Understanding Stocks

Index
AAA bonds, 20–21
Advice, 164–165, 171, 187
After-hours trading, 53
Amazon.com, 183
American Stock Exchange (AMEX), 6,
7, 84
Annual reports, 93, 95–96
Arbitrage, 180
Ask price, 51–52
Asset allocation, 38–39
Assets, 93, 94
Averaging down, 72
Balance sheets, 93–94
Bar charts, 110–111
Bear markets, 27
Bearish patterns, 120–123
Berkshire Hathaway, 40–41, 104
Bid price, 51–52
Bills, 20
Blodget, Henry, 183–184
Bogle, John, 40
Boiler Room (film), 34
Boiler rooms, 33–34
Bollinger bands, 137–138
Bond rating, 21
Bonds, 19–21, 20
189
Boston Stock Exchange, 7
Bottom fishing, 71–72
Breakaway gap, 126
Brokerage firms:
discount, 57–58
full-service, 55–57
going on margin with, 63–64
investment banking divisions of, 184
opening account with, 58
and order types, 58–61
placing orders with, 61–62
Brown, Tom, 184
Bubbles, 168–169
“Bucket shops,” 128
Buffett, Warren, 8–9, 52, 70, 89, 95,
104–105, 176
Bull markets, 27–28
Bullish patterns, 121–124
Buttonwood Agreement, 6
Buy-and-hold strategy, 70–71, 175–176
Buy-on-the dip strategy, 71
Call options, 81–82
Candlestick charts, 111, 112
CANSLIM, 75–76
Capital gains, 5
Capital loss, 5
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