Get Started in Shares: Trading for the First-Time Investor

Description

Investing can be fun as well as rewarding.  It could certainly earn you much more than you could gain by sticking your money in a bank account. It really does not require much to make money from the stock market - just an understanding of a few simple concepts and the following of a few rules.

Written by the UK’s most successful writer on investing, Get Started in Shares explains in very clear and simple terms what shares are, how they are traded and what to look out for as an owner of shares.

This is a straight-talking guide to the mysteries of investing that assumes no prior knowledge and will build up your understanding of investing in a series of easy steps.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

• 1 The thrill of owning shares
• 2 Businesses and shares
• 3 What you receive from the company
• 4 What do stockbrokers do?
• 5 What happens once you have decided to trade?
• 6 What do stock markets do?
• 7 Sifting out the important stuff on the internet
• 8 Preference, foreign and golden shares
• 9 What drives share prices?
• 10 Assessing a company
• 11 Profits and balance sheets
• 12 Cash flow and key ratios
• 13 Measuring risk
• 14 Companies selling shares to outsiders
• 15 Seasoned equity offerings
• 16 Stock market indices
• 17 Taxation
• 18 Regulation of the markets 

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