Investing in Stocks and Shares: A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Money On the Stock Market

Investing in Stocks and Shares is an easy to understand guide to the way the stock market works, and how the investor should go about setting up a successful investment strategy. It explains in plain English how the stock market works; what affects share prices; how to avoid unnecessary risks; and how you can invest successfully in shares, bonds, gilts, options and futures over the long term.

Introduction:

This book was compiled to demonstrate that it is possible to invest in the shares of UK-quoted companies in a sensible and logical manner that requires no special expertise; also, that the results will, in the long term, be better than those of more than half of the highly-paid professional fund managers. It is directed at readers who may be considering investment on the Stockmarket as part of a balanced portfolio of investments. The early sections review features of the Stockmarket in a manner which is illustrative rather than definitive, showing the reasons underlying a‘logical investment strategy’.

The first chapter provides an overview of the whole book, and should be read first. Subsequent chapters look more closely at the features of share investment and examine various strategies for investment on the Stockmarket with special emphasis on the ‘logical investment strategy’. The closing chapters deal with additional areas for investment likely to appeal to the more experienced private investor, such as traded options, gilts and bonds.

It is hoped that this book will serve the reader not only as a general investment guide but also as a handy reference manual to be kept on the bookshelf. Numerous technical terms are explained at length and a substantial glossary has also been provided. It is most important for the reader to remember one central tenet – past performance is no guide to future performance. That means that the logical investment strategy cannot be guaranteed to work in the future.

Contents:

• Why buy shares?
• An explanation of shares
• Factors affecting the price of a share
• Avoiding undue risk
• Dealing in shares
• Stockmarket strategies
• Investing in traded options and futures
• Bonds/gilts/interest-bearing deposits
• Six typical case studies

Investing in Stocks and Shares: A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Money On the Stock Market By John White pdf