Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is one of those rare books which are so thin, you can learn as much from their table of contents as from their actual contents. There are a number of things I didn't like about this book and its packaging, but I will only list two for brevities sake. First, there are not "20 Successful Uncorrelated Strategies". "Technique 19" is simply a list of what the author believes doesn't work. "Technique 20" is a reading list of books the author likes; there are probably hundreds of Wall Street listmanias listing the same books. The other 18 present absolutely nothing new or interesting, most of them are simply "buy the dip" strategies. Second, this book should rather be called "Trade Like James Altucher", unless you believe there are no longer any hedge funds that have discretionary traders or are willing to use options and go short. There is almost nothing in this book with regards to real money or risk management either. I suppose no one would have bought with that title though. This is the only good sentence in the entire book: "Table 3.1 shows some recent large bankruptcies that were liquid enough to trade after filing Technique [sic] 11" (p. 49). But what disappoints me most about this book is not that it is content free, but that it wastes the time and money of those who really are interested in learning. This book, I speculate, was meant to exploit the members of TheStreet.com and its children. Like another reviewer said, my copy is available for burning. I recommend Perry Kaufman's book instead, it may be twice the pirce, but has a thousand times the content.