Darvas System for Over the Counter Profits [Paperback]

Nicolas Darvas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 9, 2007

The clinical study of the over-the-counter market by a world famous dancer who became one of the most successful financial investors in history. Includes: Profitable techniques, strategies and graphs! This is the best book you'll ever read on investing, if you believe that stocks should only be bought if they are going to go up. The author tells how he finally learned, through trial and error (mostly error), what distinguishing characteristics a rising stock possesses. Just as importantly, he expertly discusses the psychological struggles the mind deals with throughout the stock holding period. A MUST READ for anyone determined to consistently make money in the markets.

Product Details

• Paperback: 108 pages
• Publisher: www.bnpublishing.com (December 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9562916006
• ISBN-13: 978-9562916004
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #587,263 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Written by a master trader, February 15, 2008

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Steve Burns (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Darvas System for Over the Counter Profits (Paperback)

I am a huge fan of the author of this book, Nicolas Darvas. I have used his system during bull markets with much success, returning $4000 profit per trade and $10,000 profit in one month trading an account under six figures. While he gives excellent insight in this book about some of his trading methods like finding the small companies that will benefit from a large companies new technology through suppling components, his previous books are much better. In this book (Written in 1970) the author predicts the coming boom in the over the counter market which is now known as the Nasdaq. He gives advice on coming hot industries and lays down some very good trading principles, but sadly most of his material is out dated. Buy this book to get a look at the way a master trader's mind works, but you really need his other books "How I made $2,000,000 in the stock market" and "Wall Street the other Las Vegas" to fully learn his amazing stock trading system that could make you wealthy during a bull market.

28 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book you'll ever read on investing..., July 29, 1999

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This review is from: Darvas System for over the Counter Profits (Hardcover)

Best book you'll ever read on investing, if you believe that stocks should only be bought if they are going to go up. The author tells how he finally learned, through trial and error (mostly error), what distinguishing characteristics a stock that is going up posesses.

Just as important, he shows how to determine if the selection was wrong and expertly discusses the psychological struggles the mind deals with throughout the stock holding period. A MUST READ for anyone determined to consistently make money in the markets. Has helped my own investing tremendously.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Mother of all CANSLIMERS, April 6, 2010

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J. Leibovitz "Not a kid" (Boca Raton, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Darvas System for Over the Counter Profits (Paperback)

While everyone points to his other books, this one is exactly word for word almost William O'Neil's CANSLIM system. Here is all the emphasis on Institutional, earnings, the very predecessors of (original?) RS and EPS and all that group and industry leadership factors. It's ALL THERE!!!W.O.N. simply rephrased and added his chart patterns and cups with handles that complicate things also work about 20% only

or less in backtesting today. So how come O'Neil's book is great and the original not so, when even a kid can apply it with minor changes for today. Other new big shots are also picking NASDAQ stocks only on their websites right now in 2010 with the very same system and bragging about their random winnings now and then...