Get started with stock investing and achieve your personal finance goals

The bestselling Stock Investing For Dummies is full of practical and realistic stock market guidance. Today's market is full of surprises, and this book will help you understand all aspects of the investing process, so you can thrive as an investor, come what may. With straightforward direction from a renowned best-selling author and national financial authority, this book discusses the many different ways you can invest in stocks, so you can create a portfolio that works for you. You'll also find updates on the latest trends and growth opportunities, plus insights into what it means to invest wisely in the current financial environment. Be confident in your investment decisions, thanks to this sound Dummies advice.

• Build a strategic stock portfolio that meets your needs
• Discover the basics of investing, including how to invest in difficult markets
• Learn how to invest in AI and how to make the most of AI investing tools
• Explore ETFs, preferred stocks, options, factor investing, stock warrants, and beyond

This is a great Dummies guide for new investors looking for a comprehensive guide on the current stock market, as well as those looking to brush up their stock investing skills.

Winning strategies for investors looking to boost gains with artificial intelligence

AI is one of the hottest investment trends on Wall Street. AI Investing For Dummies gives you all the must-know details on how artificial intelligence can benefit investors. You'll learn how powerful AI can be in helping you make better decisions, identify hidden opportunities, and build wealth in stocks, bonds, commodities, and real estate. This easy-to-understand Dummies guide also covers budgeting, taxes, estates, and planning for college and retirement--all with AI-specific tactics that can improve efficiency, mitigate risk, and level up your portfolio's performance. You'll also find all the info you need to sift through and implement the right resources and solutions for you.

• Understand the benefits and drawbacks of AI investing
• Debunk the biggest myths about AI investing
• Get an in-depth analysis of the top AI stocks to watch
• Learn how to avoid common pitfalls in AI investing
• Take a peek at the role of AI in shaping the future of finance

This is the ideal Dummies resource for consumers and investors who are new to AI and want to wrap their heads around this emerging technology.

Yes, you can make money in the stock market--this guide shows you how

Investing in Stocks For Dummies gives you a straightforward introduction to stock investing. You'll learn the basics of buying and selling stocks, including how to research stocks and the factors that influence their performance. Even in an uncertain and challenging marketplace, you can profit by making smart financial decisions and investing wisely. This book explains how to calculate net worth, deal with tax laws, and do all the things that will make you a successful investor. This Dummies guide is packed with clear instructions and solid advice so you can start investing with confidence.

• Learn how to choose the best stocks for your goals and create a diverse portfolio
• Understand the risks involved in stock investing and choose a strategy that works
• Navigate the market's ups and downs with time-tested techniques
• Plan for your financial future and invest according to your timeline

The expert info in this book will start you off on the right foot as you begin your journey down Wall Street.

Enhance your investment portfolio and take your investments to the next level

Do you have an investment portfolio set up, but want to take your knowledge of investing a step further? High-Level Investing For Dummies is the resource you need to achieve a more advanced understanding of investment strategies--and to maximize your portfolio's profits. Build upon your current knowledge of investment, particularly with regard to the stock market, in order to reach a higher level of understanding and ability when manipulating your assets on the market. This approachable resource pinpoints key pitfalls to avoid and explains how to time your investments in a way that maximizes your profits.

Investing can be intimidating--but it can also be fun By building upon your basic understanding of investment strategies you can take your portfolio to the next level, both in terms of the diversity of your investments and the profits that they bring in. Who doesn't want that?

• Up your investment game with proven strategies that help increase profits and minimize risks
• Avoid common pitfalls of stock speculating to make your investment strategy more impactful
• Understand how to time the market to maximize returns and improve your portfolio's performance
• Uncover hidden opportunities in niche markets that can bring welcome diversity to your portfolio

High-Level Investing For Dummies is the perfect follow-up to Stock Investing For Dummies, and is a wonderful resource that guides you through the process of beefing up your portfolio and bringing home a higher level of profits

In recent years, metals have been among the safest and most lucrative investments around, but they are not entirely risk free. Before you begin investing or trading in metals, you need authoritative information and proven investment strategies. You need Precious Metal Investing For Dummies.

