High-Powered Investing All-in-One For Dummies

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• Introduction 1Book I: Getting Started with High-Powered Investing 5Chapter 1: What Every Investor Should Know 7Chapter 2: Playing the Market: Stocks and Bonds 21Chapter 3: Getting to Know Mutual Funds and ETFs 47Chapter 4: All about Annuities 73Book II: Futures and Options 87Chapter 1: Futures and Options Fundamentals 89Chapter 2: Being a Savvy Futures and Options Trader 107Chapter 3: Basic Trading Strategies 121Chapter 4: Advanced Speculation Strategies 135Book III: Commodities 155Chapter 1: Getting an Overview of Commodities 157Chapter 2: Adding Commodities to Your Portfolio 171Chapter 3: The Power House: Making Money in Energy 183Chapter 4: Pedal to the Metal: Investing in Metals 203Chapter 5: Down on the Farm: Trading Agricultural Products 219Book IV: Foreign Currency Trading 231Chapter 1: Your Forex Need-to-Know Guide 233Chapter 2: Major and Minor Currency Pairs 255Chapter 3: Gathering and Interpreting Economic Data 279Chapter 4: Advice for Successful Forex Trading 293Chapter 5: Putting Your Trading Plan in Action 305Book V: Hedge Funds 319Chapter 1: Getting the 411 on Hedge Funds 321Chapter 2: Taking the Plunge with Hedge Funds 337Chapter 3: A Potpourri of Hedge Fund Strategies 353Chapter 4: Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance 373Book VI: Emerging Markets 385Chapter 1: Introducing Emerging Market Investing 387Chapter 2: A Guided Tour through the World’s Emerging Markets 403Chapter 3: Picking Bonds, Stocks, and Mutual Funds in Emerging Markets 419Chapter 4: High Finance in Emerging Markets 435Book VII: Value Investing 445Chapter 1: An Introduction to Value Investing 447Chapter 2: A Value Investor’s Guide to Financial Statements 457Chapter 3: Using Ratios as a Valuation Tool 479Chapter 4: Valuing a Business 491Book VIII: Socially Responsible Investing 517Chapter 1: Making Your Investments Match Your Values 519Chapter 2: The Socially Responsible Enterprise: Evaluating Companies 527Chapter 3: Introducing the Islamic Capital Market 545Chapter 4: Managing Assets in Islamic Investments 557Book IX: Crowdfund Investing 573Chapter 1: Getting the Lowdown on Crowdfund Investing 575Chapter 2: Evaluating Crowdfund Investing Opportunities 583Chapter 3: Committing Your Capital and Adding Value 595Book X: Technical Analysis 615Chapter 1: Wrapping Your Brain around Technical Analysis 617Chapter 2: Bars and Bar Reading 633Chapter 3: Charting the Market with Candlesticks 649Chapter 4: Seeing Patterns and Drawing Trendlines 659Chapter 5: Transforming Techniques into Trades 675Index 693