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The Secret Code of the Superior Investor: How to Be a Long-Term Winner in a Short-Term World
In these uncertain times, learn how to crack the code and become a superior investor. Don’t worry about the market, the economy, or the Fed. Instead, concentrate on what’s how to construct your own bulletproof portfolio by finding the best individual stocks and mutual funds for you. This timely book is your guide to volatile markets.
We live in a world saturated with the Who’s up, who’s down? Which stocks rose yesterday, which fell? Did corporate profits rise (or drop) last quarter . . . what’s going to happen this quarter? Is Alan Greenspan raising (or lowering) interest rates . . . what’s the impact?
The superior investor knows that none of this matters. He or she understands that investing is simple, but not in the way most people think. With Jim Glassman as your guide, everything about investing becomes clear. You’ll know what to do, how to behave, and how to profit—whatever the market, the economy, and your stocks are doing.
Superior investors crack the code of investing and practice a coherent philosophy that gives them the strength and confidence to do the right thing no matter which way the economic and financial winds blow. They’re relaxed—calm, cool, and collected—because the secret code provides the foundation for making superior investments, the kind that generate wealth to fund more interesting pursuits, provide for their children’s education, and fund retirement.
Superior investors
* Are not outsmarters—people who try to beat the system through inside advice and superior brainpower—but partakers. They know that the best way to make money is to share in the profits of successful businesses.
* Own a portfolio that looks like the U.S. economy ten years from now.
* Know the kind of investments they should be making (e.g., pharmaceuticals, for-profit education, mind-numbingly boring but extraordinarily profitable companies) and those they should not (e.g., corporate bonds).
* Understand when to start selling the stocks they’ve almost never . . . only when the fundamental reasons why they bought in the first place change.
* Understand how to pick the companies that will make them superior investors.
* See that bear markets are for buying.
We live in a world of increasing uncertainty, but by practicing the principles of The Secret Code of the Superior Investor day-in and day-out for years on end, your future will indeed be superior.
We live in a world saturated with the Who’s up, who’s down? Which stocks rose yesterday, which fell? Did corporate profits rise (or drop) last quarter . . . what’s going to happen this quarter? Is Alan Greenspan raising (or lowering) interest rates . . . what’s the impact?
The superior investor knows that none of this matters. He or she understands that investing is simple, but not in the way most people think. With Jim Glassman as your guide, everything about investing becomes clear. You’ll know what to do, how to behave, and how to profit—whatever the market, the economy, and your stocks are doing.
Superior investors crack the code of investing and practice a coherent philosophy that gives them the strength and confidence to do the right thing no matter which way the economic and financial winds blow. They’re relaxed—calm, cool, and collected—because the secret code provides the foundation for making superior investments, the kind that generate wealth to fund more interesting pursuits, provide for their children’s education, and fund retirement.
Superior investors
* Are not outsmarters—people who try to beat the system through inside advice and superior brainpower—but partakers. They know that the best way to make money is to share in the profits of successful businesses.
* Own a portfolio that looks like the U.S. economy ten years from now.
* Know the kind of investments they should be making (e.g., pharmaceuticals, for-profit education, mind-numbingly boring but extraordinarily profitable companies) and those they should not (e.g., corporate bonds).
* Understand when to start selling the stocks they’ve almost never . . . only when the fundamental reasons why they bought in the first place change.
* Understand how to pick the companies that will make them superior investors.
* See that bear markets are for buying.
We live in a world of increasing uncertainty, but by practicing the principles of The Secret Code of the Superior Investor day-in and day-out for years on end, your future will indeed be superior.
- GenresEconomics
336 pages, Hardcover
First published December 18, 2001
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February 28, 2017
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June 16, 2013
Oh dear. Another book from the author who brought us "Dow 36,000" in 1999.
This book is a bit of a blur to me because it is filled with fluff and bland advice. I guess it is well and good for a brief overview of the investing landscape but a surefire way of investing it is not. And it is by no means a "secret code". There are no "secret codes" in investing.Anyone suggesting this is to be viewing with extreme prejudice especially if he wrote a book suggesting the DOW would hit a fantastic number within a short time frame.
The only good thing i got out of this book was his comment that you should focus on being a "partaker" instead of a "outsmarter". I.e. don't try to time the market but invest in good companies and invest in the real growth of society.
Go ahead and skip this one and pick up any book from John C. Bogle instead - that I promise you, you will not regret.
This book is a bit of a blur to me because it is filled with fluff and bland advice. I guess it is well and good for a brief overview of the investing landscape but a surefire way of investing it is not. And it is by no means a "secret code". There are no "secret codes" in investing.Anyone suggesting this is to be viewing with extreme prejudice especially if he wrote a book suggesting the DOW would hit a fantastic number within a short time frame.
The only good thing i got out of this book was his comment that you should focus on being a "partaker" instead of a "outsmarter". I.e. don't try to time the market but invest in good companies and invest in the real growth of society.
Go ahead and skip this one and pick up any book from John C. Bogle instead - that I promise you, you will not regret.
December 22, 2012
One of the bibles of the long term investor.
May 31, 2015
Good Ideas on investing, most of which I've read before. Pretty good on some tips on what #s to look at for individual stocks, and sectors
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