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How I Trade and Invest in Stocks and Bonds (Fraser Publishing Library) (Contrary Opinion Library)

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Virtually everything written after Livermore and Wyckoff are variations on themes developed by these two men. Wyckoff was among the first to explain the accumulation-distribution cycle (which makes stock and market timing possible) and to develop the use of "surrogates", self-made indexes which consist of a handful of leading stocks in a group (such as semiconductors), which warn the investor of impending moves, and which enable the investor to filter out all the noise of broadcasters, publishers, newsletters, message boards, and chat rooms.

Understand Wyckoff and you'll understand the engine that drives stocks and markets rather than be distracted by the genuine imitation wood trim and the smell of the leather seats.

If you are interested in learning Wyckoff Volume Spread Analysis, this is not the book for that. For an entertaining historical read though, this book is interesting. He talks about trading the old railroad stocks, the importance of knowing what insiders are doing in a stock, and as well, it is chock full of aphorisms that most traders should know, like "Limit Risk", and "Don't be Impatient" etc. but, there's no talk about volumes affect on price.

I was looking for a book describing volume and price relationships. This book is not that one.

I would recommend looking for "The Undeclared Secrets that drive the Stock Market" by Tom Williams if you are interested in learning about Volume and Price Analysis.

This little classic has great advice in it even though it was written over 80 years ago. It discusses the importance of risk management when trading stocks and how different investing is to trading stocks. The author gives the excellent advice to never average down in price after the first purchase of a stock for trading.(This has saved me a lot of money). I found it very interesting that on one page he claimed that he could trade stocks succesfully if he was away from Wall Street and just received cables of a stocks daily range of prices and closing price while traveling. He claimed that was all the information needed to make trading decisions. He said that it was better to be away from Wall Street and the ticker and rumors. Strangely enough 40 years after he wrote this Nicolas Darvas did exactly that and made $2.5 million trading stocks using cables while traveling the world. This is a great book for beginners.

Has good rules concerning investing in general, but it lacks the specifics. I personally do not like much Mr Wyckoff's writting, tends to make me fell as I am going in circles. For beginners.

Don't waste your money. This book might have made sense when it was written in 1922, but at best it is a footnote to history. There is nothing of any real value here. I bought the book because Wyckoff is somewhat famous for having made a pile of dough trading on a cruise ship with only the benefit of delayed telegrams as a source of information. There's no mention of that in the book. No price/volume insights. Nothing. Not even the interesting anecdotal stuff you find in books like LeFevre's "Reminiscences of A Stock Operator" (the Livermore book). The only thing you'll learn is how wonderful Amazon's truly liberal return policy is...and it is excellent. Good trading!

It is a great idea to read the words of a true trader or better say investor . I do not like to give details of the content because you can look for them yourself. But you will not regret this choice if you are smart.

This book was written many years ago, but I believe the principles hold true as much today as when it was written. Very good basic patterns and common sense trading.