Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #692422 in Books
• Published on: 1986-04-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 293 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Financial adviser and Wall Street Week TV panelist Zweig has been fascinated by the stock market since childhood, he tells usnot industry or commerce as such, but the buying and selling of stocks to make money. He has evidently made a lot of it, and has won the confidence of readers of his financial newsletter. Zweig is more enthusiastic about the intricacies of his "technical" stock market approach than he can expect the average investor-reader to be. Nevertheless, he has produced here a clear and detailed analysis of market trends, interest rates, Federal Reserve policy, debt volume, market "momentum," etc., that seems to carry the technical side of stock-market theory as far as it can go. The result is a sure-fire system for beating the marketprovided you make no mistakes.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Zweig's "proven methods for market forecasting and stock selection" are presented in a simplified version of the approach he uses in his Zweig Forecast newsletter calculations. Tables show how well an investor would have done by following the buy or sell signals for his Super Model, which is constructed of various "monetary" and "momentum" indicators. He also subjects his decisions to "sentiment" and "seasonal" indicators. Scan earnings reports, he advises, be flexible, have patience and discipline, set stop orders, and "don't fight the tape." The drawback, common to all such systems, is that transaction costs and taxes are ignored. Nor does Zweig's claim that his model can be accomplished on one transaction per year square with his admonition to diversify into several stocks. On balance, however, the concepts are clearly presented, and his success will probably create a demand. Alex Wenner, M.L.S., Bloomington, Ind.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Great Market Timing Model - Should you be a buyer, seller, or stay in cash?
Martin Zweig states in this book that people buy it when they experience loss or frustration in the stock market. I have to agree and wish I would have found this book a long time ago.

Zweig provides a model to tell you if you should be a buyer, seller, or stay in cash. Then outlines some of his work at picking stocks. If you follow his model (you need to get data from the U.S. Gov, Barrons, and some stock indexes all free) then you can track the model on a WEEKLY BASIS not DAILY. This really provides direction for bigger moves and keeps the "weekend" investor from looking at the market in detail a day at a time.

If you ever found yourself wondering overall should you be a buyer or seller, this book will answer that question for you. You will know when to start moving to cash, when to start moving into stocks, and if you should be in stocks or cash 100%.

Buy this book you will keep it as an investment book you return to again and again. The blog www.investorknowledgebase.org discusses some topics in this book.

WOWS
An excellent treatise on the use of data from the New York Stock Exchange. It may be a little difficult to obtain equivalent UK data but a very thought provoking methodology.

An excellent stock screening book.
While I was in high school, I bought this book at a neighborhood bookstore
in 1987 if I remember correctly. It was my first stock market book ever. At the time, I did not know that it was going to be a Wall Street classic though I should have foreseen it. When I first browsed through the book initially, It was quite advanced for me. Many years ago, I carefully reread the severely bangged up copy of mine again. That's when it all became clear for me. In fact, the stock screening method in the book is the backbone of my stock selection process now although it's not the only criteria I use. If anyone believes that it is possible to beat the stock market on consistent basis by logical stock selection, this book must be read at least a few times IMO.