#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The clearest and best book out there to get you on the path to riches. This one's special!"-Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money "Great tools for anyone wanting to dabble in the stock market."- USA Today Phil Town is a very wealthy man, but he wasn't always. In fact, he was living on a salary of $4,000 a year when some well-timed advice launched him down a highway of investing self-education that revealed what the true "rules" are and how to make them work in one's favor. Chief among them, of course, is Rule #1: "Don't lose money." In this updated edition to the #1 national bestseller, you'll learn more of Phil's fresh, think-outside-the-box rules, including: * Don't diversify * Only buy a stock when it's on sale * Think long term-but act short term to maximize your return * And most of all, beat the big investors at their own game by using the tools designed for them ! As Phil demonstrates in these pages, giant mutual funds can't help but regress to the mean-and as we've all learned in recent years, that mean could be very disappointing indeed. Fortunately, Rule #1 takes readers step-by-step through a do-it-yourself process, equipping even the biggest investing-phobes with the tools they need to make quantum leaps toward financial security-regardless of where the market is headed.