Achieve positive returns on your investments, in any market

With Managing Your Investment Portfolio FD 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.

Techniques and strategies covered include:

• Tracking and predicting volatility, and making short-term gains on very volatile markets
• Hedging exposure and going long and short
• Arbitrage (taking advantage of price differences between markets)
• Pairs trading
• Relative value strategies
• Distressed assets (things written off by the mainstream that may have long-term value)
• Earnings surprises (looking for companies delivering better earnings than predicted by analysts)
• Options and derivatives
• Macro trading (looking at key indicators for economic cycles)

About the Author

David Stevenson is a columnist for the Financial Times where he writes the Adventurous Investor section. He is also a columnist for Investors Chronicle and author of Investing in Shares For Dummies, UK edition.

Book Information
ISBN 9781118457092
Author David Stevenson
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint For Dummies
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 708g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 188mm * 22mm