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| The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing | 
 enlarge | Author: Jason Kelly
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (230 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1268
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0452289211
Dewey Decimal Number: 332
EAN: 9780452289215
ASIN: 0452289211
Publication Date: December 18, 2007
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 If you're new to stock-market investing, start here November 4, 2008
If you've ever taken a college-level math course, you know that many math teachers have an interest in keeping everything just a bit obscure. They're afraid that if they clarify everything and define their terms, you'll know as much as they do. Kelly clearly doesn't adhere to this philosophy. If you're a beginner to stock market investing, there's no better place to start than here. Even if you find that many seasoned investors don't agree with Kelly's trading strategies, it doesn't matter. What's important for a new investor is to just understand what's going on. When you hear trading-floor jargon, you want to be able to know what information is being conveyed. Otherwise, it will be of no use to you. Kelly's strategies, while debatable, apply the jargon to real life. And there's really no shortcut. Either you know the basics, or you don't. If you try to just "pick them up" along the way, you'll spend a lot of time on a learning curve--time which could be put to better use buying and selling stock. And, unless you're using monopoly money, learning curves can be terribly expensive. If you want to buy a stock intelligently, you're going to be buying a company. And if you do, you've got to do fundamental analysis. (Some people don't believe in the bars & graphs used in technical analysis.) And if later you want to get into more esoteric stuff like option trading, the basics have to be second nature. You can't waste time asking what terms like Return on Equity or Dividend Yield mean. If you master this book, you won't have to.
Internalize the definitions and rules offered in this book, and then get out there and do a few dry-run transactions. You can put together any number of mock portfolios on Yahoo Finance. And the Internet is full of resources for getting the information you'll need. (Kelly spends a lot of time discussing Value Line. Nowadays, there's no need to spend that kind of money for information that can be had at a fraction of the cost, or for free.) I use Investools, which makes available a ton of data.
Don't be put off by the small size of the book. It's dense with information, and all of it is useful, even essential. I'm looking forward to seeing a later edition, since some of the stuff in this book is already dated. But again, what it does it does very well--teaching you how to talk and think like an investor. What it doesn't do it doesn't even try to do. Kelly knows his readers' limitations. You should know yours.
 Neatest little guide in Stock Market October 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this little Book is sound and well written but it horribly out of date.
Very Informative for starters October 24, 2008
I am halfway thru this book and I liked it very much. Lot of information for first timers. Its a must read if you are just starting to invest in stocks.
great introduction book October 19, 2008
I like all the examples the author gave every time when he is talking about something complicated, usually resolves my questions.
not quite finished, but I highly recommend this book October 11, 2008
Great book on investing, and I look forward to finishing it this weekend (before taking advantage of the recent big decline). I especially like the profiles & strategies of the most successful investors of all time. A must read!
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