A Random Walk down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing
The best investment guide money can buy, with over 1.5 million copies sold, now fully revised and updated. In today’s daunting investment landscape, the need for Burton G. Malkiel’s reassuring, authoritative, and perennially best-selling guide to investing is stronger than ever. A Random Walk Down Wall Street has long been established as the first book
Beware of the Paradox So, here is the thing. If youâre looking into this book, it is because youâre probably interested in managing your own money. Also, because this is a very basic book, you are probably on the early stages of your investing education. Which means you still have a lot to learn from the theory and, especially, from the practice. Now, because you still have a lot to learn from the practice, you will probably be making most of the mistakes this book warns against. Hence the paradox.So,…
My mind is blown I read quite a few books 10 to 15 on investing in about a month time frame 300 plus pages each. Years of reading articles online and in magazines. And a few bad experiences in The stock market and a few good ones. I even read the intelligent investor, and security analysis among other great books. I recently decided I needed to take investing more seriously and decided to finally read this book. I bought the Kindle edition since I’m overseas, but after reading this I’m buying a hard copy as…
Eye-opening book I read this book years ago, in an earlier edition. It was a eye-opener. It taught me how the stock market works and showed me the best strategy for an ordinary investor to accumulate a retirement nest egg. After reading Malkiel, I “fired” my investment advisor and switched my savings mostly to inexpensive index funds. As a result, I started keeping more of my money and worrying less about what the market was doing on any given day. I’m now on the verge of retirement, and thanks to…