William J O'Neil is founder and Chairman of Investor's Business Daily, one of the world's leading financial newspapers. He is the bestselling author of How to Make Money in stocks and other essential investment titles.

From the publisher of Investor's Business Daily and best-selling author of How to Make Money in Stocks, comes 24 of the most important lessons for any investor. Bill O'Neil is one of today's most respected sources of investment advice. As publisher of Investor's Business Daily, O'Neil influences hundreds of thousands of investors every day in his editorials and through his unique investment philosophy that pervades the newspaper. William O'Neil's Essential Lessons for Investment Success is based upon 26 editorials that have previously appeared in IBD. Edited and updated, O'Neil's timeless advice encapsulates such investing nuggets as: don't follow common wisdom to widely diversify. Concentrate your investments in a few areas, know them well, and watch them carefully; don't focus on international stocks. There are more than 10,000 US stocks--if you can't learn how to profit from a handful of them, you aren't likely to profit from less secure markets. Don't just rely upon PE ratios and other common technical tools. Learn to use Relative Price Strength to help you choose stocks. O'Neil's cautionary yet pro-active advice has helped to make IBD one of America's fastest growing and most respected newspapers. Now investor's can benefit from his timeless words of wisdom, collected in one easy-to-use resource.

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success.
Lesson 1: What Every Investor Should Know Going in.
Lesson 2: Getting Started: There's No Time Like the Present!
Lesson 3: Follow a System Rather Than your Emotions.
Lesson 4: Fundamental Analysis or Technical Analysis?
Lesson 5: First Among Fundamentals: Earnings and Sales.
Lesson 6: Relative Price Strength: A Key Technical Tool.
Lesson 7: Know a Stock by the Company It Keeps.
Lesson 8: The Importance of Volume and Sponsorship.
Lesson 9: How to Buy at Just the Right Moment.
Lesson 10: How Chart Patterns Lead to Big Profits.
Lesson 11: How to Read Stock Charts Like a Pro.
Lesson 12: How to Gauge the Stock Market's Health.
Lesson 13: How to Spot When the Market Hits a Top.
Lesson 14: How to Spot When the Market Bottoms.
Lesson 15: Putting the Stock-Picking Puzzle Together.
Lesson 16: how to Find New Investment Ideas in Investor's Business Daily.
Lesson 17: Growth vs. Value investing.
Lesson 18: Don't Try to Be a Jack-of-all-Trades.
Lesson 19: What's the Right Mix for Your Portfolio?
Lesson 20: Sell Rules Every Investor Should Master.
Lesson 21: More Sell Rules Every Investor Should Master.
Lesson 22: How to Make a Million with Mutuals.
Lesson 23: Too Busy? How to Use Investor's Business Daily in Twenty Minutes.
Lesson 24: How to Make the Most of Investor's Business Daily, [...], and Other Online Resources.
Appendix A.
Appendix B.
Recommended Reading List.
Glossary.
Index.