Stan Weinstein's Secrets For Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets (Paperback)

by Stan Weinstein (Author) "Buy low, sell high! That's the shortcut to a fortune, right?..." (more)
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Product Description
Stan Weinstein's Secrets For Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets reveals his successful methods for timing investments to produce consistently profitable results.

Topics include:

• Stan Weinstein's personal philosophy on investing
• The ideal time to buy
• Refining the buying process
• Knowing when to sell
• Selling Short
• Using the best long-term indicators to spot Bull and Bear markets

Odds, ends, and profits

About the Author
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Product Details

• Paperback: 348 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (January 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556236832
• ISBN-13: 978-1556236839
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (87 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,746 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

96 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very effective methodology to trading or investing, January 22, 2000

By	testingagain "testingagain" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This book has completely changed by perspective on trading or investing (there's a difference). With either one, I believe you will find this book VERY helpful and practical (recognizing breakouts, when to buy, when to sell, cycles of a stock's life, market timing, shorting stocks, establishing safeguards, various order types, etc.).

The book has a heavy emphasis on analyzing charts. This is a major plus, but it's very practical, not numbingly theoretical.

Weinstein is often compared to O'Neil in (momentum) investment style, but I find Weinstein's book much more systematic and well organized than anything I've read by O'Neil. I own 8 books about investing. This is the best, and the only one I go back to continually.

Bottom line: my portfolio has grown 30% in two months using his methodology, and it's kept me from making a LOT of bad decisions.

Don't let the date influence you. Start reading, and you will think he published it this year.

78 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best trading manual ever., April 17, 2000

By	Ruth Henriquez Lyon (Duluth, Minnesota USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the best book on trading techniques that I have ever read. It is based on how to do "stage analysis," that is, looking at charts to determine whether a stock is going up, topping, declining, or bottoming out. The author stresses using stage analysis not only on individual stocks, but also on industry sectors as well as indexes like the Dow and Nasdaq.

I cashed out of my stocks three weeks before the recent Dow and Nasdaq declines, simply because, as luck would have it, I had just finished studying the chapter on spotting market tops. All the signs that Weinstein laid out so neatly in that chapter were apparent--it was truly a textbook case.

Anyone doing trading should know the information in this book....it's very basic, as the author teaches the minimum you need to know for success. But it works, and the information is presented clearly in very readable, friendly prose.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 star review for a 5 star method, May 31, 2000

By	Samson Hedges (Tempe, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

Reading this book will tell you a simple, effective way to trade on charts. No nonsense, no complex indicators, no sigma notation mathematical sequences, just basic, effective trading techniques.

It is for longer term trading, perhaps 3 months or more, depending on how long the stock trends upward. This is probably the best longer term trading method I have seen. It is so basic you may already know most of it (unless you are just starting), but this book puts chart reading into a simple, practical method that can be mastered. One of the problems I had with CANSLIM was when to sell. Reading this book will give what I consider a good answer on when to take profits. And, like the book says, go short.

I wouldn't say Weinstein's methods are "secrets," they are just 100% common sense, and very effective. CANSLIM investors may find this a very useful book on expanding charting knowledge.

It is one of my favorite trading/investing books.