Table of Contents
About the author vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
Prologue: the croupier's story xvii
Part I The wonderful sharemarket
1 The pitch 3
2 The gun investor 15
3 No training and no idea 25
Part II Building the foundations
4 Who are you? The road to discovery 31
5 Creating your own Wall Street 47
6 The nine rules of success 61
Part III Ready, set, go!
7 Finding stocks that go up 81
8 Primary school numbers 95
9 Margins, ratios and all that jazz 119
10 All companies are different 135
11 The perfect company 153
12 Trophy cabinet to rubbish bin 169
13 Don't fight momentum 183
14 Traps 189
15 The mystery of management 203
Part IV Exploding the myths
16 Skin in the game 219
17 Look for the catalyst not the company 233
18 Old and past it 253
19 Smart money — bad results 259
20 Other myths 267
Part V Are professionals better?
21 Professional versus punter 277
22 Money managers, money makers 297
Part VI When does a bull become a bear?
23 Is this a bull or a bear? 311
24 History has the answers 317
25 Where are we in 2011? 331
26 Get ready to touch the sky 347
Epilogue: our former croupier 363
Final word 365
Index 369