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    Debunkery (Review and Analysis of Fisher and Hoffmans' Book)
    Debunkery (Review and Analysis of Fisher and Hoffmans' Book)
    Debunkery (Review and Analysis of Fisher and Hoffmans' Book)
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    Debunkery (Review and Analysis of Fisher and Hoffmans' Book)

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    The must-read summary of Ken Fisher and Lara Hoffmans' book: "Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit from It - Seeing Through Wall Street's Money-Killing Myths".

    This complete summary of the ideas from Ken Fisher and Lara Hoffmans' book "Debunkery" shows that in order to be a successful investor, you have to avoid the common errors most people make repeatedly. Investors usually demand absolutes but they don’t exist – even the very best investors are only right about 70% of the time. In their book, the authors advise you to debunk all the conventional investment advice you hear on TV and do your own thinking. This summary will teach you how to move ahead and use your intuition, your gut instincts and your common sense in order make better investment decisions.

    Added-value of this summary:
    • Save time
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    • Expand your investment knowledge

    To learn more, read "Debunkery" and discover the key to using commonsense to make the right investment.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBusiness Book Summaries
    Release dateOct 14, 2014
    ISBN9782511018712
    Debunkery (Review and Analysis of Fisher and Hoffmans' Book)

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      Debunkery (Review and Analysis of Fisher and Hoffmans' Book) - BusinessNews Publishing

      Book Presentation: Debunkery by Ken Fisher with Lara Hoffmans

      Book Abstract

      About the Author

      Important Note About This Ebook

      Summary of Debunkery (Ken Fisher with Lara Hoffmans)

      Basic bunk which can make you broke

      Decoding Wall Street Wisdom

      Addressing what everyone knows

      Learning from history

      It’s a big world

      Book Abstract

      Main idea

      To be a successful investor, you have to avoid the common errors most people make repeatedly. Investors usually demand absolutes but they don’t exist – even the very best investors are only right about 70 percent of the time. Your goal as an investor shouldn’t be to be error-free but to be more right than wrong over time. The majority of investors reverse this dynamic and are wrong more often than they are right. To reduce your error rate, debunk all the conventional investment advice you hear on TV and do your own thinking. Wall Street thrives on the basic misperceptions which investors have about the markets and how they work. To move ahead, be prepared to use your intuition, your gut instincts and your common sense - all the things Wall Street tries to use against you - to decipher conventional wisdom and ultimately make better investment decisions.

      About the Author

      KEN FISHER has written the Portfolio Strategy column in Forbes magazine for more than 25 years. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Fisher Investments, a money management firm with more than $32 billion under management. Mr. Fisher also features on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans and the Forbes Global Billionaire list. He has written six previous books including The Only Three Questions That Count, The Ten Roads to Riches and How to Smell a Rat. Mr. Fisher is a graduate of Humboldt State University.

      LARA HOFFMANS is a content manager at Fisher Investments. She is contributing editor of MarketMinder.com and coauthor of The Only Three Questions That Count, The Ten Roads to Riches and How to Smell a Rat. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.

      The Web site for this book is at www.debunkery.com.

      Important Note About This Ebook

      This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main

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