Dimensions
156 x 234 x 21mm
The #1 introductory guide to earning stock profits--now fully updated for today's global markets and challenging investing environment.
* Sound, conservative investment strategies that minimize costs, optimize returns, and keep investors in control of their risk levels.
* Clearly explains the basic dynamics of today's markets, reviews leading wealth-building strategies, and shows how to avoid crucial mistakes.
* Includes a new chapter on the ongoing financial crisis and how to cope with it as an individual investor.
In FT Guide to How the Stock Market Really Works, Fifth Edition , best-selling financial author Leo Gough offers beginning stock market investors a realistic grounding in the dynamics of today's markets--and gives them the tactics they need to create real wealth. Writing in plain, simple English, Gough clearly explains the basic dynamics of today's markets, reviews today's most promising wealth-building strategies, and shows how to avoid crucial investing mistakes. Gough carefully explains equity and bond investing; the art and science of assessing a company's value; foreign exchange (forex), derivatives, and other asset classes; investment fraud; global investing; retirement investing, and much more. Throughout, he offers sound, conservative strategies designed to minimize costs, optimize returns, and help investors control risk. Updated throughout, this edition also contains a brand-new chapter on the ongoing financial crisis--and how to cope with it as an individual investor.
