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5 comments about The Big Tech Score: A Wall Street Analyst Reveals Ten Secrets to Investing Success.

1. The author applies Warren Buffett's main street investing approach to High Tech. Other reviewers gave the book a higher rating so I may have missed something but I found the book short on the specifics of timing (not something that interests Buffett either).



2. Mike Kwatinetz and Danielle Kwatinetz Wood, a father-daughter team, have written a readable volume of investment advice that will impress you with its fundamental soundness, if it does not dazzle you with buzzwords and newfangled formulas. With advice that flies in the face of the mantra of portfolio diversification, Mr. Kwatinetz shows how to narrow your portfolio and thereby compete with Wall Street professionals. The authors warn you away from the minefields sown by short-term thinking and guide you toward making that big stock-market score you've been hoping to achieve. The volume's Q & A sessions with stock market gurus are interesting, but appear to be afterthoughts. We from getAbstract recommend this book to regular investors and Wall Street insiders alike.



3. I originally heard this work through Audible.com, and liked it enough that I've bought multiple hardcopies for friends and myself. The book provides a blueprint for personally managing a small number of stocks. This stock portfolio should be hedged by other diverse investments including safe money (i.e. fixed interest) and mutual funds.

   There is a lot of good advice throughout the book. They cover, in part, (1) why you should concentrate on a few stocks and know them inside and out, (2) metrics for determining an appropriate value for a stock, (3) effective screening tools in finding the gems, and (4) some no-nonsense views of how the stock market really operates with respect to analysts. Highly recommended.




4. If you find this book helpful, that's an indication that you need to learn a lot more before you consider investing in individual tech stocks. The "advice" in this book varies between obvious, stupid, and silly.

   Some things I disliked about the book:

   * Gimmicky Money Magazine-like lists. "10 Secrets to Investing Success". "The Seven Deadly Sins of Investing."

   * Here are the stocks he thinks you should have bought 10 years ago: Microsoft, Cisco, Applied Materials. Gee, thanks Mike. Now here are the stocks he thinks you should have bought in 2001, when this book was published: VA Linux, Ask Jeeves, Blue Martini. I am not making this up.

   * Ultra-ultra-ultra basic advice. How to calculate a P/E given price and earnings. Buy companies with great management teams. Invest in companies who are taking share.

   * Lots of fluffy stories about how the web is going to change our lives. Didn't this junk go out of style in the spring of 2000?

   If you choose to buy this book, put it in your bookcase right next to "Dow 36,000" in the "what the hell was I thinking buying this book" section.




5. the most useful page in this book is in the excerpt provided by Amazon. Everything else is regurgitation magazine articles and common knowledge and doesn't provide and investing know how.

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