How the Stock Market Really Works: The Guerilla Investor's Secret Handbook (Financial Times Series)

by Leo Gough (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $3.25

  With the current pension crisis and a raised retirement age, people today are under more pressure to financially secure their future. How the Stock Market Really Works provides you with all the key advice and strategies you need to successfully invest in the future, without relying on a financial service. Whether you are new to investing or already have a share portfolio, this intelligent handbook will guide you safely through the often confusing world of investing. It covers several areas of the market, including:

  How shares, bonds and derivatives work

  What really goes on in the stock market and who gets rich

  Investment strategies to make your money work for you

  An overview of the major financial instruments

  How to deal in the markets yourself and avoid the pitfalls

  How to interpret the huge amount of investment advice available

  Accounts of some of the biggest investment scandals.

  Make the stock market work for you with this entertaining and refreshingly cynical approach.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $4.21

  Whether you are new to investing or already have a share portfolio, this intelligent urban warrior's handbook will guide you safely through the often puzzling world of investing and will provide you with the strategies to compete to win. Given the fact that the majority of fund managers underperform the indices, it may be possible for intelligent private investors to do as well, or better, on their own by using winning guerilla tactics. Private investors can make huge gains over the long term as long as they maximize their advantages. How the Stock Market Really Works covers: *the basic mechanics of the markets *how shares, bonds and derivatives work *the different schools of thought within the investing world *tax considerations *the vital differences between asset classes *the need to look beyond the short term *why market volatility is nothing to be scared of *how to sift through the wealth of investment advice available. This third edition has been updated and expanded, to include additional coverage of new topics such as ISAs and index tracking as well as a complete new chapter on online trading.