TL;DR; - This was a lot better book than I expected. It lays out some important basics for beginners. A lot of the book is the 10,000 feet view of stock market investing, but he also spends time showing practical, applicable examples of how to implement many of the things he talks about.
Long Version...
The first three chapters were actually quite boring for me, but this was because it recapped things I had already learned in other books. Also, maybe because I was a bit impatient. :-D Overall tho he held true to the teacher image he tried to project. He told you what he was going to teach you, he taught you, and then he recapped to help solidify it.
The fourth chapter was on fundamental analysis. I was interested to see what he would say because fundamental analysis was what I had read a lot about last year. I was happy he still was able to teach me some different ways of looking at things.
In the fifth chapter he talked about technical analysis. This was the chapter I bought the book for. There was a lot of new information for me. While it did give me some practical examples and information, it also left me with more questions about how to get more in depth in regard to this topic.
I honestly didn't expect much from the rest of the book, but it ended up being more valuable than the first half. In the last half he explained clearly with examples...
- how to use leverage ( options)
- how to minimize risk
- how to put those two togother to buy/sell
- how to insure against both non-systemic and systemic risk
- etc
So overall I loved this book. I will be spending the next few months practicing what he showed. I just have a few small criticisms. First this book is a bit thin. It would be nice in each chapter if he went a bit more in depth, and added references to where we could learn more. Second a lot of his parallels where using real estate, and it would've been nice to so more variety.