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

5 Comments to “SENSIBLE STOCK INVESTING: How to Pick, Value, and Manage Stocks”

1. SNOOKIE says:

   March 3, 2010 at 10:36

   This book covers adequately the task of uncovering underpriced and overpriced stocks. Unfortunately the market has pretty well already made the analysis and current market prices reflect the collective judgement of those involved.

   Piscaqua Research in a study covering the period 1987-96 found that only 10 out of 145 major pension funds, or just seven percent, out performed a portfolio consisting of a simple 60%/40% mix of the S&P 500 index and the Lehman Bond index respectively.

   Or is it logical I ask for you to believe that you can predict which actively managed funds will out perform, or are you overconfident of your skills? If you are trying to find the great fund managers who will out perform in the future ask yourself: what am I going to do differently in terms of identifying the future winning fund managers, than did the pension plans and their advisors? And if you are not going to something different what logic is there in playing a game at which others with superior resources have consistently failed?

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   Rating: 3 / 5
2. P. Reese says:

   March 3, 2010 at 12:21

   This book provides a cook book approach to evaluating stocks. The concept is good and the approach to applying the concept also good. The main problem with the book is that I do not believe it was edited. There are several glaring errors in the text and it is not very well written either. That being said, it still is worth buying for the concepts that the books presents. What the book really needed was a really good editor to tune it up.
   Rating: 4 / 5
3. Zachary Hughes says:

   March 3, 2010 at 12:52

   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.
   Rating: 5 / 5
4. Christopher R. Santini says:

   March 3, 2010 at 15:00

   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.
   Rating: 5 / 5
5. William H says:

   March 3, 2010 at 15:16

   Out of all the investment books I own, “Sensible Stock Investing” is the only book that has finally brought together an understanding of how, what, why, and when a stock should be considered for purchase. Not just a “stock screen evaluation”, like so many books are, but an explanation of how various criteria is brought together and used to give an unbiased and “sensible” direction before making a commitment. This book has allowed me to feel confident, organized, and safer while having an intelligent control of what I analyze and compare. After scrambling in various directions through reading numerous books and newsletters, “Sensible Stock Investing” has provided me with all the tools necessary to establish an orderly and educated direction of investment choices based on knowledgeable, well-built groundwork. It is both exciting and liberating to finally learn how to approach investing based on my own calculated and informative decisions.

   Mr. Van Knapp has written a book that allows a person to navigate technical information in a step by step process using an “Easy Rate System”. It will allow you to compare a stock against its own strengths and weaknesses, and score it accordingly. The straight forward explanations of the figures used will give the reader an effortless understanding of these fundamentals. Knowing what information to look for and how to utilize it becomes a simple but thorough process.

   “Sensible Stock Investing” also includes added information on different stock groupings and their level of volatility, how to evaluate the current condition or trend of the Market, managing your stocks and much more. Through this book, Mr. Van Knapp has succeeded in making the market place an enjoyable and less exasperating environment for everyone. A well earned five stars!
   
   Rating: 5 / 5