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Abacus,

Accounting mayhem tops, 56

Acquisitions,

overexpansion, 48

ActionAlertsPLUS.com,

Advertising,

Aerospace,

Age of investor, 86

fifties,

forties,

sixties,

thirties,

twenties,

Aggressive investments,

Agriculture,

Airlines,

Alcatel,

Alcoa,

Altria,

Amazon,

AMD,

American Idol (TV show),

AMG,

Amgen,

Am I Diversified? game,

Annual reports,

Antitrust law,

Apple Computer,

Appliance business, 13

Maytag vs. Whirlpool,

Applied Material,

Areeda, Phil, 29

Armstrong, Michael, 46

Arrogance, 62

AT&T,

AT&T Wireless,

Auriana, Lawrence,

Autos,

Avon,

Baby boomers,

Bad stocks,

Balance sheets,

Band-Aids,

Bankruptcy,

Banks,

local, 90

Bargains,

Basics, investing, 93

amount of stocks needed to get started, 77

diversification, 77

homework, 87

necessity vs. discretionary streams, 69

risk-reward analysis, 93

time and inclination, 75

Basis, 43

BEA Aerospace,

Bear markets, 60

spotting bottoms in stocks, 32

of 20002003,

Beer companies,

Behavioral finance, 44

BellSouth,

Berkowitz, Jeff,

Best Buy,

Best Foods,

Beyer, Andy,

Picking Winners,

Bids,

Biotech stocks,

BKX (Bank Index), 24

Blue-chip stocks,

Boeing,

Bogle, John,

Bonds,

importance of,

stocks vs.,

Book value,

Boredom,

Bottoms, 32

capitulation indicators, 22

catalysts, 23

chart,

individual stock, 32

investment,

market, 24

market sentiment indicators, 17

megabottoms,

of 1987,

of 1990,

of 1998,

sector, 31

tax-loss,

trading,

of 20022003,

BP (British Petroleum),

Braque, Georges,

Bristol-Myers,

Broadcom,

Broken stocks, 63

Broker, individual,

BUD,

Bull markets,

availability of, 79

of 1980s,

of 19992000,

short-term,

Business news, 59

ignoring, 76

Business Week cover rule, 75

Butera, Scott,

Buy,

Buy and hold strategy,

bias for, 24

Buy weakness,

Cabelas,

Cable companies,

Calls, 74

Campbell Soup,

Canada,

Capital appreciation,

Capital gains,

Capital preservation,

Capitulation indicators, 22

Cardinal Health,

Cash,

advantages of,

Cash-flow growth,

Catalysts, 23

Caterpillar,

Cendant,

Ceridian,

Chart reading,

Chemical companies,

Chevron,

ChevronTexaco,

Chief executive officers (CEOs),

quitting,

Chief financial officers (CFOs), 19

quitting, 75

Cholesterol-lowering drugs, 74

Christmas,

Cigarettes, 56

Cingular,

Cisco,

Clinton, Bill,

CMGI,

CNBC,

Coca-Cola,

Colgate,

College,

Comcast,

Comebacks,

Commerce Bancorp, 90

Commerce One,

Commissions, 25

Common sense,

Companies, 39

balance sheet,

bonds,

bottoms, 32

broken, 63

capital structure, 33

cyclical concerns,

debt,

earnings predictions, 20

going-public process, 39

management,

neighborhood, 88

overexpansion, 48

prospectus,

rate of revenue growth, 82

reports,

research,

risk-reward ratio, 93

sales and profits, 83

shell,

stock,

vagueness, 44

See also specific companies

Competition,

competitive top, 42

Computer Associates,

Conference calls,

Confessions of a Street Addict (Cramer),

Confidence,

Congress,

ConocoPhillips,

Conservatism,

Contrafund,

Control Data, 27

Conviction,

discipline trumps, 69

Corning,

Corporate finance,

Corrections, expecting, 72

Corruption, 35

Covad,

CPI (Consumer Price Index),

Cramer, Karen (Trading Goddess), 80

Cramer Berkowitz,

Credit cards,

debt,

interest rates,

Crescendo bottom, 22

Crowd psychology, 48

ingredients for mass-psychology-driven move upward, 45

Curiosity,

Cutting your losses,

CVS,

Cyberonics,

Cyclical stocks,

bottoms, 32

in discretionary portfolio,

investing and trading graph,

Daisy Systems,

Danoff, Will, 200

Day traders,

Debt,

credit card,

Decimalization,

Deere,

Defense,

Dell,

Delmonicos,

Derivatives,

Dershowitz, Alan,

DiMaggio, Joe,

Discipline,

buy,

conviction trumped by, 69

sell,

Discounts,

Discovered/fully valued segment,

Discovered/undervalued segment,

Discretionary portfolio,

brand-name blue chip stock in,

creating, 203

cyclical stock in,

diversification in, 94

first five stock picks for, 92

fund managers for, 203

local bank stock in, 90

medicine chest and fridge stock in, 93

mid-cap stock in,

neighborhood company stock in, 88

oil stock in, 89

ranking stocks, 98

retailer stock in,

second five stock picks for, 94

self-managed, 98

speculative stock in, 92

tech stock in, 94

warnings and preconditions, 86

Diversification,

in discretionary portfolio, 94

excessive,

lack of,

minimum of five stocks for,

portfolio, 77

speculation and, 26

Dividends,

Divorce,

Dome Petroleum,

Dot-com bubble,

DoubleClick, 50

Dove soap,

Dow Chemical,

Dow Jones,

calls,

Down 10 percent clause,

Drug companies, 74

Drugstores,

Rite Aid vs. Walgreens,

DSC Communications, 55

Dunlap, Al,

DuPont,

Dynegy,

Earnings per share (EPS),

Easy money,

eBay,

Eckerd,

Economy,

cycles, 24

downturns,

inflation,

interest rates and,

recession,

upturns,

world,

Edge, having an,

EDS,

Ego,

Elderly,

investors,

nursing homes, 49

Electrolux,

Electronic trades,

El Paso,

EMC,

Emotions,

hope, uselessness of,

market sentiment indicators, 17

panic, 67

See also Psychology; specific emotions

Employment growth,

Endurance, 86

Enron,

CEO quits,

debacle,

Entrepreneurship,

Equities. See Stocks

Estate planning,

Estimate revision catalysts, 2

Europe,

Exquisite moment, 23

Exxon,

Factiva,

Fads,

Fad stock tops, 52

Failures. See Mistakes, failures, and losses

Fallibility,

Farming,

Fast markets,

FCC,

FDA,

Federal government,

stock tops and, 50

Federal Reserve,

importance of, 30

interest rates and,

Federated,

Federated Kaufmann Fund,

Fidelity,

Fidelity Sector Fund Report, The,

Fidelity Contrafund,

Fifties, investing in your,

Filas,

Financial services industries,

Finland,

FirstCall,

Fixed income,

Flexibility,

importance of, 74

lack of,

Flip-flopping,

Float,

Flow, trading, 59

Food companies,

Forbes 400 list,

Forced-selling period, 18

Forest Labs,

Forties, investing in your,

Fortunoff,