5 Responses to “Beat the Market: Invest by Knowing What Stocks to Buy and What Stocks to Sell”

• By Mark S on Mar 13, 2010

  Let me be honest. I have not read the book. I read Mr. Kings review, and I wanted to add my two cents. Maybe its a great book. However, when I looked at these great reviews, there was a link that said see my other reviews. They had not reviewed any other books.

  Also, I am active in the stock market community, and people who have written books, have actually offered to write a review, email it to me, and have me post it using my name.

  Finally, I get Hulbert, which independtly rates newsletters, and I did not see his newsletter rated. If you get his newsletter, you will see the Prudent speculator, no load fundx, investment quality trends, louis navelliers newsletters, and a few others as ones that have done very well.

  Finally, none of the newsletters reviewed by Hulbert, have anything close to the results that are claimed here.
  Rating: 3 / 5
• By David Merkel on Mar 13, 2010

  I am usually not crazy about books that propound a simple way to beat the market. This is one of those books. What makes me willing to write a review about this book, is that the writer, Charles Kirkpatrick is willing to incorporate some fundamental measures into his analyses, notably price-to-sales, which will help with industrial companies, but not with financials.

  This is a simple book that reinforces the idea that one needs to pay attention to valuation (in a rudimentary way), and also to momentum. Whiule I don’t endorse the specific methods of the book, I will say that for someone with a low amount of time, and wantingto do a little better than the market averages, he could do so over the intermediate-term with the methods in the book.

  Note: I am not endorsing the technical methods in the book, but most of the methods boil down to momentum, anyway.
  Rating: 3 / 5
• By Greg Hewitt on Mar 13, 2010

  This is one of the 10 best books on investing or trading I have ever read. I enjoyed it so much that I actually went back and researched Robert Levy’s groundbreaking 1968 study on relative strength (which by the way was roundly dismissed at the time). A touch of class by Kirkpatrick to give Levy much of the credit and to have dedicated the book to him. A much easier read in my opinion than Michael Carr’s book on RS. I read this on a plane trip from STL to KC which should tell you something about it’s lack of pretense. Big Hat tip to Pradeep at the terrific “Stockbee” site for recommending this one.
  Rating: 5 / 5
• By M. Ghens on Mar 13, 2010

  Charles Kirkpatrick is one of a select few who provides individual investors a valid method to outperform the market. There is so much crap out there – from popular investing shows to investment advisors – all there to simply entertain you, or worse yet, to take your money. New stock market investors have a hard time grasping the fact that the market is not here to make them money, it is here to take their money. If you are going to successfully invest in individual stocks you must learn to play with the pros. You absolutely need a valid stock selection method and buy and sell rules. All of these are provided in this book. From a time investment vs. performance yield perspective this book ranks at the top of the list.

  To implement the methods presented in this book the reader has a couple of simple choices. You can subscribe to the author’s weekly newsletter for 195/yr (an incredible bargain), or if you prefer more of the DIY approach you can subscribe to a data source charting service, such as, High Growth Stock investor or Telechart. Either which way you will be using a method that puts you into winning stocks and gets you out when they start underperforming, locking in profits. Forget buy low sell high platitudes. You want to buy high and sell higher. You’re almost certainly not going to outguess institutional money with their resources and researh teams, so don’t play that game. Trying to do so is a low probability proposition for the average investor. Buying low also means buying stocks that the institutional investors find unattractive – that’s a big clue. If institutional investors want a stock you want it because their large volume purchasing pushes the price up. If they don’t want it you don’t want it. It is as simple as that. The relative strength methods presented in this book will put you into stocks that institutional money is buying.

  Are you an investor managing a brokerage account, IRA or 401k, but don’t know much about how to make money in indivual stocks and are afraid to learn? Are you stuck in mutual funds and tired of their fees and lackluster performance? Are you willing to do just a little work on weekends to adjust your portfolio? This book is perfect for you.
  
  Rating: 5 / 5
• By SJ on Mar 13, 2010

  I’ve read a lot of investment/trading books over the years and this one is at the top. Do not let the 156 pages and $15 price tag fool you. This book, IMO is more important and valuable than many books 3 times as much and 5 times the size. There is a wealth of information on each and every page by someone who has been in the business for over 40 years. If you are an investor or trader, I strongly recommend getting this book, you won’t be dissapointed. The simplicity of the method is backed by years and years of research.
  Rating: 5 / 5

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