Everything you need to know about the world of investment—most accessibly presented and attractively packaged.

Following an introduction on the roller coaster ride the stock market has taken over the past decade and the implications it has for businesses, private investors and people's pensions, the bulk of the book is a much expanded A-Z with several hundred entries that explain with the essentials of the investment world—as well as some of its more arcane aspects. Entries include: Advance-decline line, Arbitrage, Bear squeeze, Black-Scholes option pricing model, Capital asset pricing model, Chartist, Covariance, Dead cat bounce, Dow theory, Efficient frontier, Fibonacci numbers, Floating rate note, Futures, Gann theory, Golden cross, Grey market, Hedge ratio, Indifference curve, Internal rate of return, Japanese candlesticks, Kondratief cycle, LIFFE, Mark to market, Odd-lot theory, On-the-run bond, Price-to-book ratio, Qualitative analysis, Rule of twenty, Security analysis, Straddle, Tobin's Q, Trading collar, Unsystematic risk, Vanilla, Volatility, Warrant, Yield gap, Zero coupon bond. Also included as appendices are a raft of facts and figures about stock market performance over the years; investment formulas.

你所需要知道的关于投资世界的一切，都以最容易理解的方式呈现，包装最具吸引力。
在介绍了过去十年股市的过山车行情及其对企业、私人投资者和养老金的影响之后，这本书的大部分内容是一个大大扩展的a-Z，有几百个条目，解释了投资世界的本质以及一些更为神秘的方面。包括：提前下跌线，套利，熊市挤压，布莱克-斯科尔斯期权定价模型，资本资产定价模型，图表，协方差，死猫反弹，道指理论，有效前沿，斐波那契数，浮动利率票据，期货，江恩理论，金十字，灰色市场，对冲比率，无差异曲线，内部收益率，日本烛台、Kondratief循环、LIFFE、按市值计价、奇数理论、运行债券、市盈率、定性分析、二十法则、证券分析、跨座、托宾Q、交易领、非系统风险、香草、波动性、权证、收益率差、零息债券。附录中还包括大量有关这些年来股市表现的事实和数字；投资公式。