The Motley Fool Investment Guide

Foreword

PART I. Who, What, Why, and How

1. "Fool"?
2. Folly
3. Get Online!

PART II. Mutual Funds: Love 'Em, or Leave 'Em?

4. Hey, Maybe You Should Just Buy Mutual Funds
5. Maybe You Should Avoid Mutual Funds
6. The S&P Index Portfolio

PART III. Building a Foolish Investment Portfolio

7. Stepping Away from Index Funds
8. Out of Funds into Stocks
9. How to Find Companies to Invest In
10. Getting Information on Companies

PART IV. Companies and Quality

11. Why Buy Blue-Chips?
12. Why Small-Cap Growth Stocks?

PART V. Things to Look For

13. Selecting the Best Growth Stocks
14. Making Sense of Income Statements
15. Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements

PART VI. Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, and More

16. Quality Versus Valuation
17. Rule Makers
18. Rule Breakers
19. When to Sell
20. Mechanical Investing and the Foolish Four

PART VII: Some Advanced Topics

21. Using Margin
22. Shorting Stocks

PART VIII. Putting It All Together

23. Why Invest?

PART IX. Conclusion

24. A Foolish Farewell

Appendix A. Stocks : A Primer for Those Who'll Admit They Need It

Appendix B. How Investment Publishers Should Report Their Numbers

Appendix C. A Tale of Two Stocks: Iomega and AOL

Appendix D. Zeigletics: The Penny Stock That Never Was

Appendix E. The Carnival of Freakish Delights: Investment Approaches to Avoid

Appendix F. The Leibniz Preharmonic Oscillator

Acknowledgments

Index