You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Even if You’re Not Too Smart: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits

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

You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Even if You're Not Too Smart: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits By Joel Greenblatt pdf