the value of the book is not what it costs, but how we individually can relate to the information presented. But just to put it in perspective, last month my husband went to a "FREE Seminar" [not by William O'Neil or IBD]on investing in stocks. What did he get?--a REAL sales pitch for "trading" software that cost (get this) only $3,995.00! That's what I would call shameless advertising.
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Summary: Practical and Lucid
Review: O'Neil has attracted a wide and deep following as founder of Investor's Business Daily and as author of a previous best-selling book, How to Make Money in Stocks. In this book, he offers 24 "essential lessons" which he has learned from his extensive prior experience. Each of the "essential lessons" makes sense but I think they have the greatest value only when used together (in combination) as you formulate an investment plan. Once you have your plan and begin to implement it, understand that your work has only begun...not ended. Track earnings and sales, frequently check relative price strength, follow chart patterns, etc. (O'Neil's Lesson 11 explains "How to Read Stock Charts Like a Pro", not occasionally but "frequently" and better yet daily.) No doubt sophisticated investors view this book as "simplistic" and "obvious." For them, it probably is. But for most of the rest of us, this book provides helpful explanations and sound advice. Also, as more people participate in 401 (k) plans and exercise stock options, a book such as this can give them a better understanding of their investments. I also recommend this book as a gift to recent graduates of college and universities. The sooner they understand the vocabulary and the concepts of stock investments, the better.
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