The Neatest Little Guide to Do-It-Yourself Investing

by Kelly, Jason

• ISBN13: 9780452282841
• ISBN10: 0452282845
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

Author uses real-life success stories to show how individual investors can reduce risk and make money in any market. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Preface: Writing Through the Tornado	1	(2)
The Glamour	3	(5)
Opportunity and Risk in Stocks	8	(31)
Make $9.2 Million by Accident	8	(10)
Such Were the Hardships	10	(1)
$15 to $250 in Five Months	11	(2)
Down Trends Among the Up	13	(2)
The 2000-2001 Bear Market	15	(3)
Constant Opportunity and Constant Risk	18	(1)
The Winning System	18	(7)
Crafty Mr. Cook	19	(4)
Elliott's House of Mirrors	23	(2)
Stock Market Dot Con	25	(3)
Pump-and-Dump	25	(1)
The Tale of Tokyo Joe	26	(2)
The Risks You'll Happily Avoid	28	(8)
Real Estate Headaches	29	(1)
Limited Profit Partnerships	30	(2)
Becoming a Losing Lender	32	(1)
Getting Flimflammed	33	(1)
Prime Bank Securities	34	(1)
New Utopia	34	(1)
Pyramid Schemes	35	(1)
Do-It-Yourself Investor Tools	36	(3)
Chapter Recap	36	(2)
Resources from This Chapter	38	(1)
The Calm Investor	39	(17)
The Rafter and the Dow	39	(5)
Nobody Knows Where the Market Goes	40	(2)
Three Sure Things of Forecasting	42	(1)
You're Not the Market	43	(1)
Choose the Type of Risk That's Right for You	44	(1)
Risky, Greedy, and Fearful	44	(5)
Behavioral Finance	45	(1)
You'd Rather Get Ahead Than Be Ahead	46	(3)
Your Fluctuating Fortune	49	(3)
Don't Miss the Little Bursts	50	(1)
The Intelligent Risk Manager's Motto	50	(1)
Three Days per Year	51	(1)
Your Amorphous Money Glob	51	(1)
Do-It-Yourself Investor Tools	52	(4)
Chapter Recap	53	(1)
Resources from This Chapter	54	(2)
In the Oysters and Under the Rocks	56	(33)
Think Like an Investor	57	(2)
Investment Info Everywhere	59	(1)
The Everywhere Info Is Just Fine, Thanks	60	(7)
The Sugar Water Bulletin	61	(2)
The Headlines of Akamai	63	(1)
What Shall We Read?	64	(3)
Learn What to Ignore	67	(4)
Avoiding Risky Behaviors	68	(1)
Don't Know and Don't Want to Know	69	(2)
The Siren Song of Investment Software	71	(5)
Dashed on The Rocks of Daytrading	71	(3)
The Saving Grace of a Database	74	(2)
Copy Successful Professionals	76	(2)
Do-It-Yourself Investor Tools	78	(11)
Chapter Recap	78	(2)
Resources from This Chapter	80	(9)
The Path to the Simplest Investment Plan Ever	89	(31)
Brother-in-Law Brokers	89	(6)
Ever Hear of a Company Called Intel?	90	(2)
How to Save $792 per Order	92	(3)
The Art of the Order	95	(4)
A Stressful Argument About Stress Reduction	96	(1)
What a Morning	97	(1)
An Art of Your Own	98	(1)
Win Few, Win Big	99	(6)
Accidentally Owning the Market	100	(2)
The Safety of Twelve	102	(1)
The Idiotic Frontier	103	(1)
``If at First You Do Succeed, Quit Trying''	104	(1)
Keep Investing--The Advantage of Dollar--Cost Averaging	105	(3)
A Spoonful of Merck Every Month	106	(1)
Raskob Revisited	107	(1)
Wade In, Don't Dive	108	(8)
Alan's April Massacre	108	(2)
Either You Have Lost or You Will Lose	110	(2)
Pay Small Amounts to Learn	112	(2)
Stalking the Proper Excuses	114	(2)
The Simplest Investment Plan Ever	116	(1)
Do-It-Yourself Investor Tools	116	(4)
Chapter Recap	117	(1)
Resources from This Chapter	118	(2)
Finding $500 per Month	120	(23)
Trim the Fat and Send It In	121	(11)
Renting from Ron, Buying from Dick	121	(2)
The $45,894 Honda	123	(2)
Food on the Floor	125	(2)
Suite Long-Distance Rates	127	(1)
The 40-Year Sofa Purchase Plan	128	(1)
Low Odds, Low Premiums	129	(3)
Let the Good Times Pay	132	(2)
Paddling for Profit	132	(1)
Five-Star Cash	133	(1)
Getting Paid to Sleep	133	(1)
Become a Baron, Magnate, or Tycoon	134	(5)
Child Fun and Mommy Money	135	(2)
Dollops of Paint and the Color of Cash	137	(1)
A Better Break Than Getting Elected to Congress	138	(1)
Do-It-Yourself Investor Tools	139	(4)
Chapter Recap	139	(2)
Resources from This Chapter	141	(2)
And You're Off!	143	(3)
Appendix 1: The View from My Piece of Flotsam	146	(10)
Dateline: June 27, 2001	146	(2)
Kelly's Heroes: Stocking Up Your Recovery Portfolio	148	(3)
Good for All Eons	151	(3)
Kevlar 500/400 Portfolio	154	(2)
Appendix 2: Your Risk Rundown	156	(3)
Appendix 3: Fill Your 401(k)	159	(3)
Appendix 4: Why I Detest Analysts	162	(3)
Appendix 5: Do-It-Yourself Investor Tools	165	(1)
This Book as a Brochure	165	(4)
Resources from This Book	169