Have you ever been burned by the stock market? Has it happened to you more than once? Would you like to have a strategy and a plan that will work to preserve your hard-earned gains and avoid big losses? Maybe it was the bear market of 2000-2002 that ravaged your portfolio, or maybe it was 2008, or even 1987. Maybe it wasn't a bear market at all that caused you to lose money; maybe it was your own inexperience and poor choices. In 2008, Robert I. Katz founded a corporation, The Defensive Investor, which runs a website: http: //www.thedefensiveinvestor.com. The purpose of thedefensiveinvestor.com is to give ongoing commentary, discussion and instruction on those investing rules and strategies that have been shown to lead to financial success, low-risk strategies that will allow you to invest your money with confidence, to sleep soundly at night knowing that your money is working for you, not against you, to get through those inevitable market downturns with minimal losses, to achieve financial independence and to retire without ever again having to worry about money. This book, Make Money, Don't Lose Money: The Defensive Investor on Thriving and Surviving Through Bull and Bear Markets summarizes the rules, strategy and philosophy that the author has used for over 35 years to navigate the financial markets and the ever-changing investing environment. Written specifically for the individual investor, it contains a wealth of common sense approaches toward investing your money, along with a description of numerous strategies that have been shown to be successful in stockpiling gains and avoiding big losses, time after time, through good markets and bad.