The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing | 
 enlarge | Author: Jason Kelly
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  228 reviews
Sales Rank: 285639
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 257
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0452278708
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6322
EAN: 9780452278707
ASIN: 0452278708
Publication Date: January 1, 1998
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Condition: Lots of shelf wear, may contain some notes or highlighting, corners/edges worn and bent, may not include companion materials like cdroms or access codes.
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Product Description
Solid investment know-how is not just for savvy Wall Streeters. The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing provides novice investors with all the information they need to make smart stock choices. Author Jason Kelly deciphers seemingly complicated lingo on stock markets with his easy, conversational style and shows beginners how to tackle stocks with confidence. The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing combines friendly guidance and sound financial expertise, giving readers a solid foundation on which to build a profitable portfolio. *Includes important tips from Wall Street masters Peter Lynch, Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, and others. *Fun visual format will appeal to the Gen-X audience of the bestselling Get a Financial Life. *The natural sequel to the author's very successful Neatest Little Guide to Mutual Fund Investing, already in its third printing months after publication. *Jason Kelly is a regular correspondent for CNNfn's "It's Only Money," and has been featured in Kiplinger's, Mutual Fund Magazine , and Entrepreneur.
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 Very easy to read November 7, 2008
This book is great. Good information, which usually is hard to understand because if you're new to the world of investments it should sound like gibberish, but this books makes it so easy that you'll think you're reading a cookbook.
 Great Investing book November 6, 2008
This book is a must have, I have recommended to all my friends and family. Kudos to the Author for publishing such a wonderful book
If you're new to stock-market investing, start here November 4, 2008
If you've ever taken a college-level math course, you know that many math teachers have an interest in keeping everything just a bit obscure. They're afraid that if they clarify everything and define their terms, you'll know as much as they do. Kelly clearly doesn't adhere to this philosophy. If you're a beginner to stock market investing, there's no better place to start than here. Even if you find that many seasoned investors don't agree with Kelly's trading strategies, it doesn't matter. What's important for a new investor is to just understand what's going on. When you hear trading-floor jargon, you want to be able to know what information is being conveyed. Otherwise, it will be of no use to you. Kelly's strategies, while debatable, apply the jargon to real life. And there's really no shortcut. Either you know the basics, or you don't. If you try to just "pick them up" along the way, you'll spend a lot of time on a learning curve--time which could be put to better use buying and selling stock. And, unless you're using monopoly money, learning curves can be terribly expensive. If you want to buy a stock intelligently, you're going to be buying a company. And if you do, you've got to do fundamental analysis. (Some people don't believe in the bars & graphs used in technical analysis.) And if later you want to get into more esoteric stuff like option trading, the basics have to be second nature. You can't waste time asking what terms like Return on Equity or Dividend Yield mean. If you master this book, you won't have to.
Internalize the definitions and rules offered in this book, and then get out there and do a few dry-run transactions. You can put together any number of mock portfolios on Yahoo Finance. And the Internet is full of resources for getting the information you'll need. (Kelly spends a lot of time discussing Value Line. Nowadays, there's no need to spend that kind of money for information that can be had at a fraction of the cost, or for free.) I use Investools, which makes available a ton of data.
Don't be put off by the small size of the book. It's dense with information, and all of it is useful, even essential. I'm looking forward to seeing a later edition, since some of the stuff in this book is already dated. But again, what it does it does very well--teaching you how to talk and think like an investor. What it doesn't do it doesn't even try to do. Kelly knows his readers' limitations. You should know yours.
A great introduction to stocks November 1, 2008
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This book was a great introduction to stocks. This book eliminated the intimation for understanding stocks. It's a great read too. It's a great first book.
 Neatest little guide in Stock Market October 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this little Book is sound and well written but it horribly out of date.
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