Product Description

One of the world's leading investment advisers offers unique investing do's and don'ts that help you multiply your money. Drawing from his highly popular "26 Weeks to Investment Success" series in "Investor's Business Daily", chairman and founder William J. O'Neil gives you a bounty of proven, easy-to-apply techniques for building a profitable portfolio. O'Neil cuts through the static of conventional "wisdom" with a refreshing array of common-sense strategies that help you: accurately gauge the market; buy and sell stocks at just the right moment; seize opportunities presented by market corrections; take advantage of the rich potential of mutual funds; and successfully manage your portfolio. Essential reading for investors of all levels, this eye-opening guide to solid investment practices now puts the goal of long-term financial security easily within your reach.Praise for O'Neil's "24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success": "When it comes to investment and stock selection, you couldn't get a better mentor than Bill O'Neil ...A must read for the serious do-it-yourself investor." - Harry S. Dent, Jr., author, "The Roaring 2000s" and "The Roaring 2000s Investor". "There simply isn't any other book that can be called a handbook for Cramer, Berkowitz." - Jim Cramer, Co-founder, TheStreet.Com and Hedge Fund Manager, Cramer, Berkowitz and Co."No fad can compete for long with the sound principles that William O'Neil shares with investors. In my 35 years in the business, I've found very few folks who really know the market, how to pick good stocks over time, and when to sell better than Bill." - Foster Friess, Chairman, Friess Associates and Co-Manager, Brandywine Funds "In this era of information overload, day trading, and market volatility, author Bill O'Neil takes the emotion out of investing and lays out a clear, understandable road map on long-term investing." - Linda O'Bryon, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor, "Nightly Business Report".

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #178896 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
In 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success William O'Neil, the founder of Investor's Business Daily and author of How to Make Money in Stocks, distills his 40 years of experience, study and analysis of the market into a series of lessons about how to buy and sell stocks. O'Neil is neither a pure fundamentalist nor a technician--instead, he advocates blending both approaches, applying fundamental analysis to identifying the best companies and technical evaluation to understanding the price actions of those stocks. The lessons cover everything from protecting your investment account (always cut your losses at eight percent of the purchase price) and basic chart reading (identifying market tops and bottoms) to understanding relative price strength and tips on building a concentrated portfolio. 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success is an easy-to-read, common-sense guide to stock picking that both novices and seasoned investors should find extremely useful. --Harry C. Edwards, Amazon.com

From the Back Cover

One of the world's leading investment advisers offers unique

investing do's and don'ts that help you multiply your money.

Drawing from his highly popular "26 Weeks to Investment Success" series in Investor's Business Daily, chairman and founder William J. O'Neil gives you a bounty of proven, easy-to-apply techniques for building a profitable portfolio. O'Neil cuts through the static of conventional "wisdom" with a refreshing array of common-sense strategies that help you accurately gauge the market . . . buy and sell stocks at just the right moment . . . seize opportunities presented by market corrections . . . take advantage of the rich potential of mutual funds . . . and successfully manage your portfolio. Essential reading for investors of all levels, this eye-opening guide to solid investment practices now puts the goal of long-term financial security easily within your reach.

Praise for O'Neil's 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success:

"When it comes to investment and stock selection, you couldn't get a better mentor than Bill O'Neil. . . . A must read for the serious do-it-yourself investor."

­­ Harry S. Dent, Jr., author, The Roaring 2000s and The Roaring 2000s Investor

"There simply isn't any other book that can be called a handbook for Cramer, Berkowitz." ­­ Jim Cramer, Co-founder, TheStreet.Com & Hedge Fund Manager, Cramer, Berkowitz & Co.

"No fad can compete for long with the sound principles that William O'Neil shares with investors. In my 35 years in the business, I've found very few folks who really know the market, how to pick good stocks over time, and when to sell better than Bill."

­­Foster Friess, Chairman, Friess Associates and Co-Manager, Brandywine Funds

"In this era of information overload, day trading, and market volatility, author Bill O'Neil takes the emotion out of investing and lays out a clear, understandable road map on long-term investing."

­­Linda O'Bryon, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor, Nightly Business Report

About the Author

William J. O'Neil is the founder and Chairman of Investor's Business Daily, one of the leading financial newspapers in the world and the author of the million-copy bestseller, How to Make Money in Stocks. He has a long and successful track record as an analyst and investor, is the creator of the CANSLIM charts, and is recognized as a leading advisor to individual investors around the world.

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Customer Reviews

Further Directions on How to Make Money in Stocks Using IBD
This book is an elaboration on the investment techniques in Mr. O'Neil's prior book, How to Make Money in Stocks. The elaboration focuses on additional insights into avoiding losses and using technical analysis (examining stock price and volume charts) to pick optimal stocks and times to buy and sell. If you haven't already read How to Make Money in Stocks, this book will lack context. I suggest that you not read this book until you have read that one. If you have read that one, this book will be valuable to you only if you plan to do your own stock picking and wish to use the Momentum Growth Investing model that Mr. O'Neil recommends in that book, and supports in Investors Business Daily. If this book is not yet right for you, based on these qualifications, you need read no further.

If this book fits, then, let me go on to provide some caveats. First, it is often hard to limit your losses in the kinds of stocks recommended by this technique. Following a company warning about earnings, it is not unusual for these stocks to fall 15-40 percent without ever trading at any price in between. So your losses may well be larger than he suggests here.

Second, technical analysis is a field that is filled with ambiguity. Your success in reading charts will not be as good as these examples suggest. Many academic studies fail to find any value in technical analysis.

Third, the kind of stocks that are recommended can perform very poorly if the market goes through a prolonged drop in valuation (as last occurred from 1973-1975). You will be buying stocks that are trading at enormous multiples. You could experience more sustained losses than Mr. O'Neil suggests in such a changed market environment, if it were to recur.

Fourth, few individuals have the discipline to adopt and follow a philosophy like this over a long enough time period to be successful.

Fifth, if you are curious, it doesn't hurt to look. But remember that over most time periods 90 percent of professional investors do not match the market averages. And they have a lot of advantages you don't have. Be sure to also look at John Bogle's, Common Sense About Mutual Funds, to get the other side of the story.

Having heard the caveats, let me say that Mr. O'Neil's advice is basically sound, well articulated, easy to follow, and balanced. It will make good reading for those who want to move toward developing the skills needed to be a self-directed investor in growth stocks being pushed along by earnings and investor momentum.

Good luck with your investments! May they do well regardless of the philosophy you follow!

A classic investment read
This was one of the best investment books I have read. It's simple concise, it's simply a must for the would be serious private or commercial investor.

This book comes highly recommended for the first time investor who wants an insite into the markets and how to manipulate them for personal gain. It's a book that will be referenced time and time again.

One for the Christmas and birthday list.

Disappointing
Having bought this book a while back, I found it very disappointing and little more than an attempt to persuade the reader to subscribe to 'Investor's Business Daily' (founded by the author).
It really felt like nothing more than vague platitudes towards investment, without any real data to back up the opinions.
There's a section on reading charts which was interesting, but as I think chartism is fundamentally flawed anyway, perhaps the book just wasn't geared towards my particular investment style.