The Speculator's Mosaic

ISBN-10: 1080007431
ISBN-13: 9781080007431
Pages: 154
Language: English
Published: 2019-08-14
Author: Robert Leppo

Description

More than just another guide to making a quick dollar on the stock market or beating the S&P 500, The Speculator's Mosaic is a speculative investment book that details the hard-earned wisdom accumulated during five decades of portfolio management. Culled from a lifetime of successes - and failures - the book offers a detailed suite of tricks and strategies that have given author Bob Leppo an edge in stock market investing, commodity futures, and the wild world of venture capital. Yes, the book is about making money - lots of it. But The Speculator's Mosaic is about more than that. It's about the journey. It's about the excitement, frustration, rapture, and disappointment of pure speculation. It's about booms and busts, fortunate breaks and missed opportunities. Inspirational in tone, it's a love song to speculation, replete with triumph, heartbreak, anguish, and redemption. Part memoir, part tale of discovery and rebirth, The Speculator's Mosaic is mostly a friendly, no-nonsense guide to navigating the ups and downs - financial, emotional, and otherwise - of a career in speculative investment. Detailing a half century of hits and misses, often with brutal honesty, the book relays lessons learned from both the crucible of failure and the elation of success. There are plenty of books on stock picking, on shorting commodity futures, on investment basics, on obtaining venture capital money. What makes The Speculator's Mosaic different is that beyond stocks and commodities, it gives the reader a real-world perspective on what it's like on the VC's side of the table, picking the products and people worth betting heavily on. In the book, author Robert Leppo walks the reader through real life failures and successes in portfolio management, outlining investing basics as well as strategies and tools for investing in people who create valuable products or services. This includes specific tips to help readers position themselves as a positive counterpoint to the negative image of today's mainstream VC. With 50 years of speculative investment experience, even novice speculators stand a good chance to strike it rich - and learn a thing or two about themselves in the process. Robert Leppo started as a kid flush with $100 dollars of poker winnings. He finished with a fortune. The Speculator's Mosaic tells the story of how.

Get the book

Similar books

The European Mosaic
By David Gowland, Richard Dunphy, Charlotte Lythe
... Plate 2.5, from http:// www.europa.eu.int/comm/mediatheque/photo/commprodi/prodi/p-009137-001.jpg, Audiovisual Library of ... We would like to express our thanks to Morten Fuglevand of Pearson Education for his unfailing advice and ...
The European Mosaic: Contemporary Politics, Economics, and Culture
By David Gowland, Richard Dunphy, D. A. Gowland
This text provides a general introduction to contemporary Europe taking into account the history, politics, society and economics of various European countries. *New Authors for sections on Scandinavia and Economy....
Commentary on First and Second Timothy, Titus (Commentary on the New Testament Book #14)
By Robert H. Gundry
... the speculators in relation to the Mosaic law and makes a contrastive wordplay with “God's house-law.” Thus the law of Moses stands over against the law of faith (compare, for example, Romans 3:27; Galatians 2:16). Beyond “myths and ...
The Broken Mosaic: For an Economics Beyond Equations
By Ladislau Dowbor
... speculators . I wrote Formação do Terceiro Mundo , which was included in Brasiliense's collection Tudo é História , and it became a widely read book in Brazil . I discovered that it wasn't enough to do research : one had to communicate ...
The Education of a Speculator
By Victor Niederhoffer
Nonpredictive future statement : If he We bought Fleming ( FLM ) at 24 . [ Kallistratos of Athens , who was ( Current price is 14.25 , a 38.40 percent fleeing a death sentence ] goes to loss . ) Fleming fell on meaningless news Athens ...
Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence
By Roger T. Ames, Peter D. Hershock
... mosaic model depersonalizes my home— the internal relations of family and shared biography— to make it fit a variable in some financial speculator's investment model. The speculator wagers either for or against foreclosure on my home ...
Mosaic: Perspectives on Investing
By Mohnish Pabrai
Mosaic: Perspectives on Investing
Religious Franks: Religion and power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in honour of Mayke de Jong
By Carine van Rhijn, Rob Meens, Irene van Renswoude
24 On Leo, see S. Wessel, Leo the Great and the Spiritual Rebuilding of a Universal Rome (Leiden, 2008). 25 Leo I, Sermo 82, rec. α, c. LXXXII, ed. A. Chavasse, CCSL 138A (Turnhout, 1973), p. 509. Cf. Wessel, Leo the Great, pp.
Destiny's Consul: America's Ten Greatest Presidents
By Michael P. Riccards
19; Arthur D. Morse, While Six Million Died (New York: Random House, 1968); Martin S. Gilbert, The Holocaust (New York: Holt, 1986); Arno J. Mayer, ... Victor Lasky, It Didn't Start with Watergate (New York: Dell, 1977), 158–68. 48.
Dividing the Land: Early American Beginnings of Our Private Property Mosaic
By Edward T. Price
William Fitzhugh and His Chesapeake World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina ... Davis, William T. Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth. Boston: Damrell and Upham, ... Donnelly, Ralph H. "The Colonial Land Patent System in Maryland.