Essential Stock Picking Strategies: What Works on Wall Street

This is a book for the serious investors, the ones that have gone past the basics and want to dig into something more substantial. It describes the styles and strategies of some of the most consistent money managers in Wall Street - not the smartest or the outright kamikase, but the ones who are consistent in adding value to their clients' portifolios. They were divided into two groups: Growth & Value and Sector Funds administrators, and the author portrays each manager's strategies in bull or bear markets. I found the book very pleasant to read, because it not only doesn't overly rely on technical terms, but uses them only where needed, so you actually have the feeling you're chatting with the author. In addition to that, I found that the strategies depicted in the book sharpen our own trading strategies, showing better (and sometimes different) ways to implement them, 'seasoning' the tools we use to manage our investment portfolios.