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Stock Investing For Dummies
$21.99
If you have no clue at all about stocks/investing, this might well be a good starting place. It is a very easy to read book, well written and informative, but it does start right at the basics and only takes you a little way up the ladder of knowledge.

How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times and Bad, Fourth Edition
$16.95
I have just received the book last week. I have read quickly and roughly thro' some chapters of the book. My first impression is that the rules are highly probably good for making optimal profits from stocks. But it is easier said than done. I need to read this book again and again in order to fully understand the concepts. The graphs are difficuly to interpret. The author seems never use candlestick, RSI, stochastics, flags or triangles . Well, all those technical analysis tools are not scientific (it is not Law of Physics) and could be fooled and tricked by those large hedge funds. O'Neil is more practical. From his book he doesn't even use those "open, high, low, close" bar charts. He only uses "high, low, close" chart. Very simple ! The first chapter in this book is very practical . Most of the graphs have stock price at the right and EPS at the left axis !!! This is very usefull and I can see how the stocks' prices go with the EPS in a given period of time frame. I have never seen graphs like this !!! It would be even better if the graphs are magnified many times and become more detailed. But then I probably need to subscribe to Investor's Business Daily in order to see the details. I would like to see some more details in the graphs , such as some breaking news in some certain dates in the graphs. But then the graphs in the book are too small and not much space left.

Unfortunately I don't live in USA and I don't have any experience on those US stocks. Of course I know those great brand names such as Google, Yahoo, IBM, Cisco (you name it) etc. but I don't know how to make fat profits from these great stocks (only in their best time frames of high speed growth) . I only trade stocks in Hong Kong and most of them are stocks of mainland China enterprises. Now I consider trading US stocks. I think about subscribing IBD .

Unfortunately in Hong Kong I don't know how to get the RS (relative strengh) rating for those Hong Kong stocks and we don't have something similar to IBD.

But then it seems at this moment there is not yet any great monster stocks in USA. I am not sure. The fundamentals change a lot after the Lehman Brother crises in 2008. The people in USA now have a higher saving rate. And the unemployment is high. I have to choose stocks very carefully.

I like this book much much more than those pure technical analysis books. Those pure TA books are not too useful for me. For example, some TA books have statistics of certain pattern's successful rate etc. Some TA or stock chart books also discuss the "Cup and Handle" pattern and talks about percentage successfull rate. It has absolutely no mention of the fundamentals of those stocks with the "Cup and Handle" pattern. So these books are too obsessed with the meaningless statistics. They are useless !!!

And O'Neil's book is far better than those whole bunch of Warren Buffett's books. I am tired of those Warren Buffet's books that keep talking about the good old days of some historical stocks such as Coca Cola, Geico, etc. Well this is old history. Don't dwell in those antique stocks. Let's move on to some new stocks.

O'Neil's book is different. He even teaches you how to make fat profits of those final stage high speed run with unbelievably high PE.

Understanding Stocks
$15.95
The author definitely delivered a book that is short, easy to read, and educational about stocks. As he says, understanding stocks is not that hard. What is hard is how to make money in stocks. This book covers topics such as understanding prices, analyzing stocks, knowing where to buy stocks, and understanding investment strategies. Readers can find different strategies for different time horizons. For example, there is a chapter dedicated to investors who want to grow wealth slowly, and another chapter for those who are in a hurry to make money. The analysis of stocks includes fundamental analysis and technical analysis.

In Chapter 15, the author lists mistakes that investors make which causes them to lose money in the market. Some of the mistakes include not selling losing positions, letting winning stocks become losers, getting too emotional, and not learning from mistakes. Readers will find most of the information presented in this book useful.

- Mariusz Skonieczny, author of Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market

How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market
$7.99
Very good value. Interesting insights to the markets of yesterday and useful pointers for todays investor and trader.