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Product code: 13757 ISBN: 0471499331,
ISBN13: 9780471499336,
288 pages, paperback Published by John Wiley & Sons in 2001
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Description of Stock Market Rollercoaster
John is a teacher at the Bluestock Grammar School who yearns to escape from his humdrum world into the dynamic and bedazzling arena of international finance. We follow John as he starts at share dealing firm New Market Securities and witness his rise from naive training floor junior to steely, worldly-wise dealer fighting to survive on the cut-throat main dealing floor.
His story is an object lesson in the perils, illusions, dreams and nightmares of both clients and dealers in the heady world of the stock market.
Stock Market Rollercoaster describes, in frighteningly authentic detail, how a securities business operates. It is the most extraordinary, powerful and streetwise investment guide you'll ever read. It shatters the barriers of silence that the City puts up and provides a thrilling crash course on how, and how not to, deal on the international stock markets.
Contents of Stock Market Rollercoaster
Thoughts lead to action: John struggles to learn about investing
The beginning of the end: John assesses his investment portfolio and his life
The upheaval of a lifetime: John impresses a stock market guru
The suspension of rational belief: John learns that the stock market is like a conjuring trick
Investment tips from a master: John asks for a job in stockbroking
Baptism of fire: John is shocked by his new working environment
Sell the sizzle: John learns some tricks of the trade
Aboard the pirate ship: John finishes his training period and has lunch with his guru
The relentless pursuit of money: John learns to milk the stock market while he can
Dealing room secrets: John is taught how a share price is manipulated
The Internet craze: John learns how to cash in on the Internet and high-tech stock boom
Can you trust your broker? John sees how an investor can do better without a broker's advice
Cutpricegoodies.com mania: John discovers how new equity issues work
Stock market rollercoaster: John experiences the classic stock market bubble
Terry lends a helping hand: John starts learning how to read an annual report and accounts
The power of numbers: John learns how to use and calculate ratios
Cash counts most: John learns that cash is fact and profits are opinion
Opportunities for a bookworm: John discovers how to select books about the stock market and how to trade
Trading secrets: John discovers more about share trading
Money talks: John turns his back on his guru
A new beginning of sorts: John joins a broker who, unknown to him, plays dirty
The killer deal: John persuades himself that a dubious share offering might work
Rebellion in the ranks: John feels ashamed of the stockbroker he has joined
A tissue of lies: John invests through a discount broker and becomes unemployed
After the feast: John rejects becoming a credit broker and is blackmailed
Discretion saves the day: John lectures schoolchildren on investing and decides against becoming a whistleblower
The fruits of a hair-raising apprenticeship: John has a reconciliation with his guru and is offered a new job
Epilogue
Appendix: Favourite online and other resources listed in John's secret diary
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