Contents Listing
Introduction
Golden Rule No. 1: Diversify
WAYS 1-4: Internet chat rooms (discussion forums/bulletin boards)
Way 1: Silence is golden
Way 2: Madness is badness
Way 3: Due dil
Way 4: Locate minnows
WAYS 5-25: Stock charts and technical trading
Way 5: Good horses on steady courses
Way 6: Dud IPOs
Way 7: The return of the dud IPO
Way 8: Volatility: going nowhere fast
Way 9: Dead cat bounces
Way 10: Buy the Bull
Golden rule No. 2: Know the general market trend
Way 11: Sell a Bear
Way 12: Selling a Bull, selling a bubble
Way 13: Buying a Bear, buying a crash
Way 14: Investing in the Bull, trading in the Bear - buying the dips
Way 15: Investing in the Bear, trading in the Bull - selling the rallies
Way 16: Flat-lining companies: dead or in a coma?
Way 17: Volume rises
Way 18: Buying BS when the Bull rules
Way 19: Boxing clever
Way 20: Rockets. Ladles of money
Golden Rule No. 3: Risk = reward
Way 21: Half way or whole way
Way 22: Long-term levels
Way 23: Broken mountain
Way 24: The Big U
Way 25: The Big W
WAYS 26-50: Common sense ways to pick stocks
Way 26: Know your company
Way 27: Know your company's product
Way 28: Get to know the company's industry
Way 29: Read the specialist press
Way 30: Call up the FD and say 'Hello.'
Way 31: What is hot in the States
Way 32: What is hot in Japan
Way 33: The market has crystal balls
Way 34: Taxi ads
Way 35: The curse of the shirt deal
Way 36: Buy to the sound of cannons
Way 37: Accounting irregularity
Way 38: Death of a salesman
Way 39: Portfolio: diversify or die
Way 40: From the mouths of babes and sucklings
Way 41: Not for sale
Way 42: Making an offer that can't be refused
Way 43: Invest in the obvious
Way 44: Listen to our lords and masters
Way 45: Takeovers
Way 46: Takeovers: selling the buyers
Way 47: Know the long-term
Way 48: Know your risk
Way 49: Beaten up brands
Way 50: Negative Equity
Golden rule No. 4: A pinch of salt required
WAYS 51-52: Tracker funds: simple exposure
Way 51: Exchange Traded Funds. Buy a FTSE tracker
Way 52: Commodity ETFs. You really want to buy commodities, you really, really want to?
WAYS 53-60: Let the computer do the work
Way 53: P/E, the basic cheap or not cheap indicator
Way 54: Sales have value - high sales to market capitalisation
Way 55: Get over techno-fear. Let the robot sort you out
Way 56: Sectors
Way 57: Cash in the bank
Way 58: PEG, unleashed
Way 59: Dividends: cheques don't lie; except on the door mat
Way 60: The big downer - 50% down from the high or more
WAYS 61-64: Rules of thumb
Way 61: Don't play with political footballs
Way 62: Unhappy families
Way 63: Old friends
Way 64: Don't buy the top
WAYS 65-69: Gold
Way 65: Let's not get physical: Gold ETF
Way 66: Buy a gold producer
Way 67: Buy the 49ers
Way 68: Gold has a silver lining
Way 69: Don't buy the gold mine, buy the spade maker
WAYS 70-83: What's up doc?
Way 70: Sell tips
Way 71: When it hits the mainstream, it's over
Golden rule No. 5: Get rich slow, get poor quick
Way 72: Think long-term, very long-term
Way 73: Read through
Way 74: Contrarian: if you want a friend buy a dog
Way 75: Momentum: catch a rising star
Way 76: New brooms
Way 77: New brooms and 'kitchen sinking'
Way 78: Check the website
Way 79: Every dark hurricane cloud has a silver lining
Way 80: Buy rumour, sell fact
Way 81: Browse and research
Way 82: Look for history repeating itself
Way 83: Long-term earnings growth
WAYS 84-89: What's up officially doc?
Way 84: Directors' buys
Way 85: Management competence: throwing parties in breweries
Way 86: RNS alert
Way 87: 'The next big thing'
Way 88: Mad management
Way 89: Profit warnings
WAYS 90-91: Oil
Way 90: Buy an oil producer
Way 91: Those darn wildcatters
WAYS 92-101: Vorsprung durch technik
Way 92: Trading costs; the less the better
Way 93: Sell in May and go away. Summer holidays at work
Way 94: The Santa Effect
Way 95: Close of day auction
Way 96: No news but it's moving
Way 97: Big gains
Way 98: Breakouts
Way 99: Constant gainers
Way 100: Re-examine your portfolio
Way 101: Use all available tools
Introduction
Golden Rule No. 1: Diversify
WAYS 1-4: Internet chat rooms (discussion forums/bulletin boards)
Way 1: Silence is golden
Way 2: Madness is badness
Way 3: Due dil
Way 4: Locate minnows
WAYS 5-25: Stock charts and technical trading
Way 5: Good horses on steady courses
Way 6: Dud IPOs
Way 7: The return of the dud IPO
Way 8: Volatility: going nowhere fast
Way 9: Dead cat ...
