The Warren Buffetts Next Door: The World's Greatest Investors You've Never Heard Of and What You Can Learn From Them - Hardcover

Schifrin, Matthew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470573783 ISBN 13: 9780470573785

Publisher: Wiley, 2010

Synopsis

A practical guide for investors who are ready to take financial matters into their own hands The Warren Buffetts Next Door profiles previously unknown investors, with legendary performance records, who are proving every day that you don't need to work for a hedge fund or have an Ivy League diploma to consistently beat the best performing Wall Street professionals. These amazing individuals come from all walks of life, from a globe drifting college dropout and a retired disc jockey to a computer room geek and a truck driver. Their methods vary from technical trading and global macro-economic analysis to deep value investing. The glue that holds them together is their passion for investing and their ability to efficiently harness the Internet for critical investment ideas, research, and trading skills. * The author digs deep to find the best of the best, even finding those who are making money during these turbulent times * Contains case studies that will explain to you how these great individual investors find and profit from stocks and options. * Shows you how to rely on your own instincts and knowledge when making important investment decisions In an era when the best professional advice has cracked many investor nest eggs and Madoff-style frauds have shattered investor trusts, the self-empowered investors found in The Warren Buffetts Next Door offer an inspiring and educational tale.

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an easy read I m confident you ll find someone to inspire you in The Warren Buffetts Next Door . (Interactive Investor Blog, December 2010). The Warren Buffetts Next Door will entertain you (Fool.co.uk, December 2010).

From the Back Cover:

The Warren Buffetts Next Door

How 10 ordinary people consistently achieve extraordinary returnson their investments (and how you can, too).

There are the famous investors whose names you know--Buffett, Bogle, Soros, Lynch, and Templeton. And then there are the Warren Buffetts next door, those successful investors you've never heard of--Rees, Krebs, Koza, Petainen, and Weyland. The Warren Buffetts Next Door describes how these "regular" people--tractor-trailer drivers, radio DJs, and college dropouts--utilize an armament of online information, tools, and resources to routinely outperform professional brokers and Wall Street's Ivy League-educated investors.

"Matt Schifrin has written one of the most unusual--and useful--investment books you will ever find. Instead of trotting out some supposedly surefire formula on how to get rich, Matt has chronicled the successes of ten individuals you have never heard of."
--From The Foreword By Steve Forbes

"Matt Schifrin's inspiring, easy reading, and eye-opening The Warren Buffetts Next Door shows that exceptional investors come from the wide ranks of normal life--just with intelligence, drive, focus, and commitment. They aren't Wall Street trained and operate solely for themselves in wildly different ways and could be you--if you just learn what they have to teach--which Matt gives you."
--Ken Fisher, 25-year Forbes columnist, New York Times bestselling author, and founder and CEO, Fisher Investments

"Matt Schifrin's Warren Buffetts Next Door is living proof that the Internet has become a game-changer for many individual investors. It also should send a loud warning to established Wall Street firms."
--Om Malik, founder, GigaOM

"I like the stories, I like the people, and I like the 'how to, ' which cover many facets of the investment horizon. The Warren Buffetts Next Door is a successful interplay of how individuals have combined a passion for investing into profitable investing."
--Mario Gabelli, founder, Chairman, and CEO, GAMCO Investors

"A first-class reporter, Matt Schifrin has cracked the code on a small group of do-it-yourself investors taking direct aim at Wall Street's biggest brokers. Their unique styles may not be replicable, but the zeal with which they pursue their passions is."
--Daniel P. Wiener, Editor, The Independent Adviser for Vanguard Investors

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470573783
• ISBN 13: 9780470573785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224