Monster Stocks: How They Set Up, Run Up, Top

Everything individual investors need to know to get in on the ground floor of the next Google Monster Stocks offers a solid blueprint for selecting breakout stocks and understanding all the market conditions surrounding them. Readers will learn how to recognize stocks that have the potential to at least double in value in a year or less-some even skyrocketing several thousand percent! Written by financial controller and former columnist John Boik, this wealth-builidng resource thoroughly examines every aspect of monster stocks: cycles and conditions that must be present for them to appear, historical trends to look for, how to pinpoint these stocks, when to buy, and when to sell for maximum return. The author also explains how to break bad stock investing habits and gives readers the tools needed to recognize future high-performers. "Study past big winners and you'll buy future ones."-William J. O'Neil, Chairman and Founder, Investor's Business Daily

John Boik is a controller and former stockbroker. He is the author of Lessons from the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time, which was chosen by Barron’s as one of the Best Books of 2004, and How Legendary Traders Made Millions.

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Yahoo!, Jabil, and Others Light Up: New Monsters Bloom in the Spring of 1997	p. 17
Big Dreams	p. 17
You Have to Start by Looking Back	p. 19
More Tech Stocks Step Up	p. 31
Others Join In	p. 33
Running Out of Gas	p. 38
AOL, Schwab, and More Soar on the Web: Internet Monsters Come Alive in Late 1998	p. 41
Important Point about Uptrends	p. 44
The Fed Helps Push a Stronger Uptrend	p. 46
New Monsters Come to Life	p. 48
You've Got Mail	p. 49
Online Trading Takes Off	p. 52
More Monsters	p. 55
Yahoo!-Again	p. 57
What about Nokia?	p. 59
Broadcom Connects along with Other Techs: Giant Monsters Party Like It's 1999	p. 63
Would the Lights Come On?	p. 63
Another Major Uptrend	p. 68
Building a Pyramid the Correct Way	p. 71
Other Monsters	p. 73
Climax Runs	p. 75
Let's Yahoo! One More Time	p. 80
A Time for the Ages	p. 82
The Party Ends in Classic Fashion: Monster Stocks Top and Roll Over	p. 83
What Happened?	p. 83
Loss Avoidance Strategies	p. 89
A Major Bear Produces Few Major Monsters: Market Lessons That Are Invaluable	p. 91
Not in Our Generation	p. 91
A Few Bright Spots	p. 93
Cash Is King	p. 96
Is It Over Yet	p. 98
Chinese Internets and Other New Monsters: A New Bull Produces Big Winners	p. 101
Is This One for Real Now?	p. 101
The New Leaders	p. 104
Tests for the Market	p. 107
China's Internet Turn	p. 110
Many Monsters	p. 113
TASER Stuns while Apple Defies Gravity with Music: A Challenging 2004 Offers a Few Monsters	p. 119
Comeback iTime	p. 121
Oil, Metals, and Other Commodities	p. 124
TASER's Stunning Run	p. 127
Google and Hansen: Searching for Monsters: A Choppy 2005 and 2006 Offer a Few New Chances	p. 131
Monster Energy	p. 135
Another Bite of Apple	p. 142
How a Pro Does It	p. 144
Strong as Steel	p. 147
What about Now?	p. 150
Conclusion	p. 159
Appendix	p. 181
Bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 231
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