Getting Started in Shares (Paper only) (Computer Shorthand Series) - Softcover

Temple, P

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047196669X ISBN 13: 9780471966692

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1996

Synopsis

This is a guide for individual investors who need to understand equities environments and investing profitably in shares. The book explains why shares exist, how they work, and how they can benefit the investor. It includes: a European view of investment in shares; computer aided investment - how to track your portfolio and its performance; on-line investors, shares and the Internet - analyzes opportunties for downloading investment software and prices, corporate and official information via email, investment groups and World Wide Web sites; and a guide to trading tactics and assembling a designer portfolio for individual investors.

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From the Back Cover

This fact-filled start-up guide explains what shares are, how they work and how they can work for you. Written by a former City Analyst, Getting Started in Shares guides you through the basics of analysing shares, choosing a broker and building a portfolio of investments. The author cuts through the jargon that many professional investors and stock market writers use, and expresses ideas in a simple, accessible and understandable form. Getting Started in Shares helps you to get started as an investor and deal confidently with brokers and other professional investors, assess and investigate shares in the right way, time purchases and sales correctly and build up good training disciplines. * Provides a guide to trading tactics and assembling a designer portfolio for the individual investor * Demonstrates the importance of developing good investment discipline * Shows ho to choose the right stockbroker, how to place an order and what happens, or should happen afterwards * Computer-aided-investment - shows how to use computers to keep track of your portfolio and its performance * Analyses opportunities for downloading investment software and prices, corporate and official information via email, newsgroups and World Wide Web sites * Explains basic accounting concepts, the importance of cash flow and balance sheet strength, and how to calculate basic investment ratios and the importance attached to them * Explains how the investment process should work using the author's own experience as a guide showing what can go right - and wrong!

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047196669X
• ISBN 13: 9780471966692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314