What Works on Wall Street: A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time. This item is unavailable.What Works on Wall Street: A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time

Now, for the first time, investors can cut through the hype and see for themselves what works and what doesn't on Wall Street. James O'Shaughnessy, author of the highly-acclaimed Invest Like the Best, analyzes 30 years worth of CompuStat stock market data to show how the 15 most popular investment strategies have actually performed over time. With What Works on Wall Street, investors of all stripes-from the most conservative to the most aggressive-will finally have the facts to pick the best strategies for meeting their investment objectives.

Investors -- be they aggressive or conservative, self-directed or professionally managed -- are always on the lookout for an edge. And in James O'Shaughnessy's What Works on Wall Street: A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time, they'll find a solid one: authoritative analysis of popular practices from the past. The author examines three decades of stock market data to show how 15 of the most common investment tactics have fared over time.