Stock Market Investing 10 Minute Guide
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10 Minute Guide to Investing in Stocks
Introduction
Extras
Acknowledgments
Lesson 1. Confronting Your Fear of Stocks
What You Need to Know Before Beginning
Technical-ese
Insufficient Financial Knowledge
Stocks Are Only for Millionaires
A Stock Market Crash
Is Investing Like Gambling?
It Will Take Too Much Time
Lesson 2. Why You Should Invest in Stocks
Stocks Rock!
Stocks vs. Bonds
Stocks vs. Cash
Stocks vs. Mutual Funds
Lesson 3. How Much Do You Have to Invest?
Determining Your Overall Financial Picture
Sufficient Savings
Getting Rid of Debt
Determining Your Expenses
Paper Investing
Lesson 4. What Is a Stock?
Stock Talk
What's a Company Worth?
Kinds of Stock
The Two Main Issues of Stock
Lesson 5. The Five Types of Stock
Stock Characteristics
Lesson 6. Stock Derivatives
What Are Derivatives?
Subscription Rights
Warrants
Options
Lesson 7. The Markets
Trading Places
The New York Stock Exchange
The American Stock Exchange
Regional Exchanges
Over the Counter
International Exchanges
The Big Bang
Other Markets
Lesson 8. Brokers and Brokerage Houses
Types of Stockbrokers
Role of Stockbrokers
Securities and Exchange Commission
Full Service Stockbrokers
Discount Stockbrokers
E-Brokers
Educate Yourself
Lesson 9. Opening a Brokerage Account
Getting Started
Cash Account
Margin Account
Lesson 10. How Much Stock to Buy and How to Buy It
Determining How Much Stock to Buy
Round Lots
Odd Lots
Determining How to Buy Your Stock
Market Orders
Limit Orders
Stop Orders
Lesson 11. How to Pick Stocks
Determining Your Objectives
Determining Your Acceptable Level of Risk
Inflationary Risk
Political/Governmental Risk
Market Risk
Lesson 12. Evaluating Stocks
The Dreaded Math Part Made Easy
The Price/Earnings Ratio
Lesson 13. Choosing a Strategy
Investment Strategies
Recommendations
Research
Buy and Hold
Dollar Cost Averaging
Constant Dollar Averaging
Lesson 14. How to Check Your Investments
Congratulations!
Reevaluating Your Portfolio
Checking Your Stock's Performance
Reading the Stock Tables
Miscellaneous Information
Lesson 15. The Ticker Tape, Stock Indices, and Other Media
The Ticker Tape
The Indices
The Dow Jones Average
The NASDAQ National Market System Composite Index
The Standard & Poor's 500
The AMEX Market Value Index
The NYSE Composite Index
The Russell Indices
The Wilshire 5000 Equity Index
Other Media
A. Glossary
Glossary
B. Resources
Credit Reporting Agencies
Financial Media
Brokers
Online Research
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