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Speak the Language of Stocks | p. 1 |
Why Stocks Are Good Investments | p. 1 |
Stocks Allow You to Own Successful Companies | p. 2 |
Stocks Have Been the Best Investments over Time | p. 3 |
How Stocks Trade | p. 3 |
Preferred Stock vs. Common Stock | p. 4 |
How You Make Money Owning Stocks | p. 5 |
Through Capital Appreciation | p. 5 |
Through Dividends | p. 5 |
Total Return | p. 6 |
All about Stock Splits | p. 6 |
Why and How a Company Sells Stock | p. 8 |
Selling Stock Is a Great Way to Raise Money | p. 8 |
Going Public Raises Even More Money | p. 9 |
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) | p. 10 |
American Stock Exchange (AMEX or ASE) | p. 10 |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (NASDAQ) | p. 10 |
Working with an Investment Banker | p. 11 |
Making a Secondary Offering | p. 11 |
What People Mean by "the Market" | p. 12 |
How to Choose a Broker to Buy Stocks | p. 14 |
Three Types of Brokerage Firms | p. 14 |
Full-Service Brokerage Firms | p. 14 |
Discount Brokerage Firms | p. 16 |
Deep Discount Brokerage Firms | p. 17 |
The Case for Discounters and Deep Discounters | p. 17 |
Technology Has Made Full-Service Brokers Obsolete | p. 17 |
You Need to Double-Check Full-Service Information | p. 18 |
You Should Monitor Your Own Investments | p. 19 |
How to Evaluate Stocks | p. 20 |
Growth Investing vs. Value Investing | p. 20 |
Growth Investing | p. 20 |
Value Investing | p. 22 |
Fundamental Analysis vs. Technical Analysis | p. 23 |
Fundamental Analysis | p. 24 |
Technical Analysis | p. 24 |
Some Fundamental Stock Measurements | p. 25 |
Cash Flow per Share | p. 26 |
Current Ratio | p. 26 |
Dividend Yield | p. 27 |
Earnings per Share (EPS) | p. 28 |
Net Profit Margin | p. 29 |
Price/Book Ratio | p. 30 |
Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E or Multiple) | p. 31 |
Price/Sales Ratio (P/S or PSR) | p. 32 |
Quick Ratio | p. 33 |
Return on Equity (ROE) | p. 34 |
Some Technical Stock Measurements | p. 34 |
Beta | p. 34 |
Max and Min Comparison | p. 35 |
Relative Price Strength | p. 36 |
Volume | p. 36 |
How to Read the Stock Pages | p. 37 |
Three Stock Classifications You Should Know | p. 39 |
Company Size | p. 40 |
Industry Classification | p. 41 |
Growth or Value | p. 42 |
How the Masters Tell Us to Invest | p. 43 |
Meet the Masters | p. 44 |
Benjamin Graham | p. 45 |
Market Fluctuation and Emotion | p. 45 |
Stock Valuations | p. 46 |
Margin of Safety | p. 47 |
What You Should Retain from Graham | p. 48 |
Philip Fisher | p. 49 |
Characteristics of Superior Companies | p. 49 |
Characteristics of Superior Investors | p. 51 |
What You Should Retain from Fisher | p. 52 |
Warren Buffett | p. 53 |
The Stock Market | p. 54 |
Buying Quality Companies at Bargain Prices | p. 54 |
Attributes of a Quality Company | p. 56 |
Determining a Bargain Price | p. 57 |
Managing Investments | p. 58 |
What You Should Retain from Buffett | p. 59 |
Peter Lynch | p. 60 |
Use What You Already Know | p. 61 |
Know Your Companies | p. 62 |
Categorize Your Companies | p. 62 |
Components of a Perfect Company | p. 63 |
Know Why to Buy | p. 66 |
What You Should Retain from Lynch | p. 68 |
William O'Neil | p. 69 |
Use the CAN SLIM System to find Growth Stocks | p. 69 |
C: Current Quarterly Earnings per Share Should Be Accelerating | p. 70 |
A: Annual Earnings per Share Should Be Accelerating | p. 70 |
N: New Something or Other Should Be Driving the Stock to New Highs | p. 70 |
S: Supply of Stock Should Be Small and Demand Should Be High | p. 71 |
L: Leaders in an Industry Should Be Your Target | p. 71 |
I: Institutional Sponsorship Should Be Moderate | p. 71 |
M: Market Direction Should Be Upward | p. 71 |
Ignore Valuation | p. 72 |
Managing a Portfolio | p. 73 |
Automate Buying and Selling | p. 73 |
Focus, Make Gradual Moves, and Track Your Winners | p. 75 |
What You Should Retain from O'Neil | p. 76 |
Gary Pilgrim | p. 77 |
Automate Growth Rankings to Avoid Emotion | p. 78 |
Elements of Good Growth Stocks | p. 78 |
