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Monster Stocks How They Set Up Run Up Top and Make You Money

Everything you need to know to get in on the ground floor of the next Google!

Monster Stocks gives you the expert guidance you need to add the explosive power of breakout stocks to your portfolio. You’ll find everything you need to consistently spot stocks that have the potential to at the very least, double in value in a year or less - and change your life forever!

Delivered in clear, concise language by market researcher John Boik, Monster Stocks gives you the tools you need to land super-performing stocks and handle them for maximum profit, market cycle after market cycle. Boik mines the history of the market to uncover the common conditions that must be in place for monster stocks to materialize. You’ll learn how to easily identify these trends with the help of real-world monster stock case studies, from Yahoo! and Schwab to Apple, Broadcom, and many more.

Make your fortune with Monster Stocks!

• Know when to buy and when to sell for tremendous profit
• Understand how the pros identify and handle market leaders
• Learn from the great super-stocks of the past
• Break your bad stock investing habits for good!
• Gain valuable insight into selecting future monster stocks

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Great Stock Market Book
John Boik presents a well thought out method for acquiring wealth. The big money he claims is made in finding those few companies who can change the world. If an investor can recognize these monster stocks and manage them correctly, the result will be life changing wealth. Boik gives the reader a history lesson–that all monster stocks display the same characteristics just the names of the companies and their symbols change.

4 Stars Practical Rules for Growth Stock Investing.
Boik’s term “Monster Stocks” refers to stocks that have at least doubled in price within 18 months. This book describes the practical application of a set of rules for identifying and profiting from such high-growth stocks. These rules involve criteria both for a stock’s fundamentals, and subtle details of price and volume action of the stock and of the general market.

What I liked about the book is that it profiles about 30 such stocks as brief case studies, which include the chart basing setups that may have been evident, key points and characteristics of corrections during the stock’s growth, and indications that presaged of the end of their run-ups. These are accompanied with annotated charts of relevant market indices and of the stocks profiled. The attendant commentary on these particular growth stocks and the events in the markets allowed me to learn by comparing the rules to how I would have reacted in the same situation. Most of the examples occur during the period 1996 through 2006.

Much of the methodology aligns with and makes mention of the Investor’s Business Daily rules as described in their educational material and in Bill O’Neil’s books. This book builds on IBD’s teachings in that it uses the methods to focus on the special case of stocks that at least double in price including the psychological challenges, buying and pyramiding tactics, and the significance of moving-average support.

Boik describes methods that are relatively simple, but adds that the attention to detail and discipline required is not easy. I know from experience that many of us will find it difficult to make a large commitment to a high-growth stock, at least in its early stages, because the characteristics go against much of the conventional wisdom. Many investors will sell such a stock when it makes violent corrections - only to watch it make new highs soon thereafter. Similarly, it takes great discipline to act on the various warning signs and sell even though the stock is making successive new highs and the fundamentals have never been better. Boik does a reasonable job of explaining the details of what to observe, and rules by which to buy, add more, sell or hold these stocks through such observations. Among other things, the rules limit your risk and provide assurance when holding such stocks during their growth phase.

The book concludes with a Monster Stock finding and handling template, and a summary of the Monster Stock rules.

A criticism that led me to rate this book four stars instead of five was that the writing style tended to be wordy and repetitive, making the book longer than it needed to be. Also, the graphics were sometimes difficult to follow, and required some study before I was able to relate them to the text. I was able to endure this however, and found a lot of valuable content.

I can also recommend the following to those wanting more on growth stock investing:

The Zurich Axioms by Max Gunther ?1985

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre ?1923

How to Trade in Stocks by Jesse Livermore ?1940

How to Make Money in Stocks by William J. O’Neil ?2002

The Successful Investor by William J. O’Neil ?2004 (*a true gem)

Trader Vic-Methods of a Wall Street Master by Victor Sperandeo ?1991, 1993

The Market Wizard series of three books by Jack D. Schwager

1 Star Disappointed
I had previously purchased his other two books. The first covered the best US traders (this is a very good book) and the second book covered the US equity market and the best US traders through history, this book also was pretty good in terms of detail and explanation. His current book was shallow lacking in detail and appears to have rushed to the publisher. I was throughly disappointed.

I agree with some of the other reviews you would be much better served by purchasing the books on trading written by William O’Neil

1 Star Monster Letdown
Fire up your charting software. Scan for stocks that have gained greater than 200% in the last 250 trading days (1 year). Review. You have just saved yourself $29.00. There is nothing new in this book. O’neil was quoted so many times I began to think this was written by him. I congratulate anyone who has the moxi and staying power to finish and publish a book. That doesn’t mean I have to like the finished product.

