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For Peter Siris, the stock market is a battleground. And if you're an individual investor, you'd better understand your enemy--the professional investor--as well your own limits and capabilities. According to Siris, the professionals have many advantages over individual investors: they've got the inside track on information that moves the market, and they're backed by research staffs and their networks with other pros. The trick to beating the pros is to employ guerrilla tactics--that is avoid their strengths and exploit their weaknesses.

Guerrilla Investing looks at techniques that individual investors can use to win the investing game. Siris cautions against short-term trading, which plays into the hands of the professionals, and he instead advocates a buy-and-hold strategy. He shows how to read charts, interpret a company's financial statement, and how not to get suckered by what market analysts say. He also encourages investors to develop a investment style and to stick with it. If you consider yourself a serious investor or are interested in becoming one, Guerrilla Investing is something you'll find yourself coming back to again and again. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

Siris headed his own retail consulting firm before becoming an investment analyst, and he is the author of the spy thriller The Peking Mandate (1983). He now makes the point that with every stock transaction, either the buyer or the seller has made a wrong decision, and he goes on to compare trading to a war with winners and losers. His audience is the "serious amateur investor," and he warns that the enemy is the professional trader who has more time, money, information, and technology at his disposal. He suggests that the individual can still gain an advantage by discovering and exploiting small market niches overlooked by bigger traders. Pursuing his combat analogy, Siris stresses that intelligence gathering and analysis are at the heart of any guerrilla strike. He details such resources as the Internet and cable television's financial news networks and explains how to interpret the information one uncovers. In addition, he supplies such weapons as fundamental analysis and technical analysis to the guerrilla's arsenal. David Rouse --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Book Description

Reveals the secrets of Wall Street insiders to individual investors so they can compete with the professionals and win.