You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits

I read this book because, according to "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis, some of the clever people who foresaw and profited from the financial collapse used this book as a how-to reference guide to investing. I just finished reading it, and haven't tried any of the techniques, but they all seem to m......more

I love Joel's writings. They're simple, well explained, funny, relevant, and very well thought out. This book is a bible for dealing with special situations. I have not seen anything that comes even close to making so much sense and offering this amount of opportunity for vicarious learning in the a......more

Warning: Investing as a layperson on the basis of the situations mentioned in the book can be highly risky to your capital. These one-off events are heavily contextual, industry specific and even people in the domain get the investing calls wrong most times. Read it to understand various corporate ma......more

The book provides extensive and interesting examples of opportunities that can be exploited in spinoffs, takeovers, mergers, corporate restructurings, right offerings, and, to your disbelief, bankruptcies. In other words, "special situations". The book may be suitable more to those with finance and/o......more

The ideas are simple to understand. No rocket science here. Almost as though Joel was trying to teach primary school kids on how to earn some extra cash through stocks. However, do not take his words as a biblical practice. The book was written more than a decade back so you will still need to do yo......more