Value investors often distinguish between “investors” (themselves) & speculators or traders, so the title of this book about the king of value investing is intentionally jarring. An easy-to-read description of Buffett’s investing techniques from someone not in the Buffett or value cult.

A couple of chapters were quite cool - about structured deals, downside protection, and the interviews with Pabrai and Zeke.
Found it a little shallow in many parts
But definitely a book to have - -

Made me think more of his short termism at times, and how most of his better trades were always based on company distress, or market panic or some such event.

Further takes me to - how to wait it out whenever a compelling opportunity is not slapping me in the face.

Very educational, slightly different in context to other Warren Buffett books that I have read, if you are interested in the financial markets, it is well worth reading. The book as a good layout throughout and it is easy to follow and understand the topics being talked about. Decent front book cover, more of a educational/autobiography style of book. I would not pick this as the 1st Warren Buffet book to read, better to read it after you have read other of his books, the information in this books, builds upon information that you have already learned from other books. In conclusion a good book, better as book 2, 3, 4 in a series. Not really a starting point in learning about the man.

This book is an interesting dive into the other side of Warren Buffet's strategy when it comes to making money in the stock market. He didn't always buy and hold forever because he had more options due to the lower amount of money and the techniques available to him back in the day. The writing was rather easy to understand for a beginner like me who doesn't understand too many technical terms. My only issue with this book was that the Interview sections were far too long and my eyes glazed over more than once.

Special situations

its need more detail to show Warren Buffett Magic

I think Warren Buffet is partly a literary device here because he didn't do anything unique. But the book covers his workouts namely:
- Merger arbitrage (tbh I still don't believe it can be done without inside info)
- Relative value arbitrage (for example 3COM share in Palm was worth more than 3COM itself)
- Fixed income arbitrage (for ex long corporate bond and short gov bond) - again requires large leverage and big capital
- Private investment in public equity - again requires access and individual terms (convertible bonds and preferred stocks)

For whatever reason self-help guru James Altucher has disavowed his older trading/investing books, including one of my favorite Buffett books: Trade Like Warren Buffett.

In a sea of bland-same-old-conservative-value-Buffett-books, Altucher’s evaluates the out of the ordinary strategies Buffett pursued and ends the book with interviews of two of my favorites hedge fund managers: Mohnish Pabrai and Zeke Ashton.

I have devoured this book at least seven separate times and much of it led to the techniques I wrote about in my first book.

The strategies Altucher describes include: Merger Arbitrage, Relative Value arbitrage, Junk Bonds, Closed-end fund arbitrage, PE ratios and market timing and disasters. For my notes on each please go to this link:
http://rightpriceinvesting.com/2016/1...