High Earnings Expectations and Positive Earnings Surprises | p. 79 |
High Earnings Acceleration Rate | p. 79 |
Strong Balance Sheet | p. 80 |
Ignore Valuation | p. 80 |
Managing a Portfolio as an Individual Investor | p. 80 |
It's Dangerous to Pursue Earnings Momentum Like PBHG | p. 81 |
A Value Approach Might be Better for Individuals | p. 81 |
You'll Fail Trying to Get Information Quicker Than the Pros | p. 82 |
Strategies to Adopt as an Individual Investor | p. 83 |
What You Should Retain from Pilgrim | p. 85 |
Where the Masters Agree | p. 87 |
Automate Your Strategy with Proven Criteria | p. 87 |
Look for Strong Income Statements and Balance Sheets | p. 88 |
Look for Insider Stock Ownership and Company Buybacks | p. 88 |
Compare Stocks to a Proven Profile | p. 89 |
Conduct Thorough Research | p. 89 |
Know Why to Buy | p. 90 |
Buy at a Price Below the Company's Potential | p. 91 |
Buy More of What's Working | p. 93 |
Take Advantage of Price Dips | p. 94 |
What You Should Retain from This Section | p. 95 |
How History Tells Us to Invest | p. 97 |
Testing Popular Measurements | p. 98 |
The Best Value Measures | p. 99 |
Price/Sales | p. 99 |
Dividend Yield | p. 99 |
The Best Growth Measure--Relative Price Strength | p. 100 |
Combining the Measurements | p. 101 |
Cornerstone Value Strategy | p. 101 |
Cornerstone Growth Strategy | p. 103 |
Combining the Strategies | p. 104 |
What You Should Retain from History's Lessons | p. 106 |
Dow Dividend Strategies | p. 108 |
A Short, Sweet Look at the Dow | p. 109 |
Dow Companies Will Endure | p. 111 |
High-Yield Dow Companies Make Great Investments | p. 112 |
How to Invest in High-Yield Dow Stocks | p. 113 |
Listing the Ten Highest-Yield Dow Stocks | p. 114 |
The Dow 10 | p. 116 |
The Dow 5 Plain | p. 117 |
The Dow 5 Focus | p. 118 |
The Dow 2 | p. 120 |
The Dow 1 | p. 121 |
Choosing a Dow Strategy | p. 121 |
Get Ready to Invest | p. 123 |
Know Why You're Investing | p. 123 |
Precisely Define Your Goals | p. 123 |
Make Them Specific and Exhilarating | p. 124 |
Write Them Down | p. 124 |
Assign Time Frames to Those Goals | p. 124 |
Choose Acceptable Risk Levels for your Goals | p. 125 |
Choose a Discount Broker | p. 126 |
Ceres | p. 126 |
E*Trade | p. 127 |
eBroker | p. 127 |
Fidelity | p. 128 |
Jack White and Company | p. 128 |
Schwab | p. 129 |
Others | p. 129 |
Get Money to the Broker | p. 130 |
Your Core Account | p. 130 |
Putting Money into Your Core Account | p. 131 |
Asset Transfer | p. 131 |
Direct Deposit | p. 131 |
Electronic Bank Transfers | p. 132 |
Place Orders | p. 132 |
Bid, Ask, and Spread | p. 132 |
Orders | p. 134 |
Market | p. 134 |
Limit | p. 134 |
Stop | p. 136 |
Ways to Place Orders | p. 137 |
By Phone | p. 137 |
By Computer | p. 138 |
In Person--How Quaint! | p. 140 |
Research to Riches | p. 141 |
Publications | p. 141 |
Magazines | p. 142 |
SmartMoney | p. 142 |
Worth | p. 142 |
Kiplinger's | p. 143 |
Newspapers | p. 143 |
The Wall Street Journal | p. 143 |
Investor's Business Daily | p. 144 |
Earnings per Share Rank | p. 145 |
Relative Price Strength Rank | p. 145 |
Accumulation/Distribution Rank | p. 146 |
Volume Percent Change | p. 146 |
Barron's | p. 146 |
Newsletters | p. 147 |
Dick Davis Digest | p. 147 |
John Dessauer's Investor's World | p. 148 |
Louis Navellier's MPT Review | p. 148 |
The NeatSheet | p. 148 |
Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street | p. 148 |
The Outlook | p. 149 |
Outstanding Investor Digest | p. 149 |
The Red Chip Review | p. 150 |
Value Line | p. 150 |
The Parts of a Value Line Page | p. 151 |
The Rankings | p. 151 |
Price Projections and Insider Decisions | p. 154 |
P/E Ratio and Dividend Yield | p. 154 |
Price History Chart | p. 154 |
Historic Financial Measures | p. 155 |
Capital Structure | p. 155 |
Current Position | p. 155 |
Annual Rates | p. 156 |
Quarterly Financials | p. 156 |
Business | p. 156 |
Analysis | p. 157 |
Where to Find Value Line | p. 157 |
Limited Coverage in Value Line | p. 158 |
Standard and Poor's Stock Guide | p. 158 |
Companies Themselves | p. 159 |
