Table of Contents
The Opening ix
Part 1 What You Need to Know First
1 Welcome to the Stock Market 3
2 Classifying Stocks: Value, Income, and Growth 23
3 Fun Things You Can Do (with Stocks) 29
Part 2 How to Enter, Exit, and Escape Stocks
4 Opening a Brokerage Account 37
5 Buying Your First Stock 47
6 Have a Selling Strategy 55
7 Learn How to Limit Losses 61
Part 3 Money-Making Strategies
8 Make Money Slowly: Investment Strategies Using Stocks, Mutual Funds, Index Funds, and ETFs 75
9 Want to Make Money Fast? Short-Term Trading Strategies 91
10 Legendary Investors William O'Neil and John Bogle 101
Part 4 Decide Which Stocks to Buy or Sell
11 It's Really Fundamental: How to Analyze Companies 123
12 Fundamental Analysis: Tools and Tactics 135
13 Let's Get Technical 147
14 Technical and Sentiment Analysis: Tools and Tactics 169
Part 5 Outside the Box
15 Options, Bonds, Cash, Real Estate, Currencies, IPOs, and Futures 183
16 What Makes Stocks Go Up and Down? 201
Part 6 Sincere Advice
17 Why Investors Lose Money 215
18 Where to Get Help 229
19 Lessons I Learned from the Stock Market 233
The Closing: What You Should Do Now 241
Index 243
Acknowledgments 255
About the Author 257