Wade Cook In the 1990s, Cook gained notoriety for paid radio programs which he used to market investment seminars. He was notable for his claim to be able to teach people to double their money every 2.5 to 4 months.The government forced him to recant that claim.  Cook is a proponent of rolling stocks (stocks that regularly vacillate between "predictable" highs and lows) and has been very vocal about stock splits being a good way to make money, claiming that many stocks rose post split (since the end of the 1990s bull market, Cook has not been as strong a proponent of this concept). One of his more famous phrases was meter drop. Cook said that as a cab driver he learned that money was made every time the meter dropped, and that it was better to take many small fares rather than one big one. This translated to Cook's short-term investment strategy of buying and selling many stocks for smaller, quicker profits rather than buying and holding securities for an extended period in the hope that they will increase greatly.  While Wade Cook has had some ups and downs personally and professional he has been quite successful as an published author.

Books by Wade Cook include, Real Estate Money Machine, Stock Market Miracles,  Don’t Set Goals: The Old Way, Bear Market Baloney  and Business Buy the Bible.  His more recent writings include Brilliant Deductions,   How to Pick up Foreclosures,  Wall Street Money Machine (Vols. 1-5),  Blueprints for Success,  Real Estate for Real People,  Cook’s Book on Creative Real Estate,  101 ways to Buy Real Estate Without Cash,  Wealth 101, Y2K Gold Rush, Safety 1^st Investing,  Wade Cook’s Power Quotes,  Success: American Style,  Red Light, Green Light,  Two Bad Years and Up We Go!,  Wade Cook’s Stock Picking Handbook  and  Stock Market Money Machine.