The Foolish Four: How to Crush Your Mutual Funds in 15 Minutes a Year

by Tom Gardner and Brian Bauer

Had you invested $10,000 in treasury bills over the last 25 years, your money would have grown to $24,801. But had you put that same $10,000 into the Foolish Four variation of the Dow Approach 25... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892547015
• ISBN13: 9781892547019
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Motley Fool
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Worth the money

There's not a ton of new content here that you can't find elsewhere, but this book is a great beginner's guide to investing in the Dow Dividend strategy.

Excellent Reading

This booklet, in short, provides an excellent, easy to understand system for purchasing stocks that will help you beat the market. I found it very interesting, and it eased some of the fears associated with owning individual stocks. I now see a viable alternative to owning stock mutual funds.

Complete

Great condensed version of the Web site material and the Dow spreadshee

Better than I was expecting

I'd read all the info on the Foolish Four on the Motley Fool site. I thought I'd get the book anyway, just to have a hard copy version and more charts in one handy location. There was more there than I expected, including a similar Dow 4 model that has outperformed the Foolish Four. There was also a good explanation of why it works. Now I'm ordering copies for friends.

Concise, easy to understand, simple investment approach.

I have read several of the Gardner brothers investment books before reading this one. I like their straightforward and witty style. This short book is a distillation of their Dow Divident Approach to investing. Their point of view - invest in selected Dow stocks while they have dipped down for the moment - is very simple and perfect for investors who don't want to hang on the daily ups and downs of the stock market. They lay out their strategy immediately, back it up with some easy to understand tables and charts which compare their Dow Divident Approach to results obtained by the S & P 500 and the Dow stocks as a group. They make a convincing argument for investing in selected Dow stocks over time.