Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing
Product Description The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investing initiates you into the mysteries of the financial pages — buying stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures and options, spotting trends and evaluating companies. For those who are curious but intimidated by everyday financial jargon, this guide offers a literate, forthright and lively alternative. Amazon. com ReviewThis handy fact-filled book initiates you into the mysteries of the financial pages — buying stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures and options, spotting trends and evaluating companies. For those who are curious but intimidated by everyday financial jargon, this guide offers a literate, forthright and lively alternative. Recommended.
Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing
A definite must read for anyone alive today
Rating: 5 / 5
This book should be given a pass. It covers items so basic that one would have to have been raised in a cave to not know 90+% of what is covered. I was very disappointed.
Rating: 2 / 5
I’m 15 and I read this book. What I have to say is that this book is confusing. If you do not know anything about money and ivesting, do not, and I say do not, buy or read this book. Now if you want to define some financial terms, this will help, a little.
Rating: 2 / 5
The book was clear and easy to understand. It can make a non-financial person a true pro! I recommend it!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a good book for the beginner to understand the basics of money & investing. However, I did notice one glaring mistake in the options section. The loss on writing a naked call in the example provided should not be 64,250. It should have been 4,250. The authors forget the fact that you do get back 60,000 when you sell the shares at the strike price of $60. So, if you are a novice, you may be misled by this blunder. So exercise caution. And when in doubt, check with some one who knows more about the topic. I am not even an expert in finance, but the mistake was obvious even if you use plain commonsense. Wonder how the authors missed it.
Rating: 4 / 5