One Up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The professionals are not hiding anything from you. That’s the claim underneath everything in this book, and Peter Lynch earned the right to make it. He ran Fidelity’s Magellan Fund from May 1977 to May 1990, and Fidelity’s own records show it going from $20 million in assets to the $14 billion his successor inherited; a thousand dollars left in the fund across those thirteen years came out as twenty-eight thousand. His account of how is deflating. No macro forecast, no model — he looked at more companies than anyone else was willing to, and found a good many of the best ones the way you would, as a customer in a store.

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One Up on Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market