>> tesla don't overthink it they have a bold position for the future in autonomy and electric vehicles. >> smh, semis, you sell them i think it sees 95 soon. i'm melissa lee. have a great night "mad money" is up next 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 cray america. 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. call me or tweet me. every night i come out here and tell you what happened during the day, why it happened and what you can 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 steam of people headed by our executive producer who has been with me since inception and dozens of fabulous people who have to do with the look of the show and research and memos that back up the research and we have a head writer been our only writer, since inception when he was a freshman in high school, my nephew! the show after years and years has become a bit of a labor of love we've been doing it for so darned long, we take it for granted what we do today, i will change it and correct it today, 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 you might not be able to use it as effectively as we would like.

i know this because i talk to enough people about the show and interact with people and callers and twitter action on cramer i have an idea why you come here and what you really want the show has evolved mightily since we started, an outgrowth of a radio show when we first started booyah and did with a company i call "the street," still write for it under the paid site also known as "real money" and manage my charity when people first started asking for investment ideas i was happy to comply. but the stock market changed which changed what we call asset class of stocks, meaning stocks as a way to saichbd make money -- to save and make money. we had many big companies destroyed by the down turn mostly because they didn't have enough money to handle the losses and decline in economic

activity, a credit crisis. i am proud of the fact if you watch me you might have avoided the down-time because we shouted they were nuts and the situation was far worse than realized. no matter. even as the fed acknowledged i was the only guy saying it was falling apart and the only guy vilified for telling people to sell, damned if you do and damned if you don't. that changed me and the show it was a metamorphasis, and i added language at the top of the show a new reason for being. i now say every night in some form or another the show is meant to educate and entertain and teach. that's very important and different from the original show a total break a lot of ways. i think it's just not enough to just give you stock ideas. we minimized them over the last decade we want for you to understand

the process and depict them for yourself more important we want you to understand the stock market enough for you to make a judgment whether you can do it yourself me, i love individual stocks and have for years and years i think they can be tremendous vehicles and lead to great wealth our shows identification with certain stocks like apple, chipolte, texaco sales force, bristol-myers, haven't gone unnoticed. ever since we changed the show we tried to leave hot ideas and instead try to give you themes that allow you to invest in more fertile sectors versus others, themes i hope i can make come alive with analogies and sports so you can do the home work, nu frugality, living longer through healthy eating habits, social media and cloud and i've written many books over time, proud of that

"confessions of a street addict" written four years ago is a favorite "how to get rich" is designed to be this show's companion, a lot of what i talk about in the show if you're having trouble getting rich, do it. i'm cognizant the market is hard i understand it. and that's why i'm not just okay with index funds and insist you use them i would not put away a single stock unless i put away $10,000 in an index fund through your e.r.a. or 401(k) while i have addressed saving for retirement and other shows i have never point-blank warned you o individual stocks. let me say it tonight i would encourage you to invest investment funds versus mutual funds. there are occasions managers acquit themselves.

records can change and past performance is no guarantee, all that jazz. which brings me to the point of shows. i am not a snake oil salesman for individual stocks. i am a believer in asset class to save for retirement, vacation, anything your heart desires. i want you to have exposure to the stock market, a technical term and it is worth to it do so. stocks have created so much worth over time. if you don't believe me read warren buffet's amazing golden anniversary term and why they're a great asset to own why do they work they represent the sum progress of business in the process for business going forward and represent the wealth companies create in aggregate and sharing of that wealth with shareholders you get to be along for the ride in a responsible way owning an index fund i'm paragraphs to the s&p 500

and i like a fund that gifves yo a total return and often found in various fund houses if you aren't all for one, of course, go to the s&p 500. once again for those who don't get it, my bottom line, this show has changed over time where we pick stocks for you to where we educate you about stocks. one problem we know you like stock, too, or you wouldn't be watching when we come back we'll tell you why to bother in individual stocks at all, while we profess such undying love these days for index funds as the first way to go larry in massachusetts, larry. >> caller: jim, i know i mentioned it before, i want to tell you how much your nightly focus lessons remind me of roosevelt's fireside chats >> president roosevelt was such a great man. larry, thank you

