Product Description

A comprehensively updated edition of an essential guide to stock market investing

For over a decade, Jason Kelly has provided investors with the insider knowledge and time-tested strategies they need to maximize their investment programs. This thoroughly updated edition of The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing includes:
• Kelly’s Maximum Midcap Strategy, an innovative investment program that consistently outperforms the market
• Real-life examples of investment strategies that paid big dividends
• Tips from master investors like Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, and Bill Miller

An accessible, intelligent, and highly effective approach to investing, The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing is an invaluable resource for investors everywhere.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #812 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
The Neatest Little Guide stands alone. There is no other book on the market like this one. -- Michael H. Sherman, Chairman, Sierra Global Management, LLC

About the Author
Jason Kelly wrote about a variety of topics, from computers to finance, before finding his niche in the stock market.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Foreword: This Book Always Works

The advice in this book works. It keeps you out of dangerous stocks and shows you how to find good stocks that make money over time.

I wrote the first edition in 1996 and 1997, just before the market began its steep ascent into the bubble of the century. Back then, Enron and WorldCom were talked about as must-own companies and the internet was expected to put so-called old economy companies like Wal-Mart out of business. Who would walk the aisles of a store when they could shop online in their pajamas?

Plenty of us, evidently. In the five years following this book's first publication to its update in fall 2002, Wal-Mart stock rose 181 percent while most internet startups disappeared and Enron and WorldCom declared bankruptcy. On November 29, 2002 Wal-Mart racked up $1.43 billion in sales -- on that day alone. The two leading internet merchants at that time, Amazon.com and eBay, had annual sales of only $3.62 billion and $1.02 billion respectively.

This book would have kept you out of Enron, WorldCom, and the dot com disasters. It would not have kept you out of the market's volatility, and no approach to stocks will. The market is volatile in the short term and rises over the long term. Almost all attempts to get around that basic profile involve a lot of work for nothing.

So what kind of experience should you hope for in the stock market? One like you would have had from Anheuser-Busch. I use the world's largest brewer to explain sales and price-to-sales in Chapter 7 and pointed out in the first edition that its stock was selling at a price cheaper than Coca-Cola's. Anheuser-Busch sold for $19.91 at the end of November 1997. In November 2002, more than two-and-a-half years into the bear market, it sold for $53.70, a five-year gain of 170 percent. The company's annual sales grew from $10 billion in 1995 to $13 billion in 2002, when it said in November that it was having an "excellent" year and that it expected its strong earnings growth to continue.

You want companies like Wal-Mart and Anheuser-Busch working for your money. This book shows you how to find them. Its methods win in flat markets, rising markets, and falling markets because superior companies always come out on top.

Invest in them and you'll come out on top, too.

Customer Reviews

The neatest guide to win back your money with stock market !
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Very easy to read
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
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