Stock Trader's Almanac 2011 (Almanac Investor Series) [Hardcover-spiral]

Jeffrey A. Hirsch (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470557443 | ISBN-13: 978-0470557440 | Publication Date: October 5, 2010 | Edition: 7

A time-tested guide to stock trading

Published every year since 1968, the Stock Trader's Almanac is a practical investment tool with a wealth of information organized in calendar format. Everyone from well-known money managers to savvy traders and investors relies upon this annual resource for its in-depth analyses and insights. The Stock Trader's Almanac 2011 contains essential historical price information on the stock market, provides monthly and daily reminders, and highlights seasonal trading opportunities and dangers.

• Alerts you to little-known market patterns and tendencies to help forecast market trends with accuracy and confidence
• An indispensable annual resource, trusted for over 40 years by traders and investors
• The data in the Almanac is some of the cleanest in the business

For its wealth of information and the authority of its sources, the Stock Trader's Almanac stands alone as the guide to intelligent investing.

Editorial Reviews

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Praise for STOCK TRADER'S ALMANAC

"Historical price patterns continue to work because human nature doesn't change, and neither does the law of supply and demand. Study past successful stocks if you want to know what future ones will look like. Stock Trader's Almanac is all about historical facts."—William J. O'Neil, Chairman and founder, Investor's Business Daily

"All my almost four decades in professional investing, I've found this annual tour de force fascinating. There is a lot of provocative here to whet your whistle and adrenaline-rush your curiosity. If you don't find something here that tickles your mind, you probably don't have one."—Ken Fisher, CEO and founder, Fisher Investments, 25-year Forbes columnist, and author of The Only Three Questions That Count and How to Smell a Rat

"The Stock Trader's Almanac is a treasure-trove of solid gold investment nuggets. No serious trader should have it far from his hands."—John Mauldlin, author of Bull's Eye Investing and Thoughts from the Frontline

"I've been reading the Almanac since Yale first published it back in 1968. I wouldn't miss a year for anything. It's the perfect reference for every trader's desk."—Larry Williams, Darlings of the Dow fund manager, trader, and author

"Whether I am researching seasonality trends or old Wall Street sayings, or am simply in need of some good old-fashioned investment horse sense, I start with the Stock Trader's Almanac. I have been a student of Yale and Jeffrey Hirsch's Almanac research for years, and look forward to future lessons."—Sam Stovall, Chief Investment Strategist, Standard & Poor's Equity Research

Product Details

• Hardcover-spiral: 196 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 7 edition (October 5, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470557443
• ISBN-13: 978-0470557440
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #446,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jeffrey A. Hirsch is president of the Hirsch Organization, editor-in-chief of the Stock Trader's Almanac® (Wiley), Almanac Investor newsletter and www.stocktradersalmanac.com. He started with the Hirsch Organization in 1990 as a market analyst and historian under the mentorship of his father Yale Hirsch. He was handed the reigns in 2000 and continues to run the operation from his Nyack, New York offices. Jeffrey regularly appears on major news networks such as CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg and Fox News. As well as writing numerous financial columns and is widely quoted in all of the major newspapers and financial publications.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific, Time-tested Tool for Traders, January 2, 2011

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Paige Turner "Paige" (New York) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Stock Trader's Almanac 2011 (Almanac Investor Series) (Hardcover-spiral)

The Stock Trader's Almanac is an indispensable tool for stock investors and traders. This book belongs on the desk of every serious investor, amateur and professional alike. It is full of statistics, facts, and history of stock market trends and anomalies. For example, 2011 is the "Third Year in a Presidential Term" which has not been a losing year in decades.

This calendar covers every trading day of the year, with the percentage of up and down days, options expirations, and a pithy quote about stock market investing on each day. On the facing pages are descriptions of certain calendar anomalies like the "January Indicator" the "Santa Claus Rally" and other trends. In the back of the book is a very interesting section with historical market data. For example, did you know that the week of October 10, 2008 was actually the worst week for the Dow Jones in HISTORY?

Some of the data here is so useful that several Wall Street firms blatantly copy it and include it in their own "proprietary" research.

My only complaint with this book is the price has risen quite rapidly through the years, but since it's worth it, I am hooked and will buy it every year.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Review Only Applies to Kindle for iPad Edition, February 1, 2011

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BrentB67 (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Stock Trader's Almanac 2011 (Almanac Investor Series) (Kindle Edition)

This review is meant solely as a warning to iPad users tempted to download this to the Kindle App, may also equally apply to iPhone users, but I haven't tried it there and don't imagine it improves.

I give the Almanac itself 4+ Stars. The only reason I am not giving it 5 is that having a pitch and a hyperlink to subscribe to their newsletter on every other page is tiresome.

This is a rich book with a lot of facts, tables, interesting quotes, and a journal type calendar the majority of which do not render well on the Kindle for iPad. I have no idea how the book interacts on an Amazon Kindle.

I think this is a book that your money is better spent buying the spiral bound edition and keeping it on your trading desk. The quotes are nearly impossible to read, it is near impossible to put notes in it, and the valuable information in some of the tables is a challenge to zoom and still not very useable after.

Pay the full price, get the spiral bound edition, the original is still the way to go.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Packing experience in a Bottle (book), February 8, 2011

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Daniel M Amiot (Lyndhurst, OH, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Stock Trader's Almanac 2011 (Almanac Investor Series) (Hardcover-spiral)

Invaluable wisdom of the ages directly from the trading floor.
Every serious investor needs to read through this once.
Enjoyed every minute of it.

Thanks for the experience.