The 10-Week Flexible Investment Plan

A Beginner's Guide to Stock Market Success

By: Alexander Davidson

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Product code: 14921
ISBN: 0749438851
192 pages
Format: Pb
Published by: Kogan Page, 2002, 1st edition

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Description of The 10-Week Flexible Investment Plan

Volatile stock markets offer some real bargains. But how do you find them? This unique 10-week guide shows you how to avoid the pitfalls and invest profitably. You will find here a FlexiProgram, divided into 10 sections for tackling step-by-step, with quizzes along the way to make sure you are up to speed.

Investment expert Alex Davidson helps you discover how to:

- time your stock market investments;
- exploit falling markets;
- pick winners by interpreting company accounts;
- build and protect your portfolio;
- use proven techniques that work in good or bad market conditions.

Endorsed by some of the country’s leading financial specialists, this handbook includes top trading tips from a City veteran. Consult it before you invest as it may save you thousands. No serious investor can afford to be without this book.

The 10-Week Flexible Investment Plan - Chapter headings

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Week 1 - Profit from a flexible investment strategy
Your flexi-program
First steps
Power investor quiz

Week 2 - How to select and use your broker
Your flexi-program
Online brokers
Advisory brokers
Discretionary brokers
Settlement and nominee accounts
Complaints
Investor power quiz

Week 3 - Make money from interpreting the financial statements
Your flexi-program
Some ground rules
The financial statements
Investor power quiz

Week 4 - Further secrets of the financial statements
Your flexi-program
Financial statements
Creative accounting
Inflation
Investor power quiz

Week 5 - How to make a killing on new issues
Your flexi-program
First steps
How a flotation works
How to apply for new issues
When to sell
Investor power quiz

Week 6 - How to win as a penny share punter
Your flexi-program
First steps
Valuation secrets
The racy stocks
Two specialist markets
Tax advantages

Further research
Investor power quiz

Week 7 - Make fast money from share trading
Your flexi-program
First steps
Six golden rules for successful equity trading
Options
Warrants
Spread betting
Contracts for difference (CFDs)
Foreign exchange
A trading secret
Investor power quiz

Week 8 - Secrets of technical analysis
Your flexi-program
First steps
Investor power quiz

Week 9 - Read and grow rich
Your flexi-program
Tip sheets
Internet message boards

Week 10 - Time to start investing
First steps

Appendix 1 - Useful Web sites Appendix 2 - Useful quotations

Authobiography of Alexander Davidson

Alexander Davidson is a leading financial journalist and one of the most popular investment authors in Britain today. In The Global-Investor Book of Investing Rules, Alexander Davidson is described as one of the 150 most respected financial experts in the world. Formerly a successful City share-dealer, he is also the author of How to Win in a Volatile Stock Market and Everyone’s Guide to Online Stock Market Investing, both published by Kogan Page.