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Description of Beating the Dow

In 'Beating the Dow' Michael O'Higgins provides an ingenious strategy showing how all investors - from those with only $5,000 to invest to millionaires - can get spectacular results with below-average risk. The secret? A few simple methods that show you how to invest in the thirty stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Over the last eighteen and a half years, one of O'Higgins' methods produced a return of 6,246 percent - whereas the Dow's total return was only 559 percent! Beating the Dow, chosen by Yale Hirsch as the number 2 investing book of the year in the 1992 Stock Trader's Almanac, introduces a new system that requires mastering only a few simple automatic steps - and eliminates agonizing over trading decisions or your money manager's reliability. There has never been a book like Beating the Dow.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780066620473

Pages:

284 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

13502

Publisher:

Harper Collins (Investment)

Published:

01/01/1970

Press and Industry Reviews

'By using this approach it is possible to be successful regardless of the direction the overall market takes.'
New York Times

'Lucid ... O'Higgins' data are persuasive.'
Wall Street Journal

'By following the O'Higgins method of buying blue chips when they are out of favor and offering the highest yields, small investors will often beat the pros at their own game without having to be concerned about day-to-day stock market volatility.'
Jordan E. Goodman, coauthor of The Barron's Finance and Investment Handbook.

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Contents of Beating the Dow

Introduction

Method of Calculating Total Returns

Part I Introducing the Dow Stock System
1. Keep It Simple!
2. Why Common Stocks Are the Best
3. Why Invest in the Dow Industrials?
4. How the Pros Try to Beat the Market - and Why Most Don't Succeed
5. The Dow Jones Industrial Average

Part II The Dow Industrial Stocks

Part III Markets and Cycles

Part IV Beating the Dow
6. Beating the Dow - Basic Method
7. Why High Yield and Low Price Work
8. Beating the Dow - Advanced Method Conclusion

Appendix A: Recent Deletions and Substitutions in the Dow

Appendix B: A Look at the Major Outperformers

Bibliography

Index