Stock Investing for Dummies

Part I: The Essentials of Stock Investing
1. Surveying the World of Stock Investing.
2. Taking Stock of Your Current Financial Situation and Goals
3. Defining Common Approaches to Stock Investing
4. Recognizing Risk and Volatility
5. Stock Investing through Exchange-Traded Funds
Part II: Before You Start Buying
6. Gathering Information
7. Going for Brokers
8. Investing for Long-Term Growth
9. Investing for Income: Dividend-Paying Stocks
10. Understanding Technical Analysis for Stock Investors
Part III: Picking Winners
11. Using Basic Accounting to Choose Winning Stocks
12. Decoding Company Documents
13. Emerging Sector and Industry Opportunities
14. Small Cap Stocks, IPOs, and Motif Investing
15. The Big Economic and Political Picture
Part IV: Investment Strategies and Tactics
16. Discovering Screening Tools
17. Understanding Brokerage Orders and Trading Techniques
18. Using Trade Triggers and Advanced Conditional Orders
19. Getting a Handle on DPPs DRPs and DCA PDQ
20. Corporate and Government Skullduggery: Looking at Insider Activity
21. Keeping More of Your Money from the Taxman
Part V: The Part of Tens
22. Ten Indicators of a Great Stock
23. Ten Ways to Profit in a Bear Market
24. Ten Investments and Strategies That Go Great with Stocks
Part VI: Appendixes
Appendix A: Resources for Stock investors
Appendix B: Financial Ratios