$20,000 to $2 million in only three years— the greatest stock-picker you never heard of tells you how you can do it too
Chris Camillo is not a stockbroker, financial analyst, or hedge fund manager. He is an ordinary person with a knack for identifying trends and discovering great investments hidden in everyday life. In early 2007, he invested $20,000 in the stock market, and in three years it grew to just over $2 million.
With Laughing at Wall Street, you’ll see:
How Facebook friends helped a young parent invest in the wildly successful children’s show, Chuggington—and saw her stock values climb 50%
How an everyday trip to 7-Eleven alerted a teenager to short Snapple stock—and tripled his money in seven days
How $1000 invested consecutively in Uggs, True Religion jeans, and Crocs over five years grew to $750,000
How Michelle Obama caused J. Crew’s stock to soar 186%, and Wall Street only caught up four months later!
Engaging, narratively-driven, and without complicated financial analysis, Camillo’s stock picking methodology proves that you do not need large sums of money or fancy market data to become a successful investor.
Successful options trading requires extensive practice. With The Option Trader's Workbook, Second Edition, you can get all the hands-on practice you need, without risking a dime! Updated with the newest trading techniques, it contains hundreds of realistic problems for beginners, intermediate-level traders, and even experts. You'll walk through trades designed to profit from changing prices and volatility, time decay, and many other factors. This edition's new problems include: CBOE Weekly Options Expiration options; using collars, covered calls, and covered puts to structure income-generating trades with well-defined risk profiles; using ratio and variance trading, VIX options, and volatility ETFs; and much more. Fully explained solutions are provided for every problem.
Recent history has witnessed one of the worst stock market beatings ever. As a result, abysmal returns are being called “the new normal,” financial “experts” are ringing the death knell of buy-and-hold, and investors’ faith in equities has hit an all-time low. You have two choices. You can abandon the stock market based on what is happening today. Or you can invest today based on what will happen in the future.
Containing all new data, What Works on Wall Street, Fourth Edition, is the only investing guide that lets you see today’s market in its proper context— as part of the historical ebb and flow of the stock market. And when you see the data, you’ll see there is no argument: Stocks work.
Now in its second decade of helping investors succeed with stocks, What Works on Wall Street continues to provide the most effective investing strategies, presenting incontrovertible data on what works and what doesn’t. Updated with current statistics and brand-new features, What Works on Wall Street offers data on almost 90 years of market performance.
A practical guide to getting personal investing right
Somewhere along the way, something has gone very wrong with the way individuals save and invest. Too often, households are drawn in by promotional suggestions masquerading as impartial investment advice. Consumers get saddled with more risk than they realize. Authors Zvi Bodie and Rachelle Taqqu understand the dilemma that today's investors face, and with Risk Less and Prosper they will help you find your financial footing.
Written in an accessible style, this practical guide skillfully explains why personal investing is all about you—your goals, your values and your career path. It shows how to understand investment risk and choose the particular blend of risk and safety that is right for you. And it lays out several simple yet powerful ways for small investors to cast a reliable safety net to achieve their financial goals and truly prosper. Coauthors Bodie and Taqqu challenge the myth that all investments require risk, then highlight some important risks that families often disregard when deciding where to put their money. Later, they connect the dots between investment and investor, showing us all how to grasp our own investment risk profiles and how we may use these insights to make more fitting investment choices.
Making sound investments is tough enough without having to worry about unscrupulous financial advisers and outright frauds. But recently strengthened laws aren't enough to stop the professionals intent on profiting from just plain stealing your money. As an Enforcement Branch Chief at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Pat Huddleston witnessed countless people lose their life savings to reckless stockbrokers and fraudulent schemes. Now an SEC-recommended Receiver and CEO of a securities and investment fraud investigation agency, Huddleston has intimate knowledge of how scam artists and bad brokers operate. In The Vigilant Investor, he explains WHY we fall for investment scams, HOW con artists play on our emotions, and WHAT we can do to protect ourselves from predators. With its unique look into the science of financial decision making, the book blows up the popular myths and simplistic ôdoÆs and donÆtsö of investing while sharing techniques anyone can use to perform due diligence even better than the experts. With gripping stories of actual cases, Huddleston sheds light on the dark corners of the investment industry and teaches investors and professionals alike how to spot fraud and guard themselves against financial catastrophe.
Risking your hard-earned money in today's volatile stock market has become more akin to gambling than it is traditional investing. But despite its wild gyrations, the stock market still qualifies as one of the best investment vehicles in terms of good odds, high returns, low costs, and instant cash for both big and small players alike.
In this easy-to-understand book, you'll discover the 10 most critical steps to accelerating your success in the stock market. Using the following simple and powerful ideas in your approach to stock market investing will allow you to play the game correctly, manage your bankroll, and come out a consistent winner instead of a loser: (1) Think like a winner - not a loser, (2) Divide up your funds wisely, (3) Choose only the best buy candidates, (4) Evaluate the market with more precision, (5) Know exactly when to place your bets, (6) Stay sharp while you play the game, (7) Decide when it is time to cash out, and (8) Know Thy Self & adjust your play accordingly.
Finally, here is a street-smart guide for savvy do-it-yourself independent investors that shows exactly how to play the stock market game for both fun and profit.
Why write a new book on preferred stock? Answer: 2008 dramatically changed everything for preferreds!
The once orphaned preferred security, with a total market capitalization of only 7% the size of the massive corporate bond market, were one of the key tools used by the U.S. government in its intervention efforts (i.e., T.A.R.P.) to stabilize the world economy during the Fall of 2008.
Since then, preferred stocks have been the best performing U.S. investment medium in 2009 (and so far in 2010) and are a darling in the financial media.
It is rare to read anything new about investing. Preferred Stock: The Art of Profitable Income Investing builds upon my past historical research from my previous books with the addition of new research (market analysis, investment analysis, etc.) as well as revised methodologies in portfolio management for successful income investing in today’s environment.
It is a mystery why preferred stocks, one of the oldest exchange listed investments in existence, had fallen between the cracks in a global investment industry fixated offering as many investment products as possible. “Preferred Stock: The Art of Profitable Income Investing” shows that an unpolished investment gem has been rediscovered.
The rebirth of income investing is here to stay. Why? America’s aging population has lost much of its appetite for financial volatility and has chosen the same fiscal course as their ancestors where investment income matters as much as capital appreciation.
