September 2nd, 2010 
David Hill 
- ISBN13: 9780471681953
- Condition: New
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Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, The Vital Few vs. The Trivial Many will open your eyes to a new way of looking at the investment world, especially the stock market. You’ll discover how to look past media hype to discern what the Vital Few or corporate insiders—those who know their companies best—are doing. By explaining which information is accurate and valuable, as opposed to that which is misleading and financially hazardous, investment profess… More >>
The Vital Few vs. the Trivial Many : Invest with the Insiders, Not the Masses
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FYI, the rights to publish my book in Asia has been bought by China Youth Press. It will be published in simple Chinese this summer. China Youth Press is wholly owned by the Chinese Government and is located in Beijing, China.
I find it amazing how ambitious China is. I am sure they are doing the same with many other U.S. investing books and, in my opinion, it is a sign they want to continue with their global expansion and to become more sophisticated in other markets such as ours and those in Europe.
PS We should have an excellent Tax Loss Buying Season this October, in my opinion. Appendix B covers this. Good luck.
PPS I didn’t want to rate my own book but Amazon requires one enter 1-5 stars so I had no choice. I would have prefered to use –).
George Muzea,
Author, The Vital Few vs The Trivial Many: Invest with the Insiders, Not the Masses!
Rating: 5 / 5
Below please find my 3 stars review on Amazon for the author’s first book: The Vital Few vs. The Trivial Many: A Unique Concept for Always Making Money in the Stock Market (Let’s call it Book 1).
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Title: A good supplement, but short and thus expensive, October 23, 2004
This is a book written by a fund consultant/manager/owner who profits through the contrarian principle primarily by monitoring/following the stock trading of insiders. Perhaps the author’s method is so simple and straightforeward that the book is really short, despite the addition of his autobiography and interesting personal experience, say, his encounter with two persons who quitted their job for full time trading before the burst of 2000 Internet Bubble.
I am obligated to comment it as an interesting read. However, the captioned method is not so practical to common investors who lack the patience/scale to carry on such mode of operation, unless they restrict their scope of monitoring to a limited number of stock, thus drastically reduced the number of opportunities available. So I gave the title of my review as it is. If you have already read many trading books before, you can take it as a supplement. Otherwise, you may spend your $16 more productively on some other investment or trading books.
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With the addition of over 100% of material (from 87 of Book 1 to 212 pages of this) and selling for 41% less (from $13.56 to $7.98), I see no point why I shouldnt rate this a 5 stars, based on its much extended coverage on TA and effort to make its contrarian applications small investor friendly.
Below please find a copy and paste from Appendix A For Short Sellers (Handle with Caution) that I want to show you some juice of this book. Hope it can help.
Unfortunately, most stocks tha are clearly overvalued and popular shorts among hedge funds are usually in strong up trends. I have seen many short side managers forced to cover because the stocks kept getting more overvalued, only to collapse after they had bought the shares back……My advice is simple. Look for stocks that are in well-established downtrends, especially those that have stopped going down and are moving sideways. Then check Yahoo!’s Finance section and click on the Insider link or go to the Washington Service. Look to see if insiders sold at higher price levels and are now selling at lower levels, especially if they had not sold for a few months while the stock was moving sideways. If they start selling again at lower levels, that usually means whatever problems they are having that caused the stock to drop are still occuring. The first price drop loses the momentum investors. The second drop, after additional bad news, will lose value investors. With no one left to support it, the stock will drop suddenly and continue to drift lower. Pg 175-6
Rating: 5 / 5
Readers of George Muzea’s “The Vital Few vs. The Trivial Many” will benefit from his wisdom as the foremost practitioner of insider-trading analysis and his decades of experience in the stock market, which includes providing advice to a number of highly successful professional investors. Making money in the stock market, year in and year out, is about being disciplined, and capitalizing on market inefficiencies and favorable risk-reward opportunities. Reading “The Vital Few vs. The Trivial Many” is an important step towards understanding and applying these means to successful investing.
Rating: 5 / 5
The book’s main idea: invest when insiders are buying, get rid of shares when they are selling. The source of insider transactions – Yahoo Finance. The author uses insider transactions as the sign of impending turnaround of shares that have been declining in price for a while. I guess the approach is valid, and insider transactions should be taken into consideration when buying shares.
In short, this is another approach to investing/trading and could be used in combination with other methods. The book, though short, could be even shorter and should rather be a chapter in more comprehensive text. Then again, it tells you how to profit, and fifteen bucks is not much to pay for an investing idea.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is one of the best and insightful books I have ever read -and I try to read one investment book a month. It is very easy to read, goes right to the point and leaves you with a feeling that there are “one handed economists” after all. It suggests a market timing system (“Magic T”) that makes sense. I strongly recommend for those of you who need a fresh look at the investing issue. Brian Z
Rating: 5 / 5