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Overview
PROVEN STRATEGIES FOR MARKET-BEATING RETURNS FROM THE LEADING ONLINE SOURCE OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND INSIGHT
"Warwick and Worldly are leading the way in empowering individual investors with tools that technology and the Internet have made possible. Complete with great graphics and examples, readers have never had a better resource to guide them to a winning investment strategy in easy-to-read and easy-to-act-upon language."-Stephen Cohn, Managing Director, Sage Online
"An excellent primer for any investor, Ben Warwick's book really does live up to its title. With hundreds of charts and many interesting insights, he gives you the tools with which you can become your own investment expert."-Homi Byramji, President, Market Guide, Inc., Senior Vice President, Multex.com, Inc.
"It's a war out there in the markets, and what most individual investors don't realize is that they've got all the weapons they need to win it. Ben Warwick gives investors the knowledge and the confidence to take on the professionals at their own game and come out way on top."-Donald L. Luskin, President and CEO, MetaMarkets.com, Inc.
Synopsis
Ten proven strategies for market-beating returns from the leading online source of financial analysis and insight
Learn how to make smarter and more profitable investment decisions from The worldlyinvestor.com Guide to Beating the Market. With today's advances in the Internet and the steadily decreasing costs of trading, it might actually be easier for the individual investor to outperform seasoned investment pros at their own game. But, with the huge number of investment choices and all the conflicting advice out there, where should the small investor turn? This book offers ten simple, highly effective strategies to beat the market and the professionals. The Guide shows you:
o Why a "buy-and-hold" mutual fund strategy may only benefit fund operators
o New ways to trade value, growth, and momentum stocks
o A simple mutual fund trading strategy that has earned 15% per year with minuscule risk
o How to trade exchange traded funds for maximum profit
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
When it comes to investment strategies, do you emulate "Felicity Foresight" or "Harry Hindsight?" Investment expert Ben Warwick says those fictional characters -- who originally appeared in an article in The Economist magazine -- represent two extremes in investment styles. On the one hand, Felicity draws on some sort of extrasensory perception that allows her to start each year by picking the asset that will net the highest return in the following 12 months. Most individual investors mistakenly believe market professionals possess powers similar to Felicity's. Harry, by contrast, invests in the previous year's best-performing asset. Unfortunately, the author notes, too many individual investors follow Harry's lead. But in his book, Warwick shows readers how to harness the informational horsepower of the Internet to create a forward-looking investment strategy that will make the market pros jealous -- and Felicity proud.Highlights:
- Details four main strategies for picking and trading individual stocks: momentum stocks for the short run; a new paradigm for growth stocks; uncovering the value in value stocks; and distressed stocks, the dregs of the market.
- Outlines index-trading tactics for exchange-traded funds and mutual funds. This section includes insights into what TD Waterhouse President Frank Petrelli characterizes in the book's foreword as "one of investment management's most-guarded secrets: how to exploit the pricing errors in mutual funds."
- Explains how to use the World Wide Web to create a portfolio that mimics, and in many cases surpasses, the performance of any stock index.
Advantages:
- Warwick, a columnist for worldlyinvestment.com, shows readers how to perform many of the stock-screening methodologies outlined in his book by using financial tools available on the web site he writes for.
- Warwick's book includes a glossary of investment terms, a detailed bibliography, and an extensive list of recommended readings.
Related Titles:
Among the books Warwick recommends are Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation, and Liar's Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street. Warwick is also author of Event Trading: Profiting from Economic Reports and Short-Term Market Inefficiencies and Searching for Alpha: The Quest for Exceptional Investment Performance, editor of The Futures Game: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why, and co-editor of The Handbook of Managed Futures and Hedge Funds: Performance, Evaluation, and Analysis.
Reviewed by MH - May 10, 2001