Rocking Wall Street

Foreword by John Mauldin. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part One:The Emotional Controls. 1: The Beginning, and the End Game. Inside the Box Won't Get You There. The Craft versus the Art. The End Game. You and Tim. 2: Investing for Your Life versus Spending Your Life Investing. What Do You Really Want? Cows. What Would Actually Make You Feel Rich? The Bottom-Line Question. 3: The Power of Hedging:Always Hedge Your Bets. Hedging Step 1: Giving Up the Windfall to Avoid the Big Fall. How Can You Avoid Serious Losses? Emotional Hedges. Hedging Step 2: Diversification. Endeavor Not to Invest More Than You Are Emotionally and Financially Able to Lose in Any Single Investment. Hedging Step 3: Logic of the Mind Is Not the Only Kind. The Gambler's Catch-22. Part Two: Knowing the Difference between Market Stats and Market Hype. 4: Just the Facts, Ma'am. Market Forecasting and Timing. Higher Risk Too Often Equals Less Reward. What Is True Diversification? The Two Great Myths of Traditional Investing. Tax Confounding:A Story. Contrarian View of the Future of the U.S. Stock Market. Hedge Funds:The Dark Side. Hedge Fund and Mutual Fund Taxes--Buyers Beware. 5: Addressing Investors' Questions from Part One. 6: The Right Stuff (and the Wrong Stuff). Venture Capital Investing: Zero in a Million. Real Estate: Live in It.The Rest Is Investing. Tale of Two Bubbles. The View from a Family Office. What Does the Fed Really Want? The Diary of an Intuitive Investor. A Theory Stephen Hawking Has Yet to Discover: Parallel Investment Universes. Investment Gods Say:"Do the Right Thing". Part Three: Hedging Wall Street: Hedged Portfolio Construction. 7: Successful Investments:Where Are They? Putting Together a Portfolio. Are You a Conservative Investor or an Aggressive Investor? Oh, Shut Up. Thumbnail Sketch of Prudent Portfolio Construction. Portfolio 1: For Future Millionaires--Diversification and Dollar Cost Averaging. Brokerage Firms, Money Management Firms, and Financial Planning Firms with Time. Portfolio 2: For Millionaires Who Do Not Wish to Become Ex-Millionaires. 8: Hedge Fund Mind-Set. Addressing Investors' Questions from Part Two. Using Etiquette, Receiving Respect:The General Partner/Limited Partner Relationship. Part Four: Planning for the Future and Seeking the End Game. 9: The Financial Planning Maze. How to Plan for the Future:A Simple Three-Step Program. Family Budgeting: Securing Present Assets While Having Fun. Seeing Life, Business, and Investing as One Portfolio. 10: The Game Beyond the End Game. Downsizing the American Dream. Relative Downsizing. Investing in the Twenty-First Century. Transcending the Centuries:Whom Do You Serve? Appendix: Specific Due Diligence Notes and Fund of Funds Questionnaire. About the Author. Index.