The 52-Week Low Formula: A Contrarian Strategy that Lowers Risk, Beats the Market, and Overcomes Human Emotion

Introduction

Would you like to become a mediocre investor? Do you have an interest in buying high and selling low? Do you seek out information that only confirms your beliefs and emotions? Do you believe the stock market is merely a crapshoot and only the ultra-wealthy make money in it?

If you are answering “no” to all or most of the preceding questions or would like to answer no to them, then I believe my book will help you achieve the opposite of those questions—instead of mediocrity, you can achieve far better. My strategy, if properly followed, can insulate you from mediocre investment results. This book explains how to more effectively buy low and sell high on an ongoing basis. It is also a book about how to be a better thinker in many areas of your life.

I am the last person I ever thought would write a book. In fact, in my senior year of high school I took calculus twice, not because I failed the first semester but because I actually had a knack for math, and it was the highest level of math offered. I actually thought I would be a math teacher. In fact, it is sad to say that I read only one book in high school, and that was reflected in my substandard scores on the high school aptitude tests due to my below-average English skills. I was the guy who scored substandard on my ACTs, the guy sweating up a storm on the soccer field, the kid who shopped at the Salvation Army while my classmates went to the Gap. In my young life, it would have been hard to imagine reading a ...