The battle for investment survival First published in Subjects Speculation , Investments , Investment advisors. Places Wall Street. Community Reviews 0 Feedback? Loading Related Books. Wiley in English Paperback in English August 15, August 10, Edited by IdentifierBot. April 24, Edited by Open Library Bot. There was nothing interesting I learnt from the book - - Conceptually, it seemed dated.
Read it Spot on in many respects. I wish i had read it 30 years ago, sure could have helped. Read this book in small bits so as the lessons stick. Jun 07, Oscar Seoane rated it liked it. Good but not superb. Jan 06, Nnenna Pastor rated it really liked it. Enjoyed reading and it taught me a few common sense ideas on selling. Mar 21, Jason rated it it was ok. You'd need pretty big balls to follow this guy's method to the letter.
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Be the first to start one ». Readers also enjoyed. About Gerald M. Gerald M. Gerald Loeb was a founding partner of E. Loeb promoted a view of the market as too risky to hold stocks for the long term in contrast to well known value investors. He also created the Gerald Loeb Award, given annually for excellence in various cateogories of financial journalism. Of course, investing is as much about avoiding costly mistakes, as it is about seizing opportunities. The objective is always buy that which the majority thinks is speculative and sell it when the majority believes the quality has reached investment grade.
It is in this policy that both safety and profits exist. As price is the all-important consideration, the type of corporation and its characteristics are of relatively minor consequences. All the risk is priced in. The slightest bit of good news, a shift in sentiment, moves prices higher. There is no such thing as a final answer to security values… Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.
So investors have to not only consider what a stock is really worth but what other investors think its worth. This is a dummy description. The Battle for Investment Survival. Table of Contents. The publication of this up-to-date and enlarged edition of The Battle For Investment Survival is due to two factors—the steady demand for the first hardcover edition, which has sold over , copies, and the highly complimentary comments made by various readers of that edition.
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