The Battle For Stock Market Profits

A classic book by a Wall Street legend. Advocates sophisticated investment practices and trading strategies that have been time-tested and refined by the author. Guides the investor in making good decisions in a constantly mobile market.

WHY DO SOME PEOPLE ALMOST ALWAYS MAKE MONEY IN THE STOCK MARKET WHILE OTHERS LOSE? WHAT IS THE SECRET TO PRESERVING AND MULTIPLYING YOUR SAVINGS? The turf is Wall Street, the goal is to preserve your capital at all costs, and to win is to “make a killing without being killed.” This memorable classic, The Battle for Investment Survival, offers a fresh perspective on investing from years past. Investors are treated to a straightforward account of how to profit and how to avoid loss in what could be described as the constant tug-of-war between rising and falling markets. Gerald Loeb, one of the most astute brokers on Wall Street, believed that most people will benefit by what they save rather than by what they make. After reading this book you will know: More about the hazards of preserving capital What your investment objectives are and how to go about reaching them That investors are successful depending on their abilities, the stakes they possess, the time they give to it, the risks they are willing to take, and the market climate in which they operate Ideas, guides, formulas and principles that can than improve results regardless of what an investor might do GERALD M. LOEB was a founding partner of E.F. Hutton & Co., a renowned Wall Street trader and brokerage firm. His market interpretations were featured prominently in newspapers, magazines, radio and television.

A reader of one of my earlier discussions asked-"Have you ever tried out the ideas outlined in your book?" My reply was to the effect that the ideas were tried out first, and the book written afterward. Any earner who earns more than he can spend is automatically an investor. It doesn't matter in the slightest whether he wants to be or not, or even whether he realizes that he is investing. Storing present purchasing power for use in the future is investing, no matter in what form it's put away. Some popular and common forms include money itself, government bonds, savings bank deposits, real estate, commodities, securities of all types, diamonds and where and when it's legal, gold.

In this remarkable stock market study, one of Wall Street’s best known market analysts reveals a new technical tool he developed for gauging the pulse of the trading cycle. Called the On Balance Volume Theory, this tool tends to fill in some of the conspicuous voids in the famous Dow Theory—especially the lack of discussion and use of stock volume figures. As straightforward as a set of bridge rules, on-balance volume (OBV) denotes each buy and sell signal so that a trader can follow them without his own emotions tending to lead him astray—emotions causing most of the market misjudgements that take place. The Granville OBV method is essentially scientific, has a high degree of accuracy and has many automatic features. The reader of this book will be introduced to a method whereby he may benefit by the earlier movements of volume over price—the “early warning” radar of volume buy and sell signals.

The term "insider" may be logically applied to those successful operators who do make the market their business. But anyone who takes enough time to study the market and align his operations with successful trends may just as logically remove himself from the "public" class of lambs and enter this indefinite but successful class of "insiders." "If it were not so" this book, and many others, would not have been written.-from "How to Join the Successful Group"Richard Schabacker is considered the grandfather of technical analysis, and his theories and acumen are a continuing influence on investment philosophy today. This classic in the field and still of tremendous value to long-term, short-term, and beginning investors alike, covers, in clear, non-technical language, all the basics of making sure your money serves you well in the market: .the proper attitude-and the wrong approach-to investing.how to take advantage of cycles of business and securities.when to buy and sell.fundamental and technical factors to watch.the proper use of stock charts.market psychology and why it matters.how to diversify risk.whose advice to follow-and whose you should ignore.and much more.American author RICHARD WALLACE SCHABACKER (1899-1935) was financial editor of Forbes magazine. He also wrote Stock Market Theory and Practice (1930) and Technical Analysis (1932).

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