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The Only Three Questions That Still Count


The Only Three Questions That Still Count

Investing By Knowing What Others Don't
2. Aufl.

von: Kenneth L. Fisher, Jennifer Chou, Lara W. Hoffmans

19,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 14.03.2012
ISBN/EAN: 9781118224212
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 368

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<b>Ken Fisher explains what the competition doesn't know</b> <p>From investment expert and long-time <i>Forbes</i> columnist Ken Fisher comes the <i>Second Edition</i> of <i>The Only Three Questions That Count</i>. Most investors know the only way to consistently beat the markets is by knowing things others don't. But how can investors consistently find unique information in an increasingly interconnected world?</p> <p>In this book, Ken Fisher shows investors how they can find more usable information and improve their investing success rate—by answering just three questions.</p> <p>Packed with more than 100 visuals and practical advice, <i>The Only Three Questions That Count</i> is an entertaining and educational guide to the markets. But it also provides a useable framework investors can use now and for the rest of their investing careers.</p> <ul> <li>CNBC's <i>Mad Money</i> host and money manager James J. Cramer says the book "may be the single best thing you could do this year to make yourself a better investor"</li> <li>Steve Forbes says, "Investors will find this brilliant book an eye-opening, capital-gains producing experience"</li> </ul> <p>The key to improving investing results is daring to challenge yourself and whatever you believe to be true, and Ken Fisher explains how in his own inimitable style.</p>
<p>Preface ix</p> <p>Acknowledgments xix</p> <p><b>1 Question One: What Do You Believe That Is Actually False? 1</b></p> <p>If You Knew It Was Wrong, You Wouldn’t Believe It 1</p> <p>The Mythological Correlation 8</p> <p>Always Look at It Differently 15</p> <p>When You Are Really, Really Wrong 21</p> <p><b>2 Question Two: What Can You Fathom That Others Find Unfathomable? 31</b></p> <p>Fathoming the Unfathomable 31</p> <p>Ignore the Rock in the Bushes 32</p> <p>Discounting the Media Machine and Advanced Fad Avoidance 33</p> <p>The Shocking Truth About Yield Curves 38</p> <p>What the Yield Curve Is Trying to Tell You 49</p> <p>The Presidential Term Cycle 57</p> <p><b>3 Question Three: What the Heck Is My </b><b>Brain Doing to Blindside Me Now? 67</b></p> <p>It’s Not Your Fault—Blame Evolution 67</p> <p>Cracking the Stone Age Code—Pride and Regret 72</p> <p>The Great Humiliator’s Favorite Tricks 85</p> <p>Get Your Head Out of the Cave 87</p> <p><b>4 Capital Markets Technology 95</b></p> <p>Building and Putting Capital Markets Technology Into Practice 95</p> <p>It’s Good While It Lasts 100</p> <p>Forecast With Accuracy, Not Like a Professional 105</p> <p>Better Living Through Global Benchmarking 113</p> <p><b>5 When There’s No There, There! 131</b></p> <p>Johns Hopkins, My Grampa, Life Lessons and Pulling a Gertrude 131</p> <p>In the Center Ring—Oil Versus Stocks 136</p> <p>Sell in May Because the January Effect Will Dampen Your Santa Claus Rally Unless There Is a Witching Effect 148</p> <p><b>6 No, It’s Just The Opposite 155</b></p> <p>When You Are Wrong—Really, Really, Really Wrong 155</p> <p>Multiplier Effects and the Heroin-Addicted iPod Borrower 163</p> <p>Let’s Trade This Defi cit for That One 170</p> <p>The New Gold Standard 175</p> <p><b>7 Shocking But True 185</b></p> <p>Supply and Demand . . . and That’s It 185</p> <p>Weak Dollar, Strong Dollar—What Does It Matter? 200</p> <p><b>8 The Great Humiliator and Your Stone Age</b> <b>Brain 213</b></p> <p>That Predictable Market 213</p> <p>Anatomy of a Bubble 221</p> <p>Some Basic Bear Rules 229</p> <p>What Causes a Bear Market? 244</p> <p><b>9 Putting It All Together 251</b></p> <p>Stick With Your Strategy and Stick It to Him 251</p> <p>Four Rules That Count 257</p> <p>Finally! How to Pick Stocks That Only Win 274</p> <p>When the Heck Do You Sell? 281</p> <p>Conclusion: Time to Say Goodbye 289</p> <p>Transformationalism 290</p> <p>Appendix A: Causal Correlations and the Correlation Coefficient 295</p> <p>Appendix B: News You Can’t Use 299</p> <p>Appendix C: Greater Fools 301</p> <p>Appendix D: I Hate Funds 303</p> <p>Appendix E: Annualized Versus Average 307</p> <p>Appendix F: The Wizard of Oz and an OZ of Gold 309</p> <p>Appendix G: 1980 Revisited 313</p> <p>Appendix H: Popular But Problematic 317</p> <p>Appendix I: Covered Calls—Covering What? 321</p> <p>Notes 323</p> <p>About the Authors 329</p> <p>Index 331</p>
<b>Ken Fisher</b> is best known for his prestigious "Portfolio Strategy" column in Forbes magazine, where his over 27-year tenure of high-profile calls makes him the fourth longest-running columnist in <i>Forbes</i>'s 90-plus year history. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Fisher Investments, an independent money management firm managing tens of billions for individuals and institutions globally. Fisher is ranked #263 on the 2011 Forbes 400 list of richest Americans and #736 on the 2011 Forbes Global Billionaire list. In 2010, Investment Advisor magazine named him among the 30 most influential individuals of the last three decades. Fisher has authored numerous professional and scholarly articles, including the award-winning "Cognitive Biases in Market Forecasting." He has also published eight previous books, including bestsellers <i>The Only Three Questions That Count</i>, <i>The Ten Roads to Riches</i>, <i>How to Smell a Rat</i>, <i>Debunkery and Markets Never Forget (But People Do)</i>, all published by Wiley. Fisher has been published, interviewed and/or written about in many major American, British and German finance or business periodicals. He has a weekly column in <i>Focus Money</i>, Germany's leading weekly finance and business magazine. <p><b>Lara Hoffmans</b> is a content manager at Fisher Investments, managing editor of MarketMinder.com, a regular contributor to Forbes.com and coauthor of the bestsellers <i>The Only Three Questions That Count</i>, <i>The Ten Roads to Riches</i>, <i>How to Smell a Rat</i>, <i>Debunkery and Markets Never Forget (But People Do)</i>.</p> <p><b>Jennifer Chou</b> graduated from the University of California with a BS in finance. She was a research analyst of global capital markets and macroeconomics at Fisher Investments.</p>
<b>Learn the three simple questions that can help improve your investing success</b> <p>Most investors understand that the best way to improve investing success is by knowing things others don't. But how can you consistently find new and unique information in an increasingly interconnected world? In <i>The Only Three Questions That Still Count</i>, the revised and updated new edition of Ken Fisher's investment bestseller, he teaches you a methodology you can use right away to find unique information—and the basis for a market bet. Fisher's methodology is simple—a set of three questions you can use to avoid common errors, find information others miss and gain control of your brain. Filled with images, anecdotes and practical advice to help you every step of the way, <i>The Only Three Questions That Still Count</i> is essential investment reading from a true expert and the ultimate guide to gaining the edge to leave your competition in the dust.</p>

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