bounce here and want to be short the other side. >> mike. >> november calls. verizon. >> thanks for having me back. dan nathan will be back in this seat next week. don't fret. >> our time has expired. thanks for watching. see you back here next my mission is simple, make you money. i'm here to level the playing field for all investors. there's always a bull market somewhere, and i promise to help you find it. "mad money" starts now. hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends, i'm just trying to make you some money. my job is not just to entertain but educate and teach, so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. every night i come ot here and tell you what happened touring the day, why it happened and what can you do with the information. i do it in order to help you be

a better do it yourself investor or better client. i do it with a spectacular team of people, headed by an executive producer, regina. and people responsible for everything from the look and feel of the show to the research. and we have a head writer who is really our only writer, been the only writer since inception when he was a freshman in high school, cliff maysson, my siste and her husband's son, my nephew. i'm going to change tonight. i want to talk to you about the show, its evolution and how you can best use it, or worse, misuse it. there's so much we throw at you that you may not be able to use it as effectively as we would like.

i know this, because i talk with enough people that i have a pretty good idea why you come here and what you really want. now the show's evolved mightily since when we started. the show was an outgrowth of a radio show called "real money" which is where you first heard boo-yah, by the way, then it was "the street", "real money." when we started the show, people thirsting for specific ideas. but the stock market changed over time, we got hit with the great recession. stocks were seen as a way to save and make money of we had many big companies destroyed by the down turn, mostly because they had lent a lot of money. there was a credit crisis. i am proud of the fact if you

watch pea yme you might have av a lot of down turn, because i said that the fed was nuts, they were nuts! i find it a tad ironic while even when the fed acknowledged in its minutes, i was the only guy falling apart, i was the only guy vilified for telling people not to sell. damned if you to, damned if you don't. that changed me. i added some language at the top of the show meant to describe the new man fess toe, a new r n reason for being. i say that the show is meant to entertain, to educate and teach of it's very important and different from the original show, a total brake eak in a lo ways. i think it's just not enough to give you stock ideas. we've minimized them over the last decade. we want for you to be able to

understand the process and pick them for yourself, or more important we want you to understand the stock market enough for you to make a judgment whether you can do it yourself. now me, i love individual stocks, have for years and years and years. i think they can be tremendous vehicles that can lead to great wealth. our shows on stocks like apple, pep pepsico and bristol-myers, we have tried to give you themes that allow you to invest in more fertile sectors versus others, themes that i hope i can make come alive with analogy, sports, movies, whatever, so you can do the homework on them, things like post the great recession or living longer through healthy eating habits. i've written many books over time. i know the "confessions of the

street addict" is a favorite. but this is the show's new companion. if you're having trouble, "get rich" will do it. i'm cognizant that the market is hard. you've got time burdens, you've got demands. i am not just okay with index funds. i insist that you use them. i would not own a single stock until i put at least $10,000 away in an index fund through your ira or 401(k). i have not warned you of individual stock. i would prefer you invest in index funds versus mutual funds. now there are always individual cases where individual managers do acquit themselves, but managers move and records can change and past performance is

no guarantee, all that. which brings me to point number one of this show, i am not a shill or snake oil salesman for individual stocks. i am a believer in the asset class of stocks as a way to save money for retirement, vacations, education, whatever your heart t desires. i try mightily to convince you that it is worth it to do so. because stocks have indeed created so much wealth over time. if you don't believe me, read warren buffett's report. why do they work? they represent the sum progress of business going forward. they represent the wealth the companies create in aggregate and the sharing of that wealth is shareholders. you get to be along for the ride, and i want you to be along for the ride in a responsible way. i'm partial to the s&p 500, but i also like a fund that gives

you a total return and offering that is found among various fund houses. once again, for those who don't get it, here's my bottom line. the show has changed over time from where we pick stocks for you to where we educate you about stocks where you understand why an index fund might be worth have tinvesting. after we have professed such undying love for index funds as the first way to go. larry? >> caller: i want to tell you how much your nightly focus lessons remind me of roosevelt's fireside chats. >> well, president roosevelt was a great man.

