Selecting Shares That Perform

The Financial Times Guide to Selecting Shares that Perform helps you identify the approach to buying and selling shares that is best suited to you. It will help you to align your strategy based on the time and money you have available, taking into account your overall objectives and your attitudes to risk and loss. In this thoroughly updated fifth edition of their bestselling investment classic, Richard Koch and Leo Gough explain 10 distinctive and proven investment techniques for you to choose from. They describe the different tactics needed to succeed in today’s market conditions and show you how it can be fun and profitable to try to beat the stock market. The Financial Times Guide to Selecting Shares that Perform gives you: 10 proven approaches to selecting successful shares A quiz to help you identify what kind of investor you are and what strategy is right for you Practical advice to help you trade more confidently on the stock market Examples and explanations of successes and failures Convincing reasons why you should manage your own share portfolio The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

Richard Koch explains why it can be fun and profitable to try to beat the stock market and why it is so important to select a method that mirrors you as an individual. He clearly explains ten successful investment approaches and helps you choose the one that best suits your personality and expertise. Each approach is a proven technique. In this third edition, Richard Koch highlights his method's successes and failures. Updated remarks run throughout the book and there is a new section about the impact of the internet on investing. Whether you are a stock market novice or a sophisticated player, Selecting Shares that Perform makes selecting shares not only profitable, but fun. Selecting Shares That Perform gives you: convincing reasons why you should manage your share portfolio ten excellent approaches to selecting shares, showing the history and logic behind them proven rules to help you pick the winners a self-test quiz which will help you to adopt the best strategy for you examples and explanations of successes and failures.

This guide provides investment strategies for beating the stock market. The text sets each strategy against rigorous criteria for proven techniques that are explained unambiguously and should be accessible to any individual. It shows how to pick a suitable investment, includes numerous examples and should be of use to private investors - even those new to playing the markets.

Picking Winning Shares Author: Mick Pavey FROM THE BACKCOVER This book is written for the thousands of investors who are seeking market beating returns from their investments. In a time of low interest rates and rising inflation, this book reveals simple winning strategies that work again and again for the ordinary intelligent investor. Picking Winning Shares contains ground breaking and innovative ways, to combine Fundamental and Technical Analysis. Using the simple techniques contained herein, author Mick Pavey has achieved real annual growth, in his Self - Invested Personal Pension (SIPP), averaging 46% over the past three years. In doing so, he has out-performed the all share index which has fallen by 6.3% over the same period. He believes that anyone can learn to become a great DIY- Investor and beat the markets. Inside you will learn how to: Find big profits by investing in bruised, battered or depressed shares Use a combination of technical and fundamental filters to pick winners Recognise common winning technical patterns Identify the key fundamental ratios Avoid common mistakes Improve your consistency as an investor Know when is the right time to sell a share This "How to" book will benefit the following groups of people: Novice Investors Experienced investors looking to improve their results People looking to make their money work for them and gain free time Those in their 40's and 50's who are late starting a pension Anyone needing to create a deposit to get on the property ladder Families wishing to provide for their children(s) school or university places Business owners looking for increased returns from retained earnings Retired people looking for better returns on their savings Picking Winning Shares reveals the secret (legal) money making system that only the wealthy know Using many examples, illustrated with graphs and diagrams throughout, you will easily gain a clear grasp of the author's techniques. Chapter 16 contains examples, of the application of key principles contained in this book, using fully detailed case studies based on real investments made by the author. CONTENTS 1 Is This Book for You? 2 Why Another Book on Investing? 3 What You Will Gain From Reading This Book 4 Understanding Company Finances 5 The Life Span of a Public Company 6 Strategies for Picking Winning Shares 7 The Reasons Big Winners Come From Low Priced/Depressed Stocks 7.1 Common Sense? 7.2 Off the Radar Screen 7.3 Low Valuations & Low Priced - Why Do They Do Better? 7.4 What Can We Learn From Graham, Buffet, Lynch etc? 8 Using Simple Technical Analysis 8.1 Trends 8.2 Moving Averages 8.3 Other Indicators 8.4 Turning Points 8.5 Typical Patterns 8.6 Lateral Breakouts 8.7 Explosive Breakouts 8.8 Summary of Simple Technical Analysis 9 How to Use Key Aspects of Fundamental Analysis 9.1 It's all in the numbers 9.2 Balance Sheet 9.3 Turnover and PSR 9.4 Profit 9.5 Earnings and Price to Earnings 9.6 Cash Flow and Price-to-Cash Flow 9.7 Summary of Simple Fundamental Analysis 10 How to Blend Technical and Fundamental Analysis to Pick Winning Shares 11 Filtering to Create Your "Watchlist" 11.1 Initial Selection 11.2 Fine Tuning 11.3 What to Choose? 12 Research 13 Ready to Buy? 14 Monitoring Your Investment Portfolio 15 Selling 15.1 Selling Manually or Automatically? 15.2 Holding Winners and Cutting Losers 15.3 Deciding to Sell 15.4 Stop Losses 15.5 Pre-Set Sell Orders 15.6 Dealing with the Proceeds of Sales 16 Case Studies 17 Keep Your Profits, Limit Your Losses 17.1 Having a System 17.2 Keeping the Gains 17.3 What the Wealthy Know - the Secret (Legal) Money-Making System 17.4 Record Keeping Appendices 1 & 2, Index & About the Author

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