Invest My Way: Making Money With Blue Chip Shares On The Australian Stock Market -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Preface -- Part I: The business of investing in blue chip shares -- Chapter 1: What is an investor? -- Worker -- Manager -- Investor -- Control -- Fund managers -- Self-management -- Proven results -- Business skills -- Charting -- Chapter 2: Managing financial products -- The investment business -- Trading shares -- Trading or investing in property -- Risk -- Risk management -- Share trading -- Part II: Managing a blue chip share growth portfolio -- Chapter 3: Introduction to growth shares -- Paper trading -- Blue chip -- Process not product -- An active approach -- Being above average -- Optimisation -- Active funds management -- Testing times -- Chapter 4: Rules for entering the market -- Moving averages -- Rate of annual return -- Minimum rate of annual return (the cut-off ROAR) -- Liquidity -- Diversification -- The top 10 -- Checklist of steps -- Chapter 5: Rules for exiting the market -- 20 per cent drawdown stop loss -- Moving average stop loss -- ROAR stop loss (exit rate of annual return) -- Top 40 stop loss -- Taking profit -- Other considerations -- Taking cash -- Injecting cash -- Optimisation -- The checklist -- Chapter 6: Let's take a test drive -- Our tools for the simulation -- Week one of the simulation -- Week two -- Week three -- Week four -- Jumping ahead to week eight -- Week nine and reaching the end -- Part III: Managing a blue chip share income portfolio -- Chapter 7: Introduction to income shares -- The crowd -- Tangible assets -- Key objectives of income investors -- Asset-class shares -- Chapter 8: Fundamental analysis -- Introducing ratios -- Profitability ratios -- Debt ratios -- Stock market ratios -- Chapter 9: Searching for income shares -- Quality and value (continued).

Market searches -- A time to buy -- Chapter 10: Managing income shares -- Capital allocation: growth versus income shares -- Risk management -- Reviewing your income shares -- Sensible benchmarks -- Part IV: Timing the market -- Chapter 11: Introduction to market cycles -- We drive financial markets -- Time frame -- Different perspectives -- The economic clock -- Political influence -- Early Dow theory -- Cyclical analysis today -- Market timing -- Rocket science -- Chapter 12: Financial markets as complex adaptive systems -- Straight lines and curvy bits -- Introducing chaos theory -- Chaos theory and financial markets -- Complex adaptive systems -- The behavioural spectrum -- Practical implications -- Chapter 13: Using the right tactics at the right time -- The important bits -- Fundamentals versus sentiment -- Choice of investment philosophy -- Extremes -- Staying in the middle -- An amazing coincidence -- The local economy -- Growth, income or cash -- Satellite navigation for investors -- Chapter 14: Plan to take action -- Organisation -- We're all different -- Time is precious -- Aversion to risk -- Mutually exclusive -- Different attributes -- Housecleaning -- Take action -- Appendix: Blue Chip Report 10-year simulation results -- Blue Chip Report simulation -- July 2001 to June 2002 -- July 2002 to June 2003 -- July 2003 to June 2004 -- July 2004 to June 2005 -- July 2005 to June 2006 -- July 2006 to June 2007 -- July 2007 to June 2008 -- July 2008 to June 2009 -- July 2009 to June 2010 -- July 2010 to June 2011 -- Cumulative performance comparison -- Recommended further reading -- Index.