Type of bind: Audio Cassette
Format: Bargain Price
Quantity: 1
Printing Date: March 01, 1996
Sale Popularity Level: 2059442
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Make the information revolution work for you! Should you let a Fool tell you where to invest your money? If he's a Motley Fool, the answer is a resounding yes! Meet David and Tom Gardner, the two brothers who launched The Motley Fool, the most successful investment information service ever to grace cyberspace. The Gardners goal was and is simple: to beat the market and show other investors how to do it, including those who didn't know a dividend from a divining rod. 'The Motley Fool Investment Guide' contains everything the Fools have learned from their time online about what investors really need to know to find the best investment possibilities. They show you just how powerful the information revolution can make you, the individual investor. Plus, they supply all the investment tools you need to beat the market, the hottest sources of the news you need to make your investment decisions, and a healthy skepticism about conventional wisdom. With its online portfolio increasing in value by more than 58% in its very first year, The Motley Fool has already proved that there's a whole new game on Wall Street. Here, in your hands is all you'll ever need to discover exactly how the small investor can work wonders, have fun, and win big profits.
Amazon.com Review:
'Thanks to online communication,' say David and Thomas Gardner, founders of the Motley Fool investment Web site, 'it is now little-guy investors, not huge-guy brokerage firms, who hold the most valuable cards.' The Gardners, narrating their own Guide, lay out their Foolish market-beating techniques like the college economics instructors you wish you'd had. They explain, in everyday language (and with just the right touch of sarcasm), exactly why some people do better than others when they invest their money. Most important, they tell how you can be one of the few who do better. (Running time: 1.5 hours, one cassette) --Lou Schuler
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David and Tom Gardner are real heroes because they are helping people know more about the great opportunities they have by investing their money in the stock market. I recommend this book to any person who is trying to improve their game as well as people that dont have experience with stocks.
They tell you how stocks work they are not the kind of investment authors that say alot of "how great they are" but intstead they take you and teach you how stock work.
Keep on the good work.
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This book dramatically changed how I invest with great results. This is not a book that encourages get-rich quick schemes or will tell you how to "trade" stocks. It will give you the building blocks to create a solid investment portfolio that, over the course of a lifetime will make you wealthy. If you know nothing about the stock market, but are considering moving into this realm or are just wondering if there isn't something better than your underperforming mutual fund THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU.
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This book provides different viewpoints for investing, but mainly profiles their strategy: finding those diamonds in the rough. With chapters titled "maybe you should just buy mutual funds" and "maybe you should avoid mutual funds", this book builds up to their main focus: providing good suggestions on valuing companies (with the focus on small cap companies).
Having previously taken finance courses, I found this book as a good refresher. Written in a light hearted manner, this book was pleasing to read, rather than perusing old text books. As with any book, they showcase their views. I would recommend reading other books, not only to gain more knowledge of investing but to see other strategies.
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Overall,a well-written, easy to follow, and a solid book for people who attain a basic knowledge about mutual funds and stocks. This book is a must read for people who are interested in learning, exploring and testing stock picking techniques and for people who believe in the importance of doing fundamental analysis (financial ratios,data,etc.)when selecting the right company to invest in. The book offers a useful eight-item checklist that investors most follow when choosing the best small cap growth stocks. Also offers the pertient ratios from balance sheet,income statement, and cash flow that investors need to pay careful attention to when picking the right small cap stocks. The Motley fool shows a reader another way to make a positive return on stocks which is perfectly set for investors who are only interested participating during the bear market. The book recommends them to short stocks. Shorting stocks is the complete opposite of buying stocks. In addition, the book provides an useful overview of how companies go public (IPO) to issue stocks to investors to raise money, how common people can either look for brokers, discount brokers, deep discount brokers, or directly purchase stocks from the company to avoid paying commissions to purchase stocks online, and etc.
However, not recommended book for readers who are technical investors because the book never delves into the subject of technical analysis but gives a short overview of why they dislike the method and should not be used when picking stocks. Moreover, not the right book for option and future investors because they have a little knowledge in this area.
In conclusion, if you want to know how to analyze company fundamentally, purchasing this book should help but be wary and skeptical about one chapter that discusses about dow dividend investment technique. The brothers give false hope to investors that anybody is guaranteed a 25.5% annual growth return for 20 years if they buy 2 of the second lowest and 1 of third,fourth, and fifith lowest price from 30 dow stocks or called foolish 2-2-3-4-5 approach. This might be true in the past 20 years but due to our unstable and unforeseeable economy in the future, a stock return of 25.5 % for 20 years is highly unlikely to happen. More likely situation we can experience is witnessing another stock market crash or seeing a rise of inflation 4 % every year making 25.5% return look a dismal 14%. The only aspect on their approach to Dow investment that I agree with is their claim about the safeness of dow stocks. Nobody can argue this claim since Dow stocks consist of 30 well-established companies which have been in business for a century and it would be hard picturing them filing bankruptcy.
Overall, I would give a 3.5 star to this book.
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The Motley Fools, for a novice investor, can be a life changing experience. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating" and their savvy insights regarding investments have served me well. Their stock market insights are delivered with wit and wisdom, and I was actually sad when I turned the last page and realized I had finished the book. That's my personal criteria for a well written book, does it leave you wanting more. The Fools deliver.
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