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A to Z: Presidents Day Homework

02/18/08 - 12:05 PM EST

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TSC Staff
TSC Staff

The following TheStreet.com selections offer investing lessons that combine the timely with the timeless.

A: Asset Allocation

  • Allocate Your Assets Like a Pro
  • Sit Tight and Batten Down the Hatches
  • Play It Safe With REITs in '08 (video)

    • B: Bonds

  • Get to Know Bond Investing
  • Dr. Contrarian: Why Mixing Bonds and CDs Actually Increases Your Risk
  • Bond Insurers May Face Breakup
  • Five Things You Must Know About Bond Pricing

    • C: China

  • China Watch: Special Report on Baidu (video)
  • Go-Slow Approach to Fast-Growing China
  • China: 'The Best Place to Invest in the Next Five to 10 Years'
  • China's Shifting Microfinance Landscape: New Players, Old Problems

    • To learn more about investing in emerging markets like China, check out the TheStreet.com's Playing Emerging Markets section.

    D: Discipline

  • Cramer: I'm Rich Because I'm Disciplined (video)
  • 10 Ways to Build Trading Discipline
  • Investor Types to Avoid

    • E: Energy

  • Cramer: Two Leadership Sectors (video)
  • Avoid Getting Burned by Solar Stocks
  • Natural Gas No Good for the Short-Term (video)

    • For more on the energy sector, check out TheStreet.com's Energy/Commodities section.

    F: The Fed

  • Cramer: Market Can't Save Itself -- Got That, Fed? (video)
  • If the Fed Keeps Cutting, Buy These Stocks (video)
  • Five Things You Must Know About the Fed

    • G: Gross Margins

  • Income Statement Insight: Gross Margins Matter

    • H: Hedging

  • Five Hedging Techniques You Must Know

    • I: Insider Activity

  • Top 10 Insider Purchases and Buybacks

    • J: 'Junk' ('Subprime' of Yesteryear)

  • Junk Bond
  • Why Mortgages Blew Up
  • Five Lessons From the Mortgage Meltdown

    • K: Kass (Doug Kass)

  • Eat My Shorts, Ben Stein
  • Cut the Dead Weight
  • Be Like Buffett and Take a Risk

    • L: Losses

  • Take Responsibility for Your Stock Losses
  • 20 Ways to Stop Losing Money in 2008
  • Stop and Think Before Using Stop Losses

    • M: Momentum Stocks

  • Cramer: Beware Momentum Stocks (video)
  • Cramer: Ease Up on These Momentum Stocks (video)
  • How to Pick Momentum Stocks

    • N: Net Income

  • Getting Started: The Income Statement
  • How to Read an Income Statement

    • To stay up to date on company earnings, check out TheStreet.com's Earnings section.

    O: Options

  • Getting Started With Options
  • Options: Back to Basics
  • Use Options to Boost Your Returns
  • Options Mailbag: How to Trade 'Em, How to Win

    • P: Politics

  • If McCain Wins, So Could These Funds
  • Funds That Could Profit From Clinton, Obama in Office

    • Q: The 'QQQ' (Just One of the Short ETFs)

  • How to Outperform the Market and Manage Risk With ETFs
  • How Short ETFs Make Money

    • R: Recession

  • Recession: The Big 'R' Word and You
  • Revisiting the Recession Playbook
  • Scared? Rest Easy With This Portfolio

    • S: Small-Cap Stocks

  • Top Five Small-Cap Stocks
  • Stocks Under $10: Good News for Imax, China Direct

    • T: Technical Analysis

  • 3 Stocks I Saw On TV (video)
  • How to Trade Off of a Stock Chart
  • Get to Know the Moving Average
  • How to Bet on Bollinger Bands
  • Make Your Move With the 'MACD'

    • U: Undervalued

  • Undervaluation
  • Top Five All-Around Value Stocks
  • How to Find the Next Big Value Play
  • Should You Buy It? Tidewater Rising

    • V: Volatility

  • How to Play a Slow, Choppy Market
  • Seven Ways to Handle Market Stress

    • W: War

  • Barton Biggs: What War Teaches Us About the Market

    • X: The Xperia Smartphone

  • Smartphone Shines in Barcelona Preview

    • Y: Yahoo!

  • Cramer: Sell Yahoo! (video)
  • Yahoo! Deal's Biggest Hurdle: Government
  • Yahoo! Running to Rupert?
  • Six Things We Learned About Tech Last Month
  • Five Arbitrage Techniques Every Investor Needs to Know
  • How to Play the M&A Game

    • Z: Z-Shares (A Special Type of Mutual Fund Share)

  • The A to Z of Dissecting a Fund Prospectus
    • This article was written by a staff member of TheStreet.com.

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