How the stock market works /

How the stock market works /

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Author / Creator:Dalton, John M., 1942-
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:New York : New York Institute of Finance, c1993.
Description:xii, 325 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Stock exchanges
Stocks
Stock exchanges.
Stocks.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1507473
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ISBN:0130978663 : $15.95
Notes:Includes index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Stock Market: What the Stock Market Has to Offer
  • Why Stocks Are Offered
  • The Size of the Stock Market
  • A Word About Bonds
  • Why Individuals and Institutions Buy Stocks
  • Dividends
  • Capital Gains, or Growth
  • Short Selling
  • Risks and Rewards of Investing
  • Common Stocks
  • Preferred Stocks
  • Stock Rights
  • Stock Warrants
  • Summary
  • Chapter 2. Reading the Financial Press: Determining Share Value, Determining Your Investment Return
  • Cash Accounts
  • Margin Accounts
  • Security Positions: Long, Short, Flat
  • Pricing Stocks: Points and Fractions
  • The Figuration of Current Yield
  • Newspaper Listings
  • Chapter 3. The Initial Public Offering: Getting the Stocks to the Marketplace
  • The Primary Market--How Busineses Are Capitalized
  • Incorporating the Business
  • The Initial Public Offering (IPO)
  • After the Offering Is Completed
  • Chapter 4. Inside the Brokerage Firm: Who Does What?
  • Full Service Versus Discount
  • Selecting a Brokerage Firm and an Account Executive
  • The Sales Assistant
  • Chapter 5. The Secondary Market: Executing Orders on the Exchange Floor
  • The New York Stock Exchange
  • Listing Requirements and Criteria of the NYSE
  • NYSE Maintenance Listing Requirements/Delisting from NYSE
  • The NYSE Floor
  • The Delivery of Orders to the NYSE: Superdot and the Broker Booth Support System
  • NYSE's Online Comparison System
  • The Auction System
  • How Orders Are Executed in the Crowd
  • Crossing Stock
  • After (Off) Hours Trading--A/K/A Crossing Sessions
  • The Short Sale
  • Institutional Trades
  • Decimalization
  • Other Important Features of the NYSE
  • AMEX--The American Stock Exchange
  • Chapter 6. The Specialist: Riding the Bulls and Bears
  • The Specialst's Role: As Dealer, as Broker
  • The Role of Automation and Telecommunication
  • Other Duties of the Specialist
  • Odd-Lot Trading
  • Assigning Securities to the Specialist
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 7. The Secondary Market: Over-the-Counter Trading
  • Following an Order Being Executed OTC
  • The Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board: OTCBB
  • Types of Orders
  • Compliance Regulations of the NASD
  • NASD Rules of Fair Practice
  • Chapter 8. The Nasdaq: Ongoing Changes
  • NASD: National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
  • Requirements for Securities to Become Listed on Nasdaq
  • November 1998 Merger with the American Stock Exchange
  • Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock (AMEX Symbol QQQ)
  • The Major Nasdaq Stock Market Indexes
  • Expansion of Nasdaq Worldwide: Globalization of Stock Trading
  • Monitoring the Markets
  • Other Major Developments with the Nasdaq
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 9. Investment Companies: Closed-End and Open-End Funds--The "Package Plan" Approach
  • Investment Companies
  • Management Companies: Closed-End and Open-End Funds
  • Pricing a Closed-End Fund
  • Pricing an Open-End Fund
  • Variety of Types of Open-End (Mutual) Funds for Bonds
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 10. Stock Options: Multipurpose Instruments
  • The OCC and the Exchanges That Offer Option Trading
  • Options: A Definition and Explanation of How Stock Option Contracts Generally Function
  • Types of Option Contracts: Puts and Calls
  • Option Premium: The Price of the Option Contract
  • Options as a Hedging Tool
  • Miscellaneous Option Topics
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 11. The Back Offices: Following the Long Paper Trail
  • The Depository and Clearing House
  • The Order Department
  • PandS Department
  • Margin Department
  • Stock Record Department
  • Accounting Department
  • Dividend Department
  • Proxy Department
  • Chapter 12. Stock Market Theories: Can Prices Really Be Predicted?
  • The First American Analyst
  • The Analysts
  • The Technical Approach
  • Chapter 13. Analyzing Stocks: The Corporation's "Report Card"
  • Current Assets and Current Liabilities
  • Can the Corporation Pay Its Way?
  • Using Debt and Capital Structure of a Corporation as Sources of Long-Term Funds
  • The Income Statement
  • Chapter 14. Online Trading in the Stock Market: How Technology Has Changed the Financial Landscape
  • Brokerage Firms in the World of Online Trading
  • How an Investor Establishes Online Trading
  • Wireless and Touch Tone Trading
  • The Risks of Online Trading
  • Protection for Online Investors
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 15. Globalization of the Stock Market: Expanding Opportunities for Investors
  • Stock Markets Around the World
  • Global Investing
  • Effect of Extended / After-Hours Trading on Globalization
  • Globalization: The Stock Exchanges
  • Brokerage Firms and Online Access
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 16. Taxation: How Dividends and Capital Gains Are Taxed
  • The Taxation of Interest
  • The Taxation of Dividends
  • The Taxation of Capital Gains
  • Multiple Positions
  • Stock Gifts to Minors
  • Stocks Received as Gifts and Inheritances: Taxable Amounts and Basis
  • Chapter 17. In the Tank or, Even Worse, Crash, but Then a Reversal: How the Stock Market Works Under Pressure
  • The Fair and Orderly Market
  • Program Trading Myths
  • The Global Crash
  • The Stock Market and the Economy
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • About the Author

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