my mom says, sometimes just say thank you. >> caller: we need you. >> thank you >> caller: when does an investment turn into a trade, we don't chase a stock or accumulate too many stocks to monitor. when do we unload a small position gotten out of control and high quality problem and conversely do we admit we got it wrong? >> i'm shorthand for these i like to take off my rules have evolved. when you're up 50% you take off 25 when you're up 100%, you take off, yes all of your initiate investment. you play with the house's money and say thank you very much. you got a good gain. investment into trade, we don't do that. if something is an investment and labeled and investment it is an investment. if you didn't get enough in when a stock came in you can kick that out for a trade investment becomes a trade when you didn't get the whole

position on. greg >> caller: i feel like we talk everyday how are you doing? >> doing great >> caller: me and my friends are young investors in our 20s, do you think it's worth investing when you don't have enough money, put more money on the line and try to seek the higher profit >> listen to me, greg. yeah, i didn't start with much money. but i took big risks because i had my whole life ahead of me. you have your whole life ahead of you buy some stocks and they go down big you have that paycheck coming it's only older people further down the line don't have enough paychecks left you take that big risk, what i want chris in oregon, chris >> caller: yes thank you for taking my question and for all the great advice you've given me. every position in my portfolio is captain cramer approved and doing very nicely. >> you're very kind. thank you so much.

how can i help >> caller: my question is i have an e.r.a. equity portfolio i don't plan to draw on for about five more years. everything then in obviously reinvested into it my question is about dividends does it matter whether you reinvest those dividends back in the stock that generated them for just in the fund in general? >> any time you can reinsist it, reinvest, a hard and fast rule always reinvest a dividend one of the greatest single things to happen to your money is compounding of dividends. ste teach a man to fish, we want to make you a better investor no matter what you invest plenty ahead, including how to plug into one of the markets's biggest sources of wale. plus, a huge way to win but

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we started the show explaining why we teach what we teach and why you want to own index funds to capture the stocks in aggregate. for those that come away from the show stay we count stocks every night and don't think index will change. >> that's okay, won't change your mind. why do we bother the show other than i like to be compensated for something if i like index funds so much? you know what, it's a terrific question

surely i could have retired. did well at goldman sachs and head fund manager and gave them a large compound fund of 24% when the standard index gave you an 8% return for the same period i will go back to that number and tell you to hold onto it i am lucky enough to be able to do what i want to do the this stage of life. every now and again i am tempted to think i should be a hedge fund manager but when i do that i remember my late fatherthought it would be a mistake because it was too hard he was my biggest backer in what i was trying to accomplish here. thanks, pop. why ever talk about individual stocks here? 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 has judged this product to be worth something or it would have been cancelled years ago.

i do it because of six stocks. you don't have to write these down national video, american agronomics steel, giant foods and others. this is why i think these stocks can play a role to get you to the point you make fewer errors and more of a chance to make money longer term if you choose to invest in individual stocks as well as index funds index funds are preferable to the majority of you and you wouldn't want to buy it or you wouldn't be watching this show it brings me to national video when i was growing up my father's brother knew a broker and that broker's name was jack. i met jack once. he played a lot of tennis and played a lot of backhand my father worked hard. he worked at gimbels department

store selling slacks and then he realized he wouldn't get promoted he started selling with his brother those who heard my father's eulogy delivered the day after he died november 2014, he had a hard business life he and his brother started the gift wrapping company to supply merchants whatever they needed to box, wrap and bag whatever they sold to their customers he never had much competition. his customers were always going under and always on the road quite a bit to find new ones i remember endless days of discouragement growing up. those were the days my mom would tell me go to your room before pop got home head a hard day and didn't make any sales or customers were cool to him it was tough for him to save he had money in a bank account savings and loan and he was

