The Alchemy of Investment

Why value investors and fundamental investors seldom time the market? It is because they often exclude a very important element that contributed to stock price movement: The News.

The low profile mysterious yet legendary investor Warren H. Lau has finally released his stock investing books series: Winning Strategies of Professional Investment. Warren H. Lau has spent more than ten years in the investment career, and succeeded through combined application of fundamental, technical and news analysis.

The Winning Strategies of Professional Investment is a series of investment education books for people who are not experienced to the stock market, and wish to build fast investment knowledge, and make money quickly. This series saves you time by offering the right paths.

"The Alchemy of Investment" is the Second Book in this series. While "Invest and Earn Quick" discusses the technical and logical side of stock price behaviors, "The Alchemy of Investment" focuses more on the emotional side of the stock market. Our studies show that stock price fluctuation is a combined results of different elements including economic figures and forecasts, earning figures and forecasts, news sentiments, greed, fear and hope of the market participants.

News based trading is a trading strategy where investors take advantage of the temporary mispricing of stocks due to the sentiments induced (or not yet induced) by the press.

What You Will Learn from This Book:
- What News Should Professional Investors Pay Attention To.
- How The Central Bank Policies and Bank Loan Policies Affect Stock Markets; and
- How to Identify the Stages of Bull-Bear Cycles through Analyzing the News Reports.