I got a couple of useful ideas fromthis book, but overall I was disappointed. The most useful ideas are (1) market sectors that outperform over one three-month period are more likely to outperform over the next three-month period, and (2) how to use ETFs to implement a timing-rotation strategy based on the first idea. The disappointments: (1) This is a thin book: 218 pages with large print. Take away the notes and index and it's 196 pages. (2) There seemed to be some internal conflict in just how to use allocations to create proper portfolios. After a while, I was not sure just what was being recommended. If I got it right, four different investment strategies ended up being recommended, and then blends of those were discussed. I got confused. Partly this may be the result of the book having two authors, and they apparently wrote different chapters independently. I'm not sure everything got reconciled. (3) The end of the book wandered into retirement topics, healthcare costs, social security...in other words, non-investing topics. This was unnecessary, annoying, and one wonders whether it was done because they needed more pages.Click Here to see more reviews about: Beating the Market, 3 Months at a Time: A Proven Investing Plan Everyone Can Use (Hardcover)
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