The Motley Fool Investment Guide

 CONTENTS

PART I. WHO, WHAT, WHY, AND HOW

1. “Fool”?

2. Foolishness

3. How to Be an Investor Today

PART II. MUTUAL FUNDS: LOVE ’EM OR LEAVE ’EM?

4. Maybe You Should Just Buy Mutual Funds

5. Maybe You Should Avoid Mutual Funds

6. Passively Managed Investments

PART III. BUILDING A FOOLISH INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO

7. Stepping Away from Index Funds

8. Out of Funds into Stocks

9. The Mind-set of the Successful Investor

PART IV. COMPANIES AND QUALITY

10. Why Buy Blue Chips?

11. Why Small-Cap Stocks?

12. How Do You Find the Best Stocks?

PART V. TOM’S TAKE: AN EVERLASTING APPROACH TO INVESTING

13. Five Tenets to Everlasting Investing

14. Culture

15. Strategy

16. Financials 

17. Safety

18. Valuation

PART VI. DAVID’S TAKE: BREAKING THE INVESTING RULES

19. Shaping (Then Breaking) the Investing Game

20. 6 Signs of a Rule Breaker

21. Is Rule Breaker Investing Right for You?

PART VII. DIGGING INTO THE DIGITS

22. Climbing Under the Hood to Find the Best Small-Cap

Stocks

23. Making Sense of Income Statements

24. Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements

PART VIII. SOME ADVANCED TOPICS

25. The Road to Options

26. Shorting Stocks

27. Options

PART IX. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

28. Why Invest?

29. Being Your Best Investing Self

30. A Foolish Farewell

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Appendix A: Stocks 101

Appendix B: April Fools! 

FOOL”?

Take heed . . . The wise may be instructed by a fool . . . You know how by the advice and counsel and prediction of fools, many kings, princes, states,and commonwealths have been preserved, several battles gained, and divers doubts of a most perplexed intricacy resolved.—Rabelais

The world has changed dramatically since The Motley Fool began its quest to help the world invest better in 1993.

Today’s individual investor is armed with more information and greater—and cheaper!—access to the markets than ever before. Today, we can find a stock idea, research it online,and buy shares, all in a matter of mere moments . . . not that we think you should.

But much remains the same. Investing in individual equities remains the truest path to lasting wealth. Many Wall Street brokers will argue to their last breath that you can’t do it on your own. But we have clear evidence—now with a track record that spans more than twenty years—that individual investors can beat the market . . . so long as they can overcome a few key behavioral barriers.And yes, we’re still answering questions about the name we chose for our company. So let’s start there.Fool?

That’s certainly not a very wise choice for a name when you’re trying to ply your trade in the investment world. For decades, financial professionals have done their best to sell customers on their wisdom..... 

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