This straightforward guide eases you into the precious metals market with sound advice on trading and owning these profitable investments, including gold, silver, platinum, and uranium, as well as high-demand base metals such as zinc and copper. You'll learn how to research their market performance and choose among an array of proven trading plans and strategies. Plus, you'll get savvy advice on how to choose a broker, buy stocks and futures that involve metals, maximize your investment return, and minimize your risk. Discover how to:

• Evaluate the different metals
• Add metals to your portfolio
• Decide whether you're an investor or a trader
• Identify your metal-investment goals
• Weigh the risks and benefits of metals investing
• Buy physical metals
• Use technical analysis to evaluate opportunities
• Make long-term investments in precious metals
• Diversify your metals investments
• Analyze base-metals companies
• Purchase numismatic coins
• Add metals to your mutual fund or ETF portfolio
• Understand how politics effects metals prices

Metals can be an important and valuable addition to any investment portfolio or retirement plan. Make the most out of your investment with Precious Metal Investing For Dummies.

Diversify your portfolio with gold and silver

Investing and trading in gold and silver is always a sound idea--and that goes double in a time of unusual market fluctuation. As people look for safe places to diversify their investment risk, you'll likely see the value of your investment go up where other stocks are vulnerable. Gold and silver saw increases in value of 16% and 15% respectively in 2019--putting them among the top ten most desirable commodities out there--and are projected to experience even more of a bear market as the dollar wobbles in an uncertain post-COVID world. This year, 2020, gold and silver are set up to have their best year of price appreciation over the past 40+ years.

Written in an easy-to-follow, no-jargon style by CFP and bestselling author, Paul Mladjenovic, Investing in Gold & Silver For Dummies explains the different complex processes and vehicles for buying gold and silver. You'll find out the best ways to add these to your portfolio, how to balance risk and reward, and how to adapt time-tested investing plans and strategies to your goals.

• Identify your goals and form a plan
• Buy gold and silver safely to diversify your portfolio
• Use ETFs and options to profit from market ups and downs
• Understand when a gold and silver investment is legitimate
• Use technical analysis to time your market entries

Whatever your current familiarity with gold and silver, this book gives you the extra expert knowledge you need navigate your gold and silver investment portfolio safely through a bear or bull market.

Trade currencies like a seasoned pro with this friendly, fact-filled guide to the forex market

Over $6 trillion changes hands in the foreign exchange market every day. You can jump straight into the action with expert guidance from the hands-on Currency Trading For Dummies. You'll learn how the foreign exchange market works, what factors influence currency values, and how to understand financial data. When you're ready to create your own game plan for trading currencies, you'll be able to build it around your investment objectives, experience level, and risk appetite. You'll also find details on the latest trends in currency trading, including currency ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and currency options.

From essential newcomer knowledge to advanced positioning advice, Currency Trading For Dummies offers straightforward instruction that helps you:

• Source data and market intelligence, employ technical analysis, and use the latest tech to find the most lucrative trading opportunities
• Understand the most recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules and regulations governing currency trading
• Avoid common pitfalls and mistakes made by novice and experienced currency traders
• Recognize profitable opportunities in the world of ETFs, currency options, and cryptocurrencies

Successful currency trading is within your grasp. This accessible roadmap to trading mastery provides the foundational knowledge you need to create a structured, winning strategy and conquer the forex market.

