Every investor needs an edge. Professional investors on Wall Street have the best education, the deepest knowledge of company accounts, the latest technology, and teams of analysts at their disposal to help them identify the best stock investments. That is their edge. As a part-time, individual investor, you cannot compete on their turf. What can you do? This is where The World’s Simplest Stock Picking Strategy comes in. As you go about your life, there are companies you interact with regularly as a consumer. Some companies will stand out to you as having remarkable products or services, which you use time and again, and which you imagine yourself using long into the future. You may not have realised it, but you have an excellent knowledge of those companies. This is your edge. This is where you should invest. In The World’s Simplest Stock Picking Strategy, Wall Street equity adviser Edward Ryan describes the investment strategy he has used for his own personal investments for the last ten years and shows you, step by step, with full practical guidance, how to put it into practice yourself. You do not need to know how to read company accounts, you do not need an MBA, and you do not need to spend hours each weekend reading the business pages. The strategy is simple and accessible to anyone who is a regular consumer of products and services in their daily life. What’s more, The World’s Simplest Stock Picking Strategy also has built-in steps to help the investor construct a balanced portfolio, invest during market pullbacks when other investors are fearful, avoid overtrading, and deal with the sticky problem of when to sell an investment. These are all things that professional investors struggle with, but they are taken care of by The World’s Simplest Stock Picking Strategy. If you are ready to take a strategic approach to investing in stocks and start out on the road to building long-term wealth, The World’s Simplest Stock Picking Strategy is your essential guide.

Beating the market is every investor's dream. Essential Stock Picking Strategies allows investors on Main Street to gain the consistent success (and profits) of the pros on Wall Street. Offering in-depth coverage of the most successful and popular strategies, including growth, value, and sector investing, this complete investment resource identifies successful stock-picking strategies and shares insights that help professional money managers make investment decisions. With profiles of several key money managers, including Gerald Frey, Warren Isabelle, Scott Black, Christopher Davis, and Samuel Isaly, Essential Stock Picking Strategies truly provides an "inside" look at how the professionals successfully pick stocks and win on Wall Street. By gaining a better understanding of how the professionals work, individual investors can start to invest as if they too were on Wall Street. Daniel A. Strachman is Managing Director of Answers & Company a New York-based money management firm that offers investment management services to individuals and institutions. Mr. Strachman is also the editor of The Sconset Report, a quarterly newsletter focused on applying fundamental analysis to investing in mutual funds. For the last eight year, he has worked in many capacities on Wall Street, including product development, marketing and sales focused in and around the money management industry. Mr. Strachman is the author of many articles on investment management and strategies in the popular and professional press as well as the book Getting Started in Hedge Funds (Wiley).

Confusing economic times. Stocks that soar and crash with bewildering speed. To the average investor, taking a chance on an individual stock may seem like a reckless gamble. But, rest assured, it is never the same gamble to Wall Street's knowledgeable insiders. Now, with the help of this book, you can learn the closely guarded secrets of the experts' savvy investment strategies - strategies that will enable you to find both long-term and short-term winners in a bull, bear, or wildly fluctuating market! Stock Picking explores in detail how Wall Street pros analyze stocks and reveals to outsiders their eleven best tactics for beating the market. Written in clear, cogent language that the nonprofessional can easily understand, this guide will arm you with proven and highly specific strategies. Learn all about cashing in on corporate cash flow ... or how to ferret out companies with the cash reserves to take advantage of market opportunities and outperform their competitors, cyclical stocks ... or how best to play the on again/off again fortunes of cyclical companies, defensive stocks ... or which stocks to own when the economy experiences a downturn, how to maximize your total return by finding those stocks offering both attractive yields and strong capital gains prospects, strategic industry investments ... or how to spot the one company within an industry that's best positioned to take advantage of special circumstances, how to make money from small cap stocks with a bright future, how to capitalize on "stock splits", spinoff successes ... or why the parts perform better than the whole, and plus, invaluable tips from many of Wall Street's superstars, including Sir John Templeton and David Dremen on why and when a particular strategy works, how it should be applied, and how it can be used to determine relative value and build a solid portfolio.

