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Good Book, Has Some Holes
The Future for Investors has some really great points - the main one being that the compounding power of reinvested dividends should be a significant consideration in stock selection.I agree with this approach, and Siegel makes some persuasive arguments that it provides higher returns and less volitility than other approaches.
Eye opener!
I have been an Investment Counselor for over 40 years. This book makes more common sense than any book I have read on the subject. My main regret is that is wasn't around earlier. It is the key to Wealth and Security.

Well written and intelligent
The author has very wise opinions that are well demonstrated.
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All about trading in the stock market
William O'neal covers all major stock trading areas in this book: how to find a broker, his CAN SLIM method for making money on stocks, When to sell,how to diversify, when to buy options, he shows charts of the biggest stock winners from 1953 to 1993, how to read stock price history charts and much more. It is a lot of information to take in and is not for beginners. I would advise reading "The neatest little guide to the stock market" before reading this book if you are just starting out in the land of individual stocks.
Excellent book, but use your experience also
If anyone read How To Make Money In Stocks once or twice and made aconsistent profit over the last three years, my hat is off to them!
This is a great introductory book
This is a very good introductory book for stock trading. Its concept of CAN-SLIM system provides an entry point for novice of how to do stock trading. Besides, it also points out many bad habits of major investors which should be avoided. Even for experienced investors, this book is good for review too. ... Read more

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Wow. Just a great book!!!
Ok, so I am a novice when it comes to the market. I read the reviews of this book and ordered it. All I can say is wow, what a great book. Straight forward, down to earth explanations of everything you will encouter. Great breakdowns of the top investors strategies. A straight forward approach to investing and so much more. The book is well written and enjoyable to read. A must for the individual just starting out.

Great summary
This book gives a good summary of what you need to know to invest well.It is all in one place and is a good reference to return to.

It really is the neatest little guide
I bought this book due to its 5 star rating after 125 reviews, and it did not disappoint. It really is the neatest little guide because the author covered all aspects of beginning to invest in the stock market. Here is what you get:
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Give Credit Where Credit Is Due
As a financial professional who strives daily to help my clients make smart choices about their money, I am impressed by Bill's personalized approach to helping people take control of their lives by showing them ways to create and implement a viable foundation for their ideal financial future.There are many approaches of course, perhaps infinite, to planning wisely for your future.No one method or process is perfect.However, if you're truly serious about taking financial control over your future, whether you invest for yourself or work with a competent professional, then seek ideas and methods that are focused on helping YOU fulfill what's important to you in life.Bill's work talks directly about doing this and in beneficial ways that can help you make real progress towards achieving your lifetime goals and fulfilling your values.

Solid and broad-picture financial book for investors
Bachrach does a great job at helping investors identify their own personality type and recognize what is really important to them in investing.You wont find stock tips in this book but you will find the tools needed to create an overall roadmap and financial plan to help you meet your true root financial goals.This is the important part.One of my favorite points that Mr. Bachrach makes, one that I emphasize with people I advise is that there are certain things you can't hire someone to do for you: spending time with your family, exercise, travel etc.There are some things you can delegate- financial planning is one of them.Bill Bachrach also has a healthy and objective view about advice for investors who are not sure if they want to use the services of an advisor.
Live your life following what's most important- Your Values
Bill Bachrach's book can help all investors, young and old, to reach all their financial goals so they can live the best possible life.Because everyone is different, that best life will be different for everyone.Read more

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Good Informal Intro to Financial Math
Doesn't require post-graduate college courses (if you've ever done calculus and simple statistics, you're in, but you can get by with less).Definitely keeps it light and fun while pouring lots of info into your brainpan.
May depend on your background
Not interesting, dry and lacks math details. Lacks economic intuition. For me, Hull's book even does a better job explaining Ito's calculus. But Math/Physics guys may like it.

