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PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

ISBN-10047007499X

ISBN-139780470074992

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Product Key Features

Book TitleOnly Three Questions That Count : Investing by Knowing What Others Don't

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicInvestments & Securities / General

Publication Year2006

IllustratorYes

GenreBusiness & Economics

AuthorJennifer Chou, Kenneth L. Fisher

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight24.4 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.5 in

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Reviews"Here's [an investment book] you're going to want to read. And when you're done, you're going to want to read it again." ( SmartMoney.com , October 27, 2006) "...a refreshingly contrarian take on pretty much every subject..." ( The Financial Times, January 2007) "an illuminating and enjoyable read." ( Money Observer, January 2007) "...A keen examanation of the actuality, coupled with a good dose of common sense." ( Wealth Management , 1st August 2007), "This book is quite simply the single best tome on investing that I have read in years." (Norm Conley, TheStreet.com , January 15, 2007) "Here's [an investment book] you're going to want to read. And when you're done, you're going to want to read it again." (Don Luskin, SmartMoney.com , October 27, 2006) "In an increasingly unquestioning world, Mr. Fisher has a refreshingly contrarian take on pretty much every subject you care to mention." (Steve Johnson, Financial Times , January 15, 2007) "[Ken Fisher's] new book, an illuminating and enjoyable read, is a tutorial on how to beat the market by thinking like a scientist: with an open, inquisitive mind." (Andrew Pitts, Money Observer, January 22, 2007)" "...a refreshingly contrarian take on pretty much every subject..." (The Financial Times, January 2007) "an illuminating and enjoyable read." (Money Observer, January 2007) "...aims to show the investors the way things really...a process that involves a keen examination of the actuality, coupled with a good dose of common sense." ( Wealth Management , 1st August 2007) , "Here's [an investment book] you're going to want to read. And when you're done, you're going to want to read it again." ("SmartMoney.com," October 27, 2006) VISIT ONLYTHREEQUESTIONS.COM "Fisher's theoretical work in the early 1970s yielded the price-to-sales ratio, now a core element of the financial curriculum. In the 1980s, he and Fisher Investments' research team helped create an equity style called "domestic small cap value equity," now a must-have category for investors. As his three key questions imply, his recent research focuses on the emerging field of behavioural finance. He has been working with Meir Statman of Santa Clara University. The son of legendary investor Philip Fisher, he began managing discretionary assets based on a fundamental belief in capitalism. Since it was founded in 1979, and later incorporated in 1986, Fisher Investments, which now runs about $34bn, has focused on the science of capital markets as the best means of posting excess returns. He is also the top ranked "market guru" according to CXO Advisory Group's website. CXO tabulates the market forecasts of 31 well-known market commentators and posts them in its Guru Grades report. One example, which suggests that investors should take note of the thoughts in his book, came in his March 6 2000 column for Forbes. He wrote: "Tech stocks are in a late-stage bubble. It should break later this year." In fact, it broke within a week. Of the 31 gurus listed by CXO, 16 got it wrong more often than they got it right. Only five of the listed gurus got it right at least 60 per cent of the time. Of those, Fisher, with a 69 per cent accuracy rating, was the top performer.So if he tells you there are only three questions that count, it might just be worth asking them." --Financial Times

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal332.6

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments. 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. 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. 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. 3 Question Three: What the Heck Is My Brain Doing 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. 4 Capital Markets Technology. Building and Putting Capital Markets Technology into Practice. It's Good while It Lasts. Forecast with Accuracy, Not like a Professional. Better Living through Global Benchmarking. 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. 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 One. The New Gold Standard. 7 Shocking but True. Supply and Demand . . . and That's It. Weak Dollar, Strong Dollar-What Does It Matter? 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'. 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: U.S. Equity Total Returns 1830 to 1925. Appendix B: S&P 500 Composite Returns. Appendix C: Simulated Technology Returns. Appendix D: Nasdaq Composite Returns. Appendix E: U.K. Stock Market Total Returns. Appendix F: U.K. Stock Market (FTSE All-Share) Total Returns. Appendix G: Germany Stock Market Returns. Appendix H: Germany Stock Market (DAX) Total Returns. Appendix I: Japan Stock Market Total Returns. Appendix J: Japan Stock Market (TOPIX) Total Returns. Appendix K: Fisher Investments Global Total Return Performance. Appendix L: Ten-Year History of the Forbes Report Card. Appendix M: The United Deficits: Data. Notes. Glossary. Index.

SynopsisPraise for THE ONLY THREE QUESTIONS THAT COUNT"I believe that reading this book may be the single best thing you could do this year to make yourself a better investor." -From the Foreword by James J. Cramer"The Only Three Questions That Count is a great resource for investors. Ken pushes his readers to go against the grain and not accept conventional investing thinking. His questions are food for thought for anyone craving a fresh take on investing." -Gregory E. Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer Franklin Resources, Inc."Money manager maestro Ken Fisher has been profitably enlightening our readers with his columns for more than twenty years. Investors will find this brilliant book an eye-opening, capital-gains producing experience." -Steve Forbes, CEO of Forbes, Inc. and Editor in Chief of Forbes"A provocative book for aggressive investors-from one of the investment world's most original thinkers." -Charles R. Schwab, founder, Chairman, and CEOThe Charles Schwab Corporation, Ken Fisher questions authority. He challenges the conventional wisdoms of investing, overturns glib theories with hard facts, and blows up complacent beliefs about money and markets. But the authority he challenges most of all is his own - because challenging yourself, Fisher says, is the key to successful investing., The Only Three Questions That Count 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 The Only Three Questions That Count , Ken Fisher challenges the conventional wisdoms of investing, overturns glib theories with hard facts, and blows up complacent beliefs about money and the markets. Ultimately, he says, the key to successful investing is daring to challenge yourself and whatever you believe to be true. Packed with more than 100 visuals, usable tools, and a glossary, The Only Three Questions That Count is an entertaining and educational experience in the markets unlike any other, giving you an opportunity to reap the huge rewards that only the markets can offer.

LC Classification NumberHG4515

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