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Summary: EXCELLENT BOOK ON ADVANCED STOCK MARKET INVESTING
Review: If you are an investor with any amount of experience, this is probably the best book you can buy to improve your skills.If you want a beginning book on investing, also buy Eric Tyson's Investing for Dummies.
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Summary: Mostly Good Information
Review: I would say that all but maybe three of the chapters contain great investing information. I was turned off by chapters 16, 18, and 19, though, which appeared to be mainly hype about O'Neil's Investors Business Daily newspaper. I recommend this as a must read with the caveat that O'Neil is at least implicitly stating that his CANSLIM system combined with his newspaper is the key to investment success -- and I just don't buy it. Read the book. Understand the methodology. Then personalize your own approach.
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Summary: A great book if you're serious about investing.
Review: Bill O'Neil is an expert stock analyst with over 40 years of experience in the trading business. He discusses basic overall stratigies that are sensible and time tested. He also provides an expert analysis of all aspects of the market. This book will shave 10 years off of your learning curve. If you are serious about investing, I strongly recommend you study it.
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Summary: Most Buy
Review: Im starting to learn about the stockmarket and buying this book has been the greatest thing, I have learned so much, it is a very complete material!!!!
Laura
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Summary: Earns my trust
Review: Of all the volumes of stock market... available online and within the trendy and cloying books crowding your local Borders, this Bill O'Neill book rises above the blabbering crowd and stands as a solid and concise piece of smart advisory writing, offering a wise approach to momentum investing. It's aged some, and you need to thrown in some salt here and there, but overall it tells you the scoop on how to gain and more importantly, how to prevent loss. If momentum investing doesn't fit your plan, you may want to try another book.
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Summary: Best beginner guide for investors
Review: Don't let the price deter you. I read this book and the methods mentioned in this book works. The strategy is 99% accurate. Only the cup handle technical analysis is hard to trace on the market. The newspaper is a good education tool. I prefer reading this book and newspaper anything over the Wall Street Journal. Will
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Summary: Not for Value Investors
Review: William J. O'Neil begins his book "How to Make Money in Stocks" by describing the characteristic a company should have to be considered a growth stock. These characteristics include such things as current quarterly earnings per share, annual earnings increases, new products, new management, new highs, leader or laggard, institutional sponsorship, and market direction. Although some of the points he makes in these first few chapters are interesting and noteworthy, I feel that he goes overboard in the later chapters with trying to time the market based on technical analysis. This book is certainly not for value investors.
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Summary: One Stock Market Book Every Serious Investor Should Own
Review: I own a bunch of investment/trading books, and if I could only have ONE, this is the one I'd keep. O'Neil combines the very best techniques of fundamental and technical analysis to create a superior investment paradigm. True, not infrequently he plugs his publication, Investors Business Daily, but in my experience, what he says about it is true. In terms of investment advice for active stock market players, there is probably no better source of information than IBD, and this book teaches you how to make the most of it. This book is not for the hotdog day trader. O'Neil's method emphasizes choosing companies with strong fundamentals (particularly EPS acceleration) in leading industries just as those stocks are breaking out of base patterns. It requires diligence and, I think, daily work. But his methods work. I know because I've made more successful investments using the CANSLIM method than any other way. It might not be as much FUN as trying, for instance, a strictly technical approach, or trying to program a trading system into your charting software, but the sheer bread-and-butter value of this book is inestimable. Anyone willing to spend time doing research can create a respectable portfolio--this isn't rocket science. Get the book and read it.
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Summary: Great rules if you can stick to them
Review: I am amused by the previous "professional" review stating that technical analysis is investing in the rear view mirrow and most "professionals" don't believe in it. I wonder how O' Neil managed to start IBD out of his own account by investing with his rear view mirror or how tons of others hedge fund and money managers manage to stay in business using the CANSLIM method because "professional" don't believe in technical analysis. It is ovbious he: A) isn't a professional at all or B) works for the Wall Street Journal Charts can tell you tons of information about supply and demand for a stock and add volume to the mix and you can come up with more information than if you studied the companies fundamentals for weeks. Investing/Trading without using technical analysis is like trying to skydive without a parachute: you can do it but I wouldn't recommend it. On to the book it is an excellent way to learn what makes stocks go up or down and earnings are the primary reason and O' Neil goes into this in his book. The only reason I give it 4 stars is because the technical analysis part isn't very good at all (the charts are too small to learn anything) you can subscribe to IBD to learn about charts if you want buy other books like: Stan Weinstein's book, or How Charts can Help you in the Market. Overall though it is a very good book and easy to read.
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Summary: So where are the naysayers now, huh?
Review: Yes, it's keyed to IBD but so what? Surely the whole point for any serious investor is to develop a set of usable tools that work, and O'Neil does just that. If you're a day trader of penny stocks like some of the "experts" here, or maybe a Rule Breaking Fool, you're probably broke by now. And, one hopes, wiser. O'Neil's system keeps on ticking and continues to work because it's a balanced fusion of technical and fundamental analysis. And yes, it's hard work and takes time and discipline to master. I also agree the book's hastily written in places and that the section on Technical Analysis is kind of allusive and elusive at the same time -- but the gaps in understanding are easily filled by any of a zillion books on TA. I remember attending a lecture O'Neil gave about 12 years ago, around when the book came out and IBD was a struggling upstart. The impression was of an engaging but driven man, a gifted iconoclast who wanted to stick it to the old-money-but-no-yachts-for-the-customers brahmins on Wall Street. Personally, I think he's succeeded in all directions. I do NOT agree that the 8% rule is out of date, not if you're sticking to stocks of the type the book is about. O'Neil claims to be right in his picks only about 50% of the time (BTW, that's an outstanding percentage); bailing out from the losers preserves capital that can go to work looking for the next winner. He claims the average loss on his losers is actually closer to 5% than 8% -- now there's a goal!
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