Teaching-like stuff
I recently adopted Paul Wilmott textbook for a course on financial engineering I regularly give. I have always thought that stochastic calculus and derivatives are subjects very difficult to teach in a friendly manner. Wilmott textbook is very helpful in that regard. ... Read more

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Promise fulfilled
I was a big fan of Michael Mauboussin when he was at CSFB writing a piece called "The Consilient Observer" for CSFB's clients.When he left CSFB for Legg Mason, I wondered when he would publish a book with the same material, this time for public consumption.So when this book was released, I immediately ordered a copy.Having read through much of it, I can relate that it is a nicely arranged set of self-sufficient chapters which comprehensively covers the same material as "The Consilient Observer," but with some revisions and consolidation.Each chapter presents a new concept and its implications to the market and investment.The book is chock full of information.I cannot recommend it enough.

A short primer on multidiscplinary thinking.
Simply loved it! One of the most thought provoking books that I've read in a long, long time. The essays are short, but the concepts are deep. Plenty of research and thought went into each essay and it really shows.
Interesting But A Little Too Eggheaded For Most Investors.
From the land of pseudo-science, written in a didactic approach (like a good professsor should), comes this years winner for economic creativity.Full of theorum, statistics, abstraction, complexities, cute little pictures and sometimes difficult to grasp, this book has some interesting and refreshing perspectives including how certain natural behaviors parallel the same behaviors found in investing.
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Dissapointing
This book was very hyped up in the other reviews and I couldn't wait to start reading it, but was dissapointed.The author has a different approach than Fabozzi, but it just doesn't work for me.Too many times he makes a statement and then doesn't justify it or add more color to make it relevant or put it in context.The math is confusing.Sometimes the book does not flow well.Instead of continuing to criticize the book, I'll recommend the best book I have ever found on the topic: "Fixed Income Analysis" by Frank Fabozzi.This is the book that Frank wrote for the CFA Program and if you read the preface, you'll know why it is so good.

Fixed Income Securities by Bruce Tuckman
This item was sent in excellent condition.I did however, request that it be sent within 2 business days and it was not.

Forget Fabozzi
I used to really like Fabozzi books, until he decided to flood the market with quantity instead of quality.Now when you try to find meaningful information, and correct information, about modern asset pricing for fixed income, mortgages, and other coupon instruments, you cannot rely on Fabozzi.Instead, rely on this book.It is perhaps the clearest, best introduction to fixed income curve building, pricing methods, market conventions, and mathematics you can find.I look forward to equally as high quality from Tuckman and will be the first in line for his next book.
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Subjective and unconvincing
I purchased this book many years ago when i was market uneducated and market naive and believed that I was missing something as I could never make the connections the author has made throughout his book. After years of studying the markets and attempting to trade profitably, I have revisited this book once again and am just as annoyed with the conclusions the author has made. I am confidant that my work resolves the wave like behavior that defines price movement more precisely than the author. Perhaps it was the clean slate with which I began my research. From what I can gather, people were attracted to the wave analysis because of the author but unfortunately his thesis has proven to be ineffective for traders. As a member of the technician's society I have hoped to introduce my ideas regarding this subject to the author and convince him my approach is more applicable than his. I am embarrassed to announce that this is not even my full time job as real estate consumes much of my time and trading is merely a hobby. Just think if I were able to devote full time. Regardless this book fails just as it did the first read many years ago.

Fascinating and cool, but impractical to apply
I read this book after becoming very interested in Robert Prechter's doctrine from an interview he did in a magazine. He has a different way of discussing wave theory, one that concentrates on the whys of crowd psychology. It's absolutely fascinating stuff and well worth reading.
The Definitive Guide
Before I took a serious look at Elliot Wave technical analysis, I was of the (common I believe) opinion that it didn't work, wasn't specific enough, and was a couple of steps down from Voodoo in my list of `sound trading methods to think about using'.All that changed when I took a serious look at Elliott Wave International and specifically the book Elliott Wave Principle (EWP) by Frost and Prechter.
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Very good down to earth delivery
No non-sense indeed!I think this book offers fundamental ideas on how to value, evaluate, and negotiate everything to do with real estate.I read this book along with Investing Without Losing (to learn about buying properties below market value) - two good real estate books that made me a better investor.

