The First Time Investor : How to Start Safe, Invest Smart, and Sleep Well

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Truly Excellent Book!

Great Primer on Investing Basics and Risks Involved

Useful info and easy to read.

The First Time Investor : How to Start Safe, Invest Smart, and Sleep Well
Larry Chambers , and Dale Rogers
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From the end of the 1990's bull run to today's point-and-click electronic trading, investors face a radically transformed trading environment. The First Time Investor has been updated to teach beginning investors everything they must know in this new, high-speed investment arena. Along with the basics, it now features in-depth discussions on day trading, decimalization, the expansion of the global marketplace, and more--as well as a valuable new section on the top 10 things people must do to protect their 401(k)s.

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Truly Excellent Book!.......2005-10-01

I was thrilled to finally get some serious and safe " how to" information on investing. I thoroughly read and enjoyed Peter Lynch's book " One Up On Wall Street", which is the true ABC guide to investing, but never felt confident enough to put my money in any sort of investment vehicle. This book helps the reader to diversify and thus reduce risk. Simple explanations and data to back up the authors' claims makes this an excellent guide for the first time investor.

A strong 5 stars!

Great Primer on Investing Basics and Risks Involved.......2004-08-20

Although I'm a veteran investor, I enjoyed reading this well-written updated third edition by two highly qualified authors. Everyone involved in investing in the stock market, mutual funds or separately managed accounts will glean useful information from this book. Composed of 22 chapters and three appendices, this 300-page paperback covers the key basics of investing.

This no-nonsense easy-to-read text explains the importance of determining your risk tolerance before you invest, understanding the difference between asset allocation and diversification so you don't make foolish mistakes, knowing how to determine your retirement income goals and capabilities, and investing for your children's education.

Many investors do not have a clear idea of the riskiness of the stock market. Perhaps after the the Nasdaq Composite Index fell from 5048 in March 2000 to 1100 in October 2002, investors learned the hard way that risk really matters. That is why one of the key discussion points that the authors hammer home is the comparison of investment risk vs. reward. The authors cover the risk-to-reward spectrum with numerical examples, the meaning of the efficient frontier, beta, and the standard deviation. One chapter provides a blueprint of how to build a diversified portfolio in five easy steps.

Additional chapters cover the basics of investing in active and passive mutual funds, their share classes, stocks, bonds, annuities,separate accounts and company stock options. Also provided is a 17-page glossary of investment terms.

If you have never invested in the stock market or have a minimal knowledge of how to play the game, then I highly recommend that your read this book before you place your hard-earned cash in the market so that the odds are in your favor. You need at least a basic knowledge prior to investing, otherwise your may lost a large portion of your capital without realizing what happened to you, and that would be a shame.

Useful info and easy to read........2004-07-16

An easy read yet full of useful info. The authors explained some concepts I'd heard often but never fully understood. I'm excited about applying the concepts to my personal portfolio and my 401k.

The First Time Investor: How to Start Safe, Invest Smart & Sleep Well

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A Deceptive Title
This book is excellent.
Badly organized.

The First Time Investor: How to Start Safe, Invest Smart & Sleep Well
Larry Chambers
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The First Time Investor will change the way you view your money! This comprehensive and respected guidebook, a bestselling Fortune book club selection in its first edition, has been completely updated to explain rules, strategies, and techniques for investing success in today's turbulent market. Packed with examples, its discussions include: How to take the first steps to get your investment plan in motion; Step-by-step techniques to increase returns while minimizing risk; On-line trading techniques to slash commission costs; An up-to-date listing of important Internet resources; Asset class investing tips and strategies. Master the rules of independent investing, minus sales pressure, bias, and irrelevant media noise, with The First Time Investor.

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A Deceptive Title.......2000-01-14

This book is not appropriate for a first time investor. It never really describes what a stock is, how a bond works, or why interest rates matter. If you have no knowledge of investment, I suggest you find a gentler introduction.

This book is excellent........1999-02-03

I'm no writer, but I've been an investor for 25 years. I have two kids in college. I bought books for both of them. The author makes it clear how to invest without taking needless risks understandable. I know the "On-line Day Traders" are today's hot books, but I've seen traders come and go. I like how the author refers to investment news as investment pornography. It get you all excited but that's about all. I think this is an important book because once this part of your life is handled, you can make different life decisions. Not decisions based on investment catch-up. Today's college kids are watching CNBC and CNN on their breaks. They think that kind of info gives them up to the minute answers. But so much of the news is mis-information. This book will help anyone who is serious about saving and investing. I recommend it.

Badly organized........1999-01-11

Make no mistake: I can see that Chambers is fairly intelligent, and his prose is actually not that bad. But he needs a harsher editor. The book drifts from topic to topic, and the sequence of chapters makes little sense. Especially poor are the discussions of academic theory. Chambers fails to make it clear whom he agrees with, or why. The strategy of "get in, stay in, and ignore the investment noise"--which Chambers is correct to recommend--does not need elaborate citation of investment theory to justify itself. It is becoming common sense, even for "ordinary" investors. (Or maybe I'm too optimistic?) The discussions of diversification contain some insights, but I've read other books that present the same points much more clearly (e.g. anything by Rick Edelman). No, I'm not an experienced investor, but I am a writer, and as a writer and reader I cannot recommend this book.

