Classic Investment Books

At PowerStocks, we have all read the famous classics before we decided to create our research company. There are many investment books, but there are only a few all time global classics. Following on from the huge response we had for "Security Analysis", and additional requests from investors, and the difficulty of getting these books locally we also offer those global best-sellers and classics listed below for sale.

We are not in the book selling business, but would like to see the SA public read the books that have lead to most of our research methodologies and investment strategies. So we don't keep piles of stock. We place orders as we receive them so please allow up to 2 weeks for delivery.

TO ORDER : email us with the SKU at powerstockz(at)gmail.com and we will mail you back with bank details to make your EFT. The prices below includes the cost of us posting the book to you via courier.

1. How To Make Money In Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, 3rd Edition
SKU=PSB001, Price : R279.00
THE BUSINESSWEEK, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER! The bestselling guide to buying stocks, from the founder of Investor's Business Daily­­now completely revised and updated. When it was first published, How to Make Money in Stocks hit the investing world like a jolt, providing readers with the first in-depth explanation of William J. O'Neil's innovative CAN SLIM investing method. Five years later, O'Neil, founder for the industry icon Investor's Business Daily, revised his classic text and provided readers with a newer glimpse on how the average investor can make money in the equities market.

2. The Warren Buffett Way, Second Edition
SKU=PSB002, Price : R279.00
Starting with $10,000 in 1956 and today worth some $8.5 billion,Omaha, Nebr.-based Buffet is a major player on Wall Street. Hagstrom, a principal in a Philadelphia investment firm, describes the investment strategies and techniques used by Warren Buffett to realize enormous success as a professional investor. Aiming his analysis at the individual investor, Hagstrom reviews the influence of Buffett's mentors, Ben Graham and Philip Fisher, and illustrates Buffett's synthesis of their investment philosophies. Hagstrom provides case studies of Buffett's major investments, showing the qualities of the companies that had appeal. Buffett's investment philosophy espouses long-term investing, respect for good management, and recognition of the value of a business franchise. This insightful work is a worthwhile complement to Graham's classic writings, considered essential for new investors.

3. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Ninth Edition
SKU=PSB003, Price : R349.00
The million-copy bestseller, revised and updated with new investment strategies for retirement and the insights of behavioral finance. Updated with a new chapter that draws on behavioral finance, the field that studies the psychology of investment decisions, here is the best-selling, authoritative, and gimmick-free guide to investing. Burton G. Malkiel evaluates the full range of investment opportunities from stocks, bonds, and money markets to real estate investment trusts and insurance, home ownership, and tangible assets such as gold and collectibles. This edition includes new strategies for rearranging your portfolio for retirement along with the book's classic life-cycle guide to investing, which matches the needs of investors in any age bracket. A Random Walk Down Wall Street long ago established itself as a must-read, the first book to purchase before starting a portfolio, and it remains the best investing guide money can buy.

4. Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders (Hardcover)
SKU=PSB004, Price : R320.00
How do the world’s top traders make millions of dollars in the markets – sometimes in a matter of only weeks or even days? That’s precisely the question Jack Schwager was trying to answer when he interviewed 17 superstar money-makers including Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, Ed Seykota, Marty Schwartz, Tom Baldwin and others. After reading this best-selling book, you’ll know what ingredients enable these top traders to consistently work their financial magic in the markets while so many others walk away losers. One of the top-selling trading books of all-time!

5. Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse (Hardcover)
SKU=PSB005, Price : R449.00
The economic tipping point for the United States is no longer theoretical. It is a reality today. The country has gone from the world's largest creditor to its greatest debtor; the value of the dollar is sinking; domestic manufacturing is winding down - and these trends don't seem to be slowing. Peter Schiff casts a sharp, clear-sighted eye on these factors and explains what the possible effects may be and how investors can protect themselves. For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients reposition their portfolios to reflect his outlook. What he sees is a nation facing an economic storm brought on by growing federal, personal, and corporate debt, too-little savings, a declining dollar, and lack of domestic manufacturing. Crash-Proof is an informed and informative warning of a looming period marked by sizeable tax hikes, loss of retirement benefits, double digit inflation, even - as happened recently in Argentina - the possible collapse of the middle class. However, Schiff does have a survival plan that can provide the protection that readers will need in the coming years.

6. The Intelligent Investor : The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) by Benjamin Graham (Author), Jason Zweig (Author), Warren E. Buffett (Collaborator)
SKU=PS006, Price : R375.00
Since it was first published in 1949, Graham's investment guide has sold over a million copies and has been praised by such luminaries as Warren E. Buffet as "the best book on investing ever written." These accolades are well deserved. In its new form--with commentary on each chapter and extensive footnotes prepared by senior Money editor, Jason Zweig--the classic is now updated in light of changes in investment vehicles and market activities since 1972. What remains is a better book. Graham's sage advice, analytical guides, and cautionary tales are still valid for the contemporary investor, and Zweig's commentaries demonstrate the relevance of Graham's principles in light of 1990s and early twenty-first century market trends. For many of those daunted by the 700 page "Security Analysis" Classic, this may be easier to digest. This was the first book for most of us here at PowerStocks.