Beat the Market: Invest by Knowing What Stocks to Buy and What Stocks to Sell

by Charles D. Kirkpatrick II

"The author introduces an investing methodology with proven results and easily applied unequivocal decision making. Particularly impressive is the way he includes a selling discipline, not just a buying discipline. This book is a must for any concerned investor."Richard Arms, Analyst, Author, and Inventor of "The Arms Index" "This is one of the best new investing books of the succinct, practical, and timeless. Built on a foundation of 40 years of market wisdom, it combines technical analysis and portfolio construction that is supported by excellent research. It should be required reading for everyone from new investors to the most sophisticated hedge fund managers."Linda Raschke, President, LBRGroup, Inc. "The author is an award winning Technical Analyst. In this book, he covers the basic principles, definitions, safeguards, pitfalls, and risks of investing. Believing in active management, he recognizes the benefits of multiple tools (fundamental and technical) and disciplines there-on, to construct a portfolio methodology with guidelines for both buying and selling, for maximum gain. This is a valuable book for any serious investor."Louise Yamada, Managing Director, Louise Yamada Technical Research Advisors, LLC. "In this book, Charles Kirkpatrick demonstrates just how powerful a tool relative strength is, deftly combining technical and fundamental analysis to produce a superior long-term approach. This isn't just theory, but the real-time work of a practitioner with an outstanding track record. For many years a small group of knowledgeable investors has known about this work, now you can too."John Bollinger, CFA, CMT, President, Bollinger Capital Management "The author presents a clearly written, time-tested formula for investor independence and success through applying relative price strength for stock selection and portfolio construction."Hank Pruden, Golden Gate University Over the past 25 years, Charles D. Kirkpatrick's exclusive stock-picking technique has outperformed the S&P 500's performance by a whopping 7.7 times. That's If you'd invested $10,000 in the S&P 500, you'd have $130,000 now...but if you'd followed Kirkpatrick's published picks, you'd have $1,000,000! If that's not amazing enough, Kirkpatrick's system is remarkably easy to use. In this book, he teaches you all you need to put it to work in your portfolio! Kirkpatrick reveals why an active strategy based on relative stock rankings is the surest route to profit, and how just a few pieces of publicly available information enable you to create rankings that virtually guarantee exceptional performance. You'll learn how to use his techniques to organize stocks into a portfolio that maximizes returns while reducing risk...uncover trigger points that tell you when to buy and sell...and systematically protect yourself against bad stocks and bad markets.

167 pages, Hardcover

First published August 4, 2008

Reviews

[Manny Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative and simple... takes a few re-reads of certain sections to go ahh-ah, get it. However, did some research after reading this book... it requires a great deal more time, experience, and patience along with consistency to have a good chance of success.

[Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gets kind of sloppy about 2/3rds through

[Alessandro Orlandi · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think that sometimes you need to make the effort to see a different point of view. This is a merge of different point of views. I didn't take much out but it wasn't too bad either.

[Justin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book that I made notes in, added post-its, built spreadsheets, analysed data, cross checked information, back tested etc. You need to get stuck into this book not merely passively read it to get the most out of it. It will teach you how to build an investment strategy to beat the markets over the long term. The system is practical and easy to manage once implemented. Read this book and implement the strategies.