thank you. sometimes my mom says just say thank you. >> caller: when does an investment turn into a trade? we don't accumulate too many stocks to have to monitor. at what position do we unload a position that has ngotten out o control. >> i like to take off now my rules have evolved. when you're up 50%, you take off 25, and when you're up 100%, you take off, yes, all of your initial investment, then you play with the house's money and say thank you very much, and you got a good gain. investment into trade, we don't do that. if something's an investment and it's labeled investment, it is an investment. if you didn't get enough in, you can kick that out for a trade. an investment becomes a trade when you don't get the whole

investment in. greg? >> caller: i've got a quick question, me and my friends are young investors. do you think it's worth taking more risk when you're younger and you don't have enough money to put more money on the line and try to seek the higher profits? >> listen to me, twreg. yeah. i didn't start with much money. but i took big risks, because i had my whole life ahead of me. you've got your whole life ahead. you buy some stocks and they go down big, you've got that paycheck coming. it's only older people who are further down the line who don't have enough paychecks left, you take that big risk. that's what i want. chris in oregon. chris? >> caller: yes, jim, thank you for taking my question and thank you very much for all the great advice you've given me. every position in my portfolio is cramer approved and doing very nicely.

>> how can i help? >> caller: i have an ira equity portfolio that i don't plan to draw on for about five more years, and everything then is obviously reinvested into it. my question is about dividends. does it matter whether you reinvest those dividends back into the stock that generated them or just reinvest them in the fund in general? >> anytime you can reinvest dividend, reinvest dividend. the power of compounding, one of the greatest single things that can happen to your money is to compound dividends. okay, teach a man to fish, your fish evolves. to make you better no matter what you invest in, i'm in your corner. plenty of "mad money" ahead, including how to plug in to one of the market's biggest sources of wealth over the last few decades. plus, it can be a huge way to win but also a massive catastrophe if you're not careful. "mad money" will be back after

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we've started the show ex-planing why we teach what we teach and why you want to own index funds to capture the profits and opportunities to stocks in aggregate. for those of you who come away from the show who say we tout index stocks every night and think individual stocks are a waste of time. why do we even bother to do the show other than i like to be compensated for doing something if i like index funds that much? you know what? it's a trefx question actually. surely i could have retired by now. i was a hedge fund manager. had one of the largest returns after 24%. i will come back to that number, so hold onto it. but i mention it now, because i am lucky enough to be able to do what i want to do at this stage in my life. every now and then i'm tempted

to thinking maybe i should go back to be being a hedge fund manager, but my late father thought i was much happier doing what i am doing now, and he thought it would be a mistake going back to that old life because he thought it was too hard, plus he thought the show was terrific and was my biggest backer in what i was trying to accomplish here. thanks, pop. so why do i ever talk about individual stocks then? someone must want the information or we wouldn't have lasted as long as we have. in the end, this is a commercial product. and the market would have deemed it's worth something. this is history. national video, american agronomics. st technologies, standard press steel, giant foods, heinz ga nch t itch -- gantis.

remember index funds are preferable for the vast majority of you. i know you're going to want to buy individual stocks anyway or you wouldn't be watching "mad money," which brings me to six stocks. national video. when i was growing up, my father's brother knew a broker, and that broker's name was jack ofjack. . met jack once. my father worked at gymables, selling slacks, gabardines. and then he sold boxes and bags, gift boxes to retailers. those who have heard my father's eulogy delivered the day after he died, november of 2014 know that my dad had a really hard business life. he and his brother started the national gift wrap and box

