Book Review: Stock Market Explorer

Non-fiction/Financial/Investments

Stock Market Explorer

Mathew Aaron

Chart and Compass Security Analysis

ISBN-10: 0-9778212-2-6

March 2007

288 pages

Soft cover 

For 2007 the Investor’s Almanac, published by Chart and Compass Security Analysis, has been renamed the Stock Market Explorer updating a creative tool for successfully beating the stock market whether bull or bear. Author Mathew Aaron offers insightful information with a writing style that is equally accessible to new and experienced investors.

Using a system that was developed over an eighteen year period, the book educates readers on some of the basics of investing including how the cyclical economy impacts the market and the trend of passive index-marketing. The author challenges investors to change their perspective in terms of approaching the purchase of stocks. For example: gold is suggested as an anchor for all portfolios that are focused on long-term results; the ability to judge stocks over the short and long-run is stressed; and being actively involved with investing by continuing to watch the fluctuation of prices is encouraged so that additional purchases of stocks priced below value can be made and stocks that show themselves as being mistakes can be sold off quickly.

Fundamental knowledge about the economic and market cycles, an openness to both short and long-term investing practices, paired with extensive research of over sixteen hundred stock products and the proprietary price-to-value (PV) analytical measurement make up the components of the book’s primary tool, Equity Market Navigator (EMN). The book includes graphs that compare the performance of the traditional market-weighted index with the innovative equally-weighted index. The appendices include extensive data on the stocks included in the EMN.

Balance, consistency, and patience are emphasized in this piece. Investors are encouraged to study the companies they plan to invest in and to remain active as they bed down for the long hall. Following the crowd, fads, or other histrionic behaviors that manifest in the market is discouraged. Information is presented with use of vivid analogies and accompanying pictures that ease the digestion of the investment lingo. The author skillfully summarizes each chapter by pulling out the salient points for quick review.

Stock Market Explorer is an annually updated tool that arms investors with a broadened view of the stock market and the power to make informed, consistent decisions increasing the potential for long-term financial success.

Melissa Levine

For Independent Professional Book Reviewers

www.bookreviewers.org