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Summary: 24 Essential Lessons - A Big Help For New Investors
Review: Speaking as someone who lacks any major experience in the stock market, I found O'Neil's book "24 Essential Lessons..." an immense help. I've found many other financial books difficult to follow because of their difficult vocabulary and assumption of preexisting knowledge. This book explains all the basics in an easy to follow question answer form. Yes, O'Neil does make many references to his newspaper "Investor's Business Daily" but, "24 Essential Lessons..." is such an abridged version of his other work, it only makes sense that he would direct us to his other publicatons so that we can read his elaborated thoughts on any and every topic.
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Summary: Excellent book for the "serious novice"
Review: This book is a great tool for a serious investor, but can be difficult to understand if you are new to the stock market. Bill O'Neil reveals many of his own strategies for timing the market and investing in quality stocks. If you are serious about making money in the stock market, I would definitely recommend this book to you.
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Summary: Great System
Review: This is a very practical and complete system of when to buy AND when to sell. Would have saved me much $ in 2000.
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Summary: A short succinct explanation of O'Neil's theories
Review: Though it doesn't include all the reasoning behind the methods (for that see O'Neil's "How to Make Money in Stocks...), this book provides the essence of the author's selection process in short, easy to understand lessons. Though he emphasizes his newspaper publication (Investor's Business Daily), the lessons are valuable even without the paper; and should you choose to use the paper as well, there is a wealth of information that other papers only have in very raw forms. The emphasis on the information contained in his paper stems from the fact that it is the same information that he uses for his selection process. You could get the same information from the Wall Street Journal, you'd just have to set up complicated spreadsheets to arrive at those results. That said, this, like all other investment books, should be read critically as no investment strategy is without faults.
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