24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success: Learn the Most Important Investment Techniques from the Founder of Investor's Business Daily Paperback – December 13, 1999

The author of this book increased his account 20 fold in 26 months and then bought a seat on the New York stock exchange. He studied the top performing stocks from 1953 to present to create his CAN-SLIM method, which has been proven in many independant studies to be one of the best. After his individual success as an investor he founded O' Neal & Co. and uses his companies stock data base to advise top investing firms. This is a credible author who all traders should listen to.Here are some of the top lessons in this book:#3 Follow a system rather than emotions.(This takes experience and time)#6 Relative price strength: A key technical tool (Buy stocks in up-trends close to 52 week highs, these are the stocks with buyers)#18 Don't try to be a Jack of all trades (Focus on one investment vehicle, be an expert)#20 Sell Rules (Reset stops on stocks showing a profit so you do not give back all of your profit on a down trend)Buy this book for 20 more essential lessons. This book will help beginners tremendously and also can be very beneficial for experienced traders and investors to revisit to keep on the right track.This is a great little book that belongs in every investors/traders library.

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CANSLIM has kept me out of market downturns and allowed me to beat the market in sideways and climbing markets. People have asked how I was able to retire so young. My answer is 1) Find a way to make money 2) Pay yourself first 3) get you money working for you instead of the other way around. CANSLIM has helped with number 3. I also add that never getting divorced helped as well. Enjoy and consider joining your local IBD Meetup group.

In my opinion this book should be purchased at the same time with William O'Neil's How To Make Money in Stocks.To make a long description short to the point, How To Make Money in Stocks is a very comprehensive book that requires a few repeated reading efforts in order for a novice investor to grasp the mechanism of the stock market.It helps if one look at the HMMS book as a car and the 24 Essential Lessons as its Owner's Manual.Book contains many high lights of HMMS in a shorter, more clear & concise fashion which also renders it easier to read.

William J. O'Neal has 3 very good books, including this one. I have read all three multiple times and use How to Make Money in Stocks as my main reference. This book is a quick reference to his big book.

I’m a big William O’Neil fan. Enough to know today is his birthday. But that said, this book is more of a summary of How to Make Money in Stocks. It is definitely an easier read but is not as specific as the other books. It’s a nice review but How to Make Money in Stocks is the trader bible and always will be. Happy Birthday William O’Neil!

This is an excellent, and extremely concise book (a fast but potentially very profitable read) for those looking to do a fundamental and technical hybrid system. It's fairily basic and so those with a good amount of previous stock market knowledge will get much less than those who are fairily new.That being said the techniques are optimized (e.g. he gives 7-8% as maximum for stop-loss) for the "CAN SLIM" (an acronym) strategy that is explained in "How To Make Money In Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, 3rd Edition" by William J. O'Neil. They are recommended read together.

Bill O'Neill is one of the all time titans of successful investing and accumulating wealth. He doesn't have the marquis name of Buffet, Lynch or Icahn but he has had more direct impact on improving people's lives and standard of living than anyone in the industry.