Beat the Pros at Their Own Game
All too often, you learn about good stocks far too late to profit from the information. By the time you actually buy a stock, professional investors have already been there, bought the stock, driven up the price, and are just waiting to unload it at an inflated price.
All That's About to Change. . . .
In Ahead of the Market, Mitch Zacks shows investors how they can spot stocks that are poised to take off long before the rest of the crowd learns about them. How? By unlocking the gems of priceless information buried in Wall Street's often self-serving research. 
Ahead of the Market is the first book, ever, that enables you to profitably use the analyst stock research for which Wall Street firms pay more than one billion dollars annually. Many investors have rightly felt misled in the past by analysts who continued to hype stocks as prices plummeted. You may have even concluded that Wall Street research is totally worthless. But it's not.
In Ahead of the Market, Mitch Zacks shows that analysts actually provide a wealth of market-moving information that can generate exceptional returns if interpreted correctly.The key is to use the research produced by Wall Street analysts the same way the professional money managers do.
Pioneered by the firm Zacks Investment Research and based on more than twenty years of intensive analysis, the investment strategies revealed in this book are indeed the same ones used by successful professional investors everywhere.
In these pages you will learn how to form an investment plan by locating stocks that are poised for price appreciation and avoiding stocks heading for a fall. Zacks shows how you could have prevented being burned when the recent bubble burst, if you had known how to use analyst research correctly and teaches you the rules of the research game so you will not fall victim the next time around. In sum, this book is your guide to picking the right stock at the right time.
Mitch Zacks's groundbreaking research provides new insights and new strategies to:
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<li>Use revisions to analysts' earnings estimates to predict the rise and fall of stock prices </li>
<li>Interpret the real meaning behind analysts' stock recommendations </li>
<li>Employ the "cockroach" phenomenon and other methodologies to predict earnings surprises before they occur </li>
<li>Determine how to react when a company reports earnings and how to profit from "post-earnings announcement drift"</li>
<li>Understand and profit from "analyst creep"—the reason that earnings estimate revisions occur incrementally over time</li>
<li>Avoid being duped by the games that companies play with their earnings reportsWhether the economy is healthy or stalled, whether the market is up or down, by focusing on the strategies contained in this book you will always come out ahead. Well-picked individual stocks will always carry the day. Now with Ahead of the Market, you will finally have the same tools institutional investors have and will be able to find great stocks in any market environment. </li>
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Ahead of the Market: The Zacks Method for Spotting Stocks Early - In Any Economy

Business & Money

Zacks, Mitch

Business Culture

HarperBusiness

A timely guide to making the best investment strategies even better A wide variety of strategies have been identified over the years, which purportedly outperform the stock market. Some of these include buying undervalued stocks while others rely on technical analysis techniques. It's fair to say no one method is fool proof and most go through both up and down periods. The challenge for an investor is picking the right method at the right time. The Little Book of Stock Market Profits shows you how to achieve this elusive goal and make the most of your time in today's markets. Written by Mitch Zacks, Senior Portfolio Manager of Zacks Investment Management, this latest title in the Little Book series reveals stock market strategies that really work and then shows you how they can be made even better. It skillfully highlights earnings-based investing strategies, the hallmark of the Zacks process, but it also identifies strategies based on valuations, seasonal patterns and price momentum. Specifically, the book: <ul>
<li>Identifies stock market investment strategies that work, those that don't, and what it takes for an individual investor to truly succeed in today's dynamic market</li> <li>Discusses how the performance of each strategy examined can be improved by combining into them into a multifactor approach</li> <li>Gives investors a clear path to integrating the best investment strategies of all time into their own personal portfolio</li> </ul>
Investing can be difficult, but with the right strategies you can improve your overall performance. The Little book of Stock Market Profits will show you how.

The Little Book of Stock Market Profits: The Best Strategies of All Time Made Even Better

Investing

wiley

Over the years, various approaches to investing have emerged, but it's fair to say that some of them have been less than impressive. Today, the challenge for almost every investor is finding the right ways to earn above average returns. The Little Book of Stock Market Profits will show you exactly how to achieve this elusive goal. Author Mitch Zacks-Senior Portfolio Manager at Zacks Investment Management-understands what it takes to make it in even the most dynamic markets, and now, he breaks down some of the best investing strategies of all time and reveals how you can effectively incorporate them into your own investing endeavors. Engaging and informative, this reliable guide takes you through various strategies that will help you improve your investment process, while allowing you to take advantage of certain market anomalies. Along the way, it skillfully addresses: Using momentum-based strategies and what type of stocks this method works best with Piggybacking on the trading decisions made by informed individuals-from large shareholders to CEOs-through the use of publicly disclosed insider data Understanding Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and whether they will help, or hurt, your portfolio Following specific rules when buying value stocks Implementing an earnings accrual investment strategy that helps you try to outperform the market by effectively focusing on the quality of earnings Handling earnings announcements and what to make of post-earnings announcement drifts Following seasonal patterns in your investing activities by looking at common calendar anomalies such as the January Barometer, May/October Effect, and much more Rounding out this detailed discussion of equity investing, Zacks touches upon the use of multifactor models in this process. Here, you'll learn how combining two or more different factors-for instance stocks trading at attractive valuation metrics and exhibiting strong price momentum-can generate returns that are greater than any one of the factors by itself. Investing can be difficult, but with the right strategies you can improve your overall performance. The Little Book of Stock Market Profits will show you how.

The Little Book Of Stock Market Profits: The Best Strategies of All Time Made Even Better

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