Customer Reviews

J. Christoph Amberger's Hot Trading Secrets: How to Get In and Out of the Market with Huge Gains in Any Climate

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

In a pithy discussion of different trading systems,exposing a wide range of investor styles - contrarian to momentum-crowd, the book supposedly gives you "secrets". Even a casual reader of investment books know that if it is really a money-making secret the author has found, chances are it will remain secret...Or he will share it with you bit-by-bit through his subscription services. This one is no different. While the methodologies discussed here are well narrated along with good use of examples, a reader will not be able to leverage on almost everything in this book unless the reader decides to subscribe for the paid services. Having said that, the book does provide some interesting ideas. For a broadly titled book as this one, the author does manage to get into specific tactics at times. The narration is easy going, except for the not-too-welcome self promotions on almost every page. The author certainly gets the reader's attention by claims of how his firm "knew" of the impending stock market crashes due to 9/11 attacks. Enough said. An easy read, ok addition to some trading information, not a keeper.

An overpriced book acting as a promo for expensive services. I can't believe I bought this book.

Knowing that it is published by Agora, I won't even bother reading the book even if it comes for free. Agora (including Taipan newsletter), are the guys that use sharp copy writers and fictitious names and are catering to the gullable through mass mail "exclusive" offers. Stay away from it. A good chance that this book is the worst investment you make and you can't even take a put option on it!

If you are wanting to read a sales commercial during each chapter written, then buy this book. By the time I realized what each chapter was doing (about half way through), I merely began to gleem over the remaining chapters just to verify all was indeed a sales pitch of Agora Finacial services prior to throwing the book in the trash. Now I have never thrown a book in the trash, much less ever given an online review, however the book does not explain any "how to's", other than buying into Agora's services to obtain the 'how to' intelligence - I feel it's unethical to have to 'pay' for an infomercial especially without that issue being disclosed.

The book has two interesting chapters covering the topics of demographic trends which will impact economic and geopolitical events. These chapters are similar in nature to Harry Dent's discussion in his book The Next Great Bubble Boom. In this regard, I would recommend reading Dent's book instead.

The chapters describing the "hot trading secrets" are very qualitative in nature. Some of the "hot" secrets are obvious; others are less so. However, the book does not provide sufficient information for the reader to utilize the information in their trading activities.

Overall, this book is, in my opinion, an extended infomercial for the (very expensive) newsletters offered by the author.

In a nutshell, he is just promoting his stock advisory services. Enough information is given to get you excited, But not enough to help most, unless you subscribe to his service.

I once subscribed to a newsletter from Agora publishing. It cost me thousands of dollars. I couldn't have done that poorly if I consciously tried. Obviously, this book has no relation to the newsletter except for the fact that it came from the same publisher. I send this as a warning -- buyer beware...

I bought it, I read it. It was long on vague examples and advertising, short on content-a ripoff!!! I am really really disappointed in this book. Save your money for elsewhere!

C'mon, Chris, quoting Karim Rahemtulla as an "independent" reviewer is misleading and sleazy - Karim operates an option trading service (specializing in covered calls, iirc) that's part of the same Agora "empire" as the Taipan Group - why don't you get "independent" reviews from Porter, or Steve Sjuggerud, or Chris Mayer or Dan Denning (maybe he's the Dan who reviewed the book, or was it Dan Ferris..)? It's a touch suspicious as well that two of the four positive reviews come from Baltomore or the Maryland suburbs, Agora's and Taipan's home base - ask for some favors down at the Yacht Club, did we?

I've been a happy subscriber to Taipan for years, and I've always liked Amberger's work. Four stars for a good book, demeaned by Chris's response in this list of reviews.

This is the first time I ever paid for a Infomercial. That what this book is. In essence virtually every trading concept presented requires you to join their website to be able to actually trade that concept.