Series: Little Books. Big Profits

The best-selling investing "bible" offers new information, new insights, and new perspectives. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is the classic guide to getting smart about the market. Legendary mutual fund pioneer John C. Bogle reveals his key to getting more out of investing: low-cost index funds. Bogle describes the simplest and most effective investment strategy for building wealth...

A detailed guide to overcoming the most frequently encountered psychological pitfalls of investing Bias, emotion, and overconfidence are just three of the many behavioural traits that can lead investors to lose money or achieve lower returns. Behavioural finance, which recognises that there is a psychological element to all investor decision-making, can help you overcome this obstacle. In The Little Book...

Boost your investment returns by dodging the most common investing mistakes. In the newly updated second edition of The Little Book of Market Myths: How to Profit by Avoiding the Mistakes Everyone Else Makes, celebrated investor and Fisher Investments' founder, Executive Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer Ken Fisher insightfully explores many common myths costing investors dearly. Fisher provides a comprehensive...

How well does it pay to own the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index’s best-performing stock of the year? Over the 2012-2021 period, the one-year total return ranged from 80% to 743%. This book identifies the quantitative and qualitative traits of stocks that made it to #1 and tells the stories of how they got there. A key indicator, the Fridson-Lee...

Guide to making accurate business valuations based on investing metrics that matter In The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock, and Profit, professor and economist Aswath Damodaran guides readers through the fundamentals and step-by-step process of picking winning companies to invest in. In the book, you'll learn how to make your own accurate valuation...

Investing do's and don'ts from some of the most recognisable voices in personal finance. It's been a tough year for investors. Many have seen their retirement accounts dwindle dramatically and are looking for a safe way to protect what they have and make back some of what they've lost. That's why the bestselling author team of Ben Stein and Phil...

As you have probably noticed, there are quite a few investing books out there. Many of them were written by some of the world's greatest investors. So, why should you read our book? Stock investing is more prevalent than ever, whether directly or indirectly through brokerage accounts, exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, or retirement plans. Despite this, the vast majority of...

"It's hard to talk clearly about investing and make sense to ordinary readers at the same time. Katsenelson gives a lucid explanation of today's markets with sound advice about how to make money while avoiding the traps that the market sets for exuberant bulls and frightened bears alike."—Thomas G. Donlan, Barron's "A thoroughly enjoyable read. Provides a clear framework for...

Master profitable option trading with the techniques of the pros. In The Little Book of Trading Options Like the Pros: Learn How to Become the House, a team of veteran options and derivatives traders delivers an expert account of how to master the zero-sum game of options trading. In the book, you'll learn how to 'become the house,' consistently making...

At last, a mindful book about money that anyone can appreciate and understand. The Little Book of Zen Money: A Simple Path to Financial Peace of Mind delivers easy-to-follow steps for combining sensible saving strategies with mindfulness practices to achieve financial peace of mind. Finally, you can learn how to fix your finances without feeling stressed out! In this book,...

A concise and masterful discussion of a proven investing strategy There are many ways to make money in today’s market, but the one strategy that has truly proven itself over the years is value investing. Now, with The Little Book of Value Investing, Christopher Browne shows you how to use this wealth-building strategy to successfully buy bargain stocks around the...

In 2005, Joel Greenblatt published a book that is already considered one of the classics of finance literature. In The Little Book that Beats the Market—a New York Times bestseller with 300,000 copies in print—Greenblatt explained how investors can outperform the popular market averages by simply and systematically applying a formula that seeks out good businesses when they are available...

In The Little Book That Builds Wealth, author Pat Dorsey—the Director of Equity Research for leading independent investment research provider Morningstar, Inc.—reveals why competitive advantages, or economic moats, are such strong indicators of great long-term investments. He examines four of their most common sources: intangible assets, cost advantages, customer-switching costs, and network economics. Along the way, he skillfully outlines this...

Jeffrey Hirsch discusses how to capture market-beating returns by following specific stock market cycles While predicting the direction of the stock market at any given point is difficult, it's a fact that the market exhibits well-defined and sometimes predictable patterns. While cycles do not repeat exactly all of the time, statistical evidence suggests that cyclical tendencies are very strong and...

An accessible, thoroughly engaging look at how the economy really works and its role in your everyday life. Not surprisingly, regular people suddenly are paying a lot closer attention to the economy than ever before. But economics, with its weird technical jargon and knotty concepts and formulas, can be a very difficult subject to get to grips with on your...

"This gem of a book should be required reading for everyone seeking to enhance their financial security."–Burton G. Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street (50th anniversary edition, 2023) Explore easy, automated, and low-cost ways to invest using online platforms In The Little Book of Robo Investing: How to Make Money While You Sleep, a pair of long-time...

An accessible guide to trading the fast-moving foreign exchange market The foreign exchange market, or forex, was once dominated by global banks, hedge funds, and multinational corporations, but that has all changed with Internet technology and the advent of online forex brokers. Now, hundreds of thousands of traders and investors around the world can participate in this profitable field. Written...

An accessible look at the art of investing and how to adopt the practices of top professionals What differentiates the highly successful market practitioners—the Market Wizards—from ordinary traders? What traits do they share? What lessons can the average trader learn from those who achieved superior returns for decades while still maintaining strict risk control? Jack Schwager has spent the past...

Explore the strategies of impact investing that deliver financial gains and positive results for people and the planet In The Little Book of Impact Investing: Aligning Profit and Purpose to Change the World, veteran investor and author Priya Parrish delivers a timely, inspiring, and practical exploration of an investing discipline that is rapidly taking center stage in contemporary finance. In...

One of today's most influential financial commentators offers his advice on keeping your money safe in an uncertain world. The Little Book of Safe Money acts as a guide for those trying to make their way through today's down markets. The topics covered include everything from investing behaviour—why our minds come with their own set of biases that often prove...