The Only Three Questions that Count

Investing by Knowing What Others Don't

by Kenneth L. Fisher , Lara Hoffmans , Jennifer Chou

Number of pages: 448

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, INC.

BBB Library: Economics and Investment

ISBN: 9780470074992



About the Authors

Kenneth L. Fisher : Ken Fisher is one of the world's leading financial advisors. He

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Lara Hoffmans : Lara is an author, managing editor of MarketMinder.com and a content

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Jennifer Chou : Chou is a Research Analyst of global capital markets at Fisher

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Editorial Review

Building new knowledge of how capital markets works is everyone's job, whether you accept that or not. You are part of it, whether you know it or not. By knowingly embracing it you can know things others don'tthings finance professionals don't know yet. You needn't be a finance professor or have any kind of background in finance to do it. To know things others don't you just need to think like a scientist. Think freshly and be curious and open. As a scientist, you should approach investing not with a rule set, but with an open, inquisitive mind. Like any good scientist, you must learn to ask questions. Your questions will help you develop hypotheses you can test for efficiency. In the course of your science inquiry, if you don't get good answers to your questions, it's better to be passive than make an actionable mistake. But merely asking questions won't by itself help you beat the markets. The questions must be the right ones leading to an action on which a bet can be made correctly. So, what are the right questions?

Book Reviews

"In this book, Ken Fisher shows investors how they can find more usable information and improve their investing success rate—by answering just three questions." Scribd

"The Only Three Questions That Countis the first book to show you how to think about investing for yourself and develop innovative ways to understand and profit from the markets." Holz.Lv

"Ken Fisher debunks the conventional market mythologies that underlie many of our investing decisions. The questions he focuses on aren’t what you might expect; they don’t have to do with the market’s P/E ratio or interest rate forecasts." Audio Tech

"In The Only Three Questions That Still Count, the revised and updated new edition of Ken Fisher’s 2007New York Times bestseller, he teaches you a methodology you can use right away to find unique information—and the basis for a market bet." Only Three Questions

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