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Summary: Excellent Read
Review: As a complete novice to Stock Market Investments I found this book to be an invaluable read. All the concepts are explained in plain English and can be understood with only one read through. The author offers understandable and comprehensive examples for any subjects that are tricky to understand.
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Summary: A great way to start in the stock market
Review: Before finding this book I had always been interested in the stock market and often wondered what would be a good way to get started. After reading the many good reviews I decided to trust my instinct and buy this book... and I am glad I did. Right from the start the author brings you up to speed on how the masters invest and what they look for. Then you move on to more detailed aspects such as company research, ratios, income statements, etc, etc. In the end all of this is combined together to give you a master plan that will help you make smarter investment decisions. Definitely a must read for beginners.
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Summary: Great for Beginners
Review: I am new to the stock market, and was looking for a good book to help me out. I narrowed it down to The Neatest Guide to Stock Market Investing and I have to say Jason Kelly does a great job explaining concepts and definitions in an easily understandable manner. Recommended.
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Summary: Great Book with Easy to Understand Concepts
Review: I bought and read this book over the past two weeks. Since then I have started and invested in the stock market using ideas I learned directly from Jason's book, I call him Jason since I emailed him and he emailed me back within 15 minutes, I almost think of Jason as a friend. During the past two weeks, the stock market has sunk each week, yet I made more on my investments over the past two weeks than I did in my ROTH IRA during the entire year of 2004, when comparing percentages. If you have not invested yourself, or want to get ideas that "Just Make Sense", reading Jason's book is a great idea.
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Summary: Don't Miss This One!
Review: I can't write enough about this book. It covers so much in such a tiny amount of space that I found myself flipping back through the pages just to see how I learned it all. The word economy here is unbelievable. It teaches much more than books three times its length. The truly magical part about Kelly's writing is that it never gets boring. It's funny, instructive, convincing, and thorough. This book will not only get you ready to make big money in stocks, it will teach you how to write well. The part I enjoyed most was the section about market volatility. Kelly tells the story of Intel in 1994 when its chip failed certain math calculations. He showed how foolish investors abandoned the stock when nothing fundamental had changed. In the end, they needlessly lost money. You will never lose money after reading this book. Instead, you'll understand how to use fluctuations to your advantage and always come out ahead. This should be the first investment book on anybody's list and should be re-read every year. As you can tell by now, I loved this book!
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Summary: Good Place to Start
Review: I picked up this book in order to learn about the basics of the stock market and also some advice on succesful techniques for investing and it did all this in a very light, easy to read manner. The book gets straight to the point and explains concepts very well. It summarizes techniques of a handful of the best investors ever and it also has other useful techniques recommended by the author. Definitely a good place to start and a lot of people could use this book to ivest, but you may want to do further reading on the subject if you want to get really serious.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: I've read almost every book on stocks and this is one of the best. It pulls together the finest advice written about stock investing and translates it into memorable language. Kelly's ramp-up system that takes the novice from mutual funds to large cap Dow stocks to small cap growth stocks is smart. He shows the wisdom of Warren Buffett alongside the practical observations of Peter Lynch. Rather than take sides in the age old value vs. growth debate, Mr. Kelly shows how the two systems work best together. Perhaps most importantly, the book shows that it is vital for every investor to understand his or her companies thoroughly. Only then can you make an educated decision whether to buy more when the price dips. Read this book, folks. It is one of the best.
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Summary: Clear, Concise, User-friendly
Review: If you've never read a book about investing in the stock market, this is a great book to start with. Having read many of the authors that Jason cites, I found his distillation of their concepts quite good. Jason first teaches one how to evaluate stocks, and then what the Master Investors (e.g., Buffett, Fisher) can teach us about investing and stock selection. Jason also focuses on a book entitled "What Works on Wall Street." This book by James O'Shaughessy revolves around his study of 43 years of results from 1952-1995 contained in Standard & Poor's Compustat database. Jason's book ends with chapters to help you set up your own core portfolio utilizing the methodology he has set forth.Bottom line: if you're looking for a thorough discussion of the Capital Asset Pricing Model or the Equity Premium, then I would look at more academic texts, but if you want a clear, user-friendly, well-researched discussion of the stock market, I would buy this book. The average 5 star review from 25 people (as of this review) is substantial evidence to this book's value.
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Summary: As the title suggested....its the neatest guide...
Review: It is the most readable book on the subject ever written. Most investment books I have read, either made me gave up reading or made me gave up interest in investment. This is one of those books that, once I started reading, will make me frustrated to stop. Highly recommended, thus it deserved the five stars! Kudos to the writer of this book.
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Summary: Neatest Little Guide is quite Neat
Review: Jason Kelly's "The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing" is a comprehensive yet entertaining approach to the art of stock investing. Kelly's extensive knowledge of both stock market history as well as contemporary investment strategies are evident in a book that is both the product of meticulous attention to detail and an honest desire to instruct. Not only that, the book is quite a valuable resource post-reading, as it contains useful charts and stock measing tools. The flow of the book abets fundamental stock market knowledge because it sensibly starts at the beginning and leads the reader right up to today. In order to learn to invest well, one must know how people invested in the past. Yet, amid the vast amount of dry material and historical information Kelly manages to put a lighter, humorous spin on the material that makes it far more enjoyable to read than comparable books about investing. Truely, a valuable item for any beginning investor.
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