The Battle for Investment Survival (Essential Investment Classics)

The turf is Wall Street, the goal is to preserve your capital at all costs, and to win is to "make a killing without being killed."

This memorable classic, The Battle for Investment Survival, offers a fresh perspective on investing from years past. Investors are treated to a straightforward account of how to profit and how to avoid loss in what could be described as the constant tug-of-war between rising and falling markets.

Gerald Loeb, one of the most astute brokers on Wall Street, believed that most people will benefit by what they save rather than by what they make. After reading this book you will know:

• More about the hazards of preserving capital
• What your investment objectives are and how to go about reaching them
• That investors are successful depending on their abilities, the stakes they possess, the time they give to it, the risks they are willing to take, and the market climate in which they operate
• Ideas, guides, formulas and principles that can than improve results regardless of what an investor might do