Street Fighting at Wall and Broad: An Insider's Tale of Stock Manipulation

I have read many books by and about the great investors. As a practical guide for stock market traders and investors, this one ranks with Ben Graham and the best Buffett books. It is both easy to read and incredibly wise. I have only one problem with the book. That is that I do not know the real name of the author. If you know the name of the author, or even better if you are the author, please write to me at: [email protected]

Published in 1980 but a timeless classic, the book explains how a shrewd professional investor discovers a dull but solid family company whose management has just passed to a grandson with an MBA and grand visions of turning it into a high-tech conglomerate. After the grandson bungles a tech acquisition, the investor shorts and the price falls by two thirds. The investor closes and begins to ponder whether it is possible to transform a boring company into a stockmarket star. The book is more or less a manual of how to dress up mutton as lamb, and as a professional investor, I particularly appreciate the detail on how to manipulate the stock price so as to produce the chart signals that get technical analysts excited.The fact that this book is out of print merely proves that the collective intelligence of the market is as low as ever.

Investing is war. And as in any conflict, victory depends on knowledge and excecution. On Wall Street,the public is matched against two principal advisaries: the specialist and the one known as the syndicate manager. These are,after the brokerage houses,no doubt the most succeful of Wall Street. And of the two advisaries, the syndicate manager is chief,a master manipulator,a preditor, deceptive and cunning. He is as the wind: felt but unseen. He is as patient as nature and just as ruthless in his survival. To be as successful as he, we must adopt his ways---see what he sees, think like he thinks. In this book the thinking, motives,and tactics of the syndicate manager are made known by the Author Marchand Sage. To win on Wall Street you must know your enemy,to know your enemy you must read this book. It is a must that you obtain it;purchase it if you can;steal it if you can't. "Know the enemy and know yourself;in a hundred battles you will never be in peril." Sun Tzu "The art of War"