Picking Winning Shares

Author: Mick Pavey

FROM THE BACKCOVER

This book is written for the thousands of investors who are seeking market beating returns from their investments. In a time of low interest rates and rising inflation, this book reveals simple winning strategies that work again and again for the ordinary intelligent investor. Picking Winning Shares contains ground breaking and innovative ways, to combine Fundamental and Technical Analysis. Using the simple techniques contained herein, author Mick Pavey has achieved real annual growth, in his Self - Invested Personal Pension (SIPP), averaging 46% over the past three years. In doing so, he has out-performed the all share index which has fallen by 6.3% over the same period. He believes that anyone can learn to become a great DIY- Investor and beat the markets.

Inside you will learn how to:
Find big profits by investing in bruised, battered or depressed shares
Use a combination of technical and fundamental filters to pick winners
Recognise common winning technical patterns
Identify the key fundamental ratios
Avoid common mistakes
Improve your consistency as an investor
Know when is the right time to sell a share

This "How to" book will benefit the following groups of people:
Novice Investors
Experienced investors looking to improve their results
People looking to make their money work for them and gain free time
Those in their 40's and 50's who are late starting a pension
Anyone needing to create a deposit to get on the property ladder
Families wishing to provide for their children(s) school or university places
Business owners looking for increased returns from retained earnings
Retired people looking for better returns on their savings

Picking Winning Shares reveals the secret (legal) money making system that only the wealthy know

Using many examples, illustrated with graphs and diagrams throughout, you will easily gain a clear grasp of the author's techniques. Chapter 16 contains examples, of the application of key principles contained in this book, using fully detailed case studies based on real investments made by the author.

CONTENTS

1 Is This Book for You?

2 Why Another Book on Investing?

3 What You Will Gain From Reading This Book

4 Understanding Company Finances

5 The Life Span of a Public Company

6 Strategies for Picking Winning Shares

7 The Reasons Big Winners Come From Low Priced/Depressed Stocks
7.1 Common Sense?
7.2 Off the Radar Screen
7.3 Low Valuations & Low Priced - Why Do They Do Better?
7.4 What Can We Learn From Graham, Buffet, Lynch etc?

8 Using Simple Technical Analysis
8.1 Trends
8.2 Moving Averages
8.3 Other Indicators
8.4 Turning Points
8.5 Typical Patterns
8.6 Lateral Breakouts
8.7 Explosive Breakouts
8.8 Summary of Simple Technical Analysis

9 How to Use Key Aspects of Fundamental Analysis
9.1 It's all in the numbers!
9.2 Balance Sheet
9.3 Turnover and PSR
9.4 ...