You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits

A comprehensive and practical guide to the stock market from a successful fund manager--filled with case studies, important background information, and all the tools you'll need to become a stock market genius.

Fund manager Joel Greenblatt has been beating the Dow (with returns of 50 percent a year) for more than a decade. And now, in this highly accessible guide, he's going to show you how to do it, too. You're about to discover investment opportunities that portfolio managers, business-school professors, and top investment experts regularly miss--uncharted areas where the individual investor has a huge advantage over the Wall Street wizards. Here is your personal treasure map to special situations in which big profits are possible, including:

-Spin-offs
-Restructurings
-Merger Securities
-Rights Offerings
-Recapitalizations
-Bankruptcies
-Risk Arbitrage

Prepared with the tools from this guide, it won't be long until you're a stock market genius

Author: Joel Greenblatt
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: 02/25/1999
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.74w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780684840079

About the Author
Joel Greenblatt is the founder and a managing partner of Gotham Capital, a private investment partnership that has achieved 40% annualized returns since its inception in 1985. He is a professor on the adjunct faculty of Columbia Business School, the former chairman of the board of a Fortune 500 company, the cofounder of ValueInvestorsClub.com, and the author of several books, including You Can Be a Stock Market Genius, The Big Secret for the Small Investor, and Common Sense. Greenblatt holds a BS and an MBA from the Wharton School.