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The Whiz Kid of Wall Street's Investment Guide: How I Returned 34% on My Portfolio

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This is a good book, discussing some basic, to medium-depth princples and individual wisdoms. This book was written in an easy to read format, and the ideas that doing your research coupled with consumer sentiment drive investment decisions. This book carries many of the same principles as Buffett and Lynch, but is also contrarian on many of the ideas that Buffett and Lynch live by.

I first read this book in the library. I loved this book so much I decided to buy one. It is a book not only to guide you how to invest your money, but also a book on how to educate yourself to become successful in life generally. It's ideas are from a very young person in lucid language with a great sense of humor. Many examples and informations in the book make this whiz kid real and convincing. The world would be much better if there were more self-educating kids like Matt Seto.

This book was primarily a good book on how to invest long-term without having a hearth attack during every little market fluctuation. His advice helped me a lot. I didn't agree with about 15% of the stuff he said because back when he wrote the book he couldn't find $30 trades at Schwab or $8 trades at suretrade.com. Anyways, I wish he'd gone into more depth when explaining some basic terms like debt:equity ratios. And even though his book looks thick, you'll find that you can read it in no time since the text's double spaced with the biggest font possible. The content itself is pretty useful.

...but that picture on the front cover should have been replaced...yuck!

Matt Seto takes simplicity along with accuracy and puts together a superb fundamental strategy. He explains his Wall Street terminalogy in a clear dinstint way and shows you the way to find the resources. Matt Seto reminds me of a new breed of investors, one that combines the value interest of Ben Graham and the growth aspect of Peter Lynch. Take notes of this sensational man, because he has something that Wall Street doesn't have enough of, and that's youth. Great Job Matt!

One of the better books I've read on fundamental analysis, and you can't miss with the great explanations and a glossary of terms in the back. Matt plays the market like a lot of Grahamite investors, and he shows you how he does it (with a hint of Lynch Laws and Peter Principles)!

I can't put down this book. This is book is just like the Fool's book. It has the same ideas in it and it eleborates it a little more.

The book is interesting to read but a few successes over a couple of years doesn't make one a Warren Buffett! Puh-leeze! I am not saying that the author claims himself to be the new Warren Buffett. However, the reviewers quoted in the book do. Also, the author was not even born when the terrible bear market of the 1970's was on! If he thinks that 1987 was a bear market, he is in for a shock the next time he sees a grizzly on Wall Street.

What Matt said in the book is relavent and useful for investments, but its just another carbon copy of Peter Lynch's book (he himself admitted reading it).....just that he gives some examples of his success or something, and maybe some vague predictions abt the tech industry. I wondered why he actually wrote something that had already been written.....to let people know how good he is? He sounded pretty humble in the book.....but humble people wouldn't bother to write the book to tell others about themselves...how ironic. This KID do looks like he has some potential in investments, but he sure dont have the "potential to the be the next Warren Buffet of his generation" as the cover of the book claims by Douglas R. Sease, wsj. Warren Buffet is humble, this kid is not.