always deathly afraid he couldn't pay the bills finally, he said he knew what he was going to do. he was going to buy the stock of national video because pop's brother heard from jack, the guy with the good backhand that it was the next big thing, the stock of the millennium or roaring 1960s. at first the stock went up dramatically and i could tell pop was elated and he bought more and more because it was going higher in fact, that was really all pop new about national video at one point one of the biggest papers in the country or come out at the close of the market or list closing prices on the station he put on including trading. he would cheer and encouraged me to follow it i told you i kept a journal of the stocks i kept in the fourth grade. i didn't know anything more than what pop new about national

video. i wasn't playing with real money. but he was sure enough after he put a sizable amount of his savings on the way up it started going down he didn't know what to do and checked in with his brother and checked in with jack and told his brother and told pop all was well and keep buying national video which he did i'm glad of two things one is pop never borrowed money to buy national video and, two, stocks blessedly stop at zero on the way down pop lost everything. everything i didn't notice the changes back then but we didn't take much vacation and we sure didn't stay at the ritz-carlton or four seasons when we went away. i remember ritz mocked apple pie made with the crackers there was an important takeaway from this national video part. people will buy stocks to augment their paycheck, just a fact one of of the precepts is to

know how to invest in a stock if you're going to do so. think of the mistakes my father made with national video and you will know why this show is set up the way it is first, he didn't know anything about it and didn't know how well the company was doing and how risky it was and how it could go down or under he relied on a stockbroker friend of his brother and done no work on it at all he was at the mercy of the movement of the stock and only knew to buy rather than cut his losses he had a tip bought the tip up and down if you're doing no work and lost everything a substantial chunk of his life savings. let me give you the bottom line. here are the many takeaways. tips are for waiters two, you must do home work going into individual stocks, three, if you can't do home work, go to index funds. and four, stocks can go up or down i still don't know what it does.

yeah, i could google it. that's for another chapter in tonight's story. after the break, i'll try to make you more money. ♪

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show of shows. me describing what this show is about and why i do it to begin with first, we cover i don't even want you buying an individual stock until you own a diversified index fund and own it so it's always a big part of your savings, never stocks we don't call the show "mad money" for nothing we use it to buy stocks, the rest goes in index funds buying a stock national video ignorantly via a tip from a brother and riding it all the way up and all the way down! >> that was easy >> that wouldn't happen with an index fund we respect the right everyone has to try to invest in individual stocks even as we recognize my father, had they diversified or even knew they existed back then might have a lot more to show for it. it brings me to the second lesson of the night. american agronomics.

initially when i got out of college i covered sports and made about $153 a week and homicide in l.a. after winning awards for my coverage of the ted bundy murders in the florida capitol. i didn't make much there but knew to open an ira and save money, my dad told me to do it whatever money i had automatically went to the magellan mutual fund, owned by peter lynch, one of the best investors to this day. like my dad i tried to buy personal stocks however i was going do it the right way researching the stocks and getting the edge through the research where was i going to get the edge i thought why not read all the periodicals covering stocks, so many back then i was helping start a magazine a trade profession devoted to the devotion of law and from my kind sister who let me crash in her apartment in the village a bit i was able to save money

in fact i saved $20 past my contributions to theai ira to b stocks why? i read an articles in "forbes" magazine and that article said this orange grower was doing incredible well and i would be on the ground floor if i bought it i bought 10 shares of this stock. i was in on the ground floor, you know what ground floor i was in i was on the cheap linoleum floor that i ended up sipping from the orange crop died and wiped out my investment. i should have given up right there. i didn't i changed my m.o what i gave up on was buying a stock off a well researched article. i didn't hit me how to do it a better way until i got a call froman old high school friend, a steel mill called sps was

