A comprehensive and practical guide to the stock market from a successful fund manager--filled with case studies important background information and all the tools you ll need to become a stock market genius. Fund manager Joel Greenblatt has been beating the Dow (with returns of 50 percent a year) for more than a decade. And now in this highly accessible guide he s going to show you how to do it too. You re about to discover investment opportunities that portfolio managers business-school professors and top investment experts regularly miss--uncharted areas where the individual investor has a huge advantage over the Wall Street wizards. Here is your personal treasure map to special situations in which big profits are possible including: -Spin-offs -Restructurings -Merger Securities -Rights Offerings -Recapitalizations -Bankruptcies -Risk Arbitrage Prepared with the tools from this guide it won t be long until you re a stock market genius!