A Random Walk Down Wall Street

The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

Ranked #3 in Stock Market Investing, Ranked #3 in Investmentsee more rankings.

Today’s stock market is not for the faint of heart. At a time of frightening volatility, what is the average investor to do?


The answer: turn to Burton G. Malkiel’s advice in his reassuring, authoritative, gimmick-free, and perennially best-selling guide to investing. Long established as the first book to purchase before starting a portfolio or 401(k), A Random Walk Down Wall Street now features new material on “tax-loss harvesting,” the crown jewel of tax management; the current bitcoin bubble; and automated investment advisers; as well as a brand-new chapter on...
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John Kay Essentially, the theme of Malkiel’s book was that you could, in effect, do investing yourself. (Source)

Michael Hebenstreit If you want to get into stock trading or in case you want to become an investor, then I definitely would recommend to read the book I already mentioned and in addition: A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel. (Source)

Andrew W Lo It’s a wonderful read because it doesn’t presuppose any background knowledge of economics or finance…It’s had so much staying power. It was written in the 1970s, a bestseller when it came out, and it’s still a bestseller now. I recommend it to my MBA students today because it’s just a wonderful introduction to the field of finance. At the same time, it provides some very sensible advice for investors about how to manage their own money. (Source)


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