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This practical, hands-on blueprint to stocks and mutual funds provides a thorough overview of today’s stock market. From understanding how trends and policies affect markets and the basics of placing a trade to advanced issues including technical analysis, short selling, Modern Portfolio Theory, and more, this unique and useful workbook explains the stock market in clear, concise language.
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This practical, hands-on blueprint to stocks and mutual funds provides a thorough overview of today's stock market.
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A step-by-step guide to understanding the stock market, written for the average person. Shows how to identify trends that affect markets, where to look for important financial news in the media, and some special tips of the trade. Goes from hands-on basics to the most advanced technical skills, with checklists, charts, graphs, and more. Softcover. DLC: Stocks--United States.
From the Back Cover
Find Out How Any Investor Can Maximize Trading Profitsand Steer Clear of Riskin Today's Stock Market
More Americans than ever are relying on the stock market for both short- and long-term profitsand demanding more and better service from the financial professionals to whom they turn. In this ruthless competitive environment, professionals must know every detail of the marketsfrom the fundamentals of major exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq to how to place trades, structure portfolios for specific markets, explain the differences between common and preferred stock, and more.
Fundamentals of the Stock Market is a step-by-step guidebook to understanding the ins and outs of today's wide-open equities marketplace. Plain English analyses and explanations combine with checklists, charts, graphs, and more to reveal: How to identify trends that directly affect marketsand lead to major price movements Where to look for important news in today's financial media Tips of the TradeHow to interpret prices, guard against risk with fundamental and technical analysis, avoid costly mistakes, and much more
From hands-on basics to advanced technical skills, Fundamentals of the Stock Market will give you everything you need to truly understand and profit from today's most exciting, accessible financial opportunity. Let this hands-on bookalong with its companion, Fundamentals of Investing, guideshelp you build the skills and confidence for success ... before you risk money in the no-room-for-error waters of real-time trading!
Hone Your Trading Skills with McGraw-Hill's Fundamentals of Investing series! Fundamentals of the Futures Market by Donna Kline Fundamentals of the Bond Market by Esmé Faerber Fundamentals of the Options Market by Michael S. Williams and Amy Hoffman
About the Author
B. O'Neill Wyss is president of St. Louis-based Creative Asset Management and a certified financial planner with more than 25 years of experience. He teaches finance and investing at the University of Missouri - St. Louis and conducts investment seminars and retirement planning workshops around the country. Wyss has written investment articles for a number of publications, is the author of Strategic Financial Planning for the 1990s, and is coauthor of The ABCs of Managing Your Money.
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