higher if i were looking forring a high paying job. they had a lot of orders and looking for workers. my friend thought i might want a job. those calls from friends for a job, they can be like gold i said, naw, i was happy where i was. i decided why not look into sps and see how it was doing as a company, a stock i went to midtown new york and read up on anything and everything sps which then changed to st technologies they had everything at that library, business periodicals, wall street research, you name it here's what i discovered there wasn't much known or written about sps and, second, what was written was pretty darned negative. my first thought, oh, well, they're 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 need to add additional shifts of unskilled labor like me but the periodicals all read

negatively about it. in other words, i had insight nobody else had. i was ahead of the story these days it's hard to get that interpretations of news and events can augment those edges and analysis was important back then i had the pure play. i took everything i had and saved and made a ton of money as the sps story unfolded enough money i decided i would look around the office for more ideas where i had an edge. i was writing about lawyers with mergers and acquisitions back then it was always about oil and gas. one after another they were being gobbled up i thought, why don't i find one that hasn't been gobbled up. back to the library. i found one in indonesia i took another chunk of money. we were talking like say 300 bucks and bought that stock. i don't think i had to wait very long before i caught another

tackover bid at that point i was hooked and changed everything for me and my career plans i put money in my mutual fund and put it in stocks i made enough money to go back to law school when i decided to become an attorney first, people say none of that is possible now and everything is on the web and everyone can google how a company is doing in a nanosecond and sps taken over and then warren buffet was hiring and doing well. third, there are rules making it hard to get an edge because companies have to give full disclosure of all news or get prosecuted by the government and that makes some say you can't game stocks at all and buy an index fund i am not against it. i was investing with my savings in the best mutual fund of the time you can study and pick stocks that might be doing better than the average stock and can indeed

augment your savings provided you do it right and have an edge on the company staying current remembering anomics and sps if you don't remember what i say, if you buy, i am telling you that's not good enough a start. better to have genuine insight others might not have especially if it's against the grain of the consensus and you increase the odds of succeeding it is in the end about the odds. anything you can do to increase the odds in your favor will make it more likely than not you succeed as a do it yourself investor in the end should be the exact reason why you watch this so. joe in new york. >> caller: boo-ya, jim, this is joe from new york. thanks for taking my call. thank you for sharing your wisdom with my viewers >> i have a great staff that helps me >> caller: my question is this, if i want to diversify and add two or three companies to my portfolio by the long term but

by diversifying i would only buy two or three shares of each company or would it be better to buy 10 shares of one of them basically, what is the least amount of shares you would invest >> 10 shares,ive done many times 10 shares, done two or three various times. remember, i do favor an index fund for your first investment and only if you maxed out on index funds you buy individual stock. it requires genuine insight, time and hard work on your part. don't worry, we'll do it together stay with cramer absolutely love the show >> appreciate you. >> my kids are in elementary school learning so much from you. >> booyah, mr. cramer! >> i know you hear this all the time thank you thank you so much. >> this has been my best year by far and away in the market >> i want to thank you for

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tonight, i'm telling you how to increase the odds of successful individual investing using my stocks and personal history to tell the whole story. we have gone over why we start with index funds and seen the wrong way to invest by examining a failed investment of my dad's, national video and before i went to law school, ahead of the data curve. while at law school i traded daily and going to the harvard business school library which had everything at the time you could dream of including research from every brokerage house as well as microfiche, filings of individual stocks so what if they were a month old, better than nothing during that time we saw the index of individual stocks and the value line company, an influential research fund at the time still around and ultimately

the s&p 500. i didn't think much of the s&p 500 back then, i didn't. i was more interested in individual stocks, i had big scores all you can read about in the confessionings of a street addict it didn't cool the ardor for vld stocks the heyday was when i was beginning law school and almost all made money thank heavens. we were coming out of a subpar performance with the treasury peeking in the low teens five times what elongated bonds are now. and stocks infer vor, all beginning. how do i know this simple when i started on commission in 1984 at goldman sachs, i used to get a call everyday from none other than my mother who loved the stock market and call for favorite skoet quotes on her favorite stocks. i got her interested and she preferred to invest how peter lynch taught us.