Request an Investor's Packet | p. 159 |
Read the Investor's Packet | p. 160 |
Annual Report | p. 160 |
Balance Sheet | p. 161 |
Assets | p. 162 |
Liabilities | p. 162 |
Stockholders' Equity | p. 163 |
Income Statement | p. 163 |
10-K and 10-Q | p. 164 |
Stock Databases | p. 165 |
Morningstar U.S. Equities OnFloppy | p. 166 |
Power Investor | p. 167 |
The Internet | p. 169 |
Commercial Services | p. 170 |
America Online | p. 171 |
The Motley Fool | p. 171 |
Morningstar | p. 172 |
Company Research | p. 172 |
CompuServe | p. 172 |
The World Wide Web | p. 173 |
Search Tools | p. 174 |
AltaVista | p. 174 |
Excite | p. 174 |
HotBot | p. 174 |
Lycos | p. 175 |
Webcrawler | p. 175 |
Yahoo! | p. 175 |
Stock Research | p. 175 |
Quotes and Earnings | p. 175 |
Fundamental Data | p. 176 |
Small Companies | p. 177 |
Government and Stock Exchanges | p. 177 |
Discussion Forums | p. 177 |
One-Stop Research | p. 178 |
Investment Organizations | p. 178 |
American Association of Individual Investors | p. 179 |
Investors Alliance | p. 179 |
National Association of Investors Corporation | p. 180 |
This Book's Strategy | p. 181 |
Build a Core Portfolio | p. 181 |
Maintain Your Stocks to Watch Worksheet | p. 182 |
Find Companies to Watch | p. 184 |
Personal Experience | p. 184 |
The Investment Grapevine | p. 186 |
Investment Publications | p. 187 |
Magazines | p. 188 |
Newspapers | p. 188 |
Professional Publications | p. 189 |
The Internet | p. 189 |
Gather the Worksheet Criteria | p. 190 |
Company Basics | p. 192 |
Company Name, Symbol, and Phone | p. 192 |
Current Stock Price and 52-Week High/Low | p. 193 |
Market Capitalization | p. 194 |
Daily Dollar Volume | p. 196 |
Sales | p. 197 |
Company Health | p. 199 |
Net Profit Margin | p. 199 |
Cash and Total Debt | p. 202 |
Stock Health | p. 203 |
Sales per Share | p. 203 |
Cash Flow per Share | p. 205 |
Earnings per Share | p. 207 |
Dividend Yield | p. 208 |
Return on Equity | p. 209 |
Insider Buys/Ownership | p. 210 |
Stock Buyback | p. 212 |
Past Performance | p. 212 |
EPS Rank | p. 212 |
Relative Price Strength Rank | p. 213 |
Five-Year Sales and Earnings Gain | p. 214 |
Five-Year Price Appreciation | p. 215 |
Projected Performance | p. 216 |
Sales and Earnings | p. 216 |
Projected Stock High/Low | p. 217 |
Rankings | p. 218 |
Value Line Timeliness/Safety | p. 218 |
SandP STARS/Fair Value | p. 219 |
Stock Ratios | p. 220 |
Current Price-to-Earnings | p. 220 |
Average Price-to-Earnings | p. 222 |
Price-to-Sales | p. 222 |
Price-to-Book | p. 225 |
Current Ratio | p. 226 |
Quick Ratio | p. 227 |
Max/Min | p. 227 |
Track Your List | p. 228 |
Compare Competitors | p. 228 |
Ask Why | p. 230 |
Store Company Information in Folders | p. 231 |
Keep the Information Current | p. 231 |
Use Your Reasons and Limits Worksheet | p. 232 |
Discerning Growth from Value | p. 234 |
How to Use the Reasons and Limits Worksheet | p. 235 |
Growth or Value | p. 235 |
Company Strengths | p. 235 |
Company Challenges | p. 235 |
Why to Buy | p. 236 |
Why to Sell | p. 236 |
Buy Your Stocks | p. 238 |
Choose a Market or Limit Order | p. 238 |
Make Gradual Purchases | p. 240 |
Buy That Baby! | p. 241 |
When the Market's Up, Down, and All Around | p. 241 |
Ignore the Gurus | p. 242 |
Forecasting or Marketing? | p. 243 |
We Could All Be Gurus | p. 244 |
You Knew This Was Coming, So Why Worry? | p. 244 |
Review Your Reasons and Limits | p. 245 |
Reverse Your Emotions | p. 246 |
Sell Your Stocks | p. 247 |
Ignore Rumors and Popular Opinion | p. 248 |
Rely on Your Reasons and Limits | p. 249 |
Review Your Stocks to Watch | p. 250 |
Choose a Market or Limit Order | p. 251 |
Make Gradual Sells | p. 251 |
Sell That Baby! | p. 252 |
Track Your Performance | p. 253 |
Portfolio Profits, Losses, and Commissions | p. 253 |
The Fearsome Foursome | p. 254 |
Good Buy Points | p. 255 |
Good Sell Points | p. 255 |
How to Improve Your Buy and Sell Points | p. 256 |
Bon Voyage! | p. 258 |
Reasons and Limits Worksheet | p. 259 |
Stocks to Watch Worksheet | p. 260 |
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