A $10,000 investment in Warren Buffett's original 1956 portfolio would today be worth a staggering $250 million ... after taxes! What are his investing secrets? How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett contains the answers and shows, step-by-profitable-step, how any investor can follow Buffett's path to consistently find bargains in all markets: up, down, or sideways. How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett sticks to the basics: how Buffett continually finds bargain stocks passed over by others. Written by an actual financial analyst who uses Buffett's strategies professionally, this tactical how-to book includes: Comprehensive financial tools and information Strategy-packed "Buffett in action" boxes Buffett's own stock portfoliocontinually updated on the author's website!

A timely guide to making the best investment strategies even better A wide variety of strategies have been identified over the years, which purportedly outperform the stock market. Some of these include buying undervalued stocks while others rely on technical analysis techniques. It's fair to say no one method is fool proof and most go through both up and down periods. The challenge for an investor is picking the right method at the right time. The Little Book of Stock Market Profits shows you how to achieve this elusive goal and make the most of your time in today's markets. Written by Mitch Zacks, Senior Portfolio Manager of Zacks Investment Management, this latest title in the Little Book series reveals stock market strategies that really work and then shows you how they can be made even better. It skillfully highlights earnings-based investing strategies, the hallmark of the Zacks process, but it also identifies strategies based on valuations, seasonal patterns and price momentum. Specifically, the book: Identifies stock market investment strategies that work, those that don't, and what it takes for an individual investor to truly succeed in today's dynamic market Discusses how the performance of each strategy examined can be improved by combining into them into a multifactor approach Gives investors a clear path to integrating the best investment strategies of all time into their own personal portfolio Investing can be difficult, but with the right strategies you can improve your overall performance. The Little book of Stock Market Profits will show you how.

Stocks are one topic of much discussion in the financial world, as the daily fluctuations in the market can translate to an easy ride on the track of wealth-building. Sometimes though, it can also result in a Black Tuesday for those less privy to the nuances, or ebb and flow of the markets. Given all the choice in the market, it can be difficult to tell which stocks are the ones to choose when making your investment. Fortunately, there are some methods you can use to give you an idea. Here, we have an overview of the techniques used to determine which stocks will perform and which ones will flop. Firstly, though, it is important to note (especially for freshmen investors) that when it comes to the stock market, there is no one perfect way to choose stocks so that they guarantee a return. Many new investors will come armed with a strategy they learned, but when it doesn't perform they become dejected and give up altogether and take what little remains of their capital with them. While no one perfect way exists, there are plenty of stocks and tons of ways to look at them. The market is full of variety; far too much to boil down to a perfect science. The reasons for this are: 1. There are too many variables one must consider when gauging a company's performance. Thus, it is extremely difficult to formulate one single equation that gives you all the answers. It's generally best to look at a company with a broad scope to guide the insights that formulae present. 2. When looking at a company's performance, there will always be quantitative data about many variables (such as revenue). There are also qualitative aspects of a company which cannot be expressed with numbers. The quality of the employees, the name brand, the culture and position in the market - all important considerations when looking at a company, and yet no formula exists which can account for such aspects. This simple fact supports the notion that stock picking is much less of a science than it is an art. 3. Besides the depth and scope of evaluating stocks, there exists another market influence that will never be truly predictable - people's emotions. It is the one factor that can send a stock price into a nosedive, despite a company's great profits and innovative products. Even if the formulas forecasted a bright future, when investors lose confidence the stock takes on a harsh, risky climate. These points all add up to the fact that no perfect method for picking stocks exists. Whenever you come across a new approach, you must realize that it is merely an idea, a hypothesis, a "hunch." Two strategies which completely contradict one another can be shown to both perform well. Although facts and formulas are important when choosing a strategy, you must also consider yourself. Make sure the strategy you choose is within your risk tolerance, and that it agrees with your lifestyle and time devotion. As you can see, stock picking is something that requires a great deal of thought and consideration. One might even question why anyone would bother with it at all. Of course, it all comes down to making the bottom line bigger. With a trained sense of the stock markets, one might be able to spot the next sleeper stock before it skyrockets. Back in 1986, Microsoft held its IPO. Those investors who were in from the start would have received astronomical returns in the neighborhood of 350 times their initial investment. To put that into perspective, had you invested a mere $1,000, by the spring of 2004 that money would have multiplied into $350,000. It's plain to see that the pursuit of high return is a lucrative one, and should it be successful, quite rewarding as well.