Gene Marcial’s 7 Commandments of Stock Investing

Acknowledgments

My thanks to my many trusted reliable news sources on Wall Street who helped make this book a sharp advocate of intelligent, realistic, and gutsy market maxims for the individual investor.

I am very grateful for the support of my close friend and mentor, Seymour Zucker, a former senior editor at BusinessWeek magazine, who encouraged this endeavor from the start. He was kind enough to read the first draft of this book. He was my supervising editor at BusinessWeek, prior to his retirement in 2005, who steered the “Inside Wall Street” column to where it is today. I credit him for inculcating more energy and judicious perspective into the column. He has done the same for this book.

Special thanks to John A. Byrne, executive editor of ...