You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Even if You’re Not Too Smart: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
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1997 |
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Even if You’re Not Too Smart is a comprehensive and practical guide to the stock market filled with case studies, important background information, and all the tools you’ll need to become a stock market genius. Fund manager Joel Greenblatt has been beating the Dow (with returns of 50 percent a year) for more than a decade. And now, in this highly accessible guide, he’s going to show you how to do it, too.
You’re about to discover investment opportunities that portfolio managers, business-school professors, and top investment experts regularly miss—uncharted areas where the individual investor has a huge advantage over the Wall Street wizards. Here is your personal treasure map to special situations in which big profits are possible, including:
Contents:
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road—Then Hang a Right
- Some Basics—Don’t Leave Home Without Them
- Chips Off the Old Stock: Spinoffs, Partial Spinoffs, and Rights Offerings
- Don’t Try This at Home: Risk Arbitrage and Merger Securities
- Blood in the Streets (Hopefully, Not Yours): Bankruptcy and Restructuring
- “Baby Needs New Shoes” Meets “Other People’s Money”: Recapitalizations and Stub Stocks, LEAPS, Warrants, and Options
- Seeing the Trees Through the Forest
- All the Fun’s in Getting There
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17 reviews for You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Even if You’re Not Too Smart: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
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Rylan Humphrey (verified owner) –
First off – the title is terrible. Sounds like every other ‘get rich quick by trading stocks’ type of book out there that only makes the author richer, not you.
That said, the content is gold. Basically I would characterize this book as a guide to special situations investing for non finance professionals. This is really the best ‘pond’ to fish in as an individual investor with a small account as many of the rocks you would turning over are too small and illiquid for the bigger players to even bother with.
This approach will not work for casual investors, however. You may have to dig into opaque legal documents/filings and spend a lot of time understanding a particular company’s situation to see if it could really be a home run/multibagger. Also many of the opportunities may be in highly levered companies priced for bankruptcy and now turning around – a high risk high reward play. Still, if you enjoy this sort of contrarian approach to investing, you can do very well with it. And if you don’t, you could just buy and hold FAANGM or an index fund for the next 20 years and retire wealthy!
Nyla Manning (verified owner) –
Greenblatt provides great insights to alternative strategies for stock market investing. On top of my value investment and quality business approach tought by Buffett, Greenblatt’s approach to special situations investment is worth deep diving.
Phoenix Manning (verified owner) –
This book is an interesting guide on looking for undervalued, hidden gems; unlike the efficient market theory, this book assumes that there are key scenarios (spinoffs, etc) wherein there may be opportunities for a well-informed investor to get a bargain deal on an up-and-coming stock. The book runs contrary to some other books such as A Random Walk Down Wall Street, or others who suggest that stocks are efficiently priced. It also doesn’t really tout the conventional wisdom of mutual funds and diversification as the best ways to optimize returns. IMO, each theory has its place and there is room for both some well-researched speculation as well as a more balanced approach of mutual funds for the rest of one’s portfolio.
Bennett Arellano (verified owner) –
so much to learn !
and to read as well !
Krew Mueller (verified owner) –
About 2/3 through this and definitely seeing plenty of new concepts that are timeless from 1997 and onward. Thanks!
Seth Lucas (verified owner) –
– Enjoyed reading it and def will recommend as a reference
– References are great
– Easy read, but at times wish the uses cases were more current
Ty Hoover (verified owner) –
For anyone interested in learning more than buy & sell this book is awesome.
Amy Jacobs (verified owner) –
Huge fan of Joel Greenblatt’s work. Hate the titles he gives things, but his work speaks for itself!
Jakari Lane (verified owner) –
Very insightful. Will reread and supplement as it introduces new ideas into my investment knowledge., but overall it creates a good base to refer back to.
Bryan Hurley (verified owner) –
This is a book on stock market with a quite different approach than most books. Although it has good ideas, it is quite wordy and outdated.
Imani Roach (verified owner) –
Cheesy title but fascinating and inspiring. I have a new way to seek stocks. As of Friday, in the first month of the start of my reading of it, it has paid for itself, literally and without exaggeration, by a factor of 1000.
Seth Goodman (verified owner) –
This book is without a doubt the best investing book I have read. The book provides very real insights into how to profit off of unique corporate situations, such as spin-offs, mergers, bankruptcies, etc. My personal interest is investing in spin-offs and this book arms you with knowledge that you can apply to your own investment research. A recent example for me was that I was able to make a massive profit off of GE’s spin-off of GE Health Care, because of the information I learned from reading this book.
One thing that I will add is that this is a more advanced investing book. The book assumes that the reader already has a background in investing and has some experience. I would not recommend this book to people who are at the beginning of their investment journey.
Alicia Farrell (verified owner) –
Yea.
Virginia Avery (verified owner) –
Good book with a great writing style and sense of humor to keep you engaged. I did not quite understand all of it at the detail that I would have like to but definitely opens up a lot of areas for exploration. Thanks Joel!
Kieran Griffith (verified owner) –
Joel’s style is easy going and not super-technical, and rhis book is relatively short. There are good ideas, especially around spinoffs, but some of this may be out of date and the advantages eroded by modern information being available to everyone rapidly OR some things, like restructuring no longer being done by companies.
It is still worth the time to read for investors.
Faye Bauer (verified owner) –
Excellent “You can do this” kind of advice delivered with a touch of humour. An update of references would be appreciated.
Carolina Powell (verified owner) –
Good balance of general stock market information and deep dive into more complex situations. All with a splash of humor.