Nowadays, the stock market is no longer limited to rich global traders. Anyone can trade equities without the help of a broker. Despite this opportunity to build staggering wealth, potential investors seem to continue to stumble in the dark. Too many take the easy route of trading on advice from friends or so-called experts. These traders inevitably leave the market before they are able to create a definitive path to becoming their own stockbrokers. This book shows you how to avoid such pitfalls. It outlines what a stock is, explores the different types of securities and provides advice on the equipment and software required for successful trading. It also pinpoints strange market behaviour, investigates what causes price changes and describes how investors can develop strategies for buying and selling stocks. Indispensable to both beginners and successful investors, this book offers a clear and simple method for picking winning stocks and managing your portfolio in the short and long term. Jacques Magliolo has been described as 'Africa's most successful trader'. Today, he is an associate to a number of stockbrokers, concentrating on assisting traders with restructuring their portfolios and developing strategies to become more efficient and ultimately more profitable.

In an amusing and entertaining style, the author confesses to every tactic, secret and method that has enabled him, and could enable you, to make big money. Filled with funny and enlightening anecdotes, this book shows you the way to find your own blue chips of the future, while taking you along on an always facinating and entertaining journey.

A complete guide to financial success that can save money immediately, by the popular founder of America's largest discount brokerage company.

Sound Familiar? I’ve opened an online brokerage account, but I’m having a bit of a problem. How do I know what stocks to buy? There are plenty of terrific sources of investment information on the Internet, but there are so many sources, all claiming to be the one and only source that I need, that I can’t make any decisions. Maybe I should return to my full-service broker. Be Your Own Broker can help you cut through the bewildering maze of online stock information and help you find the sources of information that can provide you with higher investment returns. Written by a seasoned broker with over 30 years of investing experience, the book provides you with a systematic method for discovering emerging growth stocks. More important, the book will provide you with a risk-free learning process that will enable you to improve your investment skills before you risk any of your own money. The author identifies two types of information that enabled him to increase the value of his fantasy portfolio from a start of $250,000 to more than $9 million in less than three years. In addition, he reveals specific sites on the Internet that provide that information and how to gain the most value from those sites.

A comprehensive and practical guide to the stock market from a successful fund manager—filled with case studies, important background information, and all the tools you’ll need to become a stock market genius. Fund manager Joel Greenblatt has been beating the Dow (with returns of 50 percent a year) for more than a decade. And now, in this highly accessible guide, he’s going to show you how to do it, too. You’re about to discover investment opportunities that portfolio managers, business-school professors, and top investment experts regularly miss—uncharted areas where the individual investor has a huge advantage over the Wall Street wizards. Here is your personal treasure map to special situations in which big profits are possible, including: -Spin-offs -Restructurings -Merger Securities -Rights Offerings -Recapitalizations -Bankruptcies -Risk Arbitrage Prepared with the tools from this guide, it won’t be long until you’re a stock market genius!

Written by the editor of Moneypaper, the leading authority on Direct Reinforcement Portfolios (DRP), this guide is for people who want to invest but can't afford to risk their life's savings or pay high broker fees. Contains a listing of over 900 U.S. companies offering DRPs.