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Stock Market Investing 10 Minute Guide

ISBN: 0028636104
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2000
Pages: 130

Authors: Alex Saenz

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• Starting Page
• Table of Content
• Front Matter
• Introduction
• Extras
• Acknowledgments
• Lesson 1. Confronting Your Fear of Stocks
• What You Need to Know Before Beginning
• Technical-ese
• Insufficient Financial Knowledge
• Stocks Are Only for Millionaires
• A Stock Market Crash
• Is Investing Like Gambling?
• It Will Take Too Much Time
• Lesson 2. Why You Should Invest in Stocks
• Stocks Rock
• Stocks vs. Bonds
• Stocks vs. Cash
• Stocks vs. Mutual Funds
• Lesson 3. How Much Do You Have to Invest?
• Determining Your Overall Financial Picture
• Sufficient Savings
• Getting Rid of Debt
• Determining Your Expenses
• Paper Investing
• Lesson 4. What Is a Stock?
• Stock Talk
• What s a Company Worth?
• Kinds of Stock
• The Two Main Issues of Stock
• Lesson 5. The Five Types of Stock
• Stock Characteristics
• Lesson 6. Stock Derivatives
• What Are Derivatives?
• Subscription Rights
• Warrants
• Options
• Lesson 7. The Markets
• Trading Places
• The New York Stock Exchange
• The American Stock Exchange
• Regional Exchanges
• Over the Counter
• International Exchanges
• The Big Bang
• Other Markets
• Lesson 8. Brokers and Brokerage Houses
• Types of Stockbrokers
• Role of Stockbrokers
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Full Service Stockbrokers
• Discount Stockbrokers
• E-Brokers
• Educate Yourself
• Lesson 9. Opening a Brokerage Account
• Getting Started
• Cash Account
• Margin Account
• Lesson 10. How Much Stock to Buy and How to Buy It
• Determining How Much Stock to Buy
• Round Lots
• Odd Lots
• Determining How to Buy Your Stock
• Market Orders
• Limit Orders
• Stop Orders
• Lesson 11. How to Pick Stocks
• Determining Your Objectives
• Determining Your Acceptable Level of Risk
• Inflationary Risk
• PoliticalGovernmental Risk
• Market Risk
• Lesson 12. Evaluating Stocks
• The Dreaded Math Part Made Easy
• The PriceEarnings Ratio
• Lesson 13. Choosing a Strategy
• Investment Strategies
• Recommendations
• Research
• Buy and Hold
• Dollar Cost Averaging
• Constant Dollar Averaging
• Lesson 14. How to Check Your Investments
• Congratulations
• Reevaluating Your Portfolio
• Checking Your Stock s Performance
• Reading the Stock Tables
• Miscellaneous Information
• Lesson 15. The Ticker Tape, Stock Indices, and Other Media
• The Ticker Tape
• The Indices
• The Dow Jones Average
• The NASDAQ National Market System Composite Index
• The Standard Poor s 500
• The AMEX Market Value Index
• The NYSE Composite Index
• The Russell Indices
• The Wilshire 5000 Equity Index
• Other Media
• Appendix A. Glossary
• Glossary
• Appendix B. Resources
• Credit Reporting Agencies
• Financial Media
• Brokers
• Online Research
• Index
• Index A
• Index B
• Index C
• Index D
• Index E
• Index F
• Index G
• Index H
• Index I
• Index L
• Index M
• Index N
• Index O
• Index P
• Index Q
• Index R
• Index S
• Index T
• Index U
• Index V
• Index W