Investor's Business Daily Guide to the Markets
Author: Investor's Business Daily
List Price: $30.95
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ISBN: 0471154822
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (08 October, 1996)
Sales Rank: 7,700
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent Primer on Stocks, Funds, Bonds, Options, Futures
This book is pure gold for investors who are just getting started in playing the market. Coupling this book with a subscription to Investor's Business Daily will help you make good decisions quickly and minimize the punishing losses that naive investors sometimes take. IBD does a good job of explaining technical issues in easy to understand language along with showing pertinent charts and graphs.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Good for beginning CAN SLIM investors
This book is actually half decent it isn't near as good as How to make money in stocks but it covers a lot of relevant information for newer investors.The chapters cover these wonderful topics:
* Capitalism: What it is and why it works
* The stock market: Primer on what stocks are and how the market works
* Mutual funds
* Options
* Bonds
* Futures market
* Economics and economic indicators
The book reminds me of Investing Smart however Guide to the Markets is at least 10 times better and covers more topics, not to mention the writers are much better than Dhun H. Sethna.
I recommend this for beginning CAN SLIM investors.
Reed Floren
Rating: 4 out of 5
A Useful First Step
This book is a *primer*, and as such will likely be neither the best nor the worst book you'll ever read on the subject of investing (fwiw, I actually found the content average, and the writing style a bit like summertime in the Sahara). For me though, the book earned its fourth "star" for a single--yet *really* important--reason: its connection to the IBD newspaper. For about $25, _Guide to the Markets_ explains much of its information using the same graphs and other formats as you'll find in the company's daily. *That* is a great deal considering that IBD is one of the best, if more expensive, investment tools available. For its ability to cheaply provide access to that very powerful tool, while also providing other occasional insights, _Guide to the Markets_ is a very good value. (It's nicely indexed enough to serve as a solid reference as well). Similar Products
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