Free Book Contest

If you read my Q&A with Dick Davis, the publisher has been kind enough to provide me with 10 books to give away.

The following represent some of Dick Davis' strongest beliefs - with the exception of one. Which is it?

1. Investment advisors seldom acknowledge the key role played by luck.

2. Most news is irrelevant to the investors. The news follows the market.

3. Deeply entrenched trends usually go further and last longer than expected.

4. Being instantly and totally informed is a curse for the long term investor.

5. When explaining why things happen in the market, investors have been conditioned to believe that the logical explanation is the correct one.

6. The price of every stock reflects three influences: fundamentals, technical, and emotional.

7. It is essential that investors do their homework.

8. A stock will always go lower after you buy it and higher after you sell it.

9. In describing the favorable prospects for his company, a CEO will never acknowledge that his bullish prospects may already be reflected in the higher price of the stock.

10. The best advice you can give or receive is stay healthy.

* Congratulations to the following people who earlier this week corrected said that number 7 was the exception. A free copy of "The Dick Davis Dividend" will be sent out to:

• B. Frakes, Missouri


• K. Speare, California


• S. Dietrich, California


• R. Rulete, Spain


• C. Coates, Pennsylvania


• K. Wong, Washington


• M. Kochummen, Texas


• P. Stanlick, Washington


• T. Hanson, Florida


• W. Denton, New York