The Stock Market Guide to Profitable Investments
With a staggering number of stocks posting tremendous gains and or losses in the past forty years, it was extremely easy to be able to make or lose a fortune with your investments.
Of course, throw in many deep dives here and certain really “short haircuts” there, and the next thing you immediately discover is that…
Your convictions are severely shaken and… Stirred!
Learn How to Build Your Wealth
If you were wondering if the party was over and you missed it, think again. Its time for a serious, profitable perspective that only comes from knowledge and our investing education tutorial is here to help you get your chance at wealth building.
“Any man is liable to errors and only a fool persists in error!”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC)
Think this over: Pockets change… Suckers change… Stocks change…
But stock markets never change. Never change, because human nature and basic economic principles…
Never… Never… Never change!
* * * CONTENTS * * *
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1. Preface
2. Prologue
- The 10 + 4 … Golden Commandments!
- Improve Your Finances
- Develop Your Own Investment Plan
- The Ways to Make Money
- Investing? Think Carefully!
- Buy Low and Sell High
- Deadly Financial Mistakes
- Money Mistakes
- Know Yourself
- Financial Freedom
- Investing Human Nature and 2000 Years
- Stock Market Ups and Downs
- Investing Myths
3. Preliminary
- Understanding and Controlling Your Finances
- Evaluate Your Financial Situation
- Your personal Financial Statements
- Steps to Financial Freedom
- Economics
- Economic Indicators
- Fundamentals of Economics
- Financial Economics
- Capitalism
- Celebrate Capitalism
- Capitalism, Life and Death
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- Socialism
- Communism
- Communism vs Socialism
- Scarcity
- 9 Habits that Will Help Reach Financial Freedom
- Understand Your Assets
- Capital Gains
- Budgeting
- Saving Versus Investing
- Investment Philosophy
- Interest Rates
- Interest Rates and the Stock Market
- Buy Now … Pay Later?
- The Best Investment!
- Pay Your Debts
- Manage Your Debts
- Cash or Credit?
- Taxes, Real Estate and Loans
- Banks
- Bank Checks
- The Stock Market
- The Index
- Yield
- The Age Percentage Formula
- Understand what You Buy
- My Millionaire!
- Money and Ethics
- The Richest Man in Babylon
- Analysis and Recommendations
- Stock Market Investments
- Bitcoin
- 10 Easy Steps to Save Money
- Strategies for Investing in Real Estate
- Four Ways to Keep Your Business Stratup Costs Low
- Your Start-Up Business Needs External Financing for Marketing Operations
4. Elementary
- Who Can You Trust?
- Do’s and Dont’s for Protecting the Investor
- Paying for Advice?
- Investing Advice and Riding the Tide
- Advice on Taking Advice
- Selecting Your Advisor
- Why Use a Financial Advisor?
- Selecting an Online Broker
- Robo-Advisor
- Reports, Analysis and Objectivity
- The Investor’s Bill of Rights
- Your Investing and Savings Tools
- The Odds Are in Your Favor
- Casino Chips?
- The Internet as an Investment Tool
- Know Your History
- Realistic Expectations
- Investigate before You Invest
- Online Trading
- Securities Fraud
- Internet Fraud
- e-Mail Fraud
- Pyramids
- Affinity Investment Fraud
- Nine Ways to Avoid Fraud
- Retirement Fraud
- Microcap Stocks
- Economic Pornography
- Investing
- Growth, Yield and Income
- Investing Is a Business
- What Should Young People Invest in?
- Advice for New Investors
- Teaching Children about Money
- Women and Investing
- Afraid to Start Investing?
- Starting Early
- Low Capital to Start with?
- Seniors and Investments
- Taxes and Investments
- What Is Stock?
- Preferred Stock
- The Stock Market – How it Works
- Buying Stocks
- How to Buy Stocks
- Tracking Stocks
- Blue Chips
- Bulls and Bears
- The 8th Wonder
- The Power of Compounding
- Psychology of Investing
- Well Managed Risks!
- The Most Difficult Decision!
- The Investor Pact!