2 Stars Very little value added to CANCLIM investors
The book’s title is misleading to say the least. The book offers little new information than his previous book - How Legendary Traders Made Millions. It just simply repeats the same principle in the chart again and again. Buy stock in the break out, pyramid buy more when stock drops to its support level, usually at 21 or 50 day moving average. Sell when the stock has its finally climax run. It could have been a 5 to 10 pages brochure.

If you really want to find out how a monster stock got setup, started and finished, I strongly recommend you read Brad Koteshwar’s book - The Perfect Stock: How a 7000% move was set-up, started and finished in an astonishing 52 weeks.

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Get to the Top on Google Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of the Search Engine Rankings and Stay There

It is a fact that people avoid “sponsored” search results and rarely make it past page two of their result listings on Google. So how do you get your business to the top and keep it there? It has been predicted that Internet sales will make up nearly half of all purchases by 2012. As a result, being at the top of organic search results can literally transform your business. Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of the Search Engine Rankings—and Stay There is the first book to comprehensively address all aspects of modern day search engine marketing through a straightforward methodology, which includes an up-to-date assessment of the impact of Web 2.0 on marketing strategies. Thorough and accessible, Get to the Top on Google provides you with the advice and knowledge of a genuine expert in the field. Through a series of case studies and examples, David Viney shows business owners, both large and small, how to improve their search engine rankings, leads, and sales in order to stay ahead of this next step in the evolution of consumer behavior. “David Viney’s book pulls off the difficult trick of both being comprehensible to beginners and offering a level of comprehensive (and up to date) detail that will appeal to older hands. It’s divided into seven steps that broadly follow the timeline of an SEO campaign, with some useful case studies. Put simply, this book delivers what it promises.” —.NET magazine, August 2008 “The information in this very specific book can help you increase the effectiveness of your Web efforts and gain better visibility among the Web search results on Google and other search engines. David Viney shares his expertise in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in helpful detail. Much of his information is quite detailed and technical, but relatively accessible and applicable.” —getAbstract David Viney is one of the UK’s leading search engine optimisation (or SEO) experts and has initiated and steered multi-million dollar e-business projects at two of the UK’s biggest companies (British Airways and Centrica) and played a leading role in the relaunch and internet marketing of the AA’s website in 2001. As principal consultant and owner of SEO Expert Services, he works with companies large and small to improve their search engine placement. A regular speaker on e-commerce at industry and professional events, David is passionate about the power of the internet to transform our society. He is an LSE graduate, Chartered Accountant and IT Professional. He is a qualified CSEM search engine marketeer and member of SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organisation. He lives in Teddington, England, and is married with two children. Visit his website at www.seo-expert.com

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Values Driven Business How to Change the World Make Money and Have Fun Social Venture Network

Read This Book…if you own or run a business or if you’re thinking of starting one….if you think there has to be more to doing business than just making money….if you feel ”there’s got to be a way” to run a successful business without driving yourself and your employees to early graves….if you want to know how to build a business that will reflect your personal values, not force you to hide them….if you’re studying business and you want to know what business can do at its best….if you’ve been hearing about ”corporate social responsibility” or ”the triple bottom line” and you wonder what all the fuss is about - or if you think those ideas apply only to major corporations….if you’ve read books or articles about corporate social responsibility and discovered they don’t help you meet the real-world challenges you confront in a small or medium-sized business….if you’ve been thinking of investing in ways to treat your customers or your employees better or to reduce the damage you’re doing to the environment but you think your company’s just not big enough to afford it - or if you think your profits will go down if you do….or if you want to understand one of the most powerful new ideas that’s affecting business all over the world today.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars KEEPS THE FOCUS ON VALUES BRIGHT. EXCEPTIONALLY USEFUL AND INSIGHTFUL!
Based on case studies, this book presents a how-to road map for those who want to stay true to the principles of

(1) NOT producing products in an environmentally damaging way and

(2) treating people right–giving employees dignity, respects and decent pay!

The book includes resources for those who want to narrow the gap between their personal values and business practices. The book addresses the myriad of dimensions of values-driven businesses relating to employees, customers, stockholders and communities. Highly recommended.

5 Stars Ben Cohen Should Know–The Market Rewards Values-Based Businesses
The founding CEO of one of the largest green businesses in the world (Ben & Jerry’s) joins up with the CEO of a boutique consulting firm to show that businesses of any size can benefit from sustainability. In this well-written book, they lay out five dimensions of a values-driven business: relationships between your company and its employees, customers, suppliers, and community. Each of these gets a full chapter, as does the business’s impact on the environment.

