101 Investment Tools for Buying Low & Selling High

Jae K. Shim, Ph.D., is Professor of Finance and Accounting at California State University, Long Beach, and President of the National Business Review Foundation, an investment consulting and training firm. He is also Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of a Los Angeles-based investment firm. Dr. Shim received his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He has published numerous articles in professional and academic journals. Jonathan Lansner is the business columnist for The Orange County Register in Santa Ana, CA, and editor of the Society of American Business Editors’ and Writers’ Newsletter, The Business Journalist. A financial journalist since 1983, Lansner has drawn a diverse collection of assignments—everything from award-winning investigative stories on the nation’s savings and loan debacle to how to stories on investing basics for novices to covering Orange County’s historic municipal bankruptcy.

• Tool #1 AMEX Major Market Index Tool #2 AMEX Composite Index Tool #3 AMEX: Other Indexes Tool #5 ARMS Index (TRIN) Tool #6 Asset Allocation Tool #7 Barron’s Indexes Tool #8 Beta for a Mutual FundTool #9 Beta for a Security Tool #10 Bond Market Indexes Tool #11 Breadth (Advance–Decline) Index Tool #12 British Pound Tool #13 Bullishness Indicators Tool #14 Cash Investments Tool #15 Changes: Stocks Up and Down Tool #16 Charting Tool #17 Commodities Indexes Tool #18 Contrarian Investing Tool #19 Credit Ratings Tool #20 Crude Oil Spot Price Tool #21 Currency Indexes Tool #22 Dollar-Cost Averaging Tool #23 Dow Jones Industrial Average Tool #24 Dow Jones Industry Groups Tool #25 Dow Jones Global Stock Indexes Tool #26 Dow Jones Transportation Average Tool #27 Dow Jones Utilities Average Tool #28 Duration Tool #29 Economic Indicators and Bond Yields Tool #30 Economic Indicators and Stocks Tool #31 Economic Indicators: Factory Orders and Purchasing Manager’s Index Tool #32 Economic Indicators: Gross Domestic Product Tool #33 Economic Indicators: Housing Starts and Construction Spending Tool #34 Economic Indicator: Index of Leading Indicators Tool #35 Economic Indicators: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Tool #36 Economic Indicators: Inflation Tool #37 Economic Indicators: Money Supply.Tool #38 Economic Indicators: Personal Income and Confidence Indices Tool #39 Economic Indicators: Productivity. Tool #40 Economic Indicator: Recession. Tool #41 Economic Indicator: Retail Sales Tool #42 Economic Indicators: Unemployment Rate, Initial Jobless Claims, and Help-Wanted Index Tool #43 Economic Indicators: U.S. Balance of Payments and the Value of the Dollar Tool #44 The Euro Tool #45 Footnotes on Newspaper Financial Tables.Tool #46 FT-SE “Footsie” 100 (U.K.) Stock Index Tool #47 German Mark Tool #48 German Share Index (Frankfurt Dax). Tool #49 Gold Spot Price Tool #50 Gross Income Multiplier (GIM) Tool #51 Herzfeld Closed-End Average Tool #52 Index Arbitrage Tool #53 Indexing Tool #54 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) Tool #55 Insider Trading Activity Tool #56 Interest Rates: Fed Funds, Discount, and Prime Tool #57 Interest Rates: 30-Year Treasury Bonds Tool #58 Interest Rates: Three-Month Treasury Bills Tool #59 Investing StylesTool #60 IBD’S Smart Select™ Ratings. Tool #61 Japanese Candlestick Charts Tool #62 Japanese Yen. Tool #63 Jensen’s Performance Measure (Alpha) Tool #64 Lipper Mutual Fund Indexes Tool #65 Lipper Mutual Fund Rankings. Tool #66 Misery Index. Tool #67 Momentum Gauges Tool #68 Morgan Stanley EAFE Index Tool #69 Morningstar Mutual Fund Rankings. Tool #70 Mortgage Rates Tool #71 Most Active Issues Tool #72 Moving Averages Tool #73 Mutual Fund Cash-to-Assets Ratio Tool #74 Mutual Funds: Evaluation Tools Tool #75 Mutual Funds: Sales Figures Tool #76 NASDAQ Indexes Tool #77 New Highs-to-Lows Ratio Tool #78 New York Stock Exchange Indexes Tool #79 Nikkei (Tokyo) Stock Index Tool #80 Option Tools Tool #81 Profitability Tools.Tool #82 Real Estate Tools Tool #83 Russell 2000 Index Figure 82 Russell Indexes vs. Other Key Indexes Tool #84 Safety and Timeliness Ranking. Tool #85 Share-Price Ratios Tool #86 Sharpe’s Risk-Adjusted Return Tool #87 Short Selling Tool #88 Standard & Poor’s 500 Indexes Figure 87 The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index Tool #89 Standard & Poor’s Other Stock Indexes Figure 88 Standard & Poor’s Other Indexes Tool #90 Stock Splits Figure 89 Stock Splits Tool #91 Support and Resistance Levels. Figure 90 Support and Resistance Levels Chart Tool #92 Tick and Closing Tick Tool #93 Total Return Figure 91 Total Return for Large Mutual Funds Tool #94 Trading Volume Tool #95 Trading Volume Gauges Figure 92 Trading Volume Gauges Figure 93 Odd-Lot Trading Tool #96 Treynor’s Performance Measure Tool #97 Value Averaging Tool #98 Value Line Averages Tool #99 Wilshire 5000 Equity Index Tool #100 Yield Curve Tool #101 Yield on an Investment.

"Anyone who wants to understand what makes the market tick will want to keep 101 Investment Tools on their desk. I am really impressed with how effectively Jae and Jonathan explain how each of these market indicators works, and more importantly, how they can work for you."-Paul A. Merriman, President, Paul A. Merriman & Associates