- How to Find a Stockbroker
- Stock Brokers Commissions
- When a Broker Calls You
- Brokers, Dealers, Traders…
- Types of Stock Brokerage Firms
- Bonds
- Government Bonds
- U.S. Treasury Securities
- Mutual Funds
- Benefits of Mutual Funds
- Closed-End Funds
- Types of Mutual Funds
- Index Mutual Funds
- Selecting Mutual Funds
- Pooled Investment Vehicle
- Annuities
- Socially Responsible Investing
- Aesop’s Fables
- Are You a Lemming?
- Fundamentals of Economics
- The Greater Fool Theory!
- Real Estate Investments
- Things to Consider Before Your Retirement
- Retirement Portfolio
- Retirement Investing
- Investing and Saving for Retirement
- Rolling Your 401k
- 401k Debit Cards
- The Five Investing Essential Truths
- Stock Market Ups and Downs
- Money Management
- When Not to Invest
- Overpriced Stocks
- 10 Habits for Financial Freedom
- Mortgages
- Life Insurance
- What Is a Commodity?
5. Intermediary
- Investment Properties
- Investing and Savings Tools
- Pessimistic Vs Optimistic Attitudes
- Bearish Feelings
- What Motivates Investors
- Investing Emotions
- Can You Afford to Lose?
- When not to Invest
- Mistakes to Avoid
- Supply and Demand
- Stocks – Supply and Demand
- Economic Indicators
- Economic Terms
- Inflation
- Deflation
- Stagflation
- The Central Bank
- Central Banks and Monetary Policy
- The U.S. Federal Reserve
- Money Markets
- Money Market Funds
- Reactions to Economic News
- Defining Risk
- Types of Risk
- Managing Risks
- Risks Investing in Bonds
- Risks Versus Rewards
- The Right to Vote
- The Basics of Accounting
- The History of Accounting
- Cash Flow Statement
- Book Value
- Financial Statements
- Amortization
- Price/Earnings Ratio
- Price/Earnings to Growth Ratio
- The EBITDA Indicator
- Stock Ownership by Management
- The History of the S&P 500
- Diversification
- Splits
- Dividends
- Dividends and Earnings per Share
- Volume
- Oversimplification and the Mutual Funds
- Individual Stocks or Mutual Funds?
- Growth vs Dividend Mutual Funds
- Exchange Traded Funds
- Penny Stocks
- How to Invest in Bonds
- Bonds: Fundamental Investment Strategies
- Bonds and Gains
- Convertible Bonds
- Municipal Bonds
- Initial Public Offering – IPO
- The Worrisome Aspects of Investing
- Characteristics of Successful Investors
- Stock Markets and Turbulent Times
- The Frustrated Speculators
- Secular Stock Markets
- Investment Decisions
- Liquidity, Buyers and Sellers
- Your Stock Market Limits
- Buy and Sell Stocks… at Exactly the Wrong Time!
- Realistic Investing Expectations
- Investments and the Magic Number Seven
- Risk and Probability
- Safety and Income
- Stocks for Young Investors
- 5 Questions to Ask Before You Get Your Business Loan
- What Are Basis Points?
- Exchange Traded Fund
6. Advanced
- Panic
- Tips
- The Tulip Mania Bubble
- The Mississippi Bubble
- The South Sea Bubble
- The Florida Real Estate Bubble
- The European Sovereign Debt Crisis
- Ponzi Schemes
- The “New Era” of 1920 – 1929
- The Japanese Zaitech Bubble
- The Sub-Prime Loans
- Penny Stocks to Avoid
- Black Monday
- Stop Loss Orders
- Speculation
- Hedging
- Crash!
- The Fear of Regret and Greed
- Active Versus Passive Trading
- The Best Stock Pick
- Invest or Pay off Debts?
- Approaches to Investing
- The Warren Buffett Method of 12
- What’s Your Style?
- Liquidity
- Keynesian Economics
- Supply-side Economics
- Utility
- Fundamental Analysis
- Stock Charting
- Candlestick Charts
- The Doji Pattern
- Technical Analysis Indicators
- Assumptions of Technical Analysis
- Moving Average
- Single Moving Average
- Bollinger Bands
- Portfolio Management
- Using a Stock Market and Portfolio Strategy
- Correlation
- The Optimal Portfolio
- Five Stock Trading Principles
- Investing and Anchoring
- Investment Portfolio Mistakes
- Dogs of the Dow
- Cost Averaging
- Asset Allocation
- The Difference between Capitals Gains and Investment Income
- Hold May not Be the Best Strategy
- Hold for the Long Term
- Take Part of Your Profits
- Lose More than 8% on any Stock?