company to supply merchants with everything they needed to box, wrap and bag whatever they sold to their customers. well, he never had much competition. his customers were always going under and he was on the road quite a bit trying to find the new ones. i remember endless days of discouragement. i was growing up. those were the day when is my mom would tell me, go to your room before pop got home. he had a hard day. it was tougher to save. he had money in a banking account and savings and loan, but it didn't pay much interest, and i know he was always deathly afraid he couldn't pay the bills. so one day pop said he knew what he was going to do. he was going to buy the stock of national video, because pop's brother had heard from jack, the guy with the good backhand who was a broker, that it was the next big thing, the stock of the millennium. at first stock went up dramatically, and pop was elated

and he bought more and more of it because it was going higher. in fact, that was really about all pop knew about national video. he either found out how it was doing by reading the five star evening bulletin which came out at the close of the market, or he'd turn on the radio, and they'd list a lot of closing prices on the station he put on. and he'd cheer, he'd encourage me to follow it. i've told you in the past how i kept a journal of stocks that i followed in the fourth fraygrad. i didn't know more beyond what pop knew about national video, but i wasn't playing with real money, he was. sure enough, after pop had put a sizable amount of his life savings in, it started going down. pop didn't know what to do, so he would check in with his brother who checked in with jack who told pop that all was well and he should keep buying national video, which he did. all i can say is i'm glad for two things.

one is that pop never borrowed money to buy national video, and two, stocks blessedly stopped at zero on the way down. pop lost everything. everything. we didn't take much vacations and we sure didn't stay at the ritz-carlton or four seasons when we went away. i remember ritz mock apple pie made with crackers. there was an important take away that suffuses the very fundamental of this show. people are going to be tempted to own individual stocks. one of the precepts is to know how to invest in individual stock if you're going to do so. think of the mistakes my dad made with national video. first he didn't know anything about it. so he had no idea how the company was doing, how risky it was, how it could go down as well as up and how it could go under of he relied on a stockbroker friend of his brother. he had done no work on it at

all. so he was at the mercy of the movement of the stock and only knew to buy rather than cut his losses. that's right, he had a tip. he bought the tip up and down after doing no work and he lost everything. substantial chunk of his life savings. so let me give you the bottom line of here are the many take aways. tips, as i like to say, are for waiters. two, you must do homework if you're going to own individual stocks. three, if you can't do homework, own an index fund, and four, if you fear losing money, don't own stocks at all. i still don't know what national video does. i can google it, but that's for another chapter in tonight's story. after the break, i'll try to make you more money. cramer! you are super. you are awesome of. >> i'm a first-time investor.

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welcome back to a real special show of shows. meaning a show describing what this show is about, and why i do it to begin with. first, we covered that i don't even want to buy an individual stock if you own a tie versefied index fund and own enough to make it so it's always the biggest part of your savings, never stocks. we don't call the show "mad money" for nothing. we're using "mad money" only to buy stocks. learning how not to invest, owning national video through a tip through a brother, and then riding it all the way up and all the way down. that wouldn't happen with an index fund, but we respect the right everyone has to try to

invest in individual stocks. even as we recognize that my father, had he diversified would have had a lot more to show for it. which brings me to the second stock lesson, american agronomics. initially, when i got out of school i knocked around as a reporter, i made about $153 a week. then homicide in l.a. i didn't make much money there, but i knew enough to open an ira. my dad told me to do it. so whatever i had automatically went to the fidelity magellan fund, but i was determined to try to augment that mutual fund by buying individual stocks. however, i was going to do it the right way by researching the stocks, getting eds through the research, not through the brother or the broker.

where was i going to get that edge? i figured start reading the periodicals. and because of a kind sister who let me crash in her apartment in the village, i was able to save some money. in fact, i saved more than $200 beyond my contributions to my ira and decided to use that definition of "mad money" to buy the stock of american agronomics. why? because i raidead an article th said that this orange grower was doing incredibly well, and i'd be on the ground floor if i bought it. so i picked up 10 shares of this $9 stock. i was in on the ground floor, i was in on the cheap linoleum ground floor that i ended up sipping that cutty sark on. i should have given up right there. i just changed my m.o.

