Year of manufacture: 2008
Author: Боучентоф, Долан и др.
Genre: Investing
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 978-0-470-18626-8
Format: PDF
Language of the book: English
Number of Pages: 786
A good book on investments, written by recognized professionals in this field. The book offered to your attention is an understandable explanation of the practical aspects of investment activity.
Extras. The information: I advise to combine reading of the given book with one more book on investments of the given series of the same publishing house - "Personal finance and investment for teapots", where emphasis is mainly on personal finance.
About the authors:
Amine Bouchentouf (Commodities For Dummies) is President and Chief
Executive Officer of Renaissance Investment Advisors LLC. Renaissance is an
international financial advisory firm headquartered in New York City, which provides
long-term strategic advice to individuals and institutions. He is also the
author of Arabic For Dummies.
Brian Dolan (Currency Trading For Dummies) has 15 years of experience in
the foreign exchange markets, including trading and analyst roles at top-tier
financial institutions. In addition to overseeing fundamental and technical
research at FOREX.com, Mr. Dolan publishes a daily technical analysis report
and weekly macro research report for the exclusive use of FOREX.com
clients. He has also published numerous articles on currency trading strategies
and risk management. Mr. Dolan is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
Dr. Joe Duarte (Futures & Options For Dummies, Futures Trading For Dummies) analyzes intelligence and global geopolitical events and their
effects on the financial markets. He reaches thousands of investors daily
through his own Web site (www.joe-duarte.com) and FinancialWire, where he
is a featured syndicated columnist. Dr. Duarte is frequently quoted in the
major media, including CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press,
Marketwatch.com, and CNN.com. He is the author of Successful Energy Sector
Investing and Successful Biotech Investing, and the coauthor of After-Hours
Trading Made Easy. One of CNBC’s original Market Mavens, Dr. Duarte has
been writing about the financial markets since 1990.
Mark Galant (Currency Trading For Dummies) has enjoyed a 25-year career in and around Wall Street, first as a trader and market maker and from 1994 to
1999 as Vice Chairman of FNX Ltd, the trading technology firm. Mr. Galant’s
last trading position was global head of FX options at Credit Suisse; he has
also been a money manager for famed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones.
Mr. Galant founded GAIN Capital in October 1999; today, the firm’s proprietary
trading platform is used by clients from 140 countries and supports a
monthly trading volume in excess of $100 billion. Mr. Galant holds a BS in
finance from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Harvard Business
School.
Ann C. Logue, MBA (Hedge Funds For Dummies) has 12 years of working
experience in financial services and has taught finance at the University of
Illinois at Chicago. She is a finance writer who has written numerous articles
on investment and hedge funds, and she has edited publications on equity
trading and risk management.
Paul Mladjenovic (Stock Investing For Dummies, 2nd Edition) is a well-known
certified financial planner and investing consultant with over 19 years of experience
writing and teaching about common stocks and related investments. He
owns PM Financial Services.
Kerry Pechter (Annuities For Dummies) is a finance writer whose work has
appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Health, and
many other national publications. He is currently the senior editor for Annuity
Market News, a monthly newsletter published by SourceMedia, Inc.
Barbara Rockefeller (Technical Analysis For Dummies) is an international economist and forecaster specializing in foreign exchange. She was a pioneer
in technical analysis and also in combining technical analysis with fundamental
analysis. She publishes two reports daily using both techniques (www.rtsforex.
com) for professional fund managers, corporate hedgers, and individual
traders. The trading advice newsletter has an average annual hypothetical
return over 50 percent since 1994 and has never posted a losing year. She is the
author of three other books and contributes a regular column to Currency
Trader magazine.
Peter J. Sander, MBA (Value Investing For Dummies) is a professional author,
researcher, and investor. His 15 titles include The 250 Personal Finance
Questions Everybody Should Ask, Everything Personal Finance, and the Cities
Ranked & Rated series. He has also developed over 150 columns for
MarketWatch and TheStreet.com. He has completed Certified Financial
Planner (CFP) education and testing requirements and has invested actively
for over 40 years.
Russell Wild, MBA (Bond Investing For Dummies, Exchange-Traded Funds For
Dummies) is the author or coauthor of nearly two dozen nonfiction books,
including The Unofficial Guide to Getting a Divorce (Wiley) with attorney
Susan Ellis Wild (his ex-wife). Wild is also a NAPFA-registered, fee-only financial
advisor based in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Book's contents:
What Every Investor Should Know
Indexes and Exchanges
Playing the Market: Stocks
Many Happy Returns: Bonds
Getting to Know Mutual Funds
The ABCs of ETFs
Annuities
Futures and Options Fundamentals
Being a Savvy Futures and Options Trader
Basic Trading Strategies
Advanced Speculation Strategies
A Commodities Overview
Understanding How Commodity Exchanges Work
Welcoming Commodities into Your Portfolio
The Power House: Making Money in Energy
Pedal to the Metal: Investing in Metals
Down on the Farm: Trading Agricultural Products
Your Forex Need-to-Know Guide
Major and Minor Currency Pairs
The Mechanics of Currency Trading
Gathering and Interpreting Economic Data
Advice for Successful Forex Trading
Putting Your Trading Plan in Action
Getting the 411 on Hedge Funds
Looking before you Leap: How Hedge Funds Work
Taking the Plunge
A Potpourri of Hedge Fund Strategies
Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance
An Investor's Guide to Value Investing
A Value Investor's Guide to Financial Statements
Using Ratios as a Valuation Tool
Valuing a Business
Wrapping Your Brain around Technical Analysis
Reading Basic Bars to Special Bars
Charting the Market with Candlesticks
Seeing Patterns and Drawing Trendlines
Transforming Channels into Forecasts
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