How to Buy: An Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Stock Market [Hardcover]

Justin Mamis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1982

A new foreword by the author in 2001 brings new perspective to the original How to Buy. This book compliments MamisÂ’ When to Sell by providing a concrete path to reaping profits in the stock market year by year. How to BuyÂ’s chapters include information on:
—Safe times to buy
—How to pick a stock that’s about ready to move up
—Exactly when to buy (what day and hour)
—How to check out rumors and recommendations
—Market action indicators
—Basic buying strategy

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Justin Mamis was senior vice president and chief market technician at Hancock Institutional Equity Services in New York, and now publishes his own institutional market letters. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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From the Foreword:
When we opened up the original edition of How to Buy and saw at the outset the phrase, “the market fluctuates,” we knew that the book did not need to be rewritten. Not only does the stock market still fluctuate, but it does so in the same manner as it ever did . . . all of the talk about volatility and all of the manic technology swings of recent years being just remarkable extensions of such fluctuations. The manner in which the market does fluctuate, and how such fluctuations should be understood, seems more timeless than we would have believed in our youth — just as valid in coping with the manic rises and subsequent bubble burstings as when the market was relatively calmer. It still takes just as long to make a top, or a bottom (which is the basis for this book) as it ever did. . . . Contrary opinion has been, is, and always will be the important stance. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 245 pages
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T); First Printing edition (May 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0374173346
• ISBN-13: 978-0374173340
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,184,183 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This and 'When to sell' should be required reading, March 5, 2002

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This review is from: How to Buy: An Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Stock Market (Fraser Publishing Library) (Paperback)

From covering all the thoughts that go through ones heads at the time of pressing the trigger, to all the consequences of these thoughts. Everything is covered in this book.
Then it helps one create a strategy for buying based on facts rather than emotions.

I would recommend this book and When to Sell above most books about trading.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of three trading books you have to read!, August 16, 2008

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This review is from: How to Buy: An Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Stock Market (Fraser Publishing Library) (Paperback)

After reading two other books by Justin Mamis, I was excited to read this one. When to Sell: Inside Strategies for Stock-Market Profits and The Nature of Risk were two extraordinary books on trading. This author knows what he is talking about and really relates tough topics in an easy to read fashion.

My opinion is if you trade, you need to read all three of these books.

This book, "How to Buy", covers everything you need to make your decisions and pull the trigger on a trade. He explains what to look for, how to gauge the strength or weakness in a stock, how to gauge the attraction for other traders, and how to get in on that stock as it is being accumulated.

Why would you buy a stock that may not do anything for you? Get one that is showing the signs of moving where you want it to go. Justin talks about buying sensibly and not emotionally. He also talks in depth about when NOT to buy. That topic alone could save you a fortune on your next stock pick.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great series of Books., December 2, 2001

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This review is from: How to Buy: An Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Stock Market (Fraser Publishing Library) (Paperback)

I can't say enough about the series of When to Buy, When to Sell, and The Nature of Risk. Ironically, I bought the When to Sell years ago, read it and shelved it. It's pages would have saved me a bundle over the past year. As the worst seems to be behind us, knowing when to get back in is key. Simply written with great examples, make this book a must own.