Another Useful Book by Tom Lucier!
I've read all of Tom Lucier's books and The No-Nonsense Real Estate Investor's Kit is just as useful as his other books! Like everything Lucier writes,this book is loaded with tons of information and excellent advice. I highly recommend this one of a kind book to anyone wanting to further their real estate education.

Don't buy both books...
This book has almost exactly the same content as his Pre-foreclosure book.I bought both at the same time, and returned this one for that very reason.Otherwise the information is useful, if you don't know anything about your local county assesor, recorder, treasurer, etc..
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speculative buy rating
Here is the best way I can describe this book: It is like a LONG encyclopedia article about investing. This book touches on all the basics but does not get in depth with any one issue. Good for an initial education but DO NOT start investing after you read it! I am not going to get in depth with this review so here is the summary: Too much what you SHOULD do. Not enough how to do it.
Help is at hand!
I won't go into why I needed this book but I'll just say that I was in desperate need of some solid, unbiased investing advice on all topics across the board from the stock market to retirement plans. All the other books on investment I tried to read were full of weird terminology, weird language and might have been trying to rip me off for all I know. Eric Tyson's reference is a godsend for those of us who need some information but are too naive to know good advice from bad advice when it comes to this subject. Tyson not only gives good, common sense advice but also shares his own tips with the reader on stock markets, mutual funds, IRAs and the like. Feel skeptical? He'll even guide you to the best government agencies that monitor this sort of stuff so that people like me don't get ripped off. Other books on investing that I picked up and put down in a hurry didn't bother with petty stuff like legalities! Tyson DOES and he wants you to do your homework before putting your hard earned money into someone else's hands.
Investing for Dummies
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Caveat Emptor
I came across this book after its mention by someone trying to get me into the Amway/Quixtar scheme. Pilzer's books try to financially educate the average person, make him aware that his lifestyle is being leveraged by large corporations for their benefit. Inasmuch, his effort is appreciated.
Wellness - Sellness
I am in the planning process of opening a wellness center in a resort area with a physician. I had no idea how BIG this business was. I would say that this book is a primer for further exploration into this field. It has given me a better understanding of how important wellness and anti-aging is over the so-called health care industry. It has given me the incentive to lose about 20 pounds in order to practice what I may be preaching in the near future. Thanks for opening my eyes even more.

The wellness revolution
Upon reading this book I become more aware about what I can do to increase my wealth and health as well as help others do the same. Some of the knowledge obtained from this book is disturbing but necessary if we as a race are to evolve and care for each other in a holistic way.Many thought provoking ideas should send your mind on a journey you will not regret. Knowledge truly is power. ... Read more

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This is a great book
This is a great book for one person - Steve Nison. :)

Hocus Pocus
Investing world we heard Warren Buffett(57-69 Dow 152% Buffett Partnership 2794.9%), Charles Munger(62-75 Dow 96.8% C.M. Partnership 1156.7%), Bill Ruane (S&P 14yr 70-84Q1 270% Sequoia Fund 775%, Walter Schloss(S&P 28.5 yrs 887.2% WJS Ltd Patners 6,678.8%) - The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsvill - The Intelligent Investor Appendix D. So far I didn't see steve nison, candle stick and all TA stuff is like Reading tea leaf. Investing should be Value Investing, fullstop. For beginner I'll suggest
Incredible book on useless knowledge
This book will provide you everything you mite need on something useless like Japanese Candlesticks. Nisson can show thousands of examples of how they "predicted" a change in trend but he won't show the other thousand times in which they didn't work. They are too random to be taken seriously. An Eight Ball or throwing darts at the Wall Street Journal can show the same results.
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Is it legendary?
This is a useful book but on several places I was not sure what the author ment. Triple screen didn't work for me. Some principles stay the same but market today is much more volatile even during the trends than it was twenty years ago. ... Read more

