Book Review: "The Art of Short Selling"

I was really looking forward when I opened the Amazon package. This was touted as one of the "Must Reads" for anyone interested in short selling.

However, after having it read now, I am actually quite dissapointed. The book starts with a small introduction and short portraits of some famos short sellers which was interesting.

However, then in the next 200 pages there is example after example of stocks which at some point in time crashed due to different reasons.

SOme of those examples were quite interesting, however most of them were relatively short descriptions with some charts and a quick story.

The best part of the book are the last 50 or so pages which summarize what and where to look for if you want to spot porential short candidates. In contrast to other books however, the content is relatively "shallow".

For me the book was quite hard to read, as the examples do not really comprise a story. All in all something you may read but it is definitely not a "must Read".