Managing Your Investment Portfolio For Dummies, UK Edition
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)
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.