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Get started in shares : trading for the first-time investor /
Investing can be fun as well as rewarding. It could certainly earn you much more than you could gain by sticking your money in a bank account. It really does not require much to make money from the stock market - just an understanding of a few simple concepts and the following of a few rules. Writte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Harlow, England ; New York :
Pearson,
2013.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Publisher's acknowledgements
- About the author
- List of acronyms
- Preface
- Chapter 1: The thrill of owning shares
- Imagine being the owner of some great companies
- How to become a millionaire
- Returns over the decades
- International comparison
- Comparing the returns on other investments
- Chapter 2: Businesses and shares
- What is a share?
- Why do we need shares?
- Partnerships and liability
- Directors are not the same as owners
- Some more on ordinary shares
- It's easy to create shares
- Authorised, issued and par values
- Public, private and listed
- No right to vote
- Parents and groups
- Primary versus secondary markets
- Chapter 3: What you receive from the company
- A flow of cash income
- How much is paid?
- When do I get paid?
- Downloading data on dividends for a company
- Dividend yield
- Capital gains (and losses)
- Share buy-backs and special dividends
- Perks
- Chapter 4: What do stockbrokers do?
- They are not that posh anymore
- Types of broker
- Setting things up with a broker
- Execution-only (or dealing-only) service
- Advisory dealing service
- Discretionary service
- Choosing a stockbroker
- Instructions and instructions
- Ways of paying for your shares
- Internet dealing
- Transferring shares without brokers
- Chapter 5: What happens once you have decided to trade?
- Older ways of trading
- Quote-driven trading
- Order-driven trading
- So which system is best?
- Clearing
- Settlement
- Alternatives to SETS
- After the deal
- The advanced stuff
- direct market access
- Chapter 6: What do stock markets do?
- A worldwide phenomenon
- Shifts in stock exchanges
- A fair market
- The main benefits of a well-run stock exchange
- The London Stock Exchange (LSE)
- The London Stock Exchange primary market
- The secondary markets
- The Alternative Investment Market (AIM)
- PLUS
- Chapter 7: Sifting out the important stuff on the internet
- What the company puts out
- Newspaper websites
- Financial websites
- Financial website navigation, step by step
- Director's dealings
- Trading online
- Chapter 8: Preference, foreign and golden shares
- Preference shares
- Overseas shares
- Golden shares
- Chapter 9: What drives share prices?
- Business is business, regardless of scale
- A multiplicity of factors
- Economic growth
- Inflation and interest rates
- Export potential and currency shifts
- Change in the industry
- Government actions
- Social trends
- The anticipation machine
- Don't do the following
- Chapter 10: Assessing a company
- Investors versus speculators
- Assessing an industry
- Competitive resource analysis
- The TRRACK system
- Quality of management
- Chapter 11: Profits and balance sheets
- The future is the focus, the past gives us clues
- Profit and loss account
- Balance sheet
- Chairman's statement
- Chief executive's review