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| Investing For Dummies, 4th Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Eric Tyson
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (82 reviews)
Sales Rank: 68047
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 456
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0764599127
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6
EAN: 9780764599125
ASIN: 0764599127
Publication Date: December 12, 2005
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Investing for Dummies February 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a clear and concise book for people like myself who are starting to look closely at investing and it gives very good advice and assumes that the reader has no knowledge of investing (true in my case). It warns of the pitfalls as well and can be read straight thru, or by any chapter that you wish to know more about. I would recommend this book to the beginner.
 Book Order December 19, 2007
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Great service. Condition of book was stellar and it was delivered in a very timely manner.
 Disappointing, even for a "For Dummies" title. November 14, 2007
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
I've read a gang in the "For Dummies" series because even of the subjects that I've had experience with, the series by and large still manages to do a few things, regardless of the subject matter it focuses on, surprisingly well.
A) Summarizes the given subject clearly.
B) Teaches a few things I didn't know.
C) Demystifies the complexity of the subject, often with humor.
D) Makes me more proficient at doing something.
This book on investing does none of the above and, in my opinion, my experienced opinion, is outdated and therefore often WRONG, siting concepts and conventions from the Gomez Addams era of investing. Additionally, it tries to cover so many bases that an understanding of any of them is impossible. The point of the For Dummies series is to get you to have an overall grasp of a subject. I fear that this attempt gives enough information to make some bad investments based on insufficient information. Perhaps the ones more specific, for Stocks, Real Estate, Mutual Funds, etc., may be more concise and therefore, perhaps, more helpful, I can't see this book helping anyone to invest in any class of assets correctly. Perhaps the scope of this book was too ambitious, but then again the author should have known that.
People who work in the investment field rarely share valid or useful information. It's kind of a black box industry that would prefer you to pay them to handle your financial interests. The author here (I won't even bother to walk ten feet to my bookshelf to get his name) is no different. The information given in this book is likely a bunch of advice you've already heard, like holding long is good and trading is bad, for one. The fact is that it all depends on many factors whether it is better to hold an investment long or trade it. His advice is miserably oversimplified for todays environment and the information presented is often JUST PLAIN WRONG because of the oversimplification. I won't get into it more. The only time I'll spend here is to steer you toward authors who may give you some valid investing insight geared for today. They definitely did for me, even after I had a foundation with investing. William O'Neil, Ken Fisher and James Cramer to name a few. Just not this Bozo.
This is about making or losing YOU a whole bunch of YOUR money, not something fiscally innocuous like trying to understand an operating system. This man should be ashamed of himself for knowing better and you should steer clear.
I have to say November 14, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book and I use some of the methods for my subscribers.
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1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I thought this book was extremely informative and well written, I especially like how they worded it so the average layman could understand it in plain English. In my humble opinion we need more books like this thats why I gave it five stars. I've read all of the authors other books and I've always received them well, can't wait for the next one.
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