Guerrilla Investing: Winning Strategies for Beating the Wall Street Professionals

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Summary: Guerilla Investing is the best investment book I have read.
Review: I have been an individual investor for about 8 years and no book has ever given me a more honest view of the market as Gurrilla Investing has. I now have many of the tools I need to compete with the institutional investor. This is an excellent read.

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Summary: basic foundation material
Review: Siris does a good job at explaing basic investing techniques for the "little guy" but sometimes the militaristic atmosphere was a bit too much. Personally, I got quite a bit of good information from the book and enjoyed the material. I would recommend it to anyone who has an interest in learning how to use fundamenatal AND technical analysis techniques to enhance investment selections. I think most "little guys" will benefit from this book, I know I did.

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Summary: Did not enjoy
Review: Siris does not tell us a lot of new things. But he actually opens your eyes to every-day-life truths that you normally do not think about too often. You seem to know all the tricks and transactions he writes about, but he makes you think about all of them more consciously or prevent you from forgetting some of the basics altogether when trading. As a European reader I can say that not everything in this book is really useful to me - as conditions in my part of the world are somewhat different. But as I intend to do some trading in the US very soon I must say this book was very helpful. In addition to all the useful things I read about I enjoyed the "human" tone of Siris' writing, which brings a lot of color into a usually very "dry" subject.

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Summary: Clausewitz version of the financial theater.
Review: The recent stock market drop is the wake-up call. Guerilla Investing is the first morning cup of coffee - an eye opening tonic for amateur investors in their quest to better the Street.

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Summary: Did not enjoy
Review: This book had no meaning. I have talked to others about this horrible piece of writting, and they all agree. Siris does not deserve to have this book published.

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Summary: An excellent "how-to" for independent investors.
Review: This is a great book for individuals who think they are ready to break away from reliance on the big brokerage houses. Mr. Siris gives detailed advice on how to effectively use the internet to gather the "intelligence" needed to make wise decisions. The book also contains a variety of tips for both the technical and value investor. Overall, I found this book to be very enlightening.