A Random Walk Down Wall Street Chapter Summaries

Just at the start of the book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, it seemed to be very interesting, not just saying this because it’s a project. The book is full of information and theories, but it does get harder to follow as I kept reading. Before reading Burton G. Malkiel’s book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, I knew it would be about the stock market, but I had no Idea it would be full of theories and ideas that make you think harder and more efficiently about the stock market. For this book, I think about whether it had succeeded or not, although popular for school projects for a regular book it had so much information that made it succeed in my eyes. In my lifetime I have yet to directly invest the stock market, but after reading this book I have a better idea of how the stock market could work and it makes me think about the possibilities for a future portfolio. …show more content…
This particular theory has the idea that a person willing to pay more is better. It can be based on the idea that the crowd of investors behave and are more likely to behave in the future. For Wall Street and the stock market, involving this theory an amount of money is goo but paying more is good for the market, but not always good for the person who has to pay. I agree with always having a person willing to pay more, on some occasions people who have money to throw around are willing to pay any price for what they want. As far as telling how people can act and think in the future, I disagree because no one can tell what another person is thinking. An investor can try and put all their money in one month and the next month decide to take some of that money out and not invest anymore then they already