About the Author


Robert F. Wiest entered the investment business as a professional in 1957. He has served as President of a top-performing mutual fund, founder of California's first Commodity Pool, Resident Manager of an office of a NYSE firm, mutual fund wholesaler, stock broker, commodity broker, and publisher of a commodity newsletter with one thousand one hundred subscribers.

Having worked in every segment of the investment industry, he has seen virtually every scam used in the business. In this book he has described dozens of those scams. By reading this book, you could save yourself thousands of times the cost of this book.