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SENSIBLE STOCK INVESTING: How to Pick, Value, and Manage Stocks

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Editorial Reviews

For the millions of individual stock investors who want to improve their results-and for beginners who want to get started on the right foot-Sensible Stock Investing: How to Pick, Value, and Manage Stocks is a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow guide.Written for the busy individual, Sensible Stock Investing presents the investment process in three phases: rating companies for their intrinsic soundness; valuing stocks to find advantageous purchase prices; and managing a portfolio once it is established. Author David Van Knapp breaks these stages into discrete steps and shows how the individual investor-in just a few hours per month-can outperform most mutual funds by investing intelligently and minimizing risk at every stage. As you will see from the two actual, proven portfolios described in Sensible Stock Investing, you don't have to be a mathematical genius or investment professional to succeed in the stock market!Whether you are an experienced investor or just getting started, Sensible Stock Investing describes straightforward methods, provides the forms and tools you need, and shows you what to do every step of the way to successfully navigate the stock market with intelligent investment practices.For more information, visit www.SensibleStocks.com.

Customer Reviews

Great book for newbies or moderate investors

Reviewed by Christopher R. Santini, 2009-12-11

I graduated from college with a finance degree, I wanted to get more than theory and mathematics from an investment book so I gave this a try. It is a great book so I rated it with 5 stars, but I knew most of what was covered. This book has sound principles of investments and I liked the fact that he believes you can beat the market and gives fairly good tips, some books like this one are passive strategy and I don't agree with that. Great book for people this limited understanding.

Excellent in all aspects

Reviewed by FH, 2009-10-18

This book is a must read. Not only does it define in plain English all the most important stock terminology extremely well, it uses them to develop a very logical strategy for stock selection and to proficiently manage your stock portfolio.

Even though the stock market is a beast of its own, this book will give one a practical tool to help tame it as well as possible. Highly Recommended....

Best book on stock investing I have read

Reviewed by Craig Wagenhoffer, 2009-09-18

(aka Dave Murray) This is the best book on stock investing I have read yet and I've been reading them for about 15 years. The author goes through a systematic process that takes you through picking the stock to managing the portfolio.

I really go out of my way now to watch CNBC, Fox Business News, etc to see what stocks the pundits are recommending and so far the author's system is great for seeing if their arguments hold up. Of course these could always be momentum plays but the system will let you clearly understand if the recommendations have solid fundamentals with future promise.

In the one case where I needed questions cleared up I was able to contact the author via his website and he helped out a lot.

Excellent book for anyone who wants to be a better investor!

Reviewed by Zachary Hughes, 2009-08-19

If I had to pick just one book to read about stock investing, it would be this book. I read many books, and this one is one of the few that I have read that I could just not put down. This book is great because it takes a common sense approach to stock investing. The book covers many aspects of investing and explains it so that a beginner will understand at the same time as being thorough and detailed enough for an experienced investor to enhance his strategies. The book presents a couple of very unique and original yet simple and straight forward concepts about picking stocks and timing the buy/sell decisions. The principles that the buy/sell decisions are based on are not new, but enhanced. The author does the best job of combining value and growth investing techniques, and makes it easy to make each purchase with a specific purpose in mind. The stock "scoring method" and "market timing outlook" indicator are both invaluable to my portfolio's performance. The author also keeps his website with monthly updates of two real live portfolios with his own money to illustrate how his strategies work in real life. His portfolios have strict rules and have beaten the S&P 500 by healthy margins since inception from several years ago. My own portfolio has also beaten the market by following the principles set forth in this book. Actually, from last year, my portfolio didnt just beat the market (which was down by a large amount), but actually had a healthy gain.

Understandable, in-depth and detailed

Reviewed by J. Halbach, 2008-08-28

I have been wanting to get back into stock market investing since my 401k has languished along with the rest of the market for years. I wanted a complete investment "system" that was logical and reflected my views on well-reasoned investment fundamentals.

I found everything I was searching for in this book. There is a fine balance between being technical enough to accurately represent a stock's value and market conditions and readily understandable text. Mr. Van Knapp certainly achieved that for me.

I consider myself a "value" investor at heart and I needed a book that spoke to me on that level. I didn't want rosy predictions of how much money I would make. I'm realistic enough to know I'll make mistakes, but having the information in this book gives me the confidence to know when it's time to buy as well as sell. Mr. Van Knapp also includes two real-world portfolios in the text. These aren't hypothetical portfolios manipulated to illustrate his points. They are real-money ($50k and $40k) investments in actual stocks, with performance information as well as reasoned discussion on his criteria for making his purchases.

I will return to update this review when my portfolio has had time to accurately reflect my own approach, using Mr. Van Knapp's criteria. If you are looking for stock market investment advice, I would highly recommend this book in your library.