Product Description

This book is intended to be a simple practical guide to how you can use some of the newer investment products like spread betting, binary betting, contracts for difference, covered warrants and exchange-traded funds, as well as older ones like futures and options, to help your investing. In different ways, each of these products allows you either to: boost the returns you get in exchange for taking on greater risk; hedge your bets in exchange for slightly lower returns; use much less capital to achieve the same market exposure; or, move money into and out of a range of markets and sectors efficiently. I believe they are tools that all investors need to know about and be able to use when the occasion demands it. They should help you confront successfully any lengthy period of trendless or volatile markets. While the past three years has seen a generally strong upward trend in stock markets, this is not bound to continue. Periodic volatility is the natural order of things. Interestingly enough - despite what appears to have been a bull market - recent years have also seen increased use by private investors of many of the tools described in this book. That's proof that they work, and can be applied, in all market conditions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84904 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 306 pages

About the Author
Peter Temple has been working in and writing about financial
markets for the last 33 years. After an 18 year career in fund management
and stockbroking, he became a full time writer in 1988.
His articles appear in the Financial Times, Investors Chronicle and a range
of other publications. He has written more than a dozen books about
investing, mainly aimed at private investors.
He and his wife live in part of a converted bobbin mill in the Lake
District National Park.

Customer Reviews

simplicity and clarity for describing complicated themes
This is an exceptionally clear and readable explanation of modern stock market and other financial market trading instruments that can be otherwise hard to understand.

The author cuts through the hype that the industries use to promote their products and makes expert and critical assessments of how CFDs, spread betting, covered warrants, options and others work, and how they compare with each other.

The text is on heavy duty glossy paper, with colour illustrations from web sites, and includes an amusing bonus in a history of economics.

Above all, the author does not waste words. And the book is beginner-friendly, and shows you how to select suitable software and harness the power of the Internet.

As a writer in the same field as Peter Temple, I can tell the depth of research that has gone into this book, over years spent writing books on areas that have some overlap, and articles for financial magazines and so on.

This book is not from a multi-millionaire investor, but is more lucid and useful than many that are. It is from a former City analyst who understands how markets work.

I welcome this book because, in the field of investment literature, I am absolutely sick of either hype books that are trying to help nobody but the author or the services he is selling, or over-complicated books that in reality are saying nothing.

Good introduction to Spread betting, CFDs, Options, Warrants and Trackers
It was a good introduction to investing using leveraged products (Spreadbetting, CFDs) but probably could have worked out most of this by reading a few websites. If your after an introduction to Spreadbetting, CFDs, options etc it isn't a bad purchase.