Table of Contents

FACTS AND PRACTITIONERS.

Overview: Wealth with Risk.

Short Sellers.

CATEGORIES AND EXAMPLES.

Bubble Stocks.

High-Multiple Growth Stocks, Part 1: High Risk, Low Return.

High-Multiple Growth Stocks, Part 2: High Returns, FalteringGrowth.

If You Can't Read It, Short It.

Money Suckers: Coining Money to Live.

If You Can't Fix It, Sell It.

Industry Obsolescence: Theme Stocks.

All of the Above: Crazy Eddie.

HISTORY AND GENERAL LESSONS.

Shortcomings.

History and Controversy.

Six Pillars of Fundamental Short Selling.

Appendix.

Index.

About the Author

KATHRYN F. STALEY has worked with hedge funds, brokerage firms, and other financial institutions to determine which stocks to sell and sell short. She has taught financial statement analysis for the Association for Investment Management Research (AIMR) and lectures on the absence of economic reality in publicly reported earnings announcements. She reads balance sheets and footnotes for fun and profit.