The Nasdaq Investor

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Summary: A Fresh New Look
Review: As an investor for over some 20 years, I am always interested in new strategies, forecasts and presciptions for successful investing. Mr. Isaacman's book offers a fresh new perspective which incorporates all of the newly developed tools available to today's investor. Concise but conclusive, the Nasdaq Investor addresses a host of investment strategies which the new investor will be able to employ to assist in building their portofolio's performance and wealth, and the established investor can utilize to revamp, overhaul or adjust their portfolios to simply attain better results with less risk and anxiety. The book can also be used as a reference guide for various strategies in different market cycles which is really nice as the markets have become so dynamic in the recent past. The author's 35 years of experience in the investment community is brought to the forefront in the Nasdaq Investor.

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Summary: A Fresh New Look
Review: Excellent primer for those seeking to profit from the Nasdaq market. Max Issacman explains why the market is the hottest and most volatile; how even a novice investor can easily experience the market through QQQ shares; and why now may be the time to invest when the herd is headed in the opposite direction.

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Summary: Nasdaq Investor Review
Review: Excellent primer for those seeking to profit from the Nasdaq market. Max Issacman explains why the market is the hottest and most volatile; how even a novice investor can easily experience the market through QQQ shares; and why now may be the time to invest when the herd is headed in the opposite direction.

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Summary: Some Basics About Volatile Stocks You Don't Need to Learn
Review: This book has lots of detailed, accurate information about NASDAQ and the stocks that trade there. Unless you plan to buy and sell these stocks (which I would advise against for most people), this information is of little value. The book is a good implementation of an inappropriate book concept for most people.

The author makes a great comment. " . . . [T]he market is a place for risk capital." I interpret that to mean money that you can afford to lose, like money you have after you have provided for your retirement, paying for college educations, getting rid of your credit card debt, etc. Now, very few people are in the circumstance to have risk capital. Unless you do, stop thinking about investing in individual stocks now.

If you do have risk capital, I suggest you read "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" as your first step. Because it is unlikely that your risk capital should be going first into stocks.

If for some reason, you feel you must be in stocks, please read John Bogle's Common Sense About Mutual Funds.

My favorite quote in the book is "If an investor had used only P/E ratios as a guide to purchase stocks, she or he would have missed out on many large gainers." That is certainly true, and missing out on those gainers would also have allowed you to miss out on many losers . . . and gainers that became losers. Can you think of a stock with an overpriced P/E in March 2000 that is higher today?

Skip this book unless you are thinking about becoming a stock broker.

After you read this review, I suggest you think about other areas where having less knowledge is an advantage. For example, would it help you to know more or less about post-surgical complications?

Take advantage of all those situations when less knowledge is more! Keep your risk capital where it belongs, as the author recommends!

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Summary: the nasdaq investor
Review: this book showed me the importance of having a dicipline.the book was easy to read and helped me create a strategy using index investing.mr.Isaacman's book makes a significant contribution to the current body of investment knowledge.