Acknowledgments -- Foreword / by Martin S. Fridson -- Foreword / by Joel Greenblatt -- Introduction -- Junk bonds and strong-horses -- My son's friend, millie -- My son's graduation money -- The junk bond market -- Corporate bond ratings and yields -- Credit analysis : how do you know when a company has too much debt? -- The strong-horse method -- Relating credit to price -- An example of how to conduct a strong-horse analysis -- Bondholders vs. stockholders and the junk bond advantage -- Management and ownership -- Bond price volatility -- Defaults and junk bonds -- Tests that show it works -- More statistical tests -- How to invest in junk bonds : logistics -- Covenants -- The good, the bad, and the ugly -- The good-good things happen to good companies -- The ugly and the bad : ccc investing -- Investing and analyzing a junk bond mutual fund -- A strong-horse will pull you through -- Appendix.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-190) and index.