Monster Stocks: How They Set Up, Run Up, Top and Make You Money

John Boik has written a very valuable book that can make you serious money trading stocks if you study it and use his system. I have personally made thousands of dollars trading several of the stocks in this book. You will learn how to identify the stocks that will double and triple in just a few months, some even gorw 1000% to 7000% in less than a year. Stocks like Google, Apple, Yahoo, Taser, and many others. Stocks that change the way we live by creating new products that are very popular and lead to explosive earnings in the company and price increase in the stock that the majority of money managers want to be a part of. You will get to see how these stocks perform in technical price strength, the author gives bar charts during the major part of the move showing the price compared to the 21, 50, and 200 day moving average along with the relative strength line and volume. You will see how to enter at price break outs to new highs and add on at retreats in price to the 21 or 50 day moving average. But most importantly when to sell at exhaustion gaps in price or when the stock's price falls through the 50 day moving average. It is crucial to sell and lock in profits before the run up ends. Here are the keys to trading success found in this book: Monster fundamentals: 1. Outstanding sales or revenue growth. 2. Strong and accelerating earnings growth. 3. High rates of return on equity (ROE). Rules: 1. Only buy in an overall uptrending market. 2. Only buy stocks in sound price bases with strong fundamentals. 3.Buy stocks at their 52 week highs or better yet all time highs at break outs in price. 4. Only stay in stocks that act right with rising prices on rising volume and pull backs on lighter volume. 5. Sell when it is time, do not stay in when the price falls through the 50 day moving average support line. This book is a great tool to have in your stock trading library, it is outstanding for new traders and an excellent refresher course for seasoned traders. It is one of my new instant favorites.

I had the privilege of reading the book today as soon as it was out today. Its a great book it tells how the biggest runner of any bull cycle shape up. Its similar to past winners like Hansen Natural, Yahoo etc. If we follow the same principles we will know the monster stock in the current Bull rally which started from 29th Aug has been Intutive surgical, Baidu and VM ware. It highlights couple of main points for monster stocks, Great earnings every quarter, New product to the market, a recent IPO, great return on equity. If we keep the fundamentals written in the book then in every bull cycle one can piggy back on one or two monster stocks and change the financial condition of oneself. I would recommend one to read all the books by JOhn Boik and all the books by William O Neil along with reminscence of a stock operator which is a autobiography of Jesse Livermore. I consider Livermore, Gerald O loeb, William O neil as the best trader ever and if we follow their principles by reading their books we could improve our returns many fold. Also the books by John Boik reflects on the above great traders and their strategy. Remember three things work in stock market, Discipline, Dedication and Desire the 3D's. Good luck to all the Quality growth stock traders.

Boik, in his 3 books has made a comprehensive study of many successful past & present Growth investors: Loeb, Darvas, Baruch, O'Neil, Roppel, Wyckoff, Dreyfus, Livermore. In this book he distills the method down in a very simple manner. After a market pullback, downturn or crash, there is a rebuilding phase. Through meticulous study of past winners, your job is to pick future winners and then ride them up for monster gains. To pick the winners the stocks should have undergone a substantial base-building phase, have good fundamentals (sales, earnings, ROE growth Q on Q) and then make a break upwards on good volume, confirmed by the Nasdaq. Thereafter, the trader simply rides the trend up and can pyramid positions at the 50d MA. Exit the stock when it slices through the 50d MA on large volume. The book reinforced a lot of the thinking in all the books I have read in such a simple way. Good trading really should be a simple, repetitive and unemotional exercise that requires patience and time to lock in the big winners.

This is a great book for young people to learn how to invest in stocks. This book explains how to use charts in a simple way to discover great stocks.

Excellent, well written, easy reading. This book is really good. The author clearly points out the characteristics of past winners and he reviews many past winners.

Book is really good for traders, Service A+.

I had previously purchased his other two books. The first covered the best US traders (this is a very good book) and the second book covered the US equity market and the best US traders through history, this book also was pretty good in terms of detail and explanation. His current book was shallow lacking in detail and appears to have rushed to the publisher. I was throughly disappointed. I agree with some of the other reviews you would be much better served by purchasing the books on trading written by William O'Neil

If you believe in the old addage "to be the best, learn from the best" then this book will help you profit from the past success' of some of the biggest stock market winners of the past twenty years.

Positive * for the book content. Great book to understand how legendary traders made it big. Downside: Horrible copy printed on cheap paper by cheap ink. Feeling like a PDF copy has been printed on a black and white jet ink printer on a cheap paper and shipped off. The pictures are in black and white. All the content in the pictures look the same. You have to strain to understand what has been written inside.

Amazing book on market leaders. I’ll re-read again. If you like riding trends this book is for you! Whether you’re a growth or value trader, momentum is the premier anomaly. This book is meant more for growth investors it’s still viable for both. The Author is also a great follow on Twitter posting historical literacy & currently nt harts Other books I’d recommend is 1) How to trade in stocks by Jesse Livermore (all) 2) How I made $2 million in the stock market by Darvas (all) 3) How to make money in stock by O’Neil (all) 4) Momentum Masters by Minervini (all books) 5) Market Wizards series by Schwager (all) 6) Trading in the Zone by Douglas 7) Thinking in bets by Duke 8) Fragile by design (economics) He’s a true investigative author. Looking forward to more books & materiel. I thought his previous books could be audiobooks on but enjoyed both.

My bueno

「黄金の掟」の著者のジョンボイクの作品。 黄金の掟が素晴らしかったのと、複数の本（洋書）でこの本が推奨されていたために購入することにしました。 内容は、過去の大化け株のチャートを提示して、それがどういう特徴になっているかをテクニカルに説明している本。 平均線や出来高など結構参考になるかも。本文だけだと結構厳しいんだけど、この本はチャートにも短い説明を入れているので、 その点、そこだけ読んでもそれなりに役に立つので、英語苦手の自分としては、ありがたいです。 カバーがまるで児童向け絵本のようにめちゃくちゃ固い。象が乗っても、潰れません的な硬さです。つぶれちゃうでしょうけどね。 こういう本は翻案本を日本でも作ればいいのに、と思える内容です。 英語をペラペラに読めるようになったら、星をもう一つ増やしちゃうかもです。

A worthwhile read