title: You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Even if You're Not Too Smart: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
author:  Joel Greenblatt 
description: The stock-market profits that investment pro Greenblatt is chasing are found in some areas not usually considered by the average investor: spin-offs, mergers, risk arbitrage, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, and asset sales. Greenblatt acknowledges that pursuing them will require some time, effort, patience, and experience. But he argues that because these areas are not overstudied by the analysts, possible market inefficiencies can be exploited. He explains each area with case studies from his own experience. Librarians will love his answer to the question, "Where can you find these special investment opportunities?"?read, read, read?and he gives the best places to look, emphasizing that you can pirate good ideas but you still need to do your own homework. None of this should be beyond the experienced investor (Greenblatt himself says he doesn't "like to work too hard to understand an investment"), but it is probably beyond the neophyte.?Alexander Wenner, Indiana Univ. Lib., Bloomington<br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Lee Child
  
  Running Blind
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power.
  Suppose you knew the winning numbers for the lottery? All of them? Not guessed
  them, not dreamed them, but really knew them? What would you do? You would run
  to the store. You would mark those numbers on the play card. And you would
  win.
  
  Same for the stock market. Suppose you really knew what was going to go way
  up? You're not talking about a hunch or a gut feeling. You're not talking
  about a trend or a percentage game or a whisper or a tip. You're talking about
  knowledge. Real, hard knowledge. Suppose you had it? What would you do? You
  would call your broker. You would buy. Then later you'd sell, and you'd be
  rich.
  
  Same for basketball, same for the horses, whatever. Football, hockey, next
  year's World Series, any kind of sports at all, if you could predict the
  future, you'd be home free. No question. Same for the Oscars, same for the
  Nobel prize, same for the first snowfall of