The best thing about this book is the set of action steps and checklists to help any entity (business, non-profit, institution, or even activist organization) incorporate a social and environmental agenda while in most cases actually becoming more profitable.

Examples include:

* Five justifications for why socially responsible companies are often more profitable

* Ten-point checklist to determine readiness to start the process

* Seven arguments for paying your employees well (my favorite: it forces the company as a whole to work smarter)

* Five reasons why profitsharing with employees builds a business, and six models to incorporate the idea into practice

* Ten ways to turn your employees into your partners

* 19 specific methods (many of them easy and no-cost) to reduce your company’s environmental footprint

The other thing I love about this book is the use of clear, simple case histories, drawing extensively from the authors’ own history but also from many other companies. You’ll learn, for instance, about Clif Bar’s five-fold bottom line: “the planet, the community, our own people, the health of our brands”; you’ll also learn about Mal Warwick’s extremely innovative charitable programs…Peachpit Press’s amazing vacation policy…Recycline’s commitment to reduce the waste stream…and how all of these and many other social/environmental policies actually help these companies be more profitable.

Shel Horowitz’s award-winning sixth book, Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, demonstrates how to build a business around ethics, environmental sustainability, and cooperative practices–and how to develop marketing that highlights those advantages.

1 Star Walking the Walk vs. Talking the Talk
What an interesting book, instructing businesses on how to be profitable AND ethical! I wish more people would operate in such a manner. I do, and always have, and now after almost 20 years in business can recognize when someone else (client, supplier) is less than ethical. I avoid them. I wish I had that insight when I first started! With only my vacation day payout and a few thousand in the bank, I started a computer network installation and service company. I was asked to bid on a job for prospective new client. I put a lot of time and thought into it and put in my bid. They asked for more detail, so I gave them that. They asked for specific part numbers, so I gave them that. They asked for an implementation map, so I added that. After a couple of weeks and dozens of pages of instructions…they had all they needed to do the job themselves - and that’s just what they did. They bought all the goods mail-order and pulled the cabling per my freeloaded instructions, same as they re-mapped their servers, changed their operating system license, etc. I learned a lesson that day. If businesspeople can legally (but unethically) steal from you, the usually will. Oh, the name of the company that did this to when I was first starting out? Take a guess…the big hypocrites.

5 Stars Highly recommended!
Using examples from their personal experiences and from a wide variety of U.S. companies, Ben Cohen and Mal Warwick show how companies have incorporated socially progressive and environmental values into their daily business practices. The authors insist that companies can help their communities and make money at the same time, adding a new dimension to traditional business models, which focus only on profits. Although the authors’ enthusiasms sometimes carry them away - for example, they insist that customers who don’t share your values will respect you so much for them that they’ll stay loyal anyway - the “values-driven business” is an idea whose time has come. We recommend this book to business owners large and small who want the benefits of their work to extend beyond just themselves and their stakeholders.

5 Stars A practical guide for turning ideals into reality
I eventually want to start my own apparel business, but I know the industry is rife with ethical abuse. Because of this, I want to run a business that does as little harm and as much good as possible. Until a few weeks ago, I was not sure how to bring that ideal to practical fruition. After receiving “Values-Driven Business” from someone who works for a socially responsible company, many of my questions were answered.

Why am I glad I read the book? Here are some attributes:

1) It is quick to read, enjoyable, and optimistic. No gloom and doom.

2) It is a fantastic overview of socially responsible business. This is NOT a deep, complicated analysis of the topic. It is simple enough for people who aren’t sure where to start and need an introduction, yet has interesting, enlightening examples for someone already familiar with socially responsible business.

3) It is well organized. The authors go over five dimensions of values-driven businesses (some of which I had not considered): employees, suppliers, customers, community (local and global), and the environment. At the end of each section is a list of specific actions that one might consider incorporating into a business to create positive change.

4) The text goes beyond black and white binary opposition, and challenges assumptions about socially responsible businesses (e.g., they can’t make a profit, they make inferior products, etc.).

5) Practical examples of values-driven companies comprise the backbone of the text. This shows the principles at work, and shows that two businesses can have different ways of incorporating values; there is not one “right” way to be socially responsible. Reading about all the different solutions people have devised to make a difference was my favorite part of the book!

I highly recommend this book as a concise introduction that is chock-full of inspiring examples of values-driven businesses in action. It will empower you to make abstract ideals a reality and it provides an excellent foundation for further inquiry!

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