Ignore the Hype : Financial Strategies Beyond the Media-Driven Mayhem

Secure your investment gains and supercharge your results with this down-to-earth analysis of investing fundamentals Via powerful and unique insights, Ignore the Hype: Financial Strategies Beyond the Media-Driven Mayhem teaches readers how to keep their focus squarely on time-tested strategies for meeting their financial goals without getting distracted by a constant barrage of news headlines. The book takes a common-sense approach to the financial world that’s ideally suited to the everyday investor. It covers topics including: How to avoid competing against hedge funds in a game they’ve rigged What you can do today to avoid taxes tomorrow Wall Street’s Dirty Secret: Forecasting is just guessing Why some of your investments have worse odds than a casino game How the media circus can derail your financial plans Surviving a world where financial advisors don’t have to act in your best interest Ignore the Hype emphasizes the difference between short-term trading and long-term investing, how to filter the constant onslaught of information coming your way from every angle and separate the valuable content from the noise, and how to build a foundation for investment success based on common sense and academic research.

Secure your investment gains and supercharge your results with this down-to-earth analysis of investing fundamentals

Via powerful and unique insights, Ignore the Hype: Financial Strategies Beyond the Media-Driven Mayhem teaches readers how to keep their focus squarely on time-tested strategies for meeting their financial goals without getting distracted by a constant barrage of news headlines.

The book takes a common-sense approach to the financial world that's ideally suited to the everyday investor. It covers topics including:

• How to avoid competing against hedge funds in a game they've rigged
• What you can do today to avoid taxes tomorrow
• Wall Street's Dirty Secret: Forecasting is just guessing
• Why some of your investments have worse odds than a casino game
• How the media circus can derail your financial plans
• Surviving a world where financial advisors don't have to act in your best interest

Ignore the Hype emphasizes the difference between short-term trading and long-term investing, how to filter the constant onslaught of information coming your way from every angle and separate the valuable content from the noise, and how to build a foundation for investment success based on common sense and academic research.

**Secure your investment gains and supercharge your results with this down-to-earth analysis of investing fundamentals** Via powerful and unique insights, __Ignore the Hype: Financial Strategies Beyond the Media-Driven Mayhem__ teaches readers how to keep their focus squarely on time-tested strategies for meeting their financial goals without getting distracted by a constant barrage of news headlines. The book takes a common-sense approach to the financial world that’s ideally suited to the everyday investor. It covers topics including: * How to avoid competing against hedge funds in a game they’ve rigged * What you can do today to avoid taxes tomorrow * Wall Street’s Dirty Secret: Forecasting is just guessing * Why some of your investments have worse odds than a casino game * How the media circus can derail your financial plans * Surviving a world where financial advisors don’t have to act in your best interest This book's goal is 3-fold: 1) to enhance awareness of the difference between long-term investing and short-term trading; 2) to help individual investors filter the information overload that volatile markets and the financial media subject them to; and 3) to provide a toolkit based upon empirical academic research which can provide a foundation for long-term investment success. Ignore the Hype is designed to be accessible to the average individual. Therefore, although some of the topics are reasonably advanced, they are explained in a clear-cut manner and accompanied by real world examples. Some chapter topics include: • Not playing a game that is rigged • Realizing that forecasting is just guessing • Understanding the drivers of investment returns • Having a specific financial goal ... "The average individual needs to be protected against the onslaught of financial media and the proliferation of trading strategies that may be appropriate for hedge funds but make no sense for the average investor. While CNBC and other financial media are valuable as information sources, many non-professional investors lack the ability to filter the information (and misinformation) they receive from the media. As a result, they are tempted into a succession of short-term trading strategies that are ultimately doomed to failure. Ignore the Hype will help provide context so that individuals can avoid information overload and instead harness time-tested tools, techniques, and strategies to meet their financial goals."-- Provided by publisher