buy what you know and stay on top of it. she had been investing in giant foods and asked me if it was publicly traded. she had bought 35 shares and itching to buy more. what i did was what i tell you to do. read up on it and marry her experiences at the chain personal insight with the fundamentals of the grocery business goldman had what was known as "the ax" best analyst on the supermarkets i had the luxury of having tommy tisch from the lowe's corporation who wound send me a big bag of research from other firms who wrote about grocery stores pretty much every week. here's the process of home work, like an idea, giant food, read about it with the best research, match those insights with other firms. if "the ax" liked it more you might have a slight imperfection as other analysts particularly

if "the ax" traced out the game plan if there was terrific gross, meaning national growth and it means it would pay out for than others in its sector the multiple, the price we're willing to pay for future earnings means the p.e. could go higher these days everything is easier. giant foods was bought by a dutch company. had it stayed public you could go to the web page and find out what you want, the stock price, everywhere, no need to call the broker anymore everyone has the same information. 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 sickly with cancer in 1985 and called me every day to get the quote on stocks on giant. she did to it stay alert and stay connected to me goldman sachs gave me as much

time off i needed to spend with her before she died. i never forget how easy it was for a parent and son or daughter to talk about stocks and i vowed one day i would do something more fulfilling with money, something fulfilled by the show the process of picking winning stocks can be up-ended by events as we know from the great recession or execution and power of competitors to knock it off in stride. which brings me to the fifth stock in our saga. gantos anybody remember gantos? the women's apparel retailer loved it i tried to get my father to buy stock in the chain and he would hear nothing of it i asked him why? because we had the best analysts on the street. he said because no one goes there. i said it's impossible

he said, all right, let's take a trip to franklin mall where my father god father used to go to call on merchants to buy boxes and bags. we would camp out in front of gantos, busy saturday and make a judgment whether anybody goes out and buys anything. we sat there for hours and hours watching people and talking and we only saw about a dozen people and only one man or woman with a bag. i shorted the company and pretty much until the whole thing went to zero got liquidated wall street can be wrong i am altering a way to bolster the process and infusing the shows with lesson, try to imagine my mother being a caller and the skepticism of gantos so you can understand the process

of good investing. most of all, i want to show you it isn't rec loss to try to pick individual stocks and those who say it is don't understand the process of first hand experience married with research buttressed by skepticism. it all increases the odds of successful stock investing and minimizing the risk of single stock ownership. bottom line, my mom was no genius at stocks but did have an genuine interest my dad was a genius at retail and i like to think some of that rubbed off on me

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0. we're talking tonight about individual investing and how i teach you how to analyze stocks you might like to pick if you have the time and inclination. if you don't, you can keep watching i want you to invest in index stocks why? i can't have you buy a stock on a tip and do no research have an edge or catalyst or personal experience to match that experience with home work and principally research or knowledge gleaned from the stock's website. but you must be skeptical at all times. now, to the piece that makes the process that makes it seem more mystical than it seems let's talk about heinz, a ketchup company bought by a

consortium that includes warren bucket when i decided to leave my company, i bought heinz. at that point it was a classic growth stock moving from the first world the third world and we used to call it that and had a clear growth path ahead for multiple years at a time the japanese were nipping at our companies and chinese just becoming a world power i was confident we would never have asian ketchup on the picnic table that proved to be right. what i didn't count on was the performance demands on the hedge fund class as long as i was at goldman sachs i could suggest my clients buy more in case they went down and wasn't wrong or run the risk of losing a client, just reiterate my buy but performance management has its own set of rules it was learning it on the fly

that really got me down on my luck, just buying stock because you knew it was terrific didn't a matter my new investors in my fund they wanted performance, often daily performance. i started my fund at a time when the economy was just beginning to heat up heinz was an escapele wi staple dividend what i didn't understand was these stocks were cyclical and then i watched bristol-myers i owned drop more and more and caught into something i didn't realize was a rotation of diversified machinery businesses with earnings that heat up, start popping. i didn't get that if i wanted to perform daily. i realize i'd have to dump my heinz and my bristol-myers and start buying reynolds metals and phelps dodge, and some mining and mineral companies. nevertheless i had this clause

