Product Description

How to buy, what to hold, and when to sell- the guide to getting started in stocks and managing your portfolio!

Want to become a more accomplished investor? All About Stocks is packed with the practical, hands-on guidance you need to choose your investments wisely, minimize your risk, and enter today's market with confidence-no matter your level of experience.

Providing concise, clear answers to your most pressing stock-market questions, this thoroughly revised edition has been updated to address such timely issues as the role of exchange-traded funds, global investing, risk-adjusted returns, and the most effective ways to conduct online research and trading.

All About Stocks explains in easy-to-understand language:

• What stocks are, and why you should own them
• How to use the Internet to develop buying and selling strategies
• How fundamental and technical analysis can help you find undervalued stocks
• What mutual funds are, how they work, and which are right for you
• How stocks fit within the asset allocation framework
• Simple strategies for assembling a high-growth, low-risk, diversified portfolio
• Trades to increase your safety during turbulent markets

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #171065 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 340 pages

From the Back Cover
Everything you need to know about today's stock market­­How to buy, what to hold, when to sell.

All About Stocks, Second Edition, will make you a smarter, more accomplished investor. This bottom-line guidebook is now updated to explain every essential aspect of today's stock market ­­in which the rewards as well as the risks have increased dramatically over the past five years­­and is arranged to provide quick, clear answers to any questions you might have.

All About Stocks is written to be understood by an investor ­­yet packed with information that will be valuable to everyone! Practical, hands-on guidance on how you can use the Internet to find and buy undervalued stocks...strategies on selecting a mutual fund for both above-average returns and below-average risk...types of trades that can significantly increase your safety during turbulent markets...it's all here. Before you invest, read All About Stocks and discover:

• What stocks are, and why you should own them
• Explanations of the different types of orders
• How fundamental and technical analysis can help you find undervalued stocks
• Aspects of growth stocks and value stocks
• What mutual funds are, how they work, and which are right for you
• Easy-to-follow strategies to assemble a high-growth, low-risk, versified portfolio
• Strategies for buying indexed mutual funds and index-tracking stocks

About the Author

Esme Faerber, MBA, CPA, is professor of business and accounting at Rosemont College. She is the author of “All About Bonds” and other several well-regarded books for individual investors.

Customer Reviews

All about stocks is really all about stocks
This book offers a complete overview off really everything about stocks. All types of analysis and examples are given on a objective base. So the reader gets a lot of information about the subject, while he is not put in a corner to follow a certain strategy when it comes to buying and selling stocks. The book is sometimes a little academic but it's still readible for people like me without an economic background.
This book thought me really a lot of new stuff and finally gave me accurate information around all kinds of analysis regarding to the stock market. It's far better than the 'trustfull information about a certain stock' you've got from a good friend.

Great book for anyone interested in learning about stocks!
This is a great book with lots of helpful information about stocks and which stocks to invest in. I highly recomend this book to anyone who wants to invest in stocks.