I have a question for you. Do you want to make money in the stock market or own stocks? This book is aimed at helping the former. The ancient method of buying and holding does not work anymore in the present-day stock market except for retirement acc... Read more

I have a question for you. Do you want to make money in the stock market or own stocks? This book is aimed at helping the former. The ancient method of buying and holding does not work anymore in the present-day stock market except for retirement accounts and children's educational accounts where you invest in exchange traded funds. Millions of dollars are invested only for a few seconds and trading is done by super computers.First of all, I want to tell you that there is lot of money to be made in the stock market. According to Barron's the U.S.stock market was worth $33 trillion in January of 2018. This calculation was made on the total market capitalization of the Russell 3000 index which covers 98.5% of the market capitalization of all the U.S. stocks. This was around $18 trillion in 2014. Out of this around $4 trillion is invested in over 5000 exchange traded funds as of 2019. In 2014 it was around $2 trillion. Later I will discuss about exchange traded funds or ETFs. The richest people in the world invest in the U.S. stock market with only one goal, to make money. Yes. You can make lot of money consistently if you follow a method. If you do not, you will be thrown into the arena with lions. Listen, you are competing with professionals who are investing big money, using fast computers and thus controlling the market. Investments from individuals constitute only about 15%. Individual investors like you and me do not control the market. We are followers. From 1997 through 2016 individual investors earned about 3.98% annually whereas the S&P index went up by 10.6% annually. If you do not have a formula, you can become a millionaire very quickly, if you started as a billionaire!!I have listed a number of formulas to choose from. You can use one or more depending on your liking and style. You need discipline. If you waver you lose. Like in baseball, you hit and run. That is the way to make money by trading. You will see opportunities. Do not fail to take them. You cannot buy stocks whenever you want and hope that they would go up. You cannot cheer them and make them go up. Market trend is one of the most important factors. Trend is not only your friend but also your lifeline. Do not fight the trend. At times you have to be out of the market completely to protect your assets. Less