Guerilla Investing: Winning Strategies for Beating the Wall Street Professionals

For Peter Siris, the stock market is a battleground. And if you're an individual investor, you'd better understand your enemy--the professional investor--as well your own limits and capabilities. According to Siris, the professionals have many advantages over individual investors: they've got the inside track on information that moves the market, and they're backed by research staffs and their networks with other pros. The trick to beating the pros is to employ guerrilla tactics--that is avoid their strengths and exploit their weaknesses.

Guerrilla Investing looks at techniques that individual investors can use to win the investing game. Siris cautions against short-term trading, which plays into the hands of the professionals, and he instead advocates a buy-and-hold strategy. He shows how to read charts, interpret a company's financial statement, and how not to get suckered by what market analysts say. He also encourages investors to develop a investment style and to stick with it. If you consider yourself a serious investor or are interested in becoming one, Guerrilla Investing is something you'll find yourself coming back to again and again. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards