The Investor's Toolbox, 2nd edition by Peter Temple

Category: Futures

This book is a simple, practical guide to how you can use some of the newer investment products like spread betting, binary betting, contracts for difference, covered warrants and exchange-traded funds, as well as older ones like futures and options, to help your investing. In different ways, each of these products allows you either to: - boost the returns you get in exchange for taking on greater risk; - hedge your bets in exchange for slightly lower returns; - use much less capital to achieve the same market exposure; or - move money into and out of a range of markets and s.....

First Steps in Bonds by Peter Temple

Category: Bonds/Fixed Income

With uncertain and volatile stock markets making many investors cautious many are turning to bonds which, whilst being by no means risk free, are a lot less volatile than shares. Many professional investors routinely use bonds - often as a core constituent of a diversified portfolio - so it is only a matter of time before private investors do the same. First Steps in Bonds introduces readers to the key issues revolving around the bond markets. It covers in detail each of the main segments of the market – government bonds, corporate bonds, Eurobonds and other types. Supported by illustrative .....

Simple But Not Easy by Richard Oldfield

Category: Stockmarkets

Described by the author as "a slightly autobiographical and heavily biased book about investing", Simple But Not Easy has plenty of interest to the experienced professional, and is aimed also at the interested amateur investor. The theme of the book is that investment is simpler than non-professionals think it is in that the rudiments can be expressed in ordinary English, and picked up by anybody. It is not a science. But investment is also difficult. People on the outside tend to think that anyone on the inside should be able to do better than the market indices. This is not so. Picking .....

The Fantastic World of Foreign Exchange Trading-Forex 1 CD by

Category: Trading

Stikky Stock Charts by Laurence Holt

Category: Options

Stikky Stock Charts uses a proven, step-by-step learning method to teach anyone the trading techniques insiders use to make buy-and-sell decisions. Each step builds on what came before and reinforces it. By the time you reach the end of the book, you will be confident in reading a stock chart and forecasting like a pro. Features include: - illustrations on every page - two separate learning sequences and an epilogue to pace the learning process - task-based learning such as how to use a stop-loss to minimize losses and maximise gains - a comprehensive 'Next Steps' section with the twe.....

Futures and Options For Dummies by Joe Duarte

Category: Futures

The investor's friendly, easy guide to getting to know futures and options Futures & Options For Dummies offers information about the types of futures readers can invest in and research, how to use technical analyses in relation to the futures and options market, how to safely invest in managed future funds, and basic information on financial futures and commodities. In addition, the book explains the risks and rewards involved in futures trading, offers helpful pointers and tips, shares advice on how to look for a broker, and walks the reader through making a trade. Investors, day traders,.....

Bond Investing for Dummies by Russell Wild

Category: Bonds/Fixed Income

Bond Investing For Dummies provides anyone interested in trading in bonds with the following information: Why invest in bonds? The difference between stocks and bonds Understanding bond returns and risk (and recognizing the major factors that influence bond performance and risk: Interest rates, inflation, and default) Individual bonds or bond funds The major issuers:   Government, agency, corporate, municipal Bond ratings: Treasury versus investment-grade versus junk Long-term, intermediate-term, short-term bonds Domestic versus foreign bond issues (includes discussion of developed world .....

Big Money, Little Effort by Mark Shipman

Category: Stockmarkets

From the best-selling author of 'The Next Big Investment Boom', this book provides everything you need to know about making the world's money markets work to your advantage, enabling you to turn basic investments into a winning portfolio. 'Big Money, Little Effort' shows you how a straightforward, manageable and stress-free investment system, if properly applied and monitored, can protect you from the volatility of the world's stock markets while ensuring consistent returns on your original investment. In an industry awash with different (and often very vocal) opinions, the author removes the.....

Marber on Markets by Brian Marber

Category: Trading

This is not your average book on technical analysis. Why? Because the author is not your average technical analyst; Brian Marber is unique –and so, as a result, is this book. Here, Marber sets out to write about his approach, in a language readers can understand and enjoy, telling them why he does what he does, and how he came to do it, including details of market pitfalls and the occasional Marber pratfall. The book does not claim to be comprehensive, but instead aims to be honest and to present the reader with the techniques and indicators that Marber himself uses, and has used succ.....

Traded Options by Peter Temple

Category: Options

This book is about making money by improving the returns you can achieve from the stockmarket. It involves traded options - sometimes known as equity and index options - and is different from trading in shares. There are different rules and it is essential that a disciplined approach is taken. And although the subject-matter is detailed, it can be mastered. This will allow you to add a new dimension to your stockmarket trading. We must emphasise that there may be risks involved but also real rewards. To help you understand how traded options work and how to use them profitably, Peter Tem.....