what i did give up on was buying stock on a well-researched article and letting it ride. it didn't hit me about a better way to do it until i got a call from an old friend of mine, a high school friend, which said that a local steel mill, sps at that hiring. my friend knew i was struggling for extra money and that i might want another job. those calls in the middle of a recession for a job, they can be like gold. i said nah, i was happy where i was, but i decided why not look into sps and see how it was doing as a company, as a stock. so i went to the midtown library in new york where they had the periodicals and read up on everything that was sps which then changed to sp technologies. everything at that library, wall street research, you name it. and here's what i discovered. it first, there wasn't much known or written about sps, and

second, what was written was pretty down negative. my first thought was to say ah well, it's not doing that well, bummer. hold it, my information is the most current possible. i got a guy telling me they can't handle the business they have, and they need to add additional shifts of unskilled labor like me. and the periodicals all read negative about it. in other words, i had insight nobody else had. everybody pretty much knows everything at once. interpretations of news and events can augment those edges. i took everything i had, everything, everything i had saved and i made a ton of money as the sps story unfolded. enough money that i decided to look around the office for more areas where i had an edge. it was pretty clear that the hot field for m&a was all about oil and gas. i thought, geez, why don't i

find one that hasn't been gobbled up. back to that library. i found a company called natommis. we were talking about $300 and bought that stock. i don't think i had to wait very long before i caught another takeover bid. at that point i was hooked. it changed everything for me, changed my whole career plan. i put money in my mutual fund, but anything left went into individual stock. i know there are people out there who will say none of this is possible today, first, the research that is so scanty back then is available on the web. would you have known that sps was hiring, doing well. third, there are now rules that make it so it's hard to get any kind of edge because companies have to give full disclosure. some would say you can't possibly gain stocks at all, and

you might as well buy an index fund, you know i'm not against that. i was investing in individual stocks right alongside a much b bigger percentage of my savings. you can pick stocks that might be doing much better than the average stock and can augment your savings. have some edge and stay current on the company. here's the bottom line. remember american agronomics and sps, if you only know what one person says in the media, me or the writer of forbes. i'm telling you, that's not good enough. it's a start, better to have genuine insight others might not have, especially if it's against the grain of the consensus, it is in the end about the odds, and any hard work you can do to increase your odds will make it more likely than not that you will succeed as an individual investor, which in the end should be the reason you watch this show. joe in new york.

joe. >> caller: this is joe from kings park, new york. thank you for taking myle call. >> of course. >> caller: thank you for sharing your wisdom with your viewers. >> i got a great staff that helps me. thank you. >> caller: if i want to diversify and add three or four companies to my portfolio for the long term but by diversifying i would only buy two or three shares of each company or would it be better to buy ten shares of one of them, what is the least amount you would invest? >> i've done ten shares, i've done two or three times at various times. but i do favor index fund for your first investments and only after you've maxed out on index funds would i suggest you buy individual stock. nobody said investing was easy. it requires genuine insight, time and hard work on your part, but don't worry, we'll do it together. so stay with cramer!

tonight i'm telling you how to increase the odds of successful, individual

investing, using stocks from my personal histories to tell the whole story. we've gone over why we start with index funds. we have seen the wrong way to invest by examining a failed investment of my dad's, national video, and the right way through a couple stocks i bought before i went to law school which were all ahead of the data curve back then. i managed to trade using personal resources and the library. as well as what we call microfiche of filings of individual stocks. so what if it was a month old when we got them, it was better than nothing. in law school we saw the beginning of indexing of individual stocks, we saw the value rhiline company.

