An artistic and colorful reference book, Investment Atlas II offers useful information about the performance and characteristics of stocks, bonds, commodities, real estate, and collectibles since the 1800s. Winans examines past bull and bear markets within the various investment groups to show how they differ as well as the tools investors can use to navigate the changes in long-term trends.
Investment Atlas II also reviews the at times surprising reactions of investors to both triumphant and catastrophic historical events, including wars, peacetime achievements, natural and manmade disasters, and government actions, including interest rates, taxes, and regulations. As proof of the success of historically based market analysis, Winans notes that many of the time-tested research tools he presents in Investment Atlas performed brilliantly, signaling the new bear market that arrived in January of 2009 in stocks, bonds, and real estate as well as the new bull market in common and preferred stocks that arrived in April of 2009.