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Getting Started in Fundamental Analysis

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I decided to learn about the stock market because I invest a portion of my paycheck in my company's stock. I've saved a couple grand through the program and want to decide whether to hold or sell.

For a total investing newbie, this book gave a great overview of fundamental analysis, technical analysis and the strengths and weaknesses of each. I came away with the tools I needed to begin comparing and analyzing potential stocks. In addition, it made me want to learn a bit more about technical analysis.

I used to think that analyzing prospective stocks was too difficult for me, now, I have the confidence I need to get started.

For a book called "Getting Started in Fundamental Analysis", this book contains remarkably little material relating to the subject. It does do a good job discussing the potential pitfalls involved in reading a financial statement. However, it has very little practical advice on actually performing analysis. Overall, the book is poorly organized and poorly edited.

I got "Fire Your Stock Analyst!" by Harry Domash at the same time as this book, and found it much more informative.

This book is what it says. A guide to getting st.......

Goes thru account keeping practises used, price ratios, and all those other things fundamental analysts use to convince themselves of where a stocks price should be, based on their expectations and calculations.

This book covers the important and useful aspects of fund analy, however the author writes from the viewpoint of an "investor" not a "trader" and the section at the end of the last chapter really made me laugh with "buy low, sell high" and a few other things investors are always bagging traders about.

Overall I found the book very easy going, with review bubbles on each aspect as it was covered to reinforce it and I recommend it to anyone who wants to know about balance sheets,crooked accounting practices, profit, loss and sales tracking, price ratios and all the other guff up rampers are always crankin on about when they're wishing their BHP (buy , hold, pray) method to possible fruition.

Great book, great for future reference, glad I bought it.

Getting Started in Fundamental Analysis didn't serve its purpose. Rather than on the main topic, the book veered its focus to corporate unethical practices, and the author just goes on and on about it. I didn't survive that long enough to read the book, so I mainly skipped a lot of pages. All in all, Getting Started in Fundamental Analysis is a major fail.