Monster Stocks: How They Set Up, Run Up, Top and Make You Money [Hardcover]

John Boik (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 2007

Everything you need to know to get in on the ground floor of the next Google!

Monster Stocks gives you the expert guidance you need to add the explosive power of breakout stocks to your portfolio. You'll find everything you need to consistently spot stocks that have the potential to at the very least, double in value in a year or less - and change your life forever!

Delivered in clear, concise language by market researcher John Boik, Monster Stocks gives you the tools you need to land super-performing stocks and handle them for maximum profit, market cycle after market cycle. Boik mines the history of the market to uncover the common conditions that must be in place for monster stocks to materialize. You'll learn how to easily identify these trends with the help of real-world monster stock case studies, from Yahoo! and Schwab to Apple, Broadcom, and many more.

Make your fortune with Monster Stocks!

• Know when to buy and when to sell for tremendous profit
• Understand how the pros identify and handle market leaders
• Learn from the great super-stocks of the past
• Break your bad stock investing habits for good!
• Gain valuable insight into selecting future monster stocks

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

John Boik is a controller and former stockbroker. He is the author of Lessons from the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time, which was chosen by Barron’s as one of the Best Books of 2004, and How Legendary Traders Made Millions.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (October 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071494715
• ISBN-13: 978-0071494717
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,198 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #59 in Books > Education & Reference > Education > Questions & Answers

More About the Author

Author of three market books published by McGraw-Hill, Lessons From the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time was chosen by Barron's as one of the top 25 Best Books of 2004. A former stockbroker and currently a financial controller, his second book was released in April 2006 titled How Legendary Traders Made Millions. In the fall of 2007 his highly anticipated third title Monster Stocks will be released.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to make monster profits with the right stock, November 4, 2007

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Steve Burns (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monster Stocks: How They Set Up, Run Up, Top and Make You Money (Hardcover)

John Boik has written a very valuable book that can make you serious money trading stocks if you study it and use his system. I have personally made thousands of dollars trading several of the stocks in this book. You will learn how to identify the stocks that will double and triple in just a few months, some even gorw 1000% to 7000% in less than a year. Stocks like Google, Apple, Yahoo, Taser, and many others. Stocks that change the way we live by creating new products that are very popular and lead to explosive earnings in the company and price increase in the stock that the majority of money managers want to be a part of.
You will get to see how these stocks perform in technical price strength, the author gives bar charts during the major part of the move showing the price compared to the 21, 50, and 200 day moving average along with the relative strength line and volume. You will see how to enter at price break outs to new highs and add on at retreats in price to the 21 or 50 day moving average. But most importantly when to sell at exhaustion gaps in price or when the stock's price falls through the 50 day moving average. It is crucial to sell and lock in profits before the run up ends.
Here are the keys to trading success found in this book:
Monster fundamentals:
1. Outstanding sales or revenue growth.
2. Strong and accelerating earnings growth.
3. High rates of return on equity (ROE).
Rules:
1. Only buy in an overall uptrending market.
2. Only buy stocks in sound price bases with strong fundamentals.
3.Buy stocks at their 52 week highs or better yet all time highs at break outs in price.
4. Only stay in stocks that act right with rising prices on rising volume and pull backs on lighter volume.
5. Sell when it is time, do not stay in when the price falls through the 50 day moving average support line.

This book is a great tool to have in your stock trading library, it is outstanding for new traders and an excellent refresher course for seasoned traders. It is one of my new instant favorites.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you love stock trading, this book is for you!, October 29, 2007

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Barron - See all my reviews

This review is from: Monster Stocks: How They Set Up, Run Up, Top and Make You Money (Hardcover)

I just completed the book and I loved it. Understand I am an avid can slim follower, and I have also taken all the 4 level of workshops offered by William O'Neil and IBD. I also, got to know Jim Roppel at the Master's Level workshop in May that we both attended. This book is very accurate on on the details it covers. It also stresses the extreme difficulty of doing this technique, although for the rare few that can accomplish this skill, it is truly rewarding. After you read this , and you haven't already, the next book you will want is O'Neils book How to Make Money in Stocks, 3rd edition. Only after reading that last book many times over and doing all the follow up, which will require 2-4 years of study, will you feel that you are an intermediate Monster Stock trader.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Monster Letdown, February 19, 2008

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David J. Hall (Redondo Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monster Stocks: How They Set Up, Run Up, Top and Make You Money (Hardcover)

Fire up your charting software. Scan for stocks that have gained greater than 200% in the last 250 trading days (1 year). Review. You have just saved yourself $29.00. There is nothing new in this book. O'neil was quoted so many times I began to think this was written by him. I congratulate anyone who has the moxi and staying power to finish and publish a book. That doesn't mean I have to like the finished product.