- Hardcover: 325 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 Jun 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0070482462
- ISBN-13: 978-0070482463
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 21.6 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 105,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"...analysts praised his stock-picking strategy, explained in his well-received book. In it, he digs into more than 40 years of data to find out what strategies would have picked the winning stocks." The Wall Street Journal 19970915
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"The best investment book of 1996. Very likely, it will be the most influential book on investing in this decade." - "Stock Traders Almanac". "...O'Shaughnessy's conclusion that some strategies do produce consistently strong results, while others underperform could shake up the investment business." Barron's "The New York Times" and "Business Week" bestseller, "What Works on Wall Street" is now updated throughout to include the new data and 50 new sample portfolios. Hailed as "a great book" by Forbes, "What Works on Wall Street" is a must read for any investor looking to make savvy, historically informed decisions.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Honest-minded Data Mining,
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This review is from: What Works on Wall Street: A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time (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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Truly the only investment book any thinking person needs.,
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This review is from: What Works on Wall Street: A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time (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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A Well Done Rehash Without Attribution,
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This review is from: What Works on Wall Street: A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time (Hardcover)
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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