Profit from Your Unique Advantages as a Small Investor--Speed and Flexibility!

“The book you are holding is, hands-down, one of the most original and insightful books I have ever read when it comes to teaching you, the individual investor, not only why you have the ability to beat the Whales of Wall Street, but also how you can do it.”

--from the foreword by James J. Cramer, CNBC’s Mad Money and TheStreet.com

“Even investors who concentrate on fundamentals can benefit from Jim DePorre’s Shark approach to investing. At the very least they will know why, for a time, they can get the facts right but the stock wrong.”

--Herb Greenberg, senior columnist, MarketWatch.com

“There are very few traders who have RevShark’s intuitive feel for the market. I especially appreciate Rev’s unique ability to recognize and utilize the distinct advantages of being a smaller, individual investor versus the less agile large institutions.”

--Barry Ritholtz, Chief Investment Officer, Ritholtz Capital Partners

As an individual investor, you can swim circles around the “whales” of Wall Street…by investing like a shark! In this book, James “RevShark” DePorre reveals how to maximize your powerful and unique advantages as a small investor: speed and flexibility. You’ll develop a completely new way of looking at the stock market, learn when to attack, how to move aggressively, how to stay flexible…and when to swim away in the face of danger. You’ll learn why “buy and hold” is today’s riskiest strategy…and exactly what to do instead. In short, you’ll learn the same disciplined investment techniques that helped DePorre build a tiny nest egg into a huge fortune and transformed his life.

If you read TheStreet.com, RealMoney.com, or SharkInvesting.com, you already know DePorre and his inspiring personal story of how he lost his hearing, career, and marriage…turned to online investing out of desperation…and succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. Now, in this fast-paced, insightful, and entertaining book, DePorre shows how you can do it, too.

How to invest like a shark…

• Stay in motion, trolling for your “next meal”
  Stalk your prey patiently, relentlessly, and without emotion

• Move fast when there’s blood in the water
  Know when to strike

• Know when to swim away
  Sell when you sense danger

• Feed on the frenzied crowd
  Profit from others’ fear, despair, stupidity, and greed

• Use all your unique advantages and strengths
  Leverage small caps, technical analysis, and the tremendous power of cash

• Invest with the shark’s attitude
  Be active, adaptive--and control your own destiny

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 38 Ratings

a biased sales pitch for his website - 2009-12-28
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As someone who has seen good results from the long term "buy and hold" approach AND the short term swing trading approach, this book has absolutely NOTHING to offer me. Some will suggest that it is good for new investors, but the obvious sales pitch for his website and biased approach leads me to discourage the new investors also. I borrowed a copy from the library, but even for free I found my time with it to be waste. Oh - The story about a deaf guy with no job? It would make a nice Reader's Digest story, but not a whole book.

There is absolutely NO how-to information in this book. If Toni Turner's 'Beginners's Guide to Day Trading' could be considered 'Day Trading 101', then this book would have to be considered the high school survey class! Of course the term used is "Shark Investing", not 'day trading', but many consider day trading to include any trades that are 3 weeks or less, so I see this as a book that tries to sell us on the advantages of day trading. No matter what terminology is used, the trouble is that the author does not consider the downside (that many just can't survive that way) and that the long term strategy does continue to work and work well for many. The book just isn't objective about your choices.

In case you have not heard, there is a website call [...], and it is mentioned many times in this book. Since there is absolutely no how-to information in the book, the reader is left with the obvious choice of action - go check out the website for more info. Of course, that is how the author will make more money from you. What a coincidence that the title of the book just happend to be the same as the name of website.

And Jim Cramer writes the foreward? I can't think of a much bigger strike AGAINST the book! Cramer so thouroghly discredited himself with terrible predictions about the banking industry failures that CNBC had to pull his show off the air temporarily. But Cramer is a friend of DePorre's and has to write the foreward? I don't get it.

The charts in this book just suck. It's not the content, but the readability. Some poor fool didn't consider what color charts would look like when printed in a black and white and the results are an unreadable disaster! The backgrounds are all light gray, and the text is a medium gray: the lack of contrast (as you can guess) has to be seen to be believed, but somebody just didn't care and let it go to print that way. Obviously, this book is NOT the result of publishing like shark!

Experienced traders would find nothing new - 2009-12-26
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This book is two things - a short story on how the author found his way into stock trading after being hearing impaired. That story is enough to fill up, 3 pages. Its a nice one. But unlike the subtitle the publisher tries to impress upon you, this book has very little to do with "being deaf and having no job". It is all about "Trading Like A Shark" with ideas and strategies suggesting things like:

1) Buy high, sell higher
2) Cut losses short, let winners run
3) When in doubt, sell and move on.
4) Protect your capital.

etc. etc. etc. etc.

To the inexperienced trader, if you never heard any of the above, go and get this book and read it. Be aware that there is no mention of the exact steps the author uses to find his stocks and trade which may be leave you disappointed.

Well Written, But Shallow Overview Of Trend Trading - 2009-11-21
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James DePorre's personal story of financial and personal tragedy is very compelling and I'm very tempted to recommend the book on that basis alone - but not quite.

"Invest Like A Shark" is probably at its most effective arguing two points: 1) against the traditional buy-and-hold approach to investing as sold by the financial media, propped up by the industry. 2) for the critical and decisive influence of human emotion in the behavior of market participants.

Unfortunately, it's less effective making the case for trend trading by sticking to a rather shallow exposition with a little too much "visit my website for more" thrown in. If you're convinced by the author's arguments I'd recommend digging a bit deeper elsewhere into the details of trend following and technical analysis before deciding on a strategy.

The author of "Invest Like a Shark" writes in a direct, straightforward, and very readable style - and there's something to be said for that, regardless of subject matter or genre.

Enjoyable and easy read, but lacks substance. - 2009-06-19
Reviewer Rating:
How to Invest Like a Shark opens up the world of unconventional stock market trading for the beginning investors because the standard approach doesn't work for them. Here James DePorre gives his philosophy backed by Ten Commandments of shark investing and explains how to do it the right way, making a lot of money while minimizing losses as much as possible. Most of the pages, the author is very reassuring and encouraging and understands the mindset of the beginning investors because he was once there before. There is a good deal of information that leans more towards to finely tuned strategy based investing than the basic explanation of stock market fundamentals. He takes a philosophic approach that by doing it radically different from the norms of Wall Street which will bring results, that is, follow the whale and look for feeding frenzies and eliminate the buy-and-hold method. I really enjoyed the book and finished it in a day because How to Invest Like a Shark is very interesting and informative, but the problem is that there is not much of substance within the pages. He'll say something important, but there is a hollow feel to it when reading the words. However, what he is saying makes good sense. And since I am a beginning investor, I've learned a lot of important lessons from the book and am grateful. All in all, How to Invest Like a Shark is a great book but could use a bit more.

very good - 2009-06-07
Reviewer Rating:
Better than merely "on time." And exactly as described. What a radical concept.

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