The Irwin Guide to Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options : A Comprehensive Guide to Wall Street's Markets

This work aims to offer a comprehensive guide to investments and their markets. The authors present a contemporary look at all of the major investment securities, products, regulations, and the technical aspects of issuing, trading, clearing, regualtions, rules and taxes. This work does not focus on "get-rich-quick" schemes, nor does it concentrate on computational tools used in security analysis. Rather, this reference covers everything from a general overview of the securities markets to the trading mechanics and trading styles of stock selection and treasury securities. Liaw and Moy also explain the differences between individual and institutional investment objectives, asset location and portfolio management issues, and SEC regulations. The essential guide for everyone who needs to understand the markets, The Irwin Guide to Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options presents a contemporary, in-depth look at investments and their markets. More than just a simple reference tool, this exhaustive resource goes deep inside the markets to explain asset allocation, SEC regulationseven online trading and underwriting. In clear and accessible language, the authors provide an insiders look at the markets that goes behind and explains todays financial headlines. The only definitive resource to investments and their markets that todays investor will need, it discusses key topics Risk management and portfolio rebalancing Evaluating Internet stocks Buying and selling mutual funds, futures and options, fixed income securities, and more The Irwin Guide To Stocks, Bonds, Futures, And Options Goes Beyond Its Explanations Of Individual Securities To Pull Back The Curtain On The Markets Themselves. What Are The Trading Rules For Underwriters And Broker-dealers? How Can High-flying Internet Stocks Be Accurately Valued? How Does One Purchase A Treasury Security? The Answers To These And Literally Thousands Of Other Questions Are Right Here, Exhaustively Indexed And Written In Clear And Accessible Language For Quick, Reliable, And Understandable Answers. A Thorough Primer For Anyone Who Needs To Know More About Today's Exciting Investment World.--jacket. K. Thomas Liaw, Ronald L. Moy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "The Irwin Guide to Stocks, Bonds, Futures, and Options goes beyond its explanations of individual securities to pull back the curtain on the markets themselves. What are the trading rules for underwriters and broker-dealers? How can high-flying Internet stocks be accurately valued? How does one purchase a Treasury security? The answers to these and literally thousands of other questions are right here, exhaustively indexed and written in clear and accessible language for quick, reliable, and understandable answers." "A thorough primer for anyone who needs to know more about today's exciting investment world."--BOOK JACKET.