This book represents decades of my investing experiences, extensive simulations and summaries of hundreds of books I have read on investing. I also have found that many ideas / strategies are no longer applicable in today's market. Hence, I only include those proven techniques that work better in today's stock market. It should make you a better investor from advanced beginners to fund managers alike.
With proven, step-by-step techniques to time the market, find and evaluate stocks, it is closer to the Holy Grail of investing. The proven adaptive philosophy is using what has worked recently in fundamental metrics and stock searches. I also explain why you need to invest for yourself and why a beginner can beat a fund manager due to their required limitations/restrictions and hefty fees.
My article "Amazing Returns" for Seeking Alpha, a popular site for investors, could provide the best performance from the published date to one year later recommending 10 or more stocks. So far, there has been no challenge to my claim. All the concepts and techniques behind this article were presented in this book.
This book covers most topics on investing excluding speculative investing such as currency trading and day trading. It is far better to be a turtle investor than making millions and losing it all. This book has about 640 pages (6 inches*9 inches), about the size of two regular books on investing. I provide tables for appropriate chapters for beginners, intermediate investors and advanced investors. The following are the 16 books combined into this book:
1 Beginners & Couch Potatoes
2 Finding Stocks
3 Evaluating Stocks
4 Scoring Stocks
5 Trading Stocks
6 Market Timing
7 Strategies
8 Sector Rotation
9 Insider Trading
10 Penny Stocks & Micro Cap
11 Momentum Investing
12 Dividend Investing
13 Technical Analysis
14 Investing Advice
15 The Economy
16 Buffettology
"Simple Techniques" describes the advanced features of this book in the simplest and the least time-consuming techniques. Even advance users could find some shortcuts.
We start with the basic books Finding Stocks, Evaluate Stocks, Trading Stocks and Market Timing. The simple technique has worked for the last two plunges (2000 and 2008) with only one false signal (telling you to exit but reentering the market shortly) between 2000 and 2010.
A strategy describes how to screen stocks, evaluate them and sell them. You may not be able to find so many strategies in other books. I include swing trading, top-down, turnaround for value stock, etc. According to your risk tolerance, time available for investing and your knowledge (also the desire to learn), select one of them to start with and test it out thoroughly. Selecting the right strategy for the current market conditions is not easy but yet very rewarding.
Many older teachings even from famous investors do not work in today's market judging from their recent mediocre performances. Also, it could be that there are too many followers and/or the metrics are not applicable to today's market. Most likely for luck but with good reasons,
Size: 655 pages (6*9).
Initial version: 01/2016.
Last update 09/2021.
