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The Washington Post praised this as a "how-to classic" and I would agree with them. It's well-organized and filled with top-quality professional advice. It's also very 'readable' - which sets it apart from so many public speaking texts.

I found this book saved me a lot of time and worry, both in preparing formal speeches and informal presentations. Most important, it will make you a much better, and more confident, speaker.

If you don't know the difference between a Savings GIC or CD and a balanced fund then this book is definitely not for you. Written to an audience of more savvy investors, DIY is designed to help experienced investors make the transition from a professionally managed portfolio to a self managed, successful investment future. DIY- Do it Yourself or Direct Invest Yourself is not for the faint of heart.

Knowledge breeds power and this book will help empower the DIY investor; filled with strategies designed to help the reader develop creative investment principles in a disciplined, intelligent manner. The book is written in three parts: Background, Trend Regression Portfolio Strategy and Portfolio Management Issues. Topics covered include: Market Timing, Stock Picking, Trading History and Risk and Reward, just to name a few. Investors are shown how to access and use MS Excel portfolio tracking spreadsheets to produce a comprehensive portfolio workbook. Sample graphs, models and illustrations are explained in detail. Many references and quotes from Robert F. Drach's, High return Low Risk Investment as well as the Drach weekly newsletter are included throughout the book.

Author, Lyle Wilkinson is Canadian earning his BBA and MBA in Hawaii where he now lives. In 1999, he began researching a disciplined, mechanical system's approach to the stock market. The result of that research is DIY-Portfolio Management.

Considering taking your portfolio into your own hands? This book is an excellent learning tool and a practical, comprehensive guide for remodeling your financial future.
Reviewer: Shirley Roe, Allbooks Reviews

It should be no surprise to anyone these days that over time money funds tend to track the stock indexes. Some do better, some worse, but over time they tend to track the average. So, how do you do better than average? How do you beat the indexes? Lyle Wilkinson proposes that the answer is really fairly simple. If the stocks tend to track toward a mean then trends can be examined to see where a stock is located on its mean. This fancy term for this is trend regression analysis. In his book "DIY Portfolio Management" Mr. Wilkinson provides a great explanation of trend regression analysis - what it is, what it is not, why it makes sense, and how to do it. For those who like statistics he builds the complete formulas and rationale, for those who don't he points out that many services provide trend analysis on their sites. You don't have to calculate the trend regression but you do need to understand what it is and how it works if you want to use it. This book shows how to use the information to pick a stock that is likely to rise or fall. However, this is not the only analysis in the book. He includes information on TRiPS, market timing, risk analysis, cycles, and even an action plan. "DIY Portfolio Management" takes a very technical subject and makes it available to the layman. Lyle Wilkinson's excellent and thorough job of explaining trend regression analysis and its use in the stock market is the primary reason "DIY Portfolio Management" is a highly recommended read for the technical investor looking to take control of his investments.

The definitive compendium of the world's leading hedge funds THE GFA YEARBOOK contains over 56 reports with detailed bios on the leading managers Visit the website

I bought this book hoping to learn some real insights. What I learned is that this author doesn't understand the business.

This book is full of great and timely investment advice from some leading investment managers. I also really enjoyed how the author took the best advice and put it all together to form specific strategies every investor can use to manage a profitable portfolio. It will be an insightful read for investors of all experience levels.

In Wizards Of Wall Street: Market-Beating Insights And Strategies From The World's Top-Performing Mutual Fund Managers, investment expert and stock and mutual fund analysis Kirk Kazanjian draws upon his many years of professional experience, expertise, and market contacts to present a series of engaging and informative interviews with eighteen successful mutual fund managers to reveal their insightful and sometimes surprising secrets for building wealth in a volatile and global market. Kazanjian distills the techniques, strategies, and market considerations drawn from these experts into a special section called "10 Keys to Beating the Market". If you only have time to read one book on portfolio management and investment strategy, make it Kirk Kazanjian's Wizards Of Wall Street!

the title was intriguing, but it was downhill from there. the book had little to do with the title, which always makes me question the motives of the author. is there some message they are aching to express, or are they looking to simply enrich themselves?

1) The authors claim that their "financial survival is dependent upon successfully trading the markets" yet you should not assume that they traded any of the examples set forth in the book.

2) The "secrets" revealed consume less than 20 pages with the remaining circa 180 pages being filled with charts and related examples (at least half of the book), performance summaries and trading signals (over 50 pages), and other various and sundried fluff. Thus, the book seems to be exploiting the herd mentality of those who buy books on the financial markets rather than the markets themselves.

3) What type of "secrets" are revealed here? "Investment Secrets", of course! "Investments" like futures contracts and index options. Who is revealing these "secrets"? A "Hedge Fund Manager", of course! Hey, why not? It could very well be that the revelation of hedge fund manager type secrets will produce higher profits (with much less risk) than actually trading the secrets.

4) I have a relatively high I.Q. yet I actually bought this book........Mooooooooooooooooooooooo

In my daily work as a Stock Broker in Sweden I encounter questions about good trading books all the time. Customers feel that most trading books are quite expensive, and a good way to avoid overpriced, worthless items is by asking an experienced professional. While I truly do not feel that the mystery of the markets can be revealed in a book, I can honestly say that this book is well worth its price.

Above all, it gives the open-minded reader insights in highly effective approaches, concepts of trading which I have used successfully for many years. In fact, strikingly similar methods to the methods in this book have been "discovered" and used by investors, brokers, and traders that I know, even before this book was published. In my mind, this is another good indication that many of the patterns presented are valid in real-life trading.

While I do not use the patterns in this book in the exact same manner as they are presented, the concepts and the insights are the same. Time spent studying these concepts will be time well spent. I consider Investment Secrets of a Hedge Fund Manager to be among the best trading books I've read. It contains no hype, just precise and sound swing trading techniques. I recommend it highly to all market participants, novices and professionals alike.

Some of the other books that I consider to be among the best are:

Market Wizards 1 & 2, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Trading Systems and Methods, How to Make Money in Stocks, Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets, Street Smarts, Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, Secrets of Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets, Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, Trading by the Book, Exceptional Trading.

Of the hundreds of trading books I have in my personal library and the thousands which I have access to in my professional life, Investment Secrets of a Hedge Fund Manager remains a personal favourite.

I still rank it as one of the most informative books on trading I have had the pleasure to peruse...