The WorldlyInvestor Guide to Beating the Market: Beat the Pros at Their Own Game - Hardcover

Warwick, Ben

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471394262 ISBN 13: 9780471394266

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Synopsis

Ten proven strategies for market-beating returns from the leading online source of financial analysis and insight
Learn how to make smarter and more profitable investment decisions from The worldlyinvestor.com Guide to Beating the Market. With today's advances in the Internet and the steadily decreasing costs of trading, it might actually be easier for the individual investor to outperform seasoned investment pros at their own game. But, with the huge number of investment choices and all the conflicting advice out there, where should the small investor turn? This book offers ten simple, highly effective strategies to beat the market and the professionals. The Guide shows you:
o Why a "buy-and-hold" mutual fund strategy may only benefit fund operators
o New ways to trade value, growth, and momentum stocks
o A simple mutual fund trading strategy that has earned 15% per year with minuscule risk
o How to trade exchange traded funds for maximum profit

About this title

About the Author

BEN WARWICK is the Market View columnist for worldlyinvestor.com and Chief Investment Officer of Sovereign Wealth Management, Inc., a registered investment advisor that employs sophisticated wealth management strategies on behalf of institutional and high-net-worth families throughout the United States. His previous books include Searching for Alpha: The Quest for Exceptional Investment Performance (Wiley 2000); The Futures Game; The Handbook of Managed Futures; and Event Trading. Mr. Warwick received his BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida and his MBA from the University of North Carolina.
WORLDLYINVESTOR.COM, a global financial information and analysis Web site rated as one of the best on the Web by Forbes, Fortune, Money, Barron's, Business Week, and Online Investor, provides news and analysis for the individual investor. One of the few sites to cover all markets around the world, worldlyinvestor.com also offers users a portfolio of newsletters. Worldlyinvestor.com is distributed on Yahoo!, Go Network, Lycos.com, xoom.com, Geocities.com, Ziff-Davis Interactive Investor, Planet Direct, and Raging Bull, among others.

From the Back Cover

PROVEN STRATEGIES FOR MARKET-BEATING RETURNS FROM THE LEADING ONLINE SOURCE OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND INSIGHT

"Warwick and Worldly are leading the way in empowering individual investors with tools that technology and the Internet have made possible. Complete with great graphics and examples, readers have never had a better resource to guide them to a winning investment strategy in easy-to-read and easy-to-act-upon language."-Stephen Cohn, Managing Director, Sage Online

"An excellent primer for any investor, Ben Warwick's book really does live up to its title. With hundreds of charts and many interesting insights, he gives you the tools with which you can become your own investment expert."-Homi Byramji, President, Market Guide, Inc., Senior Vice President, Multex.com, Inc.

"It's a war out there in the markets, and what most individual investors don't realize is that they've got all the weapons they need to win it. Ben Warwick gives investors the knowledge and the confidence to take on the professionals at their own game and come out way on top."-Donald L. Luskin, President and CEO, MetaMarkets.com, Inc.

From the Inside Flap

The investment world has experienced the largest paradigm shift in its history. In the past several years, market power has been transferred from professional money managers to individual investors and traders. In today's market, for the first time, it is possible for a diligent private investor to outperform a seasoned professional. But given the plethora of choices--from day trading and mutual funds to the variety of different types of stocks--where are the best opportunities for success?

The WorldlyInvestor Guide to Beating the Market offers individual investors twelve highly effective yet simple market-beating strategies that cover the full range of stock trading, including momentum, growth, value, distressed stocks, and exchange-traded funds. Each chapter is filled with not only the rationale and numbers behind each strategy but also pertinent and informative anecdotes. You will find enough choices to suit your personal investment style, plus:
* Stock trading methodologies used by professional investors for selecting growth, momentum, and value stocks
* Six ways to trade exchange-traded funds for maximum profit
* Specific trades around calendar effects and government economic releases
* A method for selecting the mutual fund with the best odds of producing market-beating returns in the next twelve months
* A sector trading strategy that has beaten the market eight years in a row

. . . and much more to provide you with winning strategies for making money in the market-with the invaluable guidance and expertise of one of the most acclaimed sites on the Web.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471394262
• ISBN 13: 9780471394266
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288