Beating the Market, 3 Months at a Time: A Proven Investing Plan Everyone Can Use
by Gerald Appel, Marvin Appel
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Author: Gerald Appel, Marvin AppelEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-27
ISBN: 0136130895
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: FT Press
Accessories:
- Invest Like a Shark: How a Deaf Guy with No Job and Limited Capital Made a Fortune Investing in the Stock Market
- Full of Bull: Do What Wall Street Does, Not What It Says, To Make Money in the Market
- Wealth: Grow It, Protect It, Spend It, and Share It (Paperback) (Wharton School Publishing Paperbacks)
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Book Review: Interesting strategy, but a disappointing book
Summary: 2 Stars
This book suffers from two problems. First, it seems like a slimmed-down version of author Gerald Appel's "Opportunity Investing," which also discussed the use of a momentum-rotation strategy to improve absolute returns and reduce portfolio drawdown. The big difference here is that the Appels emphasize the use of ETFs for implementing their strategy.
Second, there is a lot of basic material whose purpose is to persuade the reader that they need to invest in equity markets. You see this too often in books on investing, where the authors assume that the reader need first be persuaded to invest and then to invest according to the author's strategy. I would wager that most people who pick up books on investing need no such convincing: it's preaching to the choir.
That said, the momentum-rotation strategy is an interesting concept, elegant and, in its ETF incarnation, easy to use. It is worth bearing in mind, though, that trading in and out of ETFs as might be necessary under this strategy would incur a significant tax and cost liability that the strategy would have to hurdle if it was to outperform as simple buy-and-hold plan. Alas, transaction costs and taxes do not factor into the Appels' analysis.
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