Filled with new charts and graphics, plus recommendation of helpful Web sites for research and technical tools, this valuable primer remains a resource for a better understanding of recent developments and current trends in the securities markets.

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."