Motley Fool Investment Guide How the Fool Beats Wall Street's Wise Men and How You Can Too

Name: Motley Fool Investment Guide How the Fool Beats Wall Street's Wise Men and How You Can Too
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ISBN: 9780743201735

ISBN-10: 0743201736

ISBN-13: 9780743201735

Edition: 2001 (Revised)

Authors: David Gardner, Tom Gardner, David Gardner

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For Making Sense of Investing Today...the Fully Revised and Expanded Edition of the Bestselling The Motley Fool Investment Guide Today, with the Internet, anyone can be an informed investor. Once you learn to tune out the hype and focus on meaningful factors, you can beat the Street. The Motley Fool Investment Guide, completely revised and updated with clear and witty explanations, deciphers all the new information -- from evaluating individual stocks to creating a diverse investment portfolio. David and Tom Gardner have investing ideas for you -- no matter how much time or money you have. This new edition of The Motley Fool Investment Guide is built for today's investor, sophisticate and…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 1/2/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

In 1994, Davis Gardner created The Motley Fool, an online investment service. With his brother Tom, Gardner has written about finance and computer technology in The Motley Fool Investment Guide and The Motley Fool Investment Workbook.

Tom Gardner founded The Motley Fool in 1993.



Foreword



Who, What, Why, and How


"Fool"?


Folly


Get Online!



Mutual Funds: Love 'Em, or Leave 'Em?


Hey, Maybe You Should Just Buy Mutual Funds


Maybe You Should Avoid Mutual Funds


The S&P Index Portfolio



Building a Foolish Investment Portfolio


Stepping Away from Index Funds


Out of Funds into Stocks


How to Find Companies to Invest In


Getting Information on Companies



Companies and Quality


Why Buy Blue-Chips?


Why Small-Cap Growth Stocks?



Things to Look For


Selecting the Best Growth Stocks


Making Sense of Income Statements


Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements



Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, and More


Quality Versus Valuation


Rule Makers


Rule Breakers


When to Sell


Mechanical Investing and the Foolish Four



Some Advanced Topics


Using Margin


Shorting Stocks



Putting It All Together


Why Invest?



Conclusion


A Foolish Farewell



Stocks: A Primer for Those Who'll Admit They Need It



How Investment Publishers Should Report Their Numbers



A Tale of Two Stocks: Iomega and AOL



Zeigletics: The Penny Stock That Never Was



The Carnival of Freakish Delights: Investment Approaches to Avoid



The Leibniz Preharmonic Oscillator


Acknowledgments


Index