Coach Yourself to Success: Winning the Investment Game

Foreword.

Acknowledgments.

PART ONE: The Basic Tools of Investing.

The Pregame Show.

Chapter 1: Stocks.

Why We Own Them.

Spotting a Stock that Is Ripe for the Picking.

Where Stocks Are Bought and Sold.

How to Place a Trade.

Trading Strategies.

When to Hold, When to Fold.

Chapter 2: Bonds.

Basic Bond Features.

Bonds in the Marketplace.

Bond Issuers.

Municipal Bonds.

Government-Sponsored Enterprises.

Corporations.

Bond Ratings.

Risk: When Bad Things Happen to Good Bonds.

It Looks Like a Bond and Acts Like a Bond, but It’s a.…

Chapter 3: Cash.

Interest-Bearing Checking Accounts.

Savings Accounts.

Money Market Funds.

Taxable Funds.

Tax-Exempt Money Funds.

Money Market Accounts.

Chapter 4: Mutual Funds.

Exactly What Are Mutual Funds?

Funds: Better than Individual Stocks and Bonds?

Stock Funds.

Bond Funds.

Index Funds.

How to Pick a Fund.

Chapter 5: Exchange-Traded Funds.

Recipe for an Exchange Traded Fund.

Structure of ETFs.

PART TWO: The Fundamental Principles of Investing.

Half-Time Report.

Chapter 6: Goals.

Retirement.

College Costs.

Lifestyle Goals.

Chapter 7: Risk Tolerance.

No Pain, No Gain / No Risk, No Return.

Types of Risk.

Test Yourself: Just How Much Risk Can You Tolerate.

Ways to Contain Risk.

Chapter 8: Asset Allocation.

The Basics.

Types of Allocation.

Where to Begin.

More Assets, More Allocation.

So How Do You Fill in Your Portfolio’s Blanks?

Chapter 9: Monitoring and Rebalancing.

What’s Wrong with Holding onto Winners.

Know What You Really Own.

The Rebalancing Act: How It’s Done.

When to Rebalance: Pick a Day, Any Day.

Chapter 10: Execute Your Investment Plan.

The Self-Directed Investor: You and an On-Line Brokerage Firm.

Financial Planners.

Fee-Only Financial Advisors.

The Full-Service Brokerage Firm.

PART THREE: The Postgame Show.

Chapter 11: A New Way to Invest.

Glossary.

Notes.

Resources.

Index.