The Gap: Four Questions Between a Guess and a Fortune (The Investor's Trilogy)

Most investing books are four hundred pages long. This one has just four chapters.

That is not laziness. That is the point.

The stock market only ever asks you four questions.
- What to buy.
- When to buy.
- How much to buy.
- When to sell.

Every chart, every headline, every man on your screen shouting about a breakout is one of those four questions in a wig.

Nobody tells you this, because there is not much money in a short book. There is a great deal of money in you feeling permanently underqualified.

So: four questions, four chapters, one afternoon of your life.

You will not find a stock tip in here. You will not find a prediction, a system, a proprietary framework with a name, or a chart with a Greek letter on it. What you will find is the published evidence on each of the four questions, an answer you can hold for the next forty years, and an author who is very upfront about having got all four of them spectacularly wrong first.

Fair warning: one of the four questions does not survive the book. It disappears somewhere around the end, and readers almost never guess which one.

If you have never bought anything in your life, start here. If you already own a few things you cannot entirely justify, start here slightly faster.

The Gap is the third book in The Investor's Trilogy, after The Game of Percentage and The Effortless Investor. Each stands alone too.