How to Buy Stocks (Ocean View, CA)

How to Buy Stocks

Local pick-up preferred but will ship at the buyer s expenseCondition Excellent Kingston Books 15 IMG_6909 Authors Louis Engel and Brendan Boyd Publisher Bantam Books What Investment Means To You This is a book about how to make your money make more money for you by investing it. It is not a book about how to make a million in the stock market. If there were any certain way to do that all the brokers in the world the men who are supposed to know more than most people about the market would be millionaires. Needless to say they re not. This is a book about investing. Specifically it s a book about investing in stocks and bonds which is one way of putting your extra money to work so that in the long run it will earn a good return for you either in the form of a regular income from dividends or in the form of a profit resulting from growth in value or a combination of both. Most people if they have anything left after paying all their bills will think first of putting that extra money into a savings bank or into life insurance. Nobody could possibly quarrel with such a prudent course. These forms of saving are essential if people are going to protect themselves properlyainst the always unpredictable emergencies of life. But today millions of people have come to regard securities stocks and bonds in all their varied forms as an equally good form of investment. Of course there s a risk in buying stocks and bonds and for most people it s a far bigger risk than it needs to be because they ve never taken the time to study securities or find out how to invest in them wisely. Acknowledgments Foreword to the Original Edition Introduction to the 7th Edition A Note on the Gender of Pronouns A Note on How to Read This Book Contents by Chapter 1. What Investment Means to You 2. What you Should Know about Common Stocks 3. How and Why New Stock Is Sold 4. What You Should Know about Preferred Stocks 5. What You Should Know about Bonds and Investment Banking 6. How New Issues are Regulated 7. What You Should Know about Government and Municipal Bonds 8. How Stocks are Bought and Sold 9. What it Costs to Buy Stocks 10. How the Stock Exchange Works 11. How a Market is Made 12. How Large Blocks of Stocks Are Handled 13. How Small Orders Are handled 14. Monthly and Other Accumulation Plans 15. Other Exchanges Here and in Canada 16. How the Over-the-Counter Market Works 17. Investing or What s a Broker For 18. How Do You Do Business with a Broker 19. How You Open and Account 20. What it Means to Speculate 21. How You Buy Stocks on Margin 22. What It Means to Sell Short 23. Options Plain and Fancy 24. How to Tell What the Market is Doing 25. How to Read the Financial News 26. Financial Advice at a Price 27. How Your Broker Can Help You 28. Can You Beat the Market 29. Should You Buy a Mutual Fund 30. Why You Should Invest If You Can 31. How Good Are Common Stocks 32. How You Should Invest - If You Can 33. When Is the Time to Sell 34. The Folklore of the Market 35. Who Owns Stock 36. Stock Screens 37. The New Investment Areas 38. Further Reading Index Paperback 331 pages ISBN 0-553-26977-1