Understanding Stocks

• Understanding Stocks is a go-to guide that shows you how to do everything from opening an account to making informed decisions when evaluating stocks and trading.

• This book contains new interviews with successful traders who reveal their secrets, putting you on the path to stock market success.

Brand-new material covers:

• Short selling

• Commodities and bonds

• Fundamental and technical analysis

• Market indicators

• ETFs

• High-frequency trading

Table of Contents

The Opening

Part One

1. Welcome to the Stock Market

2. Classifying Stocks: Value, Income, and Growth

3. Fun Things You Can Do (with Stocks)

Part Two

4. Opening a Brokerage Account

5. Buying Your First Stock

6. Have a Selling Strategy

7. Learn How to Limit Losses

Part Three

8. Make Money Slowly: Investment Strategies Using Stocks, Mutual Funds, Index Funds, and ETFs

9. Want to Make Money Fast? Short-Term Trading Strategies

10. Legendary Investors William O’Neil and John Bogle

Part Four

11. It’s Really Fundamental: How to Analyze Companies

12. Fundamental Analysis: Tools and Tactics

13. Let’s Get Technical

14. Technical and Sentiment Analysis: Tools and Tactics

Part Five

15. Options, Bonds, Cash, Real Estate, Currencies, IPOs, and Futures

16. What Makes Stocks Go Up and Down?

Part Six

17. Why Investors Lose Money

18. Where to Get Help

19. Lessons I Learned from the Stock Market

The Closing: What You Should Do Now

Index

Acknowledgments

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