“How to make money in Stocks, a winning system in good times or bad” by William O’Neil is one of the most interesting books available on stock investing. O’Neil himself continues to be a main figure in the investing world through his “Investor’s Business Daily” publication and the investors.com website. The popularity of this book...
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Seasonality is a very important aspect of the way markets have worked for many years. One of the books that documents market behaviour throughout the calendar year is the Stock Trader’s Almanac. This book is regularly updated with various interesting statistics that are relevant at various times during the year. The book also includes important statistics...
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“The cause of price movement in any given stock is predominantly a function of market and sector risk. More specifically, 80 percent of the risk in any given stock is attributable to the market and sector. Yet the typical time allocation for researching a stock is 80 percent to the actual stock and only...
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It is quite fortunate for individual investors that BNN has provided and continues bring forth world class investment coverage. In today’s note I want to bring the attention of the reader about the topic of technical analysis. The reason is that quite often, some of the interviewers on programs such as Market Call will refer to terms such...
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This note refers to a series of books written by Jack Schwager. The first one is titled “Market Wizards” . A search on Chapters.ca or Amazon.ca yields five titles across close to two decades. The idea here is to gain insight on how various successful traders or investors have been able to achieve better...
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Monday December 14th, 2009
In this brief note we will highlight two memorable quotes from the immortal Jesse Livermore. The book “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” by Edwin Lefèvre continues to be a quintessential classic after all these years. This book is another must read for any investor.
On price action and supply and demand:
“A...
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There are very few people who have done more work on defining a methodology as Tom Dorsey and the researchers at Dorsey Wright and Associates. The book is not an easy read and has to be studied to appreciate the depth of knowledge it represents and wealth of historical data it has.
The work is quantitative and...
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Much of investing is about psychology and investor behaviour. One of the best read titles that dwell on that is “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets” by Nicholas Nassim Taleb. Perhaps this should be one of the first two or three books any new investor should read. There are a number...
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