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Not that great
I read this book for an international studies class, but as an econ minor, i was really dissapointed.the book is targeted towards non-econ majors, i think, but it ended up just confusing most of my friends in the class who had no econ background.however, i did okay, not becuase of this book, but because of my own econ background that allowed me to fill in the gaps and understand the confusing explenations and definitions used in this book.there are better ways to say what gerber tried to say, in my opinion, so i would not recomend this book very highly.although it was decent, it could have been much better. ... Read more

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Not substantive enough
I must agree with reviewer Ira Balli from London below.This book lacks substantive information regarding the quantitative methods and therefore is merely an introduction to quant ideas that have been discussed in the marketplace.Of course, anyone who might have proprietary and successful quant methods would be foolhardly to disclose them, so one should not expect that from any public writer.
Don't buy this book
I am trading since 10 years, lead two hedge funds and I am about to finish my study in Msc of Mathematical trading and Finance.
professional
This book is written by a market professional. And it is obvious from the start. There is no hype, and the whole approach is based on maths and probability. The book is concise, and it would be very difficult to make the text shorter than it is.
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Must have for anyone interested on Derivatives
I really must thank John Hull for this book. The way every topic is covered gives you basic knowledge to enter the depths that await you regarding futures, options and other derivatives. The book is so masterfully written that the approach to every topic is very fluid. Once you've covered the book, you are ready to go on with a more complicated book, including Hull's "Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives" which has a more anylitical approach than this introductory book. The examples are the easiest ones and you can understand everything so clearly I wish there were more books like this.

The best nontechnical introduction book on Derivtatives
Hull wrote a classic book for the introduction to futures and optionsmarkets. It's for the serious reader who doesn't want to all the deviationsand basics of option pricings. If, after reading this book, you're stillinterested in derivatives you cann proceed with Hull's "Options,Futures, and Other Derivative Securities", Kolb's "Futures,Options, and Swaps", or for the very ambitious student Wilmott's"Derivatives or Quantitative Finance".

Excellent book, must have for finance nuts.
The material is similar to his other book, OptionsFutures and OtherDerivatives, but much more easy to read.With Brealy & Myers, thisforms a good complementary text. ... Read more

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very good book.
implementation and design of classes wise this book is replete with ideas. Since this book dealt with FDM, which are either cubbersome or difficult to program say american options, better is to deal with FE methods.

Computational Finance made efficient
This book encapsulates all that is wonderful about OOP and shows how generic programming techniques (based on the STL) can be effectively applied to financial engineering and numerical analytic problems. The book requires only a first-course level knowledge of C++ (at the level of for example Ivor Horton's Beginning C++) and a first course level knowledge of Financial Mathematics (at the level of for example John Hull's masterpiece) and takes the reader on an entertaining journey through the basics of the STL and the applications of STL constructs to computational-financial and numerical-analytic problems, especially those relating to the numerical solution of partial differential equations. Also, the author makes a persuasive case for finite-difference methods and deals with a few subtleties of the Crank-Nicholson algorithm. For best results, it should be read along with a decent book on the Standard Library (for example the one by Nicolai Josuttis). Overall, it's a pleasure to read and learn from, on a par with Mark Joshi's little design-patterns volume, and more detailed!

The best book in c++ instrument pricing, period.
Let me just say that I have a few financial modelling books, from Dr. Brooks to Mr. Joshi, and this is the best book by far.It clearly explain how to price a particular instruments using this poweful language.The book uses Standard Template Language (STL), by doing so your code are more readable and much faster.If I only had this book a few years back.Now I must say this book is for C++ programmers and Quants you really need to know C++ from beginning to end, templates, pointers, references, classes or that stuff you need it. This is the only book that comes with working code, it doesn't matter what type of compiler you have the code in the CD will work.Mr. Duffy explains how to model one factor and two factor Black-Scholes equations using finite differences, options(vanilla, exotic),interest rate and much more.The CD even comes with an Excel driver to transfer your data to Excel. Quant superstar Justin London is coming with his new book in a few months, and that book might over take this one, but as of right now this is the best C++ financial pricing book around.You can't go wrong with this one. ... Read more

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