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Speak the Language of Stocks | |
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Why Stocks Are Good Investments | |
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Stocks Allow You to Own Successful Companies | |
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Stocks Have Been the Best Investments over Time | |
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How Stocks Trade | |
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Preferred Stock vs. Common Stock | |
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How You Make Money Owning Stocks | |
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Through Capital Appreciation | |
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Through Dividends | |
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Total Return | |
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All about Stock Splits | |
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Why and How a Company Sells Stock | |
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Selling Stock Is a Great Way to Raise Money | |
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Going Public Raises Even More Money | |
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New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) | |
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American Stock Exchange (AMEX or ASE) | |
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National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (NASDAQ) | |
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Working with an Investment Banker | |
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Making a Secondary Offering | |
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What People Mean by "the Market" | |
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How to Choose a Broker to Buy Stocks | |
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Three Types of Brokerage Firms | |
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Full-Service Brokerage Firms | |
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Discount Brokerage Firms | |
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Deep Discount Brokerage Firms | |
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The Case for Discounters and Deep Discounters | |
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Technology Has Made Full-Service Brokers Obsolete | |
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You Need to Double-Check Full-Service Information | |
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You Should Monitor Your Own Investments | |
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How to Evaluate Stocks | |
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Growth Investing vs. Value Investing | |
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Growth Investing | |
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Value Investing | |
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Fundamental Analysis vs. Technical Analysis | |
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Fundamental Analysis | |
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Technical Analysis | |
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Some Fundamental Stock Measurements | |
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Cash Flow per Share | |
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Current Ratio | |
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Dividend Yield | |
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Earnings per Share (EPS) | |
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Net Profit Margin | |
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Price/Book Ratio | |
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Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E or Multiple) | |
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Price/Sales Ratio (P/S or PSR) | |
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Quick Ratio | |
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Return on Equity (ROE) | |
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Some Technical Stock Measurements | |
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Beta | |
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Max and Min Comparison | |
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Relative Price Strength | |
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Volume | |
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How to Read the Stock Pages | |
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Three Stock Classifications You Should Know | |
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Company Size | |
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Industry Classification | |
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Growth or Value | |
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How the Masters Tell Us to Invest | |
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Meet the Masters | |
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Benjamin Graham | |
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Market Fluctuation and Emotion | |
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Stock Valuations | |
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Margin of Safety | |
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What You Should Retain from Graham | |
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Philip Fisher | |
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Characteristics of Superior Companies | |
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Characteristics of Superior Investors | |
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What You Should Retain from Fisher | |
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Warren Buffett | |
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The Stock Market | |
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Buying Quality Companies at Bargain Prices | |
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Attributes of a Quality Company | |
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Determining a Bargain Price | |
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Managing Investments | |
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What You Should Retain from Buffett | |
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Peter Lynch | |
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Use What You Already Know | |
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Know Your Companies | |
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Categorize Your Companies | |
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Components of a Perfect Company | |
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Know Why to Buy | |
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What You Should Retain from Lynch | |
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William O'Neil | |
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Use the CAN SLIM System to find Growth Stocks | |
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C: Current Quarterly Earnings per Share Should Be Accelerating | |
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A: Annual Earnings per Share Should Be Accelerating | |
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N: New Something or Other Should Be Driving the Stock to New Highs | |
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S: Supply of Stock Should Be Small and Demand Should Be High | |
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L: Leaders in an Industry Should Be Your Target | |
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I: Institutional Sponsorship Should Be Moderate | |
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M: Market Direction Should Be Upward | |
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Ignore Valuation | |
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Managing a Portfolio | |
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Automate Buying and Selling | |
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Focus, Make Gradual Moves, and Track Your Winners | |
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What You Should Retain from O'Neil | |
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Gary Pilgrim | |
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Automate Growth Rankings to Avoid Emotion | |
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Elements of Good Growth Stocks | |
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High Earnings Expectations and Positive Earnings Surprises | |
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High Earnings Acceleration Rate | |
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Strong Balance Sheet | |
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Ignore Valuation | |
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Managing a Portfolio as an Individual Investor | |
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It's Dangerous to Pursue Earnings Momentum Like PBHG | |
