Product Description

For the millions of individual stock investors who want to improve their results-and for beginners who want to get started on the right foot-Sensible Stock Investing: How to Pick, Value, and Manage Stocks is a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow guide.Written for the busy individual, Sensible Stock Investing presents the investment process in three phases: rating companies for their intrinsic soundness; valuing stocks to find advantageous purchase prices; and managing a portfolio once it is established. Author David Van Knapp breaks these stages into discrete steps and shows how the individual investor-in just a few hours per month-can outperform most mutual funds by investing intelligently and minimizing risk at every stage. As you will see from the two actual, proven portfolios described in Sensible Stock Investing, you don't have to be a mathematical genius or investment professional to succeed in the stock market!Whether you are an experienced investor or just getting started, Sensible Stock Investing describes straightforward methods, provides the forms and tools you need, and shows you what to do every step of the way to successfully navigate the stock market with intelligent investment practices.For more information, visit www.SensibleStocks.com.

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Product Details

Publisher	iUniverse
ISBN	1605280100
Format	Paperback
Author	David Van Knapp
EAN	9781605280103
Label	iUniverse
Dewey Decimal Number	332
Studio	iUniverse
Number Of Pages	318
Title	SENSIBLE STOCK INVESTING: How to Pick, Value, and Manage Stocks
Publication Date	2008-03-05
Manufacturer	iUniverse

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Customer Reviews

Gave me the tools I needed to start investing in the stock market

Review by Gwen, 2010-06-02

I have never traded any stocks before and this book gave me the confidence I needed to make good investment decisions. It is easy to understand, yet very rational. The strategy in this book is to make semi-long term investments: you don't have to trade everyday but you don't invest in a company for a lifetime either. It explains how to chose companies wisely, when to buy stock and how to use the stop-trade option to limit losses. If you want to invest this way, it recommends that you dedicate about 9 hours per month to do the research and to make your decisions. If you are not willing to spend that much time, you probably don't want to invest this way. I definitely recommend it.

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nice book but be careful

Review by Marc Merriam, 2010-04-19

I found this to be a nice book with some technical theory trading tips. You can pick up some useful information in here but one important caution: dont let it give you a false sense of security or optimism because the really cleaver approaches have already been played out and can actually have a negative effrect on your results because the market and the big traders are already anticipating popular 'tricks' so they can play you like a fool if you are not careful.

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Great book for newbies or moderate investors

Review by Christopher R. Santini, 2009-12-11

I graduated from college with a finance degree, I wanted to get more than theory and mathematics from an investment book so I gave this a try. It is a great book so I rated it with 5 stars, but I knew most of what was covered. This book has sound principles of investments and I liked the fact that he believes you can beat the market and gives fairly good tips, some books like this one are passive strategy and I don't agree with that. Great book for people this limited understanding.

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Excellent in all aspects

Review by FH, 2009-10-18

This book is a must read. Not only does it define in plain English all the most important stock terminology extremely well, it uses them to develop a very logical strategy for stock selection and to proficiently manage your stock portfolio.

Even though the stock market is a beast of its own, this book will give one a practical tool to help tame it as well as possible. Highly Recommended....

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Best book on stock investing I have read

Review by Craig Wagenhoffer, 2009-09-18

(aka Dave Murray) This is the best book on stock investing I have read yet and I've been reading them for about 15 years. The author goes through a systematic process that takes you through picking the stock to managing the portfolio.

I really go out of my way now to watch CNBC, Fox Business News, etc to see what stocks the pundits are recommending and so far the author's system is great for seeing if their arguments hold up. Of course these could always be momentum plays but the system will let you clearly understand if the recommendations have solid fundamentals with future promise.

In the one case where I needed questions cleared up I was able to contact the author via his website and he helped out a lot.

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