The First Time Investor - How to Start Safe, Invest Smart and Sleep Well

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Arabian Gulf is a Mirage in the Sands..........2004-12-30

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Always Persian Gulf.......2004-11-28

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arabian gulf does not exist.......2004-11-28

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A fascinating and involving autobiography.......2002-01-14

Pearling In The Arabian Gulf: A Kuwaiti Memoir by Saif Marzooq al-Shamlan is a picturesque, poetic, and thoughtful memoir, aptly translated into English by Peter Clark. Based on documentary and oral evidence and enhanced with a section of black and white historical photographs, Pearling in the Arabian Gulf provides the reader with a crystal-clear vision of the pearling industry from 1900 to the 1930s. Deadly rebellions at sea are chronicled along with the more mundane concerns of an industry and way of life that eventually became supplanted by the development of the Japanese cultured pearl. Highly recommended reading, Pearling In The Arabian Gulf is a fascinating and involving autobiography, an accomplished contribution to Kuwaiti and Gulf of Arabia historical studies, and a must for any non-specialist general reader with an interest in the evolution of the pearling industry.

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Standard text opens with clear, concise chapters on classical statistical mechanics, quantum statistical mechanics, and the relation of statistical mechanics to thermodynamics. Further topics cover fluctuations, the theory of imperfect gases and condensation, distribution functions and the liquid state, nearest neighbor (Ising) lattice statistics, and more.

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Very good text, don't forget 'Stat thermo' when ordering it.......2000-08-05

Very good text if you have the other book by hill on 'stat thermo' or a previous background on the subject, yet another Dover bargain.

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Psmith

amazon service sucks

Psmith, Action Hero!

Psmith at large in New York

Audiobook is a real let-down

Psmith, Journalist
P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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When I gaze at your broad, bulging forehead, when I see the clear light of intelligence in your eyes, and hear the grey matter splashing restlessly about in your cerebellum, I say to myself without hesitation, 'Comrade Windsor must have more scope.'" He looked at Mike, who was turning over the leaves of his copy of Cosy Moments in a sort of dull despair. "Well, Comrade Jackson, and what is your verdict?"

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Psmith.......2007-10-01

Very funny. I love how Wodehouse uses language. If you like that sort of thing and you haven't read Wodehouse before, shame on you. If you do and you've read other Wodehouse books, well, it's like that.

amazon service sucks.......2007-06-25

I ordered this book along with another one(PG Wodehouse's - forgot the name). It was meant to be a gift, so i needed it within 5 days or so, i paid additional shipping charges for it. 3 days later , i get an e-mail saying "item will be shipped when available". What the heck ? I ordered that particular book only because i got an e-mail from amazon recommending the book. I called up the customer service, they seem to have no clue. So I had to cancel my order, purchase ot from another website(way more reliable)

This is the last time i am buying directly from amazon. Even if I use amazon, i am going through a local seller.

Psmith, Action Hero!.......2005-09-28

Readers of Psmith's previous adventures (Mike and Psmith, Psmith in the City) will appreciate Psmith's adventures in darkest New York. Wodehouse limbers up his dese, dems, and doses as he introduces us to "Bat" Jarvis and his gang of lowlifes, with whom Psmith interacts in an amusing manner-- even, at times, becoming strenuous in his defense of justice and his own corpus! Psmith bonking miscreants over the head with a stick? Yes! Psmith disarming pistol-wielding evil-doers? Yes! And along the way, much of the artful and absurdly witty banter that Psmith and Wodehouse specialize in is served up in heaping dollops. Enjoy!

Psmith at large in New York.......2003-10-31

This isn't Wodehouse's funniest novel, but it is definitely the most exciting, with a more dramatic plot than usual. Psmith takes on a crooked slum landlord, hounding him through the pages of 'Cosy moments' a bland family paper that he has transformed with the help of assistant editor Billy Windsor. Psmith is a wonderful character, languid, frivolous and comic on the surface, tough man of action underneath, a modern Pimpernell. there are some wonderful comic characters, especially Bat Jarvis, the tough gangland boss with a passion for cats. I wish Wodehouse had written more about Psmith, he could have been the hero of a whole series of thrillers, with Mike Jackson as his stalwart sidekick. Instead Wodehouse married him off in the next Psmith novel (Leave It To Psmith) and we hear no more of him, what a pity!

Audiobook is a real let-down.......2002-02-25

Maybe I've had an overdose of Wodehouse lately, having read Piccadilly Jim, Biffen's Millions, Plum Pie, and this book practically in a row, but I was simply not entertained by Psmith Journalist at all.

Perhaps it was Jonathan Cecil's reading (and I know that had a lot to do with it). His characterizations are indistinguishable and his attempt at an American accent is laughable (if you have heard any Monty Python, you'll recognize it).

But I think that could have been overlooked (or overlistened?) if the story had grabbed me. It seemed to be about Psmith taking over a New York rag and making it into a scandal sheet, involving a boxer somewhere along the way, but I can't be sure. I just didn't care, and I found nothing funny at all.

There is nothing to offer the casual Wodehouse fan in this novel. However, I will read his work again, as he has so much to offer in other books.

But I really think it's mainly Jonathan Cecil's fault.

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Psmith giornalista (Psmith Journalist)
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PSMITH JOURNALIST
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