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Title: The Right Stock at the Right Time: Prospering in the Coming Good Years by Larry Williams, Larry Williams ISBN: 0-471-43051-X Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 02 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Common Sense Formulas for Making Money in the Market
Comment: I have traded the stock market for nearly thirty years. I have always been on the lookout for a basic approach that makes common and fundamental sense on how to position oneself in the market. In this book, Larry details precisely HOW to pick stocks - which ones to pick, and WHEN to pick them. If you had used this approach in the past few years, you would have essentially missed the entire NASDAQ debacle from 1999 on. In fact, since 1999 you would have actually made money. And in the good times, this approach really shines.
Larry Williams is concise, clear and easy to follow. He shows you how to pick the most solid stocks that are making money, have good prospects and (generally) pay you a dividend that makes current bank rates pale in comparison. The book is a wealth of information that no serious stock investor should be without. Do so at your own risk.
Rating: 5
Summary: Solid Strategies for Investors from a Professional Trader
Comment: Larry Williams is a prolific author, trader, educator, and money manager. With over a quarter century of experience, Williams has provided investors with practical and easy-to-implement market timing and stock selection strategies in this just published book.
Williams initially focuses on the recurrent seasonal patterns in the market. Williams reveals one interesting strategy where he notes that excellent times to go long the market are years ending in twos (e.g., 1952, 1962 ...... 1992) and threes. Just look at charts in those years or view them in this book to see those excellent buying points.
Williams also covers the best years of each decade to invest - fifth, eighth and ninth years. The consistency of these three years performance is 80%(positive returns in 8 out of 10 of those decade years). Next he covers the four-year cycle from 1858 to the present time (last 4-yr cycle years were 1994, 1998, 2002) showing that they were good times to buy at their yearly lows, many times occurring in the September/October timeframe.
Another strategy Williams covers in buying in October and selling in April. This strategy was offered by Stock Trader's Almanac in 1986 developed by Yale Hirsch, and it still works today. This strategy has produced significant returns while reducing risk as investors are out of the market for half the year.
Williams provides a look at indicators to determine that a market bottom is in place. He covers such items as the Fed's Stock Evaluation Model, margin credit, odd-lot short sales, Investors Intelligence Bull/Bear Index, US Bonds, and gold prices.
Williams covers in detail the fallacy of long-term investing and the devastation that it can wreak on investors portfolios. Investors who are die-hard "buy-and-holders" should read this chapter to learn that to use that strategy is dangerous.
To do well in the market, Williams urges investors to find stocks that have the capability to outperform the market, and then find the best time to buy them. He totally disagrees with the Wall Street cognoscenti that market-timing is useless.
He spends a chapter on buying stocks at a discount, and one on measuring investor sentiment on individual stocks. He lists seven traditional measures of value (e.g., P/E ratio, Price/Book) and elucidates on which ones work best.
All-in-all this well-written, easy to understand book provides investors with a systematic, time-tested approach to investing. Williams has again provided investors with another classic.
Rating: 2
Summary: Where are the formulas ?
Comment: I think a good book is one that give you all the details to reproduce the results if you wish. Maybe we need to seek for older books when authors didnt have a site to sell software.
My first contact with Larry Williams books was with one that he wrote in 1968. In that book things were written more clearly although in the present book several of his theories are largely ignored, as for example, the 37 year cycle he had discovered. (Why ?).
Despite that, I admire Larry Williams and I think his books are funny, and have useful information.
But I was very frustated with his PROPRIETARY sentiment indexes, and some other formulas, like the management ones that are stated in very confuse terms!
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Title: Stock Trader's Almanac 2004 by Jeffrey A. Hirsch, Yale Hirsch ISBN: 0471477540 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 03 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Secrets of Selecting Stocks for Immediate and Substantial Gains by Larry Williams ISBN: 0930233050 Publisher: Windsor Bks/Probus Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading by Larry Williams ISBN: 0471297224 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 11 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
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Title: High Probability trading by Marcel Link ISBN: 0071381562 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 17 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Ahead of the Market: The Zacks Method for Spotting Stocks Early -- In Any Economy by Mitch Zacks, Mitchel Zacks ISBN: 0060099682 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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