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A Value Approach Might be Better for Individuals | |
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You'll Fail Trying to Get Information Quicker Than the Pros | |
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Strategies to Adopt as an Individual Investor | |
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What You Should Retain from Pilgrim | |
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Where the Masters Agree | |
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Automate Your Strategy with Proven Criteria | |
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Look for Strong Income Statements and Balance Sheets | |
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Look for Insider Stock Ownership and Company Buybacks | |
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Compare Stocks to a Proven Profile | |
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Conduct Thorough Research | |
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Know Why to Buy | |
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Buy at a Price Below the Company's Potential | |
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Buy More of What's Working | |
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Take Advantage of Price Dips | |
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What You Should Retain from This Section | |
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How History Tells Us to Invest | |
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Testing Popular Measurements | |
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The Best Value Measures | |
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Price/Sales | |
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Dividend Yield | |
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The Best Growth Measure--Relative Price Strength | |
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Combining the Measurements | |
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Cornerstone Value Strategy | |
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Cornerstone Growth Strategy | |
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Combining the Strategies | |
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What You Should Retain from History's Lessons | |
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Dow Dividend Strategies | |
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A Short, Sweet Look at the Dow | |
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Dow Companies Will Endure | |
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High-Yield Dow Companies Make Great Investments | |
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How to Invest in High-Yield Dow Stocks | |
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Listing the Ten Highest-Yield Dow Stocks | |
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The Dow 10 | |
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The Dow 5 Plain | |
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The Dow 5 Focus | |
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The Dow 2 | |
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The Dow 1 | |
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Choosing a Dow Strategy | |
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Get Ready to Invest | |
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Know Why You're Investing | |
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Precisely Define Your Goals | |
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Make Them Specific and Exhilarating | |
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Write Them Down | |
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Assign Time Frames to Those Goals | |
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Choose Acceptable Risk Levels for your Goals | |
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Choose a Discount Broker | |
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Ceres | |
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E*Trade | |
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eBroker | |
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Fidelity | |
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Jack White and Company | |
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Schwab | |
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Others | |
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Get Money to the Broker | |
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Your Core Account | |
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Putting Money into Your Core Account | |
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Asset Transfer | |
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Direct Deposit | |
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Electronic Bank Transfers | |
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Place Orders | |
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Bid, Ask, and Spread | |
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Orders | |
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Market | |
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Limit | |
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Stop | |
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Ways to Place Orders | |
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By Phone | |
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By Computer | |
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In Person--How Quaint! | |
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Research to Riches | |
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Publications | |
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Magazines | |
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SmartMoney | |
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Worth | |
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Kiplinger's | |
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Newspapers | |
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The Wall Street Journal | |
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Investor's Business Daily | |
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Earnings per Share Rank | |
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Relative Price Strength Rank | |
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Accumulation/Distribution Rank | |
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Volume Percent Change | |
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Barron's | |
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Newsletters | |
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Dick Davis Digest | |
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John Dessauer's Investor's World | |
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Louis Navellier's MPT Review | |
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The NeatSheet | |
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Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street | |
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The Outlook | |
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Outstanding Investor Digest | |
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The Red Chip Review | |
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Value Line | |
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The Parts of a Value Line Page | |
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The Rankings | |
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Price Projections and Insider Decisions | |
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P/E Ratio and Dividend Yield | |
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Price History Chart | |
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Historic Financial Measures | |
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Capital Structure | |
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Current Position | |
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Annual Rates | |
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Quarterly Financials | |
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Business | |
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Analysis | |
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Where to Find Value Line | |
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Limited Coverage in Value Line | |
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Standard and Poor's Stock Guide | |
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Companies Themselves | |
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Request an Investor's Packet | |
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Read the Investor's Packet | |
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Annual Report | |
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Balance Sheet | |
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Assets | |
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Liabilities | |
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Stockholders' Equity | |
