A market beating method for finding success in trading stocks Value is a concept that frequently eludes investors -- especially when it comes to stocks. In many cases, successfully identifying value can make the difference between picking a winner and getting burned. The Value Connection offers a systematic and doable method investors can use to take advantage of value in the stock market. Based on author Marc Gerstein's "Value Connection" method, this book will show investors how to find potentially attractive value connections, analyze specific situations to see if the value connection is sound, buy the best value connected opportunities, and sell stocks for which the value connection has weakened. The proven four-step method outlined -- which allows investors to understand the relationship between a company and its stock -- will help any investor screen the stock market for the best values out there. Real world examples make understanding this revolutionary investing method easy. Marc H. Gerstein (New York, NY) is the Director of Investment Research at Multex. Prior to that, he was in the research and editorial department at Value Line. Over the course of two decades he analyzed stocks across a wide variety of industries and sectors, including household products, specialty retail, restaurants, mining, energy, hotel/gaming, homebuilding, airlines, railroads, and media. Gerstein appears periodically on CNNfn, Bloomberg TV, and is often quoted in USA Today, CBS MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, and Money Online. He is also the author of Screening the Market (0-471-21559-7).
Capitalism-proponent and selfishness-exalting Ayn Rand is a perplexing, controversial figure who is revered by many and reviled by many others, with both camps being able to muster strong arguments in favor of their respective positions. Marc Gerstein, an investment analyst and financial writer who first got hooked on The Fountainhead back in the 1960s but has often been repulsed by what he has seen and heard from the Ayn Rand "community," offers a new approach to Objectivism, the individualism-exalting philosophy Rand offered to apply her ideas to the real world. Gerstein builds upon that which is most inspirational about Rand (mainly her novels) while replacing the radical Right dogma advocated by Rand and her followers with a centrist, practical perspective. When once challenged to explain her ideas while standing on one foot, Rand boiled Objectivism down to four key pillars: Metaphysics (facts are facts regardless of our feelings, hopes or wishes); Epistemology (reason is man's only guide to action); Ethics (man's pursuit of rational self-interest is highest moral purpose); and Politics (laissez-faire capitalism). Many critics, repelled by the self-absorbed and often mean-spirited application of Rand's ideas, dismiss her outright. Gerstein's does not do that. He fully recognizes that which is troublesome in Rand's output but sees much that is valuable. Using the latter as inspiration, he offers his upgrade, Objectivism 2.0, based on the following four pillars: Process (rational assessment and analysis of objective reality giving proper effect not just to abstract logic but also to that which we can observe); Ethics (man pursuing his rational self interest in the context of civilized society); Politics (democracy more particularly, the things democratically-established governments do to facilitate the pursuit of rational self-interest by all, not just a narrow powerful elite); and Economics (not merely capitalism or even laissez-faire capitalism, but successful capitalism, something Rand, who passed away in early 1982 just before the onset of capitalism's greatest period, didn't really appreciate). This is not by any means the first critique of Ayn Rand ever offered. But it is unusual in that it is a critique, a detailed one at that, offered by a fan who seeks to bury the fanatic dogma, much of which she courted and espoused, and articulate an improved version of Objectivism that is based only of the best Rand had to offer.
A market beating method for finding success in trading stocks Value is a concept that frequently eludes investors -- especially when it comes to stocks. In many cases, successfully identifying value can make the difference between picking a winner and getting burned. The Value Connection offers a systematic and doable method investors can use to take advantage of value in the stock market. Based on author Marc Gerstein's "Value Connection" method, this book will show investors how to find potentially attractive value connections, analyze specific situations to see if the value connection is sound, buy the best value connected opportunities, and sell stocks for which the value connection has weakened. The proven four-step method outlined -- which allows investors to understand the relationship between a company and its stock -- will help any investor screen the stock market for the best values out there. Real world examples make understanding this revolutionary investing method easy. Marc H. Gerstein (New York, NY) is the Director of Investment Research at Multex. Prior to that, he was in the research and editorial department at Value Line. Over the course of two decades he analyzed stocks across a wide variety of industries and sectors, including household products, specialty retail, restaurants, mining, energy, hotel/gaming, homebuilding, airlines, railroads, and media. Gerstein appears periodically on CNNfn, Bloomberg TV, and is often quoted in USA Today, CBS MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, and Money Online. He is also the author of Screening the Market (0-471-21559-7).
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