Contrary Investing for the '90s: How to Profit by Going Against the Crowd [Hardcover]

Richard E. Band (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1990

Subtitled, How to profit by going against the crowd , this is a journalist's advice on personal investing. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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"Buy into extreme weakness and sell into extreme strength" is the maxim of contrary investors. Band, editor of the highly regarded Personal Finance newsletter, has put together a primer of this type of investing. Such investors, Band says, make use of technical analysis, the views of known business writers whose work appears in major financial papers and periodicals, and current data on the state of the economy. Band also demonstrates how contrary investing has worked successfully in the past. The readable style coupled with easy-to-understand graphs and tables makes this a good recommendation for the reader who is interested in this timely subject.
- Steven J. Mayover, Free Lib. of Philadelphia.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 260 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Pr (January 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312038046
• ISBN-13: 978-0312038045
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,590,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent advice and excellent predictor of the 90's, November 19, 1999

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This review is from: Contrary Investing for the '90s: How to Profit by Going Against the Crowd (Hardcover)

This book offers great investing advice as well as a historic recap of past events. I never realized I was a contrarian myself until I read this book.

Reading it in 1999 I can only wish I had read it in 1990 as it predicted many of the decade's economic events: low inflation and budget surpluses.

Even though it predicts the Dow at 4000-5000 by New Years's Eve 2000, who would have thought the Dow would be at 11,000+?

The investing tips this book provides are timeless and once you start reading this book you can not stop. I wish this author would write a book about the next millennium, I'd be the first one to buy it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book on contrary investing!, October 11, 1997

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This review is from: Contrary Investing for the '90s: How to Profit by Going Against the Crowd (Hardcover)

Richard Band's books on contrary investing are a must for anyone who understands that trading agasint the crowd is what leads to winning trades. I highly recommend this book! Mitchell Holland, Author "The Master Trader" http://www.trillions.com/