Let's face it; the market has always been complicated. In such an environment, it is often the elementary tools that work. Investing in individual stocks challenges our instinct as much as it challenges our financial judgment. Investors who thrive in the market choose to buy stock in companies operating not only based on performance, but also those companies with long-term potential. Beating The Stock Market is a down-to-earth guide covering everything from the market cycle and its danger signals to selling on margin as well as the difficulties of shorting securities, and much more. Author R.W. McNEEL's nuts-and-bolts approach to his subject is effective in outlining the fundamentals of making investment decisions based on reasoned evaluation versus sheer instinct. Beating The Stock Market is an invaluable tool for anyone investing in today's fickle financial markets.

Beating the Stock Market: Basic rules and attitudes for anyone who hopes to speculate successfully

Business & Money

McNeel, R. W.

Economics

Fraser Publishing Company

There are common-sense rules for even the most daring investment speculation, even in a precarious economic environment... as in the wake of the dramatic stock market crash of 1929. This guide to smart speculating offers sound advice on determining whether you're really cut out for speculation, what warning signs in your financial situation should steer you toward safer investing, the best way to use margin trading, how to find reliable information on stocks, why you should shun all tips, why you should be a "bad loser," and much more. Not just a historical guide to one of the most unstable periods in American economic history, this is a useful primer for today's investor, too.

If You Must Speculate Learn The Rules (Fraser Contrary Opinion Library Book)

Williams, Frank J.

Finance

Rollo Tape is the colorful pen name of Richard D. Wyckoff. This 1910 classic on tape reading and stock market tactics is by one of its most astute students. Wyckoff for many years was a publisher of the Ticker Magazine which was later changed to The Magazine of Wall Street. He contributed more to the study of price movements than anyone else in America. Paper. 179 pp.

Studies in Tape Reading: A 1910 Classic on Tape Reading & Stock Market Tactics

Tape, Rollo

WYCKOFF, RICHARD D.

Investing

First published in 1933, this book contains principal articles, editorials and correspondence originally published in the magazine Stock Market Technique from March 1932 to July 1933, inclusive.

Stock Market Technique Number One

Tides in the Affairs of Men: An Approach to the Appraisal of Economic Change

Smith, Edgar Lawrence

This is a compilation of articles, editorials, correspondence and good sayings originally published in the magazine Stock Market Technique between August 1933 and May 1934, inclusive. Subjects included selecting the best opportunities, buying on bad news, using Dow Theory, cascaret system of trading and more. There are also good stories on Wall Street operators including Bernard Baruch, Jesse Livermore, and Arthur W Cutten.

Stock Market Technique Number Two

Richard D. Wyckoff

This book by an established financial writer offers insights in how contrarian investors live and work. Their eclectic ranks include Humphrey B. Neill, the Vermont Ruminator; John B. Neff, the former manager of the immensely successful Windsor Fund; Dean LeBaron, the Batterymarch Financial Management chairman; Babson Funds founder David L. Babson, who foresaw prosperity after World War II; and Michael Aronstein, a contemplative investment manager with a vision of capitalism's future. Index. 1994. Paperback. 129 pp.

Five Eminent Contrarians: Careers, Perspectives and Investment Tactics (Contrary Opinion Library)

Biographies & Memoirs

Mintz, Steven L.

Professionals & Academics

From a time when Wall Street was accessible by horse and a new issue of stock only required a printing press, this is the "autobiography" of an unrepentant participant in the golden era of robber barons. Based upon Drew's written recollections found after his death, this book covers Drew's entire life; from his cattle driving days, where he claims to have coined the phrase "watered stock", through his lifelong competition with Cornelius Vanderbilt and his partnerships with Jim Fisk and Jay Gould, to his final days, when he had lost his entire fortune.

The Book of Daniel Drew: A Glimpse of the Fisk-Gould-Tweed Regime from the Inside

White, Bouck

This book was first printed in 1938, having been written as a Ph.D. thesis at Harvard in 1937. Our good friend, Peter Bernstein mentioned this book several times in his excellent Capital Ideas which was published in 1992. Why the book is interesting today is that it still is important and the most authoritative work on how to value financial assets. As Peter says: "Williams combined original theoretical concepts with enlightening and entertaining commentary based on his own experiences in the rough-and-tumble world of investment." Williams' discovery was to project an estimate that offers intrinsic value and it is called the 'Dividend Discount Model' which is still used today by professional investors on the institutional side of markets. Appendix, Tables

The Theory of Investment Value

Williams, John Burr

The author develops a macroeconomic theory of the market economy based on an empirical description and financial analysis at the microeconomic level. He describes various classes of borrowers, lenders, and market mediators and the special characteristics of each that influence the demand and supply for loans.

Interest, Growth, & Inflation: The Contractual Savings Theory of Interest

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