| Preface to the Second Edition | p. vi |
| Introduction | p. ix |
| What Is the Stock Market? | p. 1 |
| What Is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? | p. 6 |
| How Do You Read Market Quotes in the Newspaper? | p. 12 |
| Should You Invest in the Stock Market? | p. 15 |
| How Do You Know When to Buy or Sell? | p. 18 |
| Do You Know What You Need to Know? | p. 23 |
| What Is a Stock? | p. 27 |
| How Do Companies Sell Shares of Stock? | p. 30 |
| What Are Your Rights as a Shareholder? | p. 32 |
| Is the Stock Market Risky? | p. 37 |
| Do You Know What You Need to Know? | p. 41 |
| How Do You Open a Brokerage Account? | p. 44 |
| How Do You Select a Broker? | p. 48 |
| How Do You Make an Investment? | p. 50 |
| How Can You Make Money When Stocks Go Down? | p. 58 |
| How Do Companies Pay Dividends? | p. 61 |
| Do You Know What You Need to Know? | p. 63 |
| What Is a Bond? | p. 67 |
| What Are the Different Types of Bonds? | p. 69 |
| What Is Compound Interest? | p. 78 |
| What Are the Risks of Investing in Bonds? | p. 83 |
| How Do You Buy Bonds? | p. 88 |
| Do You Know What You Need to Know? | p. 91 |
| How Do You Read Financial Statements? | p. 94 |
| What Can You Learn from Financial Statements? | p. 102 |
| Why Are Financial Ratios Important? | p. 109 |
| Do You Know What You Need to Know? | p. 112 |
| What Is Fundamental Analysis? | p. 116 |
| What Are Economic Cycles? | p. 119 |
| How Do You Measure Inflation? | p. 126 |
| What Is the Biggest Economic Problem Today? | p. 132 |
| Do You Know What You Need to Know? | p. 134 |
| What Is Technical Analysis? | p. 138 |
| How Do You Read Stock Charts? | p. 139 |
| What Are Some Other Technical Indicators? | p. 143 |
| What Is a Contrarian, and Should You Be One? | p. 147 |
| How Do You Use Market Timing Techniques? | p. 148 |
| Do You Know What You Need to Know? | p. 151 |
| What Is a Mutual Fund? | p. 155 |
| What Does It Cost to Buy Mutual Funds? | p. 157 |
| What Types of Mutual Funds Are Available? | p. 163 |
| How Do You Select a Mutual Fund? | p. 168 |
| What Are Closed-End Funds and Unit Trusts? | p. 171 |
| Do You Know What You Need to Know? | p. 174 |
| What Are Stock Options? | p. 178 |
| What Happens When You Buy Options? | p. 184 |
| What Happens When You Sell Options? | p. 188 |
| What Are Some Other Option Strategies? | p. 190 |
| What Are Stock Rights and Warrants? | p. 193 |
| What Are Commodity Futures Contracts? | p. 195 |
| Do You Know What You Need to Know? | p. 198 |
| How Are Your Rights as an Investor Protected? | p. 202 |
| What Have We Learned from Previous Market Crashes? | p. 204 |
| What Is the National Association of Securities Dealers? | p. 210 |
| Do You Know What You Need to Know? | p. 213 |
| What Are the Tax Consequences of Investing? | p. 216 |
| Should You Have an IRA? | p. 219 |
| What Is an Annuity? | p. 224 |
| What Are Limited Partnerships? | p. 228 |
| Do You Know What You Need to Know? | p. 232 |
| What Changes Are Coming to the Securities Markets? | p. 236 |
| How Will Computers Change the Way You Invest? | p. 243 |
| What Recent Events Will Affect the Economy in the Future? | p. 249 |
| Do You Know What You Need to Know? | p. 260 |
| How Do You Calculate Interest Rates? | p. 264 |
| Glossary | p. 272 |
| Recommended Reading | p. 295 |
| Index | p. 296 |
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