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24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success | 
 enlarge | Author: William J. O'neil
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 724244
Format: Import
Media: Paperback
Edition: Special
Pages: 173
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.3
ISBN: 0071360336
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6
EAN: 9780071360333
ASIN: 0071360336
Publication Date: 2000
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 Lost all respect for O'Neil July 24, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read `The Successful Investor' and `How To Make Money in Stocks' by O'Neil. Both are good books for the beginning investor. However `24 Essential Lessons' is a big disappointment, it is nothing but a plug for O'Neil's newsletter the Investor's Business Daily. '24 Lessons should be given away for free to entice people to use Investor's Business Daily (IBD) instead of sold as a book. There is a plug for IBD on almost every page, often more then five times per page.
Page 38 has IBD plugs 5 times:
Only Investor's Business Daily gives you "Volume Percent Change"........
For example, a stock showing a +356 volume percentage change in Investor's Business Daily stock tables indicates.........
Additionally, Investor's Business Daily provides special screened lists daily which identify stocks with the greatest percentage rise in volume.........
It's impossible for big institutions to buy a stock without it showing up in either Investor's Business Daily "Volume Percent Change" column in the stock tables .....
Investor's Business Daily enables you to easily track the institutional elephants......
Page 39 only has 2 plugs:
Investor's Business Daily has another proprietary gauge that can be very helpful in indemnifying whether a stock being sold is being brought or sold......
All you need to do is get in the habit of checking Investor's Business Daily Mutual fund section.......
Page 40: 2 more plugs
Page 41: 3 plugs.
I can go on and on listing the pages IBD is mentioned on and how often.
The ending of this book is dedicated to the advantages of using Investor's Business Daily. I'm writing this review because the author is taking advantage of people selling this book. He should be ashamed for himself.
 Extended promotion for Investor's Business Daily... June 24, 2008
Just finished "24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success" by Bill O'Neil, who happens to be the publisher of Investor's Business Daily. Consequently, the book is more or less an extended commercial for the paper -it is an investor's guide, but an investor's guide as applied to using Investor's Business Daily.
However, there's a good balance of information here. If you can steer past the obvious bias, he has some good tips I'd like to try out some day. He presents a formulaic approach for success in the market - not too conservative nor too risky. It certainly makes good sense. And it's obviously worked well for him.
 Great Lessons for Stock Investors! June 21, 2008
This book isn't about getting rich quick. It takes time, study diligence and patience coupled with controlling ones emotions to become an excellent investor.
William O'Neil, who started a successful financial paper known as Investors Business Daily, wrote How to Make Money in Stocks. Decade of research, critical thinking and common sense has helped O'Neil to create some very powerful ways of investing successfully. He melds both the technical and fundamental aspects of investing.
Each of the 24 lessons in this book is provided in a chapter form. Just a few of the powerful lessons are: Follow a system Rather Than your Emotions (Lesson 3), How to Buy a Stock at Just the Right Moment (Lesson 9) How to Gauge the Stock market's Health (Lesson 12) and many more.
I have read many books, magazines and articles on investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds and more over the years. O'Neil's ideas are some of the most solid and consistent I have found to apply to the stock market. They are easy to read and understand the basic...but like anything worth while...it takes years to be good. I have read three of O'Neil's books and have found rich ideas in all of them.
The Re-Discovery of Common Sense: A Guide to: The Lost Art of Critical Thinking
Awesome Book February 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I tried this and it works most of the time! You have to follow all the rules to make it work.
To All The Reviewers Denouncing O'Neil's "Sales Pitch" Of IBD - It is the HEART AND SOUL of his investment philosophy. February 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
That is WHY he is "plugging" his paper. You must UNDERSTAND his paper to USE his paper so he "PLUGS" his paper - more correctly - DISSECTS - his paper so you can more easily USE the information. To all the ingnoramus reviewers who denounce this book as a "Sales Pitch" have clearly not bothered to pick up and read the Investors Business Daily but are paranoid of being sold and snookered. Perhaps they've been had too many times. Sometimes its ok to be sold. If you're sold on sound princibles and solid information as in the information in this book and it's "plugged" paper Investors Business Daily by Mr. O'Neil (ranked 12 in in the top investors of all time) which he offers FREE for a MONTH home delivered daily wrapped in plastic. C'MON GUYS!!!
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