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One Up On Wall Street : How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market
by Peter Lynch
from Simon & Schuster

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Changes the Way You Think About Investing: If You Want to Be an Individual Investor, You Have to Read this Book
  Amateur investors have "numerous built-in advantages, which, if exploited, should result in outperforming the market and the experts."
  Peter Lynch, America's number-one money manager of Fidelity's multibillion-dollar Magellan Fund, shows the layperson how to use what they already know to outperform the "experts" and to create investments on businesses that really matter.
  

• One up Your Investment Knowledge
  Peter Lynch wrote a classic with One Up on Wall Street. Peter Lynch was lead investment manager of the Magellan Fund, which is arguably the most successful large $ mutual fund in the US. He no longer manages the fund but in his book he lets us in on some of his secrets of choosing stocks.
  His approach is rather simple. Buy stock in something that you know. As a consumer and a personal investor we have the ability to know products before anyone on the street knows about them. For example he got in on... more info

• Kicking the Tires
  I struggled with the 1st 74 pages or so, but after that this book is excellent. There is a section he titles Kicking the Tires, in short he goes over how to evaluate a company and to stay away from the 1-2 year fly away companies. I remember when everyone was selling Apple back in the day, Peter did the opposite and started gobbling up shares. As he somewhat states, the wheels on Apple were still good.

• This book brought me to my senses.
  I was going to do some online trading and bought this book too learn more about selecting stocks. Mr. Lynchs' statement that he considered himself successful if 6 out 10 stocks he selected increased in value changed my mind. I want to thank him for waking me up. I will stick to index funds and wish all the online traders the best of luck.

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