Can 95 Million Investors Be Wrong? A Challenge: Blunt Honesty without Turning Off the Investor Where I'm Coming From Housekeeping Notes Personal Background Pre-Wall Street One-of-a-Kind Career on Wall Street Post-Wall Street Modesty Adds Credibility Deepest Convictions About Successful Investing After 40 Years On Wall Street Three Best Things to Have before Starting to Invest Luck Longevity Deep Pockets Six Absolutes Nobody Knows the Answers There's Always an Exact Opposite Opinion We're Predisposed to Fail, But Not Predestined There Is Symmetry in the Market Market Is King-News Is Mostly Irrelevant Durability of Major Trends Is Underestimated Seven Core Convictions Asset Allocation Is Key to Managing Risk Proper Entry Level Is Crucial Be Aware of the Negatives: There's Always a Column A and a Column B Best You Can Do Is Put the Odds in Your Favor Worst You Can Do Is Be Totally and Instantly Informed (A Critique of CNBC) Many Strategies Can Work-The Key Is Consistency Index Funds: The Answer for Most, But Not the Whole Answer Thirty-Five Nuggets After You Buy, It'll Always Go Lower CEOs on Their Own Stock Conventional Wisdom Is More Conventional than Wisdom Humility Is Sadly Lacking on Wall Street A Sure Thing If You Have the Patience No Single Stock Has to Be Bought Sticky Question of When to Sell Mergers Are Good for Everyone Except Stockholders Get Children Started Early Don't Rebuke Yourself Face It, It's History; Put It Behind You Investigate, Then Invest-Hogwash Cramer versus Kirk -- How to Answer Questions about the Market Giving Advice to Relatives-Tread Lightly When Greed Paid Off Losses Are Inevitable-A Big Loss Unacceptable ETFs Are a Beautiful Thing Rising Dividends Are More Important than Big Dividends Broker and the Case for Discretion All Investors Are Not Created Equal Low Commissions Make Online Trading Hard to Resist Understand Your Own Temperament Upside-Down Stock Market Every Group Has Its Day "When" Is More Important than "What" No Place to Hide for the Investor Rarity of Inside Information What's a Reasonable Return? Market Is Typically Dull and Indecisive Interest Rates-The Most Difficult of All to Forecast Brilliant Market Call Your Results Will Differ From Your Fund's You Can Make Money in a Down Market No One Has a Monopoly on the Right Answers Okay, So What Do I Do With My Money? Active versus Passive Investing 80-20 Solution Passive Investing-An Overview Index Funds: What's Most Important To Know Passive Investing; Twenty-Eight Model Index Fund Portfolios Setting the Table Paul Farrell: Lazy Man Portfolios Twenty-Eight Model Index Fund Portfolios Active Investing with Mutual Funds Ways for Do-It-Yourselfers to Outperform the Market: Introduction Life-Cycle/Target Retirement Funds Mutual Funds: 18 Key Points Active Investing with Stocks Newsletters "My One Favorite Stock" Lists Piggybacking the Masters Virtual Investing Stock Screens Brokerage Focus Lists Stock-Picking Columnists CAN SLIM Approach: William O'Neil Magic Formula: Joel Greenblatt Jeremy Siegel's Dividend Approach Private Web Sites and Blogs Great Investment Books: The Right Kind of Homework Sayings and Quotations Wrap-Up: What I Hope You Take Away
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