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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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!
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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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Many years ago, Wall Street was a mysterious entity that many people shied away from because they did not understand it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Dow Jones, Federal Reserve, United States, Modern Portfolio Theory, Nil Nil, Attach Schedule, Copyright Clearance Center, Market Data Group Year, Check One, New York Stock Exchange, Value Fund, Dow Theory, New York City, Intel Corporation, Week Range, Equity-Related Vehicles, Small Cap Value, Cash Breakdown, Microsoft Corporation, Rep Phone, Sell Report Account, Tax Considerations, Uncle Sam, American Stock Exchange, Average Monthly Investment Requirement New!
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Many years ago, Wall Street was a mysterious entity that many people shied away from because they did not understand it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
using mutual funds, specific financial goals, cap value Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dow Jones, Federal Reserve, United States, Modern Portfolio Theory, Nil Nil, Attach Schedule, Copyright Clearance Center, Market Data Group Year, Check One, New York Stock Exchange, Value Fund, Dow Theory, New York City, Intel Corporation, Week Range, Equity-Related Vehicles, Small Cap Value, Cash Breakdown, Microsoft Corporation, Rep Phone, Sell Report Account, Tax Considerations, Uncle Sam, American Stock Exchange, Average Monthly Investment Requirement New!
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- Northwest Airlines (ABC Airliner) by Geoff Jones on page 90
- Wall Street by Kenneth Lipper on page 173
- Charles Schwab by Vault Reports on page 77
- Jobs Rated Almanac: The Best and Worst Jobs - 250 in All - Ranked by More Than a Dozen Vital Factors Including Salary, Stress, Benefits, and More (Jobs Rated Almanac, 6th Ed, 2002) by Les Krantz in Front Matter
- Smart Women Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams (Revised Edition) by David Bach on page 59
- Fundamentals of Options Market by Michael Williams in Back Cover
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