Buy the Book – How to Value Shares and Outperform the Market

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Beating the markets

The simplest way to make money in the stock market is to buy shares when they are cheap and make profits when their prices increase. This technique is known as value investing and is the creed of the world?s most successful investor, Warren Buffett. But how do you know when a share price is cheap?

Author Glenn Martin thinks he knows the answers. For example, the FTSE 100 system indicates the periods when you should be invested in the FTSE 100 and the periods when you should not be. Since 1984 the in-periods have produced 94 times more capital growth than the out-periods the work claims.