How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market

By: Nicolas Darvas

Narrated by: Ronald Eastwood

Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's Summary

Hungarian by birth, Nicolas Darvas trained as an economist at the University of Budapest. Reluctant to remain in Hungary until either the Nazis or the Soviets took over, he fled at the age of 23 with a forged exit visa and 50 pounds sterling to stave off hunger in Istanbul, Turkey. During his off hours as a dancer, he read some 200 books on the market and the great speculators, spending as much as eight hours a day studying.

Darvas invested his money into a couple of stocks that had been hitting their 52-week high. He was utterly surprised that the stocks continued to rise and subsequently sold them to make a large profit. His main source of stock selection was Barron's Magazine. At the age of 39, after accumulating his fortune, Darvas documented his techniques in the book, How I Made 2,000,000 in the Stock Market. The book describes his unique "Box System", which he used to buy and sell stocks. Darvas' book remains a classic stock market text to this day.

©2019 Nicolas Darvas (P)2019 Nicolas Darvas

Great story

Another inspiring stock market story! I think the best part about this book is that Darvas goes over many failures as he was trying to figure out how the market works, which is reality. Good stuff!

Great Book

The story is very motivational. Its more of an investor pshycology and how to approach investing in stock market. Not greate resource for trading stratagies.
Overall its a great book i enjoyed listening.

Great

Very candid! A must read for anyone who is into stock market stories.
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Poor job from the narrator, fluff book

Omg! Where are you flying to, Mr. Narrator? Reads too fast. Even after slowing the speed, it is still too fast. Also this book is just fluff. Waste of my credit. Nothing deep or useful to learn. Narrator also didn’t help to make it worthwhile. Bad bad bad!

Great story!

Very good book. The author describes in detail how me made his millions. I felt that he was truly sincere especially when talks about the profits as well as the losses. I highly recommend it for finance minded individuals.

A good story

Okay, good story, not great. I think it’s a good way to understand it’s not you against the others in the market. It’s you and it’s a market.
I am actually going to recommend it to someone looking at speculative plays and a bit of FOMO.
He reads the tables in the book. But it makes sense for his system that he describes.
I would recommend this book.
The audio of the book was okay. The cadence of the narrator was good.
I think some people probably thought it was fast because he reading tables of information. For the general purpose of the book, I found the tables useful information, but I didn’t have to have the information right in front of me to understand what was being said.
Overall, a nice shorter audio book on trading systems and the lessons learned of a trader.

A True Story of Trial & Error

If you are a stock investor or an avid trader you need to read this book at least once. The author goes through his entire investing and trading career and tells you what mistakes he made in order to create a system built to make his 2 million dollars. That's the biggest lesson about this book: build a system.

Long-winded and Old Fashioned but Interesting

More valuable as intertainment than advice. However, it does provide some good information for those who already have a good grasp of the fundamentals and need help moving up to a more advanced level. But if you need more detailed explanations of how to put these theories to work you will need to do more research.

Great quick read, nice insight of a good strategy

Great quick read, nice insight of a good strategy and what it seems like an honest attempt to share a success story

A Must Read for Traders

Legendary book. If you are thinking about trading your own account, it is a must. Every experienced trader has already read it.

Simple and to the Point

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The author tells his story of how he made his fortune trading stocks. After a very rocky start he eventually devises his own relatively simple method for trading which he calls his "Box System". The one slight criticism I would have is that listening in audio format sometimes the lists of stock prices are a bit hard to follow and would likely be better displayed in a visual format.

just annoying

I can't get past chapter 2. literally just listing trades entries and exits to the cent. maybe this stops as book goes on, but nothing enjoyable to listen to so far.

Not detailed enough

Too much information on type of trades but less detailed on the strategy employed to find trades and implements it. Ir simplified the whole process .

INSPIRATIONAL

Highly recommended for the evolving minds. One of the best financial success stories to emulate 💯👏👏👏

one of the best books I have read

very good book he talk about how he did it very knowledgeable book I learnt a lot from it