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Your Financial Future: 4 Easy Steps to Successful Investing

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If the very idea of learning about investing gives you a headache, take a deep breath, then relax and read this book. Personal finance expert Jonathan Pond lays out all the strategies clearly and simply, then guides you toward creating a balanced investment portfolio. His chapter, "Oh No! Surviving a Market Decline," will help you sleep nights even when the Dow takes a big dip.

This is the kind of book you want to read with pen and pencil nearby, so that you can write down the pertinent information. Pond makes investing so simple and broken-down that even I, an economically illiterate person, can understand it. Good book.

With such a preponderance of lousy information out there by so called "financial experts", I found it refreshing to read Ponders book and find advice that actually worked.

I also enjoy your commentaries.

Thank you Mr. Ponder!

I agreed with alot of what he had to say,but I think his approach is too conservative for the younger investor.He is very strongly into bond funds and feels that everybody should have at least 6 or 7 different bond funds.Are you kidding me? Why should a 30 year old have bonds at all? I prefer to be a little bit more aggressive at least until I'm 50, then maybe bonds would make more sense.Just my opinion.

I was watching Mr.Pond's commentary on Business Channel 23 about the great market we've had and three choices if it doesn't stay great: stop loss orders, options, and diversification. He's full of it! I have a page full of blue chip stocks that stopped me out 7% plus, then soared without me. It doesn't work. Most people lose on options and I lost out on thousands to the indexes from being diversified. This guy makes his money selling books. I'll tell him to his face he's full of it.

I'm going to ease off quite a bit here from the (previous message) on the book and author...there, I've taken most of the headlock squeeze off of little J Jonathan ... and say that I think these books; like JPs for example, can set a good financial foundation for kids, adults, and successfully retire you at 65; BUT if you were wrecked by reading Market Wizards or New Market Wizards where everything else now falls short AND you're now looking to make..... 200 BILLION DOLLARS..... in 3 to 5 years, like ME and DR. EVIL, then it might not work. I'm always looking for the next real level so I toss most stuff back on the shelf. Now where are the REAL experts who can get us THERE? I can hear them laughing already.