Conclusion
The Stock Selection Guide has been used by millions of investors over the past forty-five years, and has proven to be a consistent and valuable tool in building successful stock portfolios.
This short tutorial does not attempt to provide an in-depth review of the Stock Selection Guide, but an introduction to a method of fundamental analysis that can be used by any individual investor interested in building a long-term portfolio of growth stocks.
For more information, contact the National Association of Investors Corporation.
About the Author
Douglas Gerlach is a Director on the Board of Directors of NAIC's Computer Group, and the co-creator and Senior Editor of NAIC's Web Site. He was the Founder of Investorama.com (http://www.investorama.com), a leading independent financial and investing site on the World-Wide Web, and the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Investing, and The Investor's Web Guide: Tools & Strategies for Building Your Portfolio. Both books are written in easily understandable terms, and are intended to help both novice computer users and novice investors to develop a strategy for using the power of the Internet to build a portfolio. The Investor's Web Guide takes the Stock Selection Guide another step, using NAIC's tools to successfully manage a portfolio of common stock.
His articles have been published in Individual Investor, Better Investing, BITS, PC World, ComputerLife, and other publications.
He frequently speaks at NAIC events, both nationally and locally, as well as at investing conferences and with the financial and computer media, on the topic of online investing.