in my companies, if it dropped by 10% i had to open the doors and let people out of their contract with me i noticed each day my fund sank and sank because it was filled with best debris not what was fashionable. finally we booted it and quickly got to even and much more so it was a sobering lesson i never forget if you want to perform on a daily basis as so many hedge funds have to do, you have to take action and not get your head handed to you on rotation basis. it's not one you can't play at home without being a full time professional as the time progress, the economy got hotter and hotter and stocks got higher and higher and at a certain point things got too hot and people worried about interest rates going higher and higher and don't you know about that. the next moment the stock market crashed and so were bristol and

meyers initially they snapped right back. that's what happens to best of breed well managed companies let's come back to the show itself i have now told you to use an index fund no matter what and only buy individual stocks with "mad money" the right way not the wrong way and how a derotation can derail the best of the best and why your stocks may not be following the fortune 500 underneath with macro events and you can use the flailing of hedge fund performers to your best ability by picking up pieces and showed you an example of what's happening and executives to tell you stories about what they fit in what's right and wrong in the money view be after the crash of '87 or

2007-2009, my job is to explain why the market might not be reflecting accurately what's going on in an actual company and your chance to get in on reasonable prices. and i augment these views with my books most notably, "get rich quickly" and my charitable trust you can follow along that's how to show you how big money works by playing with an open hand. given my tough restrictions, that's okay, it can help you understand rotations while producing good profits for charities, i'm proud i've given away more than $2.3 million since the inception. i have at the heart for you to be a better investor since the start of the show and how it works and how a home investor should invest a product of 35 years trying to figure it out myself i'm not perfect. made my share of mistakes and favored companies that didn't

work out because i didn't do my own home work i have a reputation for being too bombastic and it's to keep you informed in an entertaining way and if i didn't try to make it a little bit of fun it would have failed commercially years ago and would have let down my mother and father and home gamers years and years ago the bottom line is i'm doing my job and hopefully doing it right. stay with us

hey, everybody i get your tweets all day and try to answer as many as i can today, i thought i would give my hands a break and dig into your tweets dirk wrote in real money, he means the book, you said to

beware of firms financed heavily with debt. is there a certain debt ratio or percent to avoid you have to makes sure the debt or interest they pay doesn't overwhelm the company. in other words, can the cash flow pay that interest here, we have at number 2, i at jim cramer, is there any possibility of returning to gold standard >> no. however, i do think owning some gold is always a good idea do it through the bullion or god and periodically i might recommend a stock. check this out we have@jim cramer on the west coast teaching my day old the value of investing from "mad money" on cnbc you know what that kid has horse sense.

at jim cramer hashtag, high quality company, could you define value what is high quality best of breed. it is acknowledged to be the corporate leader in its sector that's what i want if the sector is a good one, if it's the best of best i think you will have a good long term investment i prefer you to wait until we get periodic news down that are caused by an event and then pull the trigger. and wanting to know@jimcramer we know that money never sleeps but do you i always had a sleeping problem and my sister and father had a sleeping problem and we cannot stay asleep as longer as we like and why you see me tweeting at 2:40 who are some short sellers worth following and learning from? >> the best shorts and not the best short sellers

i found periodically the best short sellers are in the wrong stocks, all shorting the same stocks and i like to look at the company case by case your 6:00 p.m. shows have replaced the "nightly news." amazing coverage i still like the "nightly news" and appreciate that and i'm glad you like it when it's on air and you get the scoop on people who tape it and watch it later and we have, professor, so glad you're helping us. i read every action alert. very helpful thank you for the extra tv hours as well, never miss one. it is a companion newsletter to my charitable trust, my own money in a trust i then send to a charity and write about it while i'm doing to it analyze it stick with cramer. for your heart...

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