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Description of Getting Started in Shares (Paper only)

Written by a former City analyst, Getting Started in Shares guides you through the basics of analysing shares, choosing a broker and building a portfolio of investments. The author cuts through the jargon that many professional investors and stock market writers use, and expresses ideas in a simple, accessible and understandable form.

Getting Started in Shares helps you to get started as an investor and deal confidently with brokers and other professional investors, assess an investigate shares in the right way, time purchases and sales correctly and build up good training disciplines.

• Provides a guide to trading tactics and assembling a designer portfolio for the individual investor.
  
• Demonstrates the importance of developing good investment discipline.
  
• Shows how to choose the right stockbroker, how to place an order and what happens, or should happen, afterwards.
  
• Computer-aided investment - shows how to use computers to keep track of your portfolio and its performance.
  
• Analyses opportunities for downloading investment software and prices, corporate and official information via email, newsgroups and World Wide Web sites.
  
• Explains basic accounting concepts, the importance of cash flow and balance sheet strength, and how to calculate basic investment ratios and the importance attached to them.
  
• Explains how the investment process should work using the author's own experience as a guide showing what can go right - and wrong!
  

Title Information

ISBN:

9780471966692

Pages:

314 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

3543

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Published:

29/10/1996

Edition:

1st Edition

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Contents of Getting Started in Shares (Paper only)

Introduction
1. Investing in Shares: Fact, Fiction, Fear and Greed
2. Temperament and Tools
3. Checking Out the Numbers
4. Analysing Price Movements: Timing your Trading
5. The Mechanics of Dealing
6. Designing your Portfolio
7. Computer-Aided Investment
8. The On-Line Investor: Shares and the Internet
9. More Advenced Techniques and Strategies
10. Dealing Diary: 1986-1996

Afterword
Further Reading
Gloddary
Index