TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- THE CAST -- THE WARM-UP - THE PRE-GAME SHOW -- World Series: Game Seven -- What's a Contrarian, Anyhow? -- Contrarian Psychology -- History, Baby, History -- The Bandwagon Plays -- Supply, Demand, Reality -- INNING 1 - ROOKIE HOPES AND PRAYERS -- The Magic of Compound Interest -- The Rule of 72 -- Setting Financial Goals -- Investment Bases -- The Risk-Reward Ratio -- Eggs and Your Stage Of Life -- Diversification -- Alternative Investments -- Paying Down Debts -- Interest Rates and Inflation -- The Advantage of Investing Early -- Hardcore Discipline -- Box Score Inning 1 - October 15 -- Averaging Down -- INNING 2 - THE HIGH CONTRACT PLAYERS -- Mutual Funds Defined -- Types of Funds -- Advantages of Mutual Funds -- Disadvantages of Mutual Funds -- Box Score Inning 2 - January 15 -- INNING 3 - HOPE AND BRAVADO -- Politics, Testosterone and Miniskirts -- The Efficient Market Theory -- Pedantry -- The Random Walk Theory -- Averaging Up, Up, Up -- Dollar Cost Averaging -- Short Selling -- The Leveraged Margin Dance -- Luck -- Box Score Inning 3 - April 14 -- Fear, Greed and Loathing -- Health and Welfare -- INNING 4 - THE LONG-TERM CONTRACT -- Traders Versus Investors -- Beneficial Laziness -- Technical and Fundamental Analysis -- Chartists and Market Timing -- Head and Shoulders Formation -- Trading Volume -- Top-Down, Bottom-Up and Sectoral Investing -- Growth Investing -- The Full Service Versus Discounter Conundrum -- Opening an Account -- Box Score Inning 4 - July 15 -- Stock Dividends -- INNING 5 - THE DRAFT PICK, THE VETERAN, THE HANGER-ON -- Gurus and Has-Beens -- Joan's Skeletons -- Cycles -- Box Score Inning 5 - October 13 -- Penny Stocks -- Stock Repurchases -- Kissing Off Losers -- INNING 6 - SCOUTING -- Refining the Search -- The Bargain Bin -- Reading Stock Tables -- Corporate Contact.

The Stock Watch List -- The Internet and Other Sources -- Insider Trading -- Numbers - Oooh, Scary -- The Income Statement -- The Balance Sheet -- Ratio Analysis and Other Critical Numbers -- Box Score Inning 6 - January 12 -- INNING 7 - THE PITCH -- The Buy Decision -- The Bid -- Playing Percentages -- Order Ratios -- Order Quantities -- Box Score Inning 7 - April 13 -- INNING 8 - THE SET-UP MAN -- The Hold -- Ongoing Research -- Box Score Inning 8 - July 13 -- The Fool's Game of Stop Losses -- Takeovers -- INNING 9 - THE CLOSER -- Hunting the Sell Target -- Staging the Sell -- Sell Signals -- Box Score Inning 9 - October 12 -- INNING 10 - ANY BUDDY'S GAME -- Taxing Planning -- Tax Deferral -- Capital Gains -- The Importance of Dividenas -- IRAs and RRSPs -- Tax Loss Selling -- Income Splitting -- Box Score Inning 10 - January 18 -- Giving Something Back -- POST GAME SHOW - CALCULATING RESULTS -- Annualized Returns -- Currency Translation -- Incisive Investing -- Final Box Score - April 19 -- Ethics -- The Evolving System -- GLOSSARY -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- APPENDIX I: THE CONTRA PHILOSOPHIES -- APPENDIX II: FINANCIAL RETURNS -- APPENDIX III: THE CONTRA COMMENTARIES -- APPENDIX IV: RECENT PURCHASES -- APPENDIX V: BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READINGS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.