24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success: Learn the Most Important Investment Techniques from the Founder of Investor's Business Daily

by O'Neil, William J.

• ISBN13: 9780071357548
• ISBN10: 0071357548
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-03
• Publisher: McGraw Hill

Summary

TheWall Street Journal,New York Times,BusinessWeek, andUSA TodayBusiness Bestseller!From the publisher ofInvestor's Business Dailyand best-selling author ofHow to Make Money in Stocks, comes the National Bestseller,24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success, two dozen of the most important lessons for investors. In this one accessible guide, William J. O'Neil puts his popular and easy-to-follow techniques for building a profitable portfolio firmaly in the hands of investorsshy;shy;and the goal of long-term financial security easily within their reach.24 Essential Lessons for Investment Successis based upon the closely followed "26 Weeks to Investment Success" editorials that appear inInvestor's Business Daily. Edited and updated, O'Neil's timeless advice encapsulates such investing nuggets as buy high and sell higher to making a million in mutual funds. Concentrate your investments in a few areas, know them well, and watch them carefully.Don't just rely upon PE ratios and other common technical tools. Learn to use Relative Price Strength to help you choose stocks. O'Neil's cautionary yet pro-active advice has helped to makeInvestor's Business Dailyone of America's fastest growing and most respected newspapers. Now investor's can benefit from his timeless words of wisdom, collected in one easy-to-use resource.

Author Biography

William J. O'Neil is the founder and Chairman of Investor's Business Daily, one of the leading financial newspapers in the world and the author of the million-copy bestseller, How to Make Money in Stocks. He has a long and successful track record as an analyst and investor, is the creator of the CANSLIM charts, and is recognized as a leading advisor to individual investors around the world.

Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success.

Lesson 1: What Every Investor Should Know Going in.

Lesson 2: Getting Started: There's No Time Like the Present!

Lesson 3: Follow a System Rather Than your Emotions.

Lesson 4: Fundamental Analysis or Technical Analysis?

Lesson 5: First Among Fundamentals: Earnings and Sales.

Lesson 6: Relative Price Strength: A Key Technical Tool.

Lesson 7: Know a Stock by the Company It Keeps.

Lesson 8: The Importance of Volume and Sponsorship.

Lesson 9: How to Buy at Just the Right Moment.

Lesson 10: How Chart Patterns Lead to Big Profits.

Lesson 11: How to Read Stock Charts Like a Pro.

Lesson 12: How to Gauge the Stock Market's Health.

Lesson 13: How to Spot When the Market Hits a Top.

Lesson 14: How to Spot When the Market Bottoms.

Lesson 15: Putting the Stock-Picking Puzzle Together.

Lesson 16: how to Find New Investment Ideas in Investor's Business Daily.

Lesson 17: Growth vs. Value investing.

Lesson 18: Don't Try to Be a Jack-of-all-Trades.

Lesson 19: What's the Right Mix for Your Portfolio?

Lesson 20: Sell Rules Every Investor Should Master.

Lesson 21: More Sell Rules Every Investor Should Master.

Lesson 22: How to Make a Million with Mutuals.

Lesson 23: Too Busy? How to Use Investor's Business Daily in Twenty Minutes.

Lesson 24: How to Make the Most of Investor's Business Daily, Investors.com, and Other Online Resources.

Appendix A.

Appendix B.

Recommended Reading List.

Glossary.

Index.