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The Sceptical Investor: How Contrarians Bet Against the Market and Win - and You Can Too
- Narrated by: Thomas Cassidy
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Money & Finance, Investing & Trading
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Summary
Everyone wants to be a contrarian investor. From the hedge funds who bet against the US housing market in the run up to 2008, to George Soros's billion-dollar bet against the Bank of England in 1992, some of the most famous and most profitable trades in history have been contrarian calls. And with the relentless growth of passive investing - investors blindly following the market - the opportunities for a smart investor to profit by betting against the crowd should be greater than ever. Yet being a contrarian is hard work. It takes patience, the conviction to stand by an unpopular viewpoint, and the mental toughness to endure being "wrong" for prolonged periods of time.
Standing out from the crowd goes against our every natural instinct. Which is, of course, why it works. So how do you go about it? There is no single, mechanical investment approach that marks an investor out as a contrarian. Instead, you need to adopt a sceptical mindset: a flexible mode of thinking that allows you to stand back and spot when the market's view of the world is badly out of touch with reality - and the best way to profit when reality eventually reasserts itself.
In The Sceptical Investor, John Stepek, executive editor of MoneyWeek, pulls together the latest research on behavioural finance, and examples from well-known contrarian investors, to offer practical techniques to help you to spot opportunities in common investment situations, from turnaround plays to bubbles and busts, that others in the market miss. It won't make you popular, and it won't make you famous. But it will make you money.
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- andrew driver
- 27-02-22
Excellent
A well researched, very informative book. I highly recommend it. John has an excellent outlook on investing.
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- Dave
- 14-10-21
Brilliant For Beginners Like Myself
Full review on Amazon - amazingly allowed few words here. Must be fifteen though.
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- John Hill
- 19-05-20
Very good book
Enjoyed it, Very good book and enjoy Johns humour and knowledge in the money week magazine too.
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- Andrew Ellison
- 12-08-19
Excellent Listen and Many Takeaways
Very much enjoyed this book. It is an easy listen and well put together. In parts I found it quite humorous also which is always nice...especially in finance books. I also have quite a few takeaways from this book to apply to my own investment strategy. Thanks John
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- kinfire75
- 29-11-20
Pointless
I have gone through about half the book. No idea what’s it about. Lots of words that don’t amount to anything