How The Stock Market Works

This book arms the investor with all-important knowledge. It sets out the ground rules and the ways that systems operate - it tells you what is being traded, how it is traded, who does the trading and lets you in on how to evaluate both the shares and their proponents' claims. In his acclaimed lucid style, Michael Becket cuts through the investment hype and answers questions such as:

• What are shares and gilts?
• What are futures and options?
• How much money does it take to own shares?
• What does it cost to deal in shares?
• Where and how can you buy shares?
• What do newspapers' financial pages mean?
• How do you pick a share to buy?
• When should you buy or sell?
• Whose advice can you trust?

There is money to be made and it does not require genius to make a fortune, but you do need care, common sense, lots of luck and the expert advice of How the Stock Market Works.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of advertisers
• What the book is about ?

1. What are shares ?
2. Are there other types of papers ?
3. What are gilts ?
4. What are derivatives ?
5. What about overseas shares ?
6. How do shares compare whit investistment/unit trusts ?
7. What is the point of owing shares ?
8. How much money does it take ?
9. What does it cost to deal in shares ?
10. Where and how can you buy shares ?
11. How do you find out the cost of a share ?
12. What do the newspaper financial pages mean ?
13. How do you pick a share to buy ?
14. What do you look for in company accounts ?