The only three questions that count : investing by knowing what others don't / Kenneth L. Fisher with Jennifer Chou and Lara Hoffmans ; foreword by James J. Cramer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Kenneth L.

Contributor:

Chou, Jennifer.

Hoftmans, Lara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments.

Speculation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

<i>The Only Three Questions That Count</i> is the first book to show you how to think about investing for yourself and develop innovative ways to understand and profit from the markets. The only way to consistently beat the markets is by knowing something others don't know. This book will show you how to do just that by using three simple questions. You'll see why CNBC's Mad Money host and money manager James J. Cramer says, ""I believe that reading his book may be the single best thing you could do this year to make yourself a better investor. In <i>The Only Three Questions That Count</i>, K

Contents:

The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don't; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Who Am I to Tell You Something That Counts?; Idiots and Professionals: Oh, but I Repeat Myself; Because Mr. Crafty, It's Not a Craft; It's All Latin to Me- Starting to Think like a Scientist; The Only Three Questions That Count; Chapter 1: Question One: What do you believe that is actually false?; If You Knew It Was Wrong, You Wouldn't Believe It; The Mythological Correlation; Always Look at It Differently; When You Are Really, Really Wrong

Chapter 2: Question Two: What can you fathom that others find unfathomable?Fathoming the Unfathomable; Ignore the Rock in the Bushes; Discounting the Media Machine and Advanced Fad Avoidance; The Shocking Truth about Yield Curves; What the Yield Curve Is Trying to Tell You; The Presidential Term Cycle; Chapter 3: Question Three: What the heck is my brain diong to blindside me now?; It's Not Your Fault-Blame Evolution; Cracking the Stone Age Code-Pride and Regret; The Great Humiliator's Favorite Tricks; Get Your Head Out of the Cave; Chapter 4: Capital Markets Technology

Building and Putting Capital Markets Technology into PracticeIt's Good while It Lasts; Forecast with Accuracy, Not Like a Professional; Better Living through Global Benchmarking; Chapter 5: When there's no there, there!; Johns Hopkins, My Grampa, Life Lessons, and Pulling a Gertrude; In the Center Ring-Oil versus Stocks; Sell in May because the January Effect Will Dampen Your Santa Claus Rally Unless There Is a Witching Effect; Chapter 6: No, it's just the opposite; When You Are Wrong-Really, Really, Really Wrong; Multiplier Effects and the Heroin-Addicted Apple iPod Borrower

Let's Trade This Deficit for That OneThe New Gold Standard; Chapter 7: Shocking but true; Supply and Demand...and That's It; Weak Dollar, Strong Dollar-What Does It Matter?; Chapter 8: The great humiliator and your stone-age brain; That Predictable Market; Anatomy of a Bubble; Some Basic Bear Rules; What Causes a Bear Market?; Chapter 9: Putting it all together; Stick with Your Strategy and Stick It to Him; Four Rules That Count; Finally! How to Pick Stocks That Only Win; When the Heck Do You Sell?; Conclusion; Transformationalism; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E

Appendix FAppendix G; Appendix H; Appendix I; Appendix J; Appendix K; Appendix L; Appendix M; Notes; Glossary; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-420) and index.

ISBN:

9786610740987

9780470893302

0470893303

9781280740985

1280740981

9780470128251

0470128259

OCLC:

123083681