- Learn to Lose!
- Losers and Trading
- Cut Your Losses Early
- True Top or True Bottom?
- Momentum Investing
- Scalp Trading
- Swing Trading
- Market Gap
- Buy the Dips!
- Indexation
- Three Stock Trader Types
- Value Investing
- Stock Buybacks
- Contrarian Investments
- George Soros’ Principles
- Efficient Market Hypothesis
- The Dow Theory
- Borrowing Money to Buy Shares
- Margin Call
- Investments and Leverage
- The Short Sale of Stocks
- Investing Analysis Forms
- Learning from Your Mistakes
- Creative Accounting
- Automated Trading System
- Venture Capital
- Stock Fraud
- Your Investment Profile
- The Earnings Season
- Hard Times for Analysts
- The Changing World of Insurance
- Behavioral Finance
- Measuring Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
- Measuring Unemployment
- Measuring Inflation
- Alternative Investments
- We Do not Time the Market
7. Post Graduate
- Investing in Microeconomics or in Macroeconomics?
- Hedge Funds
- Hedge Vs Mutual Funds
- Fund of Funds
- Life Style Funds
- Mutual Fund Scandals
- Index Funds versus Multi-Manager Funds
- Hedge Lending
- Alternatives to Share Trading
- Commodity Trading
- Structured Bonds
- CFDs – Contracts for Difference
- The Art of War
- Insider Trading
- The Chinese Wall
- Bad News and Falling Prices
- Accepting Your Losses
- The Mark-to-Market Accounting Rule
- Day Trading
- Levels of Stock Market Traders
- Day Trading Strategies
- 19 Trading Points
- Discipline and Trading
- Secrets of Trading
- Short Selling a Stock
- The Day Trader’s Aptitude Test!
- Trading Slang and Expressions
- Market Manipulation
- Market Analysis and Objectivity
- The Random Walk Theory
- The Beta Coefficient
- Pivot Points
- Trailing Stops
- The Breadth of Market Indicators
- Does Market Timing Work?
- It’s Time, Not Timing
- My Predictions!
- The Size Effect
- The Circle of Competence
- The Estimates of the Future
- Bubbles!
- The Elliott Wave Principle
- Futures and Options
- Why You must Use Options?
- The Basics of Futures Trading
- Benefits of Trading Options
- Calls and Puts
- The Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formula
- Structured Products
- Bulls and Butterflies
- LEAPS
- CFDs – Contracts for Difference
- Pairs Trading
- The Minsky Moment
- Accounting Practices and Derivatives
- Credit Default Swaps (CDS)
- After-Hours Trading
- Viatical Settlements
- Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
- American Depositary Receipts (ADR’s)
- International Investments
- Monopolies, Oligopolies and Perfect Competition
- Investing in Art
- How to Invest in Gold
- The Different Ways You Can Invest into Gold
- Art as an Asset Class
- Forex
- How to Choose a Forex Broker
- Forex Fundamental Analysis
- Understanding Forex Quotes
- Forex Trading on Margin
- Trading Forex
- Trading Forex vs Equities
- Trading Forex vs Futures
- Carry Trade
- The Euro
- Money Laundering
- Irrational Exuberance
- Gambler’s Fallacy in Investing
- The Robo Advisor Investing Account
- Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
8. Epilogue
- One Piece of Final Advice
- The Stock Market Is Up or Down?
- Elections and the Stock Market
- Investing Chaos
- Investing Humility
- Propaganda
- Investing?
- Your New Year Checklist
- Weak or Stong Positions?
- Are Institutions Important?
- The More they Change …
- The Old and the New Rules of Financial Security
- Persist!
- Predictions
- Beware of Predictions
- If … The Wonders of Investing
- Predictions – Heads or Tails?
- Evaluating the Performance of Your Investments
- Can the Morons Ever Be Right?
- Freedom!
9. Investment Terms
10. Forex Terms
11. Bibliography
12. Investing and Financial Humor