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Stock Investing Simplified

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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.

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

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.