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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 | |