How To Make Money In Stocks: A Winning System In Good Times And Bad, Fourth Edition

The book is highly informative with plain and simple common sense investing which is fully backed up with long term research.However, it gets 1 star from me because while the investment content is very good and I fully understand patriotism, the America this, America that and constant pot shots at other countries does not belong in an investment book and because of that the book gets 1 star from me...

From the initial title I thought it might be another cheesy book but turned out to be quite surprising and informative. It is good for starters but if someone that does not know EPS, average volume or even to read the charts, it can be intermediate level book. So I suggest to get the basic lingos of stock market to be studied prior to reading this book.The material is extensive but lot of it is also promoting its website data and its ratings on investors.com which does not cover Indian markets. So Indian readers will have to dig other website for similar information. The book is strictly targeted for American markets.Overall, I found information to be useful but towards the end author included some personal political views (conservative American Republican talking points including from author Thomas Sowell) and talked about biased Democratic Party leaning left-wing propaganda which I felt was unnecessary to the educational content that book is supposed to be. I felt this information went off-topic. For this reason alone I gave the book 4 stars otherwise overall its good information on stock market and CANSLIM strategy.

William O'Neil shares his strategy for making money out of the stock market by finding growth shares. It opens with a hundred pages of charts in which he demonstrates various patterns that can be used to predict price movements. This is all rather technical and may be off-putting to people who don't have much experience of investing. After this the book become more readable, and although William O'Neil is opinionated, to say the least, he argues his case persuasively. His underlying message is 'if you want to do it my way, do it exactly as I do it or don't do it at all'. Fair enough. He's earned his reputation and his CAN SLIM principles are widely used. The book has a self-promotional aspect and an American flavour that may upset some British readers, but with sales of two million it has become a classic in its field. Probably not for beginners, but the chapter on 'Twenty-one costly common mistakes investors make' is lucid and forceful, and aimed at all investors regardless of their level of experience. Strongly recommended.

Too much storytelling of the past, excessive claims and ideals which more often than not do not correlate to real life. Not to mention constant selling of subscription to investors business daily. And most nauseating of all; America this, America that...I didn't want a book about nationalism!Il give it two stars since there are odd worthy pieces of information here and there, nothing which is not available on the internet mind you.

Excellent book - I have read many trading books but took a lot from this. It is straightforward, relatively easy steps to pick a watchlist from patterns and dig deeper through fundamental information that are these days easily available on the internet. O Neill superimposes this for each stock onto the market direction as a whole and picking sector leaders.One criticism - the early chapters are 150 pages of charts - these ae critical to learn the patterns. However the print size is too small to see clearly. I bought the book for making notes and the kindle version too to be able to zoom in on these charts. Annoying but it has more than repaid me !