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Synopsis:
Finally, a book showing serious investors how to cash in on the latest lucrative investment trend; short selling. With razor-sharp insight and extraordinary wit, Staley explains what it is, how it works, best type of companies to short, and never before released strategies of the world's top short sellers.

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Table of Contents:

Part One Facts and Practitioners		3	(40)
1 Overview: Wealth with Risk		3	(20)
Who Sells Short?		4	(1)
Why Opportunities for Short Selling Exist		5	(2)
Analytical Techniques: How to Detect the First Tremors of the Quake		7	(5)
Who Can Benefit from the Wisdom of Short Sellers?		12	(1)
Mechanics and Risks		13	(3)
Current Market Statistics and Growth Prospects		16	(3)
Caveats		19	(1)
Notes		20	(3)
2 Short Sellers		23	(20)
Hedge Funds and Investment Advisors		23	(2)
Short Sellers--The Alter Ego of Wall Street		25	(4)
Notes		39	(4)
Part Two Categories and Examples		43	(180)
3 Bubble Stocks		43	(20)
Dirty Carpets: ZZZZ Best		43	(1)
Harrier: It Just Didn't Add Up		44	(9)
Second Derivation: Medstone		53	(5)
More on Prospectuses		58	(4)
Notes		62	(1)
4 High-Multiple Growth Stocks, Part 1: High Risk, Low Return		63	(30)
Computers and Cabbage Patch Dolls: Coleco		64	(3)
Keeping Score with Baseball		67	(6)
Marble and Brass in a Grocery Store: J. Bildner & Sons		73	(8)
Lending to Franchisees: Jiffy Lube		81	(10)
Notes		91	(2)
5 High-Multiple Growth Stocks, Part 2: High Returns, Faltering Growth		93	(20)
Beverages		93	(1)
Cott Corporation		94	(6)
Snapple Beverage Corporation		100	(5)
High Tech: Media Vision		105	(7)
Notes		112	(1)
6 If You Can't Read It, Short It		113	(14)
National Education		114	(6)
Autotote		120	(5)
The Weasel: Western Savings and Loan		125	(11)
Insurance Companies: Who's on First?		136	(7)
Notes		143	(4)
7 Money Suckers: Coining Money to Live		147	(22)
The Nine Lives of Integrated Resources, Inc.		147	(19)
Summit Technology, Inc.		162	(5)
Notes		167	(2)
8 If You Can't Fix It, Sell It		169	(20)
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Escapes Maxwell's Money		170	(5)
Texas Air: Flying with Frank		175	(4)
Kay Jewelers Sells Out (or Tries to) at the Annual Sale		179	(3)
Morrison Knudsen		182	(5)
Notes		187	(2)
9 Industry Obsolescence: Theme Stocks		189	(20)
The Arizona Land Race		190	(1)
American Continental: What's All the Ruckus About?		191	(7)
Sun State Savings Acquired on Margin		198	(3)
Valley National: Uncharacteristic Wall Street Battle		201	(6)
Notes		207	(2)
10 All of the Above: Crazy Eddie		209	(14)
An Identifiable Story Stock		209	(1)
A Private Family Bank or an Electronics Chain?		210	(1)
Does a Medical School Count as Vertical Integration?		211	(1)
Wall Street Hysteria and Home Shopping		212	(2)
The Plot Develops		214	(3)
The Big Break		217	(3)
Notes		220	(3)
Part Three History and General Lessons		223	(54)
11 Shortcomings		223	(12)
Three Short Sins		223	(4)
And a Multitude of Small Follies		227	(6)
And Last of All		233	(1)
Notes		234	(1)
12 History and Controversy		235	(20)
History		235	(12)
Witch Hunts and Regulation		247	(5)
Notes		252	(3)
13 Six Pillars of Fundamental Short Selling		255	(22)
The Short Seller's Random Walk for Ideas		255	(20)
1. The Pessimist's Guide to Financial Statements		257	(7)
2. In Search of Greed and Sleaze		264	(8)
3. The Bigger Puzzle		271	(2)
4. Who Owns It?		273	(1)
5. Check the Water Temperature		273	(1)
6. Pay Attention		274	(1)
Concept Recap		275	(1)
Conclusion		275	(2)
Appendix: Margin Accounts and Short Selling		277	(2)
Index		279

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