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!