and then the s&ps&p 500. at no point did these changes cool the ardor for individual stocks. the heyday was beginning when i was in law school. we were coming out of a prolonged period of subpar market performance with the 30 year treasury peaking in the low teens. and money coming into stocks in the fervor, let's just say it was all beginning. how coudo i know this? simple. i used to get a call every day from none other than my mother who absolutely loved the stock market and would call for quotes on her favorite stocks. i got her interested in stocks in the early '80s and got interested in the way peter lynch taught all of us. buy what you know and stay on top of it. she had started shopping at giant foods and asked me if it

was publicly traded. i would read up on the wall street research and marry her experiences at the chain, right, personal insight shall wi, with fundamentals. they had the ax, the best analyst on the street. and i would read what he had to say about giant. i had the luxury of having a friend tommy tish from the lows corporation. here was the process of homework you like an idea through person experience, giant food. if the ax liked it more you might have a slight imperfection as other analysts got on board. it was particularly helpful if the ax was to trace out the game plan. if there was growth regional going to national, that would

mean investors would only pay out more for other companies in its sector, meaning the multiple could go higher. these days everything's so much easier. while giant food was subsequently bought by a dutch company, you could have gone to its web page and it most likely would have everything you want, including a stock price, which is available everywhere. now the negative here is that everybody's got the same info. but the original insight by my mother was the starting point. you can't substitute for that. no! as an aside, my late mom never lost her interest in stocks. she took cancer in 1985 and would call me every day at 9:30. he did it to stay alert and connected to me. goldman sachs only gave me as much time off as i needed to spend with her before she died. but i never forgot how easy it was for a parent and son or

daughter to talk about stocks. now it is important to know that despite all these different inputs, the process of picking winning stocks can be upended by events like the great recession or the company itself and the power of its competitors to knock it off in stride, which brings me to the fifth stock in our saga. g gantos. anybody remember gantos? i tried to get my father to buy stock, and he would have nothing of. he said no one goes there. it was high-rated by goldman. and i said let's take a trip to franklin mills, a giant outlet mall outside philadelphia. that may father used to go as he

called on merchants for boxes and bags. there was a giant gantos. we said we going to sit on a bevera bench and watch. and only about a dozen people entered the darn store, and i couldn't remember if we saw one guy or one woman coming out with a bag. i shorted the company that monday and stayed short pretty much until the whole thing went to zero, got lek whiiquidated. gantos made me skeptical. i'm offering a way this show can bolster the process. i try to imagine my mother being a caller. i try to keep the skepticism of the gantos lesson that my father taught me. i help you through the giants and the gantoses.

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we're talking tonight about the notion of individual investing and recognizing how i try to teach you how to analyze stocks you might pick if you have the time and inclination. again, if you don't, you can keep watching, but i want you to invest in index funds, not individual stocks. why? because i can't have you buy a stock and do no research. i want you to have an edge or personal experience where you can match that experience with homework, research, and glean from the company's website recognizing you have to be skeptical at all times. now let's get to the final piece of the puzzle that eludes many of you. let's talk about hienlz.

the catsup company that was bought by a consortium that includes warren buffett. the first stock i bought was heinz. why did i do it? i was looking to own a stock that represented a call on a great management team that could deliver earnings through thick and thin. it was moving from the first world to the third world. and it had a clear growth path ahead for multiple years. plus, at a time when the japanese were nipping at our companies, i was confident we would never have asian catsup on the picnic table. but what i didn't count on were the performance demands on the hedge fund class. i needed to find those that i could always suggest my clients buy more of in case they went down. that way i wasn't wrong so to speak and would run the risk of losing a client. i could reiterate my buy, but performance manager has its own set of rules, and it was learning them on the fly that

really got me, let's just say, down on my luck. just buying stock because you knew it was terrific didn't matter to my new investors. they wanted performance, often daily performance, and i started my fund at a time when the economy was just starting to heat up. heinz was a staple, a good dividend. at a time when the economy heats up, people dump these stocks for something more cyclical and do it in a blink of an eye. it was a rotation into stocks of companies that were diversified tri industrial machinery businesses with businesses that would heat up, start popping. i didn't get that if i wanted to perform daily, i realized i'd have to dump my heinz and bristol-myers and start buying reynolds metals and phelps

