Stock Investing Simplified [Kindle Edition]

Linus Tham (Author)

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Product Description

How do Fundmanagers Achieve Returns of More than 15% per annum?

In Stock Investing Simplified, Linus debunks the well established myths surrounding stock investment and establishes new concepts to take your investment powers to greater heights. Stay invested at all times? He advises avoiding stock investments in certain periods. Buy IPOs for a quick buck? He tells you to stay away. Written for anybody wanting to improve his returns on stock investments, all the ideas are communicated in a logical and concise manner, without the technical jargon found in many investment guidebooks.

In Stock Investing Simplified, you will also read about:

- How to use stocks to create a consistent revenue stream, and earn more money

- Why stocks is a superior investment vehicle, compared to bonds

- How to buy when the stock market is undervalued, and why you should buy when everyone else is selling

- Why you should not heed Wall Street ''Tips''

- When to outsource your investment to a fund manager

- How to buy stocks cheaper than the current price at which they are trading

- Why you should invest in the National Postal Service

- Why you should not spend to much time watching the Financial News on TV

- Why you should not borrow for your stock purchases

- How to devise a complete asset allocation plan

- Why education can go a long way to getting better returns

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 570 KB
• Publisher: Mainstream Publishers (February 29, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0038QP6RU
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #194,241 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book !, February 26, 2010

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Choong - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stock Investing Simplified (Kindle Edition)

This book is really fantastic!

I thought that this was another boring, technical book on how to select winning stocks. Boy, was I wrong! This book really makes things simple, which is what stock trading should be.

If you are tired of all those other books brandishing technical terms, I strongly recommend this book. Suitable for beginners and intermediate investors.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars nice writing, January 30, 2012

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james yin - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Stock Investing Simplified (Kindle Edition)

I really want to invest some money on stock market.But I 'm fresh off the boad don't know wherer to start.This book is good instructions for our newbies .thanks for the writer U really give us good teaching

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth your money, or time even if it were free, November 3, 2011

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Richard Stooker "Income Investing Secrets" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stock Investing Simplified (Kindle Edition)

This is a very short yet disorganized, not useful and downright odd book.

The Foreword promises to simplify the stock market for the retail investor. That it does, mainly by leaving out huge amounts of information. (As I mentioned, it's very short.)

Foreword also promises to that by understanding the basic forces (fear and greed) that rule the markets, "we can effectively time our investments."

First, all responsible investing experts tell you it's virtually impossible to time the markets.

Second, if it's not impossible, it's extremely difficult and requires a time-tested system.

Third, the book fails to explain such a system -- or how fear and greed affect the markets, and how to take advantage of that.

The writing style is vague. Sections start off with some advice, then there are questions about it, and then there's some advice that nullifies or fails to explain how to actually implement.

For example: "FoCus on priCe/HistoriCal earnings ratio" -- the weird, hip hop capitalization is from the book.

Advice is to look for a company with a solid earnings record. How? Look for a company with a low Price/Historical Earnings ratio.

And just what is a "low" Price/Historical Earnings ratio?

More experienced investors may wonder why not use the common Price/Earnings (no "historical") ratio?

How do you tell a low one from a high one? Book doesn't say.

And then we're told that once you find a company with a low Price/Historical Earnings ratio, that may mean other investors know the company isn't worth much.

But didn't the Foreword promise to tell us how to be smarter than other investors?

I will point out that I am a "competitor," because I'm an investment writer, but I wasn't planning to write a book for stock market investing beginners until I read this one.

People interested in the stock market deserve better, so with Stock Market Investing for Beginners: How Anyone Can Have a Wealthy Retirement by Ignoring Much of the Standard Advice and Without Wasting Time or Getting Scammed I gave it to them.

Anybody who thinks I'm wrong is invited to buy and read both books and decide for themselves which one is more useful.