Motley Fool Investment Guide How the Fool Beats Wall Streets Wise Men & How You Can Too

Today, with the Internet, anyone can be an informed investor. Once you learn to tune out the hype and focus on meaningful factors, you can beat the Street.

The Motley Fool Investment Guide, completely revised and updated with clear and witty explanations, deciphers all the new information -- from evaluating individual stocks to creating a diverse investment portfolio.

David and Tom Gardner have investing ideas for you -- no matter how much time or money you have. This new edition of The Motley Fool Investment Guide is built for today's investor, sophisticate and novice alike, with updated information on:

• Finding high-growth stocks that will beat the market over the long term

• Identifying volatile young companies that traditional valuation measures may miss

• Using Fool.com and the Internet to locate great sources of useful information

Today, with the Internet, anyone can be an informed investor. Once you learn to tune out the hype and focus on meaningful factors, you can beat the Street.

The Motley Fool Investment Guide, completely revised and updated with clear and witty explanations, deciphers all the new information -- from evaluating individual stocks to creating a diverse investment portfolio.

David and Tom Gardner have investing ideas for you -- no matter how much time or money you have. This new edition of The Motley Fool Investment Guide is built for today's investor, sophisticate and novice alike, with updated information on:

• Finding high-growth stocks that will beat the market over the long term
• Identifying volatile young companies that traditional valuation measures may miss
• Using Fool.com and the Internet to locate great sources of useful information

Today, with the Internet, anyone can be an informed investor. Once you learn to tune out the hype and focus on meaningful factors, you can beat the Street.

The Motley Fool Investment Guide, completely revised and updated with clear and witty explanations, deciphers all the new information -- from evaluating individual stocks to creating a diverse investment portfolio.

David and Tom Gardner have investing ideas for you -- no matter how much time or money you have. This new edition of The Motley Fool Investment Guide is built for today's investor, sophisticate and novice alike, with updated information on:

• Finding high-growth stocks that will beat the market over the long term
• Identifying volatile young companies that traditional valuation measures may miss
• Using Fool.com and the Internet to locate great sources of useful information

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