This guide to the securities markets has helped thousands of financial professionals as well as individual investors, both experienced and novice, invest in the securities markets with confidence. Now completely revised and expanded to reflect the evolving investment realities of a new millennium, this invaluable guide covers all of your investment options. Stuart Veale offers concise summaries of money market instruments, U.S. treasury securities, bonds, mortgage-backed securities, and stocks, plus the latest information or derivative instruments such as futures contracts, swap contracts, options contracts, and security indices. Stocks, Bonds, Options, Futures compares various methods of analyzing stocks—top down, bottom up, technical, and walk around—and gives you all the tools you need to create a balanced portfolio that maximizes returns and minimizes risk. Filled with informative charts and graphics, plus website listings for additional research and technical tools, Stocks, Bonds, Options, Futures, Second Edition is your guide to the radically changed world of 21st-century securities.

Utilizing the talents of dozens of experts in each investment field, this book explains the currently available instruments, the trading mechanics for each instrument and the overall economic environment in which these activities now take place. Special attention has been given to getting the maximum after-tax return after adjusting for risk. The risk associated with each instrument is explained as are the basic provisions of the tax code applicable to the instruments traded. The volume covers mechanics, market psychology, price behavior, market regulation and much more. ISBN 0-87094-600-5: $55.00 (For use only in the library).

This is a reprint of a previously published work. It deals with how emerging technologies have affected financial markets and their regualtion.

From arbitrage to zero-coupon bonds, this all-inclusive guide explains the fundamentals of investments and their markets. Covers how broker/dealer firms function, option trading, technical and fundamental futures, exchange and over-the-counter transactions, and more.