A Beginner's Guide to Successful Investing in the Stock Market
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The urgent need for this book has been recognized for some time now, but it remained for Mario Farina to finally write it.
Strange as it seems, up to now there hasn't been much written for the novice who has never invested before, something that explains step-by-step just how to go about investing in common stocks, with a definite method that gives you the best of it for the long pull.
There are probably a thousand books that explain some esoteric facet of investment or trading, but just about all of them assume the reader has a fairly high level of stock market sophistication. There was a glaring gap -- and Mr. Farina has filled it with this little book.
Let there be no mistake. This is not a "sophisticated" book for the advanced stock marketer. But it is an extremely sound book. Farina, page by page, explains the exact steps you should take to accumulate a portfolio which, over a period of time, can be a very substantial nest egg -- providing you can contribute at least $1,000 a year to your investments. There are no tricks, no gimmicks, just very sound investment principles perhaps never before so clearly explained for people who have never invested before. It is written in non-technical language that any stock market beginner can easily grasp.
Did we say this book was not "sophisticated?" Perhaps we did, but Mr. Farina presents the reader with a new measuring device. It provides a measure of value of a stock that even the most esteemed professional traders will find is definitely an asset in stock evaluation. He calls this device: PEG. While a simple concept, it took Farina to codify it. PEG, along is easily worth the price of this book.
One last point. If the advanced investor has ever sought the one book to give to his wife or interested older children to initiate them into the arcane ways of the stock market -- this book is the answer.
We found it eye-opening -- and we think you will too!
Mario V. Farina
Mario V Farina has worked all his life, from age 18 to 90. He worked for the American Locomotive Company, served in the U. S. Army during WWII, was employed at General Electric. He taught computers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After leaving his position with RPI, he became employed with the State Labor Department of New York. He’s a car buff, a pun creator, and a computer enthusiast. He wrote textbooks for the programming languages COBOL and FORTRAN and wrote a book of puns and short stories called, “A Little Light Reading,” as well as over 20 other books. Several of his books were translated into other languages. This is his first foray into the world of digital publishing, with the help of his computer tutor (william.rl.dickie@gmail.com).
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A Beginner's Guide to Successful Investing in the Stock Market - Mario V. Farina
A Beginner's Guide To Successful Investing In The Stock Market
M. V. Farina
Copyright 2015 M. V. Farina
Smashwords Edition
Smashwords Edition, License Notes
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission of the author.
This book was originally published and copyrighted in 1969 by Investors' Press.
In this book the author documented a definition for PEG, a stock measurement
tool that he originated. The author cannot find any record that the publisher still
exists and believes that the copyright has run out. He is reprinting the book in
order to maintain the PEG documentation and is claiming copyright for the book.
Correspondence may be directed to:
Mario V Farina
Email: mario@mariofarina.com
Library of Congress Card Catalog Number
72-77319
First Printing: 1969
TO
ANITA AND TONY
PREFACE
This book is intended for you if you want to embark upon a stock investment program where your goal is to accumulate $100,000, $200,000 or even more within a relatively short period of time.
Over the years I have developed a sensible plan for achieving modest goals such as the ones mentioned above. I have in fact successfully implemented this plan and have helped others become successful.
In this little book I explain the plan in easy-to-understand language. Here is everything you need to know to enable you to begin a program leading to capital appreciation. No, I don't guarantee that you will become a millionaire in six weeks, or even six years (or ever), but if you’ll follow the advice within these pages, you’ll be giving yourself every opportunity to enjoy a successful investing program.
This book is in the form of a personal letter from me to you. In this way I hope to impress upon you that this is no faceless author speaking but a person just like you. One who sensed the need to invest, who developed a sensible investing plan, was successful at it and is now passing it on to you.
I’d like to express my appreciation to Mr. Samson Coslow for his very valuable assistance in the preparation of this text.
M.V. FARINA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 What Is Your Goal?
2 Why Do It At All?
3 Money Makes Money
4 An Auction
5 What Makes Stocks Go Up?
6 Why Stocks?
7 Selecting The Right Stocks (I)
8 Selecting The Right Stocks (ll)
9 Selecting The Right Stocks (lll)
10 Know Your Broker
11 Educate Yourself
12 Where's The Money Coming From?
13 If You Can't Lick ’Em, Join ’Em
14 Do You Ever Sell?
15 Forget lt!
16 Keeping Records
17 Diversification
18 Stock Terms
19 Naming Names
20 Can You Take It
21 A Final Word
What Is Your Goal?
Let’s have it clearly understood at the very beginning what this book is — and what it is not.
This book describes an investment method, based upon sound principles, by which a reasoning person can achieve a satisfactory degree of success investing in stocks. By success
I mean that he will systematically accumulate stocks which, within a relatively short time, will reach values of $100,000, $200,000 or even more.
This book assumes the reader is prudent, of average intelligence, patient, and in his twenties through middle fifties. l have nothing against people older than this — it’s just that the goals of older people are based upon achieving good steady income while the goals of the people to whom this book is directed are based upon having stocks grow in value.
The investment method