24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success: Learn the Most Important Investment Techniques from the Founder of Investor’s Business Daily

In 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success, the founder of Investor’s Business Daily and author of How to Make Money in Stocks, William O’Neil, distills his 40 years of experience, study, and analysis of the market into a series of lessons about how to buy and sell stocks. O’Neil is neither a pure fundamentalist nor a technician–instead, he advocates blending both approaches, applying fundamental analysis to identifying the best companies and technical analysis to understanding the price actions of those stocks.

The lessons cover everything from protecting your investment account (always cut your losses at 8 percent of the purchase price) and basic chart reading (identifying market tops and bottoms) to understanding relative price strength and tips on building a concentrated portfolio. While not absolutely necessary, it helps to have a copy of Investor’s Business Daily handy: these lessons were drawn from a series that O’Neil wrote, which frequently mention features unique to that newspaper. 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success is a easy-to-read, commonsense guide to stock picking that both novices and seasoned investors should find extremely useful.

Contents:

• What Every Investor Should Know Going In
• Getting Started: There’s No Time like the Present!
• Follow a System Rather Than Your Emotions
• Fundamental Analysis or Technical Analysis?
• First Among Fundamentals: Earnings and Sales
• Relative Price Strength: A Key Technical Tool
• Know a Stock by the Company It Keeps
• The Importance of Volume and Sponsorship
• How to Buy at Just the Right Moment
• How Chart Patterns Lead to Big Profits
• How to Read Stock Charts Like a Pro
• How to Gauge the Stock Market’s Health
• How to Spot When the Market Hits a Top
• How to Spot When the Market Bottoms
• Putting the Stock-Picking Puzzle Together
• How to Find New Investment Ideas in Investor’s Business Daily
• Growth vs. Value Investing
• Don’t Try to Be a Jack-Of-All-Trades
• What’s the Right Mix for Your Portfolio?
• Sell Rules Every Investor Should Master
• More Sell Rules Every Investor Should Master
• How to Make a Million with Mutuals
• Too Busy? How to Use Investor’s Business Daily in Twenty Minutes
• How to Make the Most of Investor’s Business Daily, Investors.com, and Other Online Resources

24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success: Learn the Most Important Investment Techniques from the Founder of Investor's Business Daily By William J. O'Neil pdf