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: 9780071360333
• ISBN10: 0071360336
• Edition: Limited
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Offers practical strageties for gauging the stock market, buying and selling at the right time, taking advantage of mutual funds, and building a profitable portfolio.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success
What Every Investor Should Know Going In	1	(6)
Getting Started: There's No Time Like the Present!	7	(6)
Follow a System Rather Than Your Emotions	13	(4)
Fundamental Analysis or Technical Analysis?	17	(6)
First Among Fundamentals: Earnings and Sales	23	(6)
Relative Price Strength: A Key Technical Tool	29	(4)
Know a Stock by the Company It Keeps	33	(4)
The Importance of Volume and Sponsorship	37	(6)
How to Buy at Just the Right Moment	43	(8)
How Chart Patterns Lead to Big Profits	51	(6)
How to Read Stock Charts Like a Pro	57	(8)
How to Gauge the Stock Market's Health	65	(4)
How to Spot When the Market Hits a Top	69	(6)
How to Spot When the Market Bottoms	75	(10)
Putting the Stock-Picking Puzzle Together	85	(6)
How to Find New Investment Ideas in Investor's Business Daily	91	(6)
Growth vs. Value Investing	97	(6)
Don't Try to Be a Jack-Of-All-Trades	103	(6)
What's the Right Mix for Your Portfolio?	109	(6)
Sell Rules Every Investor Should Master	115	(4)
More Sell Rules Every Investor Should Master	119	(4)
How to Make a Million with Mutuals	123	(6)
Too Busy? How to Use Investor's Business Daily in Twenty Minutes	129	(6)
How to Make the Most of Investor's Business Daily, Investors.com, and Other Online Resources	135	(4)
Appendix A How to Learn from Models of Success	139	(6)
Appendix B Tales of Investors' Successes and Failures	145	(4)
Recommended Reading List	149	(2)
Glossary	151	(16)
Index	167