The Zulu Principle: Making Extraordinary Profits from Ordinary Shares

By Jim Slater

Book Overview

Jim Slater's classic text brought back into print

Jim Slater makes available to the investor - whether the owner of only a few shares or an experienced investment manager with a large portfolio - the secrets of his success. Central to his strategy is The Zulu Principle, the benefits of homing in on a relatively narrow area.

Deftly blending anecdote and analysis, Jim Slater gives valuable selective criteria for buying dynamic growth shares, turnarounds, cyclicals, shells and leading shares. He also covers many other vitally relevant aspects of investment such as creative accounting, portfolio management, overseas markets and the investor's relationship with his or her broker.

From The Zulu Principle you will learn exactly when to buy shares and, even more important, when to sell - in essence, how to to make 'extraordinary profits from ordinary shares'.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905641915
• ISBN13: 9781905641918
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Harriman House
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A concise guide on how to achieve wealth from shares

If you are at all interested in making serious money without having to break your back for it, then this book is a must for you. It is a simple guide on selecting shares in undervalued, unnoticed and usually small companies, using mathematical principles and common sense. However like everything else, you have to actually apply the principles and be disciplined in your activity to make it pay for you. The great thing about the book is that you need no prior financial grounding to understand it. It also takes you through each step from selection to sale without any area of ambiguity. Alltogether a true classic.