Jim Cramer's Getting Back to Even

great novel from a past fund manager

Cramer offers loads of investinf advice!

4210timmy

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Beginners Book

I admit I love his show but the real reason I give this book 5 stars is for the Options chapter. Every option site I have viewed made it seem so complicated, which it can be, but buying call options is as easy as it gets and for me so far very profitable.

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Not my style

This was a good book, but i wouldn't read it more than once. Jim Cramer focuses more on investing money in long positions. My favorite Jim Cramer book is "confessions of a street addict", its different from most of his other books. Getting Back to Even is indispensable for any investor still reeling in shock from the 2008-2009 market collapse and wondering where to go from here. From investment strategies to specific stock recommendations, it's the foundation for the portfolios that will soar when the economic recovery takes hold.

Cmcabezas5

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Not My Style

I'm in it for growth and income. This book seems to be catered to folks who want to put their money in long positions.

TimVonada

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Good book, practical advise

This is a pretty good book. It has some good advice, including some options trading which was not included in his previous books. Don't expect too much, but overall pretty useful

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A realization

Traders criticize Cramer because he's basically a bozo with his own show. What they don't understand is that without investors, there is no market to trade and you wouldn't have any opportunity to "day trade" the market.

Cramer is Pro diversification, gold/precious metals, dividends, performing your own research and weekly updates for stocks that you select. He goes into more detail than usual in how to research these stocks, his rationale for selection criteria and examples from both sucessful and non-successful examples in his own past

Having said that, I've read some of this book and stopped about 1/3 through because it's not my style. He's a fundamentalist, not a chartist, and this book does not apply to me. I would not read this book unless you have half a million wasting away in CDs

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Deadjim

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Even as a goal?

This guy has become a sad caricature of his former self.

"getting back to even" is a goal for losers. Seriously, this guy had you buying at dow 12K, selling at dow 10k, and now you want to take his advice to get "back to even"

Save you money and buy a book on trading psychology that will serve you better

Betheball

Decent book

One of my fellow co-workers let me borrow this book a few weeks back and I have to say it is a pretty good book. In this book Jim Cramer discusses how people should cope with the market and themselves since the crash. Jim also recommends several stocks for the recovery and the only beef I had with the picks is that most of them have already moved 20-30% upward from the time he wrote the book to the time we get to read it.

Jim does go into some detail about deep in the money calls in this book. which made me do some more research on them. Pretty much deep in the money calls is using leverage to go long on stocks without using as much capital.

This is a fairly good book to read. Jim tries to show you how to play the recovery and how to cope with the loses you may have taken in 2008/2009.

Wallie123

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