Stocks, Bonds, Options, Futures


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From arbitrage to zero-coupon bonds, this all-inclusive guide explains the fundamentals of investments and their markets. Covers how broker/dealer firms function, option trading, technical and fundamental futures, exchange and over-the-counter transactions, and more.




Stocks, Bonds, Options, Futures 2nd Edition


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This guide to the securities markets has helped thousands of financial professionals as well as individual investors, both experienced and novice, invest in the securities markets with confidence. Now completely revised and expanded to reflect the evolving investment realities of a new millennium, this invaluable guide covers all of your investment options. Stuart Veale offers concise summaries of money market instruments, U.S. treasury securities, bonds, mortgage-backed securities, and stocks, plus the latest information or derivative instruments such as futures contracts, swap contracts, options contracts, and security indices. Stocks, Bonds, Options, Futures compares various methods of analyzing stocks—top down, bottom up, technical, and walk around—and gives you all the tools you need to create a balanced portfolio that maximizes returns and minimizes risk. Filled with informative charts and graphics, plus website listings for additional research and technical tools, Stocks, Bonds, Options, Futures, Second Edition is your guide to the radically changed world of 21st-century securities.




Financial Markets for the Rest of Us


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"Financial Markets For The Rest Of Us" is a reference and tutorial covering various financial markets in the USA and the rest of the world. The book comprises five major chapters covering the concepts of money, bonds, futures, stocks, and options. It cleverly illustrates the operation and interdependencies of these various markets, while keeping the language simple for everyone to follow.Numerous examples and references help the reader grasp the concepts with ease and stay interested.Beginner and intermediate-level investors will find this book an indispensable tool tolearn about the financial markets and sharpen their financial knowledge and skills. This book is also an excellent financial markets reference for everyone.If you have ever wondered about how the financial markets operate, or you have ever felt overwhelmed by the complexities of the financial markets, this book is for you.




Keys to Investing in Options and Futures


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This book describes both the complexities and the risks of options and futures for those investors who can afford to place some of their capital at risk.




Options, Futures, and Other Derivative Securities


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Provides a logical, unifying approach to the valuation and hedging of all derivative securities, not just financial futures and stock options.




The Irwin Guide to Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options


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The answers to these and literally thousands of other questions are right here, exhaustively indexed and written in clear and accessible language for quick, reliable, and understandable answers." "A thorough primer for anyone who needs to know more about today's exciting investment world."--BOOK JACKET.




Sure-thing Options Trading


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A BETTER OPTION


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A BETTER OPTION: Strategies for Stocks, Options, and Futures Trading. Interactive Financial a global investment manager, teaches readers how to use the versatile, risk-reducing investing tool, the stock option. Step-by-step instructions on making, managing and exiting trades. The emphasis is on getting the reader to understand how options work. There are no rules to memorize, just plain common sense ideas. The lessons follow in logical order, with each based on knowledge acquired in earlier chapters. Basic option and Bonds strategies are covered. Learn why the commonly used strategy of buying options for speculation is far too risky for all but the most sophisticated traders and why it is an inappropriate strategy for newcomers to the option's world. Learn to adopt strategies with limited risk but which come with a high probability of earning profits. This book contains all the information that a new trader has to know before getting started with options, You will keep this book handy as a reference as you gain trading experience and a better understanding of how to use options effectively.




The Financial Times Guide to Options


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The Financial Times Guide to Options, will introduce you to the instruments and markets of options, giving you the confidence to trade successfully. Options are explained in real-life terminology, using every-day examples and accessible language. Introducing three key options markets – stocks, bonds and commodities, the book explains options contracts from straight vanilla options to strangles and butterflies and covers the fundamentals of options pricing and trading The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.




Options, Futures, and other Derivatives


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Since the first edition of this book was published in 1988, there have been many developments in the options and derivatives markets.