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.

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.

"Financial Markets For The Rest Of Us" is a reference and tutorial covering various financial markets in the USA and the rest of the world. The book comprises five major chapters covering the concepts of money, bonds, futures, stocks, and options. It cleverly illustrates the operation and interdependencies of these various markets, while keeping the language simple for everyone to follow.Numerous examples and references help the reader grasp the concepts with ease and stay interested.Beginner and intermediate-level investors will find this book an indispensable tool tolearn about the financial markets and sharpen their financial knowledge and skills. This book is also an excellent financial markets reference for everyone.If you have ever wondered about how the financial markets operate, or you have ever felt overwhelmed by the complexities of the financial markets, this book is for you.

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This book describes both the complexities and the risks of options and futures for those investors who can afford to place some of their capital at risk.

Provides a logical, unifying approach to the valuation and hedging of all derivative securities, not just financial futures and stock options.