How do we find hot stocks without getting burned? How do we fatten our portfolios and stay financially healthy? Former hedge-fund manager and longtime Wall Street commentator Jim Cramer explains how to invest wisely in chaotic times, and he does so in plain English in a style that is as much fun as investing is -- or should be, when it's done right.

For starters, Cramer recommends devoting a portion of your assets to speculation. Everyone wants to find the big winners that can bring outsized gains, and Cramer explains how to allocate your portfolio so that you can afford to take this kind of risk wisely. He explains why "buy and hold" is a losing philosophy: For Cramer, it's "buy and homework." If you can't spend an hour a week researching each of your stocks, then you should hand off your portfolio to a mutual fund -- and Cramer identifies the very few mutual funds that he'd recommend.

Cramer reveals his Ten Commandments of Trading (Commandment #5: Tips are for waiters). He explains why he's not afraid to compare investing to gambling (and tells you which book on gambling you should read to become a better investor). He discloses his Twenty-Five Rules of Investing (Rule #4: Look for broken stocks, not broken companies).

Cramer shows how to compare stock prices in a way that you can understand, how to spot market tops and bottoms, how to know when to sell, how to rotate among cyclical stocks to catch the big moves, and much more. Jim Cramer's Real Money is filled with insider advice that really works, information that Cramer himself used to make millions during his fourteen-year career on Wall Street.

Written in Cramer's distinctive turbocharged style, this is every investor's guide to what you really must know to make big money in the stock market.

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Full of interesting anectodes and useful tips
Even Jim in his early days struggled with problems of "cost basis paralysis" that many individual investors deal with. This is until his wife took his stock sheets and whited out his cost basis which allowed him to think clearer about the merits of keeping a stock, namely Maytag that he owned. In another anecdote he described how he decided to invest in AT&T wireless. He asked his daughter "how come you never get frustrated with a busy signal when voting for American Idol" her reply was that she texted her vote but that an AT&T wireless device is needed to do that. There are tips on top fund managers and funds in different categories. Also a chapter on how to spot a market bottom which I found easy to follow but insightful. It included simple criteria as finding a bear market article in the front page of the New York times, Bullish vs bearish investment advisor survey (in this case you need at least 60% bearish). The logic here is that if most are bullish then most money is already nvested in and little money is available for new investment. Volatility index above 40, and a selling climax defined by at least two months of fund outflows. A similar chapter in tops in individual stocks was quite useful with the one warning I found most interesting is tendency of hyped stocks to almost always end up making a seconday offering below the latest traded price signaling the end of the run. Many other tips in this chapter such as accounting problems, over expansion using acquisistions, etc are included. All in all as other reveiwers say not the endgame but a good start.