How the Stock Market Works

Contents

1. The Stock Market: What the Stock Market Has to Offer

2. Reading the Financial Press: Determining Share Value, Determining Your Investment Return

3. The Initial Public Offering: Getting the Stocks to the Marketplace

4. Inside the Brokerage Firm: Who Does What?

5. The Secondary Market: Executing Orders on the Exchange Floor

6. The Specialist: Riding the Bulls and Bears

7. The Secondary Market: Over-the-Counter Trading

8. The Nasdaq: Ongoing Changes

9. Investment Companies: Closed-End and Open-End Funds - The "Package Plan" Approach

10. Stock Options: Multipurpose Instruments

11. The Back Offices: Following the Long Paper Trail

12. Stock Market Theories: Can Prices Really Be Predicted?

13. Analyzing Stocks: The Corporation's "Report Card"

14. Online Trading in the Stock Market: How Technology Has Changed the Financial Landscape

15. Globalization of the Stock Market: Expanding Opportunities for Investors

16. Taxation: How Dividends and Capital Gains Are Taxed

17. In the Tank or, Even Worse, Crash, but Then a Reversal: How the Stock Market Works Under Pressure

Now in its third edition, this is a standard introduction to the US stock markets. It is written primarily for sophisticated retail investors, but its detailed explanations will appeal to any entry-level professional who wants a broad overview. There is hardly an aspect of the markets that isn't covered: initial public offerings, secondary market trading, the exchanges and OTC markets, back office procedures, mutual funds, options, equity analysis, taxation and global markets are just a few of the topics covered. The book is non-technical and a pleasure to read. I highly recommend it.

For related books, see sections:

Markets - Equities

Portfolio Management - Equities
 

 

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