dodge. ly -- i had this clause, which is if my fund dropped by more than 10% i'd have to open the doors and let people out of their accoucontract with me. i notice each day my accounts sunk and sunk and sunk because it was filled with debris and not what was fashionable. when i got to 9% i booted my faves. it was a sobering lesson i never forget. you have to take action. you can't just sit there and get your head in because you own best of breed companies. here's why, as that year progressed, the economy got hotter and hotter and hotter, and these stocks kept getting higher and higher. at a certain month, though, things got too hot. people started worrying about interest rates going higher, don't we know all about that, and the next thing you know, the

stock market crashed. all the cyclical players were snapped. let's come back to the show itself. i have now told you to use an index fund no matter what, and buy individual stocks with "mad money," using the right way, not the wrong way. and here i have detailed how a rotation can derail the best of the best for a short period of time. what we do on "mad money" is try to explain right up top why your stocks might not be following the fortunes the companies underneath, things like rotations and macro events. then i try to show you as a home gamer, you can use the flailings of the hedge fund performers to your own advantage by picking up best of breed companies. and also by bringing on executives to learn about these stories, see if they fit into what's right or wrong in the "mad money" world view. i see the best of breed does win out in the end, either after the great crash of '87 or the great

recession of 2007-2009. my job is to keep an eye on it for you and see why it might not be reflecting accurately. and that's your chance to get in on reasonable prices. i augment these views with my other works and my writings. mostly my "get rich" book. it's a way to show you how big money works by playing with an open hand. it's more an exhibit. it can help you understand the rotations better than anything out there while producing good profits for charities. i'm proud to have given away $2.3 million since the charitable trust started. i wanted to help you understand how it works and the machinations of the pros intertwine with how a home gamer should invest. i know that the show's not perfect, i've made my share of

mistakes. i favored companies that didn't work out or didn't do my own homework correctly. i know have a reputation not really deserved, i feel, for being too bombastic. knowing if i didn't try to make it a little bit of fun it would have failed commercially years ago and i would have let down my mother, my father and all you home gamers years and years ago. as long as you know that the bottom line is that i'm doing my job and hopefully doing it right. stay with cramer. 19 tion and growingdede pblm money foin jt 8 s, ke educaon will shri. re on the debtll be our thid est federal prra bad newsor smausinesses. thgood news? thstl time for luti. k e candidatesor a plantoecure .

hey, everybody, i get your tweets all day, try to answer as many as i can. today i thought i'd give my hands a break, dig into some of your tweets right here on "mad money." in real money, you say to be aware of firms financed heavily with debt. is there certain debt ratio to avoid? if you go to stay mad for life, i have a lot of rules for that. they have to be sure that the debt they have, the interest they have to pay isn't overwhelmed, doesn't overwhelm the company. can the cash flow pay for that interest. and that's what you'll get, cash flow versus interest. here we have i@jimcramer, is there any possibility of returning to the gold standard? no. however, i do think that owning some gold is all a good idea.

you can do it through the buellion. check this out,@jimcramer, great morning on the west coast, teaching my a year old the value of investing on "mad money" and cnbc. you know what that kid has? horse sense! high quality companies, could you define precisely, good cash know, low debt, what is the quality? best of breed. it is acknowledged to be the corporate leader in its sector. if the sector's a good one, and this is the best of breed in the sector i think you're going to have a good long-term investment. i prefer to wait until we get one of that's periodic moves, that's when you pull the trigger, by good quality companies at prices you

i've always had a sleeping problem. we cannot stay asleep as long as we'd like. that's why you see me tweeting at 3:40. who are short sellers worth following and learning from? what i've found is that periodically shall the best short sellers are in the wrong stocks. so i like to look at the companies case by case. here's @laz maniac. amazing coverage. i appreciate that and i love that you watch it when it's on air. up we have @cjp, so glad you are helping us, i read every action alert plus alert. thank you pour the for the extr

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