The purpose of Essential Stock Picking Strategies is to provide you with unique insight into money managers. It is for readers who want to learn about the different investment styles and strategies of money managers who have made sound investment decisions over a significant period of time.
Author’s Introduction:
Still, maybe the opportunity exists right now and investors don’t see it. Maybe there are people out there who don’t need skyrocketing markets or the latest craze to post strong returns. Maybe there are people who have done well and continue to do well regardless of market conditions. This leads me to the idea behind Essential Stock Picking Strategies: What Works on Wall Street.
This book is not to make these men and women out to be the best or necessarily the brightest; it is merely to show that consistency is the most important thing when it comes to investing. The idea is to illustrate that having strict investment principles and following a strict investment strategy is more important then finding the next best thing. I wrote this book to give you a better understanding of what works on Wall Street, so that you can profit from good investment strategies and make money in both bull and bear markets.
I have chosen money managers who have solid track records and who have been in the money management business for some time. Most of them are names that you will not recognize, and there is a reason for that—a reason you will understand when you finish this book. A great Wall Streeter once said, “Never confuse brains with a bull market.” I believe the people profiled in these chapters have the brains to be successful in both bull and bear markets and that these pages offer you the chance to profit from their brains.
Contents:
- Investing 101
- Growth and Value Managers
- Sector Fund Managers
- Resources
Essential Stock Picking Strategies: What Works on Wall Street By Daniel A. Strachman pdf
Aziel Glenn (verified owner) –
Essential Stock Picking Strategies does exactly what it says in the title: it tells you, in a clear and easy-to-understand manner, what works on Wall Street and why it works. It provides great insight into the mutual fund industry and how money managers operate.
Ruth Norman (verified owner) –
This book lays the foundation for understanding the value of long-term investing and the importance of knowing who is managing your money and what they are doing with it.
Jorge Ray (verified owner) –
This is a book for the serious investors, the ones that have gone past the basics and want to dig into something more substantial. It describes the styles and strategies of some of the most consistent money managers in Wall Street – not the smartest or the outright kamikase, but the ones who are consistent in adding value to their clients’ portifolios.
They were divided into two groups: Growth & Value and Sector Funds administrators, and the author portrays each manager’s strategies in bull or bear markets.
I found the book very pleasant to read, because it not only doesn’t overly rely on technical terms, but uses them only where needed, so you actually have the feeling you’re chatting with the author.
In addition to that, I found that the strategies depicted in the book sharpen our own trading strategies, showing better (and sometimes different) ways to implement them, ‘seasoning’ the tools we use to manage our investment portfolios.
Gracelyn Moran (verified owner) –
I thought the book would help me in picking stocks to trade but it had nothing to do with teaching anything rather than glorifying professional investors and praising them
Bodie Stanley (verified owner) –
Great read