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Income Statement | |
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10-K and 10-Q | |
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Stock Databases | |
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Morningstar U.S. Equities OnFloppy | |
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Power Investor | |
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The Internet | |
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Commercial Services | |
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America Online | |
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The Motley Fool | |
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Morningstar | |
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Company Research | |
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CompuServe | |
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The World Wide Web | |
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Search Tools | |
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AltaVista | |
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Excite | |
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HotBot | |
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Lycos | |
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Webcrawler | |
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Yahoo! | |
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Stock Research | |
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Quotes and Earnings | |
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Fundamental Data | |
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Small Companies | |
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Government and Stock Exchanges | |
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Discussion Forums | |
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One-Stop Research | |
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Investment Organizations | |
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American Association of Individual Investors | |
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Investors Alliance | |
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National Association of Investors Corporation | |
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This Book's Strategy | |
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Build a Core Portfolio | |
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Maintain Your Stocks to Watch Worksheet | |
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Find Companies to Watch | |
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Personal Experience | |
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The Investment Grapevine | |
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Investment Publications | |
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Magazines | |
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Newspapers | |
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Professional Publications | |
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The Internet | |
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Gather the Worksheet Criteria | |
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Company Basics | |
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Company Name, Symbol, and Phone | |
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Current Stock Price and 52-Week High/Low | |
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Market Capitalization | |
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Daily Dollar Volume | |
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Sales | |
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Company Health | |
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Net Profit Margin | |
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Cash and Total Debt | |
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Stock Health | |
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Sales per Share | |
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Cash Flow per Share | |
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Earnings per Share | |
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Dividend Yield | |
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Return on Equity | |
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Insider Buys/Ownership | |
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Stock Buyback | |
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Past Performance | |
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EPS Rank | |
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Relative Price Strength Rank | |
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Five-Year Sales and Earnings Gain | |
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Five-Year Price Appreciation | |
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Projected Performance | |
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Sales and Earnings | |
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Projected Stock High/Low | |
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Rankings | |
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Value Line Timeliness/Safety | |
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SandP STARS/Fair Value | |
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Stock Ratios | |
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Current Price-to-Earnings | |
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Average Price-to-Earnings | |
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Price-to-Sales | |
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Price-to-Book | |
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Current Ratio | |
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Quick Ratio | |
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Max/Min | |
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Track Your List | |
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Compare Competitors | |
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Ask Why | |
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Store Company Information in Folders | |
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Keep the Information Current | |
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Use Your Reasons and Limits Worksheet | |
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Discerning Growth from Value | |
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How to Use the Reasons and Limits Worksheet | |
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Growth or Value | |
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Company Strengths | |
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Company Challenges | |
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Why to Buy | |
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Why to Sell | |
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Buy Your Stocks | |
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Choose a Market or Limit Order | |
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Make Gradual Purchases | |
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Buy That Baby! | |
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When the Market's Up, Down, and All Around | |
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Ignore the Gurus | |
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Forecasting or Marketing? | |
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We Could All Be Gurus | |
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You Knew This Was Coming, So Why Worry? | |
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Review Your Reasons and Limits | |
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Reverse Your Emotions | |
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Sell Your Stocks | |
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Ignore Rumors and Popular Opinion | |
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Rely on Your Reasons and Limits | |
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Review Your Stocks to Watch | |
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Choose a Market or Limit Order | |
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Make Gradual Sells | |
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Sell That Baby! | |
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Track Your Performance | |
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Portfolio Profits, Losses, and Commissions | |
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The Fearsome Foursome | |
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Good Buy Points | |
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Good Sell Points | |
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How to Improve Your Buy and Sell Points | |
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Bon Voyage! | |
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Reasons and Limits Worksheet | |
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Stocks to Watch Worksheet | |