Managing Your Investment Portfolio For Dummies – UK

<p><b>Achieve positive returns on your investments, in any market</b></p> <p>With <i>Managing Your Investment Portfolio FD</i> you can build and manage a portfolio of investments that’s flexible enough to provide positive returns, no matter what the market is doing. Inside you’ll find a wealth of strategies and techniques to help you take your investments to the next level. Lean to track and predict volatility; hedge your exposure by going long and short; use strategies like arbitrage, relative value and pairs trading; and dip into distressed assets, options, derivatives, spread betting and much more.</p> <p>Techniques and strategies covered include:</p> <ul> <li>Tracking and predicting volatility, and making short-term gains on very volatile markets</li> <li>Hedging exposure and going long and short</li> <li>Arbitrage (taking advantage of price differences between markets)</li> <li>Pairs trading</li> <li>Relative value strategies</li> <li>Distressed assets (things written off by the mainstream that may have long-term value)</li> <li>Earnings surprises (looking for companies delivering better earnings than predicted by analysts)</li> <li>Options and derivatives</li> <li>Macro trading (looking at key indicators for economic cycles)</li> </ul>