Posted on 12/29/2008 2:16:27 PM PST by randita
The links listed so far are great, but I want to disagree with “Nobody, but nobody, beats the market.”
Take a look at “Online Investing” by Jon Markman, who made big money by looking for certain patterns. He documents how he did it in the book.
True, conditions are now different 8 yrs later, but it shows it can be done.
Now as for intro material:
On the web:
www.fool.com/School.htm
Books:
“Motley Fool Investment Guide” by Tom & David Gardner
“The Little Book That Beats the Market” by Joel Greenblatt
That’s nice, but what does it have to do with my double-your-pennies, get-rich-quick scheme?
1. Inherit it;
2. Marry it;
or
3. Compound interest.
Worked for him and It worked for me.
Al
I ahould have included:
#3 Was our course of action.
Al
To get a feeling for the folks at Forbes, they are on Forbes on Fox on Saturday morning. They probably are on the Fox Business News as well but I don't know when. It helps associate a face and voice with their written words. Forbes gets very near to the truth every issue.
I am a fundamentals guy as opposed to a technical analysis guy. If you go down the technical path you can get terribly bogged down in drivel. There is no end to it.
I had to go get the book to be sure I got the title right....
For a good dose of fundamental theory, I recommend "The New Contrarian Investment Strategy" by David Dremen. He is a desciple of Benjamin Grahm and a regular columnist in Forbes. This book gives a very readable view of analysis. He pokes fun at the technical types.
He writes for the reader.
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