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Conduct preliminary research
Evaluate businesses
Invest for growth and income
Minimize your investing risk
Read financial statements
Understand your tax obligations
Trade foreign currencies, futures, and options
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Spot and forecast pricing trends
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Introduction.
Book I: Investment Basics.
Chapter 1: What Every Investor Should Know.
Chapter 2: Indexes and Exchanges.
Book II: Basic Investments: Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, and More.
Chapter 1: Playing the Market: Stocks.
Chapter 2: Many Happy Returns: Bonds.
Chapter 3: Getting to Know Mutual Funds.
Chapter 4: The ABCs of ETFs.
Chapter 5: Annuities.
Book III: Futures and Options.
Chapter 1: Futures and Options Fundamentals.
Chapter 2: Being a Savvy Futures and Options Trader.
Chapter 3: Basic Trading Strategies.
Chapter 4: Advanced Speculation Strategies.
Book IV: Commodities.
Chapter 1: A Commodities Overview.
Chapter 2: Understanding How Commodity Exchanges Work.
Chapter 3: Welcoming Commodities into Your Portfolio.
Chapter 4: The Power House: Making Money in Energy.
Chapter 5: Pedal to the Metal: Investing in Metals.
Chapter 6: Down on the Farm: Trading Agricultural Products.
Book V: Foreign Currency Trading.
Chapter 1: Your Forex Need-to-Know Guide.
Chapter 2: Major and Minor Currency Pairs.
Chapter 3: The Mechanics of Currency Trading.
Chapter 4: Gathering and Interpreting Economic Data.
Chapter 5: Advice for Successful Forex Trading.
Chapter 6: Putting Your Trading Plan in Action.
Book VI: Hedge Funds.
Chapter 1: Getting the 411 on Hedge Funds.
Chapter 2: Looking before You Leap: How Hedge Funds Work.
Chapter 3: Taking the Plunge.
Chapter 4: A Potpourri of Hedge Fund Strategies.
Chapter 5: Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance.
Book VII: Value Investing.
Chapter 1: An Investor’s Guide to Value Investing.
Chapter 2: A Value Investor’s Guide to Financial Statements.
Chapter 3: Using Ratios as a Valuation Tool.
Chapter 4: Valuing a Business.
Book VIII: Technical Analysis.
Chapter 1: Wrapping Your Brain around Technical Analysis.
Chapter 2: Reading Basic Bars to Special Bars.
Chapter 3: Charting the Market with Candlesticks.
Chapter 4: Seeing Patterns and Drawing Trendlines.
Chapter 5: Transforming Channels into Forecasts.