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What Works on Wall Street, Fourth Edition: The Classic Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time
 
 
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James P. O'Shaughnessy
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  • Hardcover: 720 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 4 edition (1 Nov 2011)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0071625763
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071625760
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 19.8 x 5.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 65,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"What Works on Wall Street is indisputably a major contribution to empirical research on the behavior of common stocks in the United States." - Financial Analysts' Journal --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Historically tested long-term strategies that always outperform the market

“O’Shaughnessy’s conclusion that some strategies do produce consistently strong results while others underperform could shake up the investment business.”
Barron’s

What Works on Wall Street is indisputably a major contribution to empirical research on the behavior of common stocks in the United States. . . . Conceivably, the influence of What Works on Wall Street will prove immense.”
The Financial Analysts’ Journal

“O’Shaughnessy’s latest, What Works on Wall Street, is a serious inquiry into the investment strategies that stand up under long-term scrutiny and is refreshing research for every investor.”
Stocks and Commodities

“A bible for investment strategies. . .”
—Seeking Alpha

About the Book:

Recent history has witnessed one of the worst stock market beatings ever. As a result, abysmal returns are being called “the new normal,” financial “experts” are ringing the death knell of buy-and-hold, and investors’ faith in equities has hit an all-time low. You have two choices. You can abandon the stock market based on what is happening today. Or you can invest today based on what will happen in the future.

Containing all new data, What Works on Wall Street, Fourth Edition, is the only investing guide that lets you see today’s market in its proper context— as part of the historical ebb and flow of the stock market. And when you see the data, you’ll see there is no argument: Stocks work.

Now in its second decade of helping investors succeed with stocks, What Works on Wall Street continues to provide the most effective investing strategies, presenting incontrovertible data on what works and what doesn’t. Updated with current statistics and brand-new features, What Works on Wall Street offers data on almost 90 years of market performance, including:

  • Stocks ranked by market capitalization
  • Price-to-earnings ratios
  • EBITDA to enterprise value
  • Price-to-cash flow, -sales, and -book ratios
  • Dividend, buyback, and shareholder yields
  • One-year earnings-per-share percentage changes

Providing you with unparalleled insights into stock performance going back to 1926, What Works on Wall Street is a refreshingly calming, objective view of a subject that is usually wrapped in drama, hyperbole, and opinions that are plain wrong.

This comprehensive guide provides the objective facts and winning strategies you need; all you have to do is make the decision to ignore the so-called market experts and rely on the long-proven approach that has made What Works on Wall Street an investing classic.


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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
We have a franchise here. Every year we can get a new, revised, set of data-mining, subtly tweaking the deciles and the Sharpe ratios to tilt the recommended strategy toward what worked most recently. Buy one book, but don't keep buying the new calculations: the discussion of Wall Street irrationality is wonderful; but before you trust this book whole-heartedly, read Buffet on why Sharpe ratios (and risk/return considerations) are a dangerous way to approach investing. Read anyone at all on the problem with data-mining. Giving us all the data doesn't change the problem: until these strategies are applied in other markets (Singapore, London, Germany from 1900-1950, say) we won't have an adequate test of how well they work outside of America's particular imperial fortunes. Would a devotion to a long-term all-invested strategy have been sensible in, say, 1930s China? In other words, don't swallow the statistics without some sense of why they happen -- and this book does its best to avoid any consideration of that.
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Format:Hardcover
You can't argue with facts, with logical conclusions based on those facts, with reasoned analysis, or with history. You get them all in Jim O'Shaughnessy's book. He did the digging and the dirty work, and the reader reaps the benefit. Unless you live to day trade...these are the words to live by.
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This book does a good job rehashing a lot of what empirical academic finance has found in the last 15 years. Unfortunately, only the most passing attempts at attribution are performing, making the uninformed reader falsely believe that the author discovered any of the the things he reports. A shame to mar a good book.
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good value for money
covers all the basics and more, great value for money.slightly big so not ideal for the tube but cant see how it could be scaled down.
Published 1 day ago by Martin
Good book
This book is a good book, it gives you several methods to beat the SP500. The only thing is that because it is all statistics it can be a little bit boring. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Fai
What really works
I like books that demonstrate what really works using empirical evidence, rather than what should work based on an author's latest theory. So I like this book. Read more
Published on 18 July 2009 by LOTONtech
Interesting Work But The Uncommon Investor Was Better
I read this book extremely carefully. It is a straight forward, intelligent piece of work filled with numbers. Read more
Published on 30 July 1999
A total waste of money
The idea behind the book is simple: test many different methods over the course of ~43 years. Why do some work? He doesn't explain. Read more
Published on 12 May 1999
Very good and comprehensive analysis of most common strategi
The book contains very comprehensive analyses of the most common investment strategies. The mathematics are easy to comprehend and the conclusions are logic.
Published on 26 Jan 1999
Excellent but...
I very much enjoyed the book (and think that it is about the best book on the market), but I did have a couple of problems with it. Read more
Published on 3 Oct 1998
Excellent but...
I very much enjoyed the book (and think that it is about the best book on the market), but I did have a couple of problems with it. Read more
Published on 3 Oct 1998
Best Book Ever Written
After reading the first edition of What Works, I landed a summer job at Mr. O's firm because I thought the work was incredible. Read more
Published on 16 July 1998
too charty
This book was fully annotated and thoroughly researched. However Mr. O'Shaunessy could have much more concisely said, "buy low and sell high. Read more
Published on 7 July 1998
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