The Big Win

Informationen zum Autor STEPHEN L. WEISS is a twenty-five-year veteran of Wall Street and the Managing Partner of Short Hills Capital Partners, LLC. An active investor, markets expert, and public speaker, he is also a CNBC contributor, appearing regularly on Fast Money and Fast Money Halftime Report . Weiss is the author of The Billion Dollar Mistake: Learning the Art of Investing Through the Missteps of Legendary Investors (Wiley), which has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean versions. Klappentext A rousing and practical look at the extremely successful investments of top investorsIn his first book, The Billion Dollar Mistake, author Stephen L. Weiss showcased the biggest blunders of some of the world's legendary investors--which lost them billions of dollars on a single investment. Incredibly, the mistakes they made were the same mistakes made by everyday investors but for the magnitude of the loss.Weiss's second book, The Big Win: Learning from the Legends to Become a More Successful Investor, highlights financial successes, explaining how the world's most successful investors make a fortune and how you can do the same. As with the missteps Weiss profiled in his first book, the strategies used by these legendary investors are available to all, regardless of size or sophistication. Profiles legendary investors and highlights their investment strategies--from finding the right investment to researching to making a move Probes each investor's personality and questions their investment thinking Identifies and describes each investor's "big win" and why it became their most successful investmentThe Big Win is a primer on successful investing the way it is really done by the people who do it for a living--passionately and with extraordinary success. The Billion Dollar Mistake told readers what not to do to get rich; The Big Win shows readers how to do it right for the payoff of their lives. Zusammenfassung A rousing and practical look at the extremely successful investments of top investorsIn his first book, The Billion Dollar Mistake, author Stephen L. Weiss showcased the biggest blunders of some of the world's legendary investors--which lost them billions of dollars on a single investment. Incredibly, the mistakes they made were the same mistakes made by everyday investors but for the magnitude of the loss.Weiss's second book, The Big Win: Learning from the Legends to Become a More Successful Investor, highlights financial successes, explaining how the world's most successful investors make a fortune and how you can do the same. As with the missteps Weiss profiled in his first book, the strategies used by these legendary investors are available to all, regardless of size or sophistication. Profiles legendary investors and highlights their investment strategies--from finding the right investment to researching to making a move Probes each investor's personality and questions their investment thinking Identifies and describes each investor's "big win" and why it became their most successful investmentThe Big Win is a primer on successful investing the way it is really done by the people who do it for a living--passionately and with extraordinary success. The Billion Dollar Mistake told readers what not to do to get rich; The Big Win shows readers how to do it right for the payoff of their lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xiIntroduction 1Chapter 1 The Legends I Have Met: A Behind the Scenes Look at What Makes a Legend 5Wanted: The Truly Successful and the Truly Interesting 7Tying the Common Threads Together--The Portrait of the Perfect Investor 16Chapter 2 Follow the Money: The Ugly Reality of Whale Watching 19Chapter 3 The Glass Ceiling of Performance: Renée Haugerud 35Puts and Calls and Corn 36A Feel for Trading 39Commodities as Mover and Shaker 42Managing Risk 48Renée Haugerud's Big...

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STEPHEN L. WEISS is a twenty-five-year veteran of Wall Street and the Managing Partner of Short Hills Capital Partners, LLC. An active investor, markets expert, and public speaker, he is also a CNBC contributor, appearing regularly on Fast Money and Fast Money Halftime Report. Weiss is the author of The Billion Dollar Mistake: Learning the Art of Investing Through the Missteps of Legendary Investors (Wiley), which has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean versions.

Klappentext

A rousing and practical look at the extremely successful investments of top investors In his first book, The Billion Dollar Mistake, author Stephen L. Weiss showcased the biggest blunders of some of the world's legendary investors--which lost them billions of dollars on a single investment. Incredibly, the mistakes they made were the same mistakes made by everyday investors but for the magnitude of the loss. Weiss's second book, The Big Win: Learning from the Legends to Become a More Successful Investor, highlights financial successes, explaining how the world's most successful investors make a fortune and how you can do the same. As with the missteps Weiss profiled in his first book, the strategies used by these legendary investors are available to all, regardless of size or sophistication. Profiles legendary investors and highlights their investment strategies--from finding the right investment to researching to making a move Probes each investor's personality and questions their investment thinking * Identifies and describes each investor's "big win" and why it became their most successful investment The Big Win is a primer on successful investing the way it is really done by the people who do it for a living--passionately and with extraordinary success. The Billion Dollar Mistake told readers what not to do to get rich; The Big Win shows readers how to do it right for the payoff of their lives.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Legends I Have Met: A Behind the Scenes Look at What Makes a Legend 5 Wanted: The Truly Successful and the Truly Interesting 7 Tying the Common Threads Together--The Portrait of the Perfect Investor 16 Chapter 2 Follow the Money: The Ugly Reality of Whale Watching 19 Chapter 3 The Glass Ceiling of Performance: Renée Haugerud 35 Puts and Calls and Corn 36 A Feel for Trading 39 Commodities as Mover and Shaker 42 Managing Risk 48 Renée Haugerud's Big Win: The Three-Instrument Trade 49 Chapter 4 The Boom Goes Bust: James S. Chanos 59 A Fan of the Facts 61 The Baldwin-United Short 64 Short Seller Supreme 67 Doggedly--and Successfully--Cynical 68 The China Short 70 Chapter 5 Digging Deep, Coming Up Big: Lee Ainslie 83 Nurturing a Tiger Cub 84 Apprentice to Journeyman to Master 86 Mapping Maverick 88 The Cognizant Big Win: Challenging Conventional Wisdom with Research 93 Chapter 6 small caps, BIG GAINS: Chuck Royce 109 On the Not-So-Fast Track 113 Reaping Value 118 RBA: A Classic Big Win in the Royce Style 125 Chapter 7 The Prophet of a Profitable Vision: A. Alfred Taubman 133 Native Wolverine 134 Big Wins: The Enclosed Mall and the Irvine Ranch 136 Core Competency 139 Defeating Threshold Resistance 142 The Process 146 Chapter 8 The Twenty-First Century Belongs to China--and Commodities: James Beeland Rogers Jr. 153 Easy Rider Explores the World 156 A Father's Gift 159 Bullish on China 160 The Commodities Connection 162 Chapter 9 Opportunity Is Where You Find It: R. Donahue Peebles 171 No Limitations 172 Finding the Deal 177 On the Beach 179 The Peebles Way to a Win 181 Chapter 10 Finding Value in Junk: Martin J. Whitman 193 Educational Value Added: On-the-Job Training 195 Solo 197 The More You Know . . . 200 Bringing the Carcass Back to Life 201 Conclusion: So There You Have It . . . 211 About the Author 215 Index 217