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AAII Top 40

For the AAII Journal's 40th anniversary, we are celebrating by sharing 40 influential investment education articles from our past. These from-the-vault, hand-curated articles are of value because each one imparts a timeless investment process or lesson.


The Position of the Individual Investor
March 1979
James B. Cloonan 

Six Questions With John Bogle
March 2016
John C. Bogle

Keeping Track of Your Portfolio: What to Monitor and When
February 1998
Maria Crawford Scott

Shareholders Must Reclaim Their Corporate Stake
July 1988
T. Boone Pickens

When to Sell a Stock: Practical and Profitable Rules
May 2001
Donald Cassidy

A New Psychological Perspective on Investor Decision Making
September 1983
Harvey Pines

When Treasury Bills Are Riskier Than Common Stocks
August 1989
William Reichenstein

The Costs of Panic-Selling in Stock Market Investing
March 1991
John A. Vann

The Index Fund Approach: Tracking the Market
January 1987
John Bogle

Investment Basics: A Guide for the Newcomer
August 1988
Maria Crawford Scott

Price-Sales Ratios: A New Tool for Measuring Stock Popularity
June 1984
Kenneth L. Fisher

Diversification: How Many Stocks Will Suffice?
January 1990
John K. Ford

Blending Conservative, Growth and Cyclical Stocks Into a Winning Strategy
September 1985
Peter Lynch

Learning From the Mistakes Made by Legendary Investors
October 2018
Michael Batnick

Dollar Cost Averaging vs. Lump-Sum Investing
June 1993
Richard E. Williams

Behavioral Errors Hurt Your Returns
July 2012
Daniel Kahneman

Investment Characteristics of Stock Market Winners
September 1989
Marc Reinganum

Basic Truths About Asset Allocation: A Consensus View Among the Experts
October 1996
William Reichenstein

16 Financial Ratios for Analyzing a Company’s Strengths and Weaknesses
September 2012
Z. Joe Lan

Valuing Growth Stocks: Revisiting the Nifty Fifty
October 1998
Jeremy Siegel

A Fundamental Look at Technical Analysis
May 1990
Al Frank

Sell Rules to Build Your Stock Investing Performance
September 1999
William J. O'Neil

Bond Investing Basics: Why Bond Prices Go Up and Down
November 2001
Annette Thau

Finding Growth Stock Winners: Focus on 8 Fundamental Factors
January 2008
Louis Navellier

Tilting the Investment Odds in Your Favor
March 1983
Dick Davis

Equity vs. Fixed-Income: Return Patterns Since 1802
June 1992
Jeremy Siegel

Ten Common Mistakes Made by Mutual Fund Investors
April 1988
Gerald Perritt

Don’t Fight the Fed: Interest Rates and Their Impact on the Stock Market
May 2009
Sam Stovall

Outrageous Advertising: A Survival Guide for Investors
September 2001
Mark Hulbert

Stock Price Movements Are Unpredictable
March 2011
Burton Malkiel

When to Sell and Nail Down Your Profits—While You Still Have Them
January 2004
William J. O'Neil

Four Fundamental Tests Every Stock Investor Should Use
April 2011
Michael Thomsett

Do's and Don'ts of IRA Investing
March 2010
Robert Carlson

Valuations, Inflation and Real Returns
June 2013
Robert Shiller

The Level3 Withdrawal Strategy to Maximize Your Long-Term Wealth
November 2017
James B. Cloonan

“What Works”: Key New Findings on Stock Selection
October 2013
James O'Shaughnessy

Retired Investor: Getting Through Difficult Markets
November 2011
Julie Jason

Five Common Traits of Successful Value Screens
July 2014
John Bajkowski

Stock Buybacks: Misunderstood, Misanalyzed and Misdiagnosed
March 2015
Aswath Damodaran

The Big Picture: How to Decipher What the Market Is Saying
April 2004
William J. O'Neil