Bulls Bears & Brains - Softcover

Leitzes, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471442941 ISBN 13: 9780471442943

Publisher: John Wiley &Sons, 2002

Synopsis

Take an interactive journey that will introduce you to some of the world's most talented and successful investors. Bulls, Bears and Brains: Investing with the Best and Brightest of the Financial Internet interviews twenty successful investors-an assortment of fund managers, economists, professors, executives, statisticians, strategists, traders and technicians who put their money and prowess on the line in the pages of this text. These top financial minds have made themselves available to the investing public via the Internet, and are willing to share their strategies, successes, failures, and philosophies in open online forums. This unique book will help you connect and make money with them, giving you twenty powerful allies in the complicated game of investing.

The book includes candid interviews with company founders and expert advisors, such as:
* Don Luskin: The Luskin Report. Ex-CEO of Barclays Global Mutual Funds
* Ed Yardeni: Yardeni.com. Chief Investment Strategist at Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown
* Kris Skrinak: ClearStation. Co-founder of E*TRADE's community investment site
* Jeremy Siegel: JeremySiegel.com. Wharton professor of finance and bestselling author
* Brandon Goyette: ActiveTrader. Hedge fund manager and ex-Wall Street analyst
* Aaron Brown: eRaider. Yeshiva University professor of finance and prominent shareholder activist
* David Gardner: Fool.com. Bestselling investment author and co-founder of The Motley Fool
* Bill Ginsberg: Shortboy.com. Columbia Business School dropout and "the baddest short-seller on the planet"

This book will help you interpret these individuals' theories in light of your personal investment needs and develop your own investment strategy with a top-notch team that never leaves your side. Don't rely on market pundits and analysts to shape your investing strategies. Instead, make use of the global research team that the Internet places at your fingertips to identify profitable opportunities long before the rest of the world takes notice. Bulls, Bears and Brains will guide you to the virtual doorstep of the most valuable information available on the Internet and provide you with the background and theories to interpret this information in the correct context once you arrive.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"In December 1999, a Minnesota man paid $210,000 at auction for Warren Buffett's twenty-year-old wallet. True, it was a wallet with a fairly storied past, having traveled on the backside of a billionaire, but that was not the bidder's motivation for doling out all that cash. Inside the wallet was a golden egg: a stock pick from none other than the Oracle of Omaha himself. Each of thirty additional individuals donated $1,000 to charity at the behest of the auction winner in order to learn the two-letter ticker symbol of the stock pick, which happened to be real estate investment trust (REIT) First Industrial Realty. On top of all that, after The Wall Street Journal published the stock pick in a printed article, the Morgan Stanley REIT Index registered its largest gain in over a year."

This excerpt from Bulls, Bears, and Brains: Investing with the Best and Brightest of the Financial Internet depicts the value of an information edge on Wall Street. For a price of $210,000, one individual was able to enter the world of Warren Buffett temporarily-literally jump into his back pocket-and walk away with a profitable investment opportunity. Remarkably, this ability to tap into the minds of market gurus and join their investing teams has never been easier, thanks to the Internet.

Bulls, Bears, and Brains interviews twenty successful investors-an assortment of fund managers, economists, professors, executives, statisticians, strategists, traders, and technicians who put their money and prowess on the line in the pages of this text. These top financial minds have made themselves available to the investing public via the Internet and are willing to share their strategies, successes, failures, and philosophies in open online forums. This unique book will help you connect and make money with them, giving you twenty powerful allies in the complicated game of investing.

Obtaining an information edge is the key to beating the market. Don't rely on market pundits and analysts to shape your investing strategies. Instead, make use of the global research team that the Internet places at your fingertips to identify profitable opportunities long before the rest of the world takes notice.

The book includes candid interviews with company founders and expert advisors, such as:
* Ed Yardeni: Yardeni.com. Chief investment strategist at Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown
* Brandon Goyette: Financial Chat. Hedge fund manager and ex-Wall Street analyst
* Oliver Velez: Pristine.com. One of the pioneers and top CEOs of the day trading industry
* Jeremy Siegel: JeremySiegel.com. Wharton professor of finance and bestselling author
* Bill Ginsberg: Shortboy.com. Columbia Business School dropout and "the baddest short-seller on the planet"

This book will help you interpret these indivi-duals' theories in light of your personal investment needs and develop your own investment strategy with a top-notch team that never leaves your side.

Bulls, Bears, and Brains is a unique guide to investing with the Internet that shows you how to leverage the talents of numerous investment experts to enhance your own level of performance.

From the Back Cover:

Praise for Bulls, Bears, & Brains

"Online investing is more than cheap stock trades and real-time quotes. As Bulls, Bears, and Brains uncovers, it's about connecting with the Web's knowledge network of expert analysts and savvy individual investors alike. This book is your road map to getting the most out of that community."
-Bill Martin, Founder, RagingBull.com

"Adam Leitzes and Josh Solan deliver a series of insightful and entertaining profiles of the personalities behind many of today's financial Web sites. The 'best and the brightest' range from technical day traders to renowned institutional economists; the common link is the ready availability of their insights on the Web. Like a well-thumbed travel guide, this book should help investors discover the more interesting, and perhaps less traveled, sites that match their investment objectives."
-Stephen J. O'Leary, Managing Director, Broadview International LLC

"A most enjoyable and easy-to-read insight into the crossroads of the Internet and investment business. . . . A must read for all generations of investors who hope to be successful in the new information world."
-David F. Bellet, Chairman, Crown Advisors International

"Leitzes and Solan offer extraordinary insights into how to leverage technology to enhance investment returns. Bulls, Bears, and Brains taps the vast wealth of experience and strategies that seasoned investors have developed using the power of the Internet. There is no better strategy than becoming an educated investor, and Bulls, Bears, and Brains is a big step in that direction."
-Dr. William F. Hamilton, The Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology, University of Pennsylvania

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley &Sons
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0471442941
• ISBN 13: 9780471442943
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336