The stock market has been a cornerstone of the investors passive wealth-building program for over a century and continues in this role. This decade has been one huge roller coaster ride for stock investors. Fortunes have been made and lost. With all the media attention, all the talking heads on radio and television, and the books with titles like Dow at 36,000, the investing public still didnt avoid losing trillions in a historic stock market debacle. Sadly, even the so-called experts who understand stocks didnt see the economic and geopolitical forces that acted like a tsunami on the market. With just a little more knowledge and a few wealth-preserving techniques, more investors could have held onto their hard-earned stock market fortunes. Cheer up, though: This book gives you an early warning on those megatrends and events that will affect your stock portfolio. While other books may tell you about stocks, this book tells you about stocks and what affects them. This book is designed to give you a realistic approach to making money in stocks. It provides the essence of sound, practical stock investing strategies and insights that have been market-tested and proven from nearly 100 years of stock market history. I dont expect you to read it cover to cover, although Id be delighted if you read every word Instead, this book is designed as a reference tool. Feel free to read the chapters in whatever order you choose. You can flip to the sections and chapters that interest you or those that include topics that you need to know more about. Stock Investing For Dummies, 3rd Edition, is also quite different from the get rich with stocks titles that have crammed the bookshelves in recent years. It doesnt take a standard approach to the topic; it doesnt assume that stocks are a sure thing and the be-all, end-all of wealth building. In fact, at times in this book, I tell you not to invest in stocks. This book can help you succeed not only in up markets but also in down markets. Bull markets and bear markets come and go, but the informed investor can keep making money no matter what. To give you an extra edge, Ive tried to include information about the investing environment for stocks. Whether its politics or hurricanes (or both), you need to know how the big picture affects your stock investment decisions.

The stock market has been a cornerstone of the investors passive wealth-building program for over a century and continues in this role. This decade has been one huge roller coaster ride for stock investors. Fortunes have been made and lost. With all the media attention, all the talking heads on radio and television, and the books with titles like Dow at 36,000, the investing public still didnt avoid losing trillions in a historic stock market debacle. Sadly, even the so-called experts who understand stocks didnt see the economic and geopolitical forces that acted like a tsunami on the market. With just a little more knowledge and a few wealth-preserving techniques, more investors could have held onto their hard-earned stock market fortunes. Cheer up, though: This book gives you an early warning on those megatrends and events that will affect your stock portfolio. While other books may tell you about stocks, this book tells you about stocks and what affects them. This book is designed to give you a realistic approach to making money in stocks. It provides the essence of sound, practical stock investing strategies and insights that have been market-tested and proven from nearly 100 years of stock market history. I dont expect you to read it cover to cover, although Id be delighted if you read every word Instead, this book is designed as a reference tool. Feel free to read the chapters in whatever order you choose. You can flip to the sections and chapters that interest you or those that include topics that you need to know more about. Stock Investing For Dummies, 3rd Edition, is also quite different from the get rich with stocks titles that have crammed the bookshelves in recent years. It doesnt take a standard approach to the topic; it doesnt assume that stocks are a sure thing and the be-all, end-all of wealth building. In fact, at times in this book, I tell you not to invest in stocks. This book can help you succeed not only in up markets but also in down markets. Bull markets and bear markets come and go, but the informed investor can keep making money no matter what. To give you an extra edge, Ive tried to include information about the investing environment for stocks. Whether its politics or hurricanes (or both), you need to know how the big picture affects your stock investment decisions.

The changes, events and conditions affecting stock investors since that time have been dramatic. Todays economic and financial landscape offers new challenges and opportunities for investors and money managers. Stock Investing For Dummies, 5th Edition will contain 20% new and revised material designed to keep this title competitive as the stock market prepares to go through a series of changes and responds to global upheavals. Since the last edition, there is plenty of solid, new information on the news, views and resources that stock investors will need to navigate.

Successful corporate executives face unique investing challenges, because their personal wealth is irrevocably tied to their company's performance, normal market ups and downs, and even unexpected events. An executive's investment portfolio may consist mostly of employer stock and stock options that are governed by rules the executive doesn't know about and can't control. And the executive also faces a variety of other financial landmines, ranging from taxes to corporate pension shortfalls.

So the forward-thinking corporate executive badly needs effective financial management and investing strategies to build a financially secure future, designed with the special needs of a corporate executive in mind. That is what this guide will provide: the essence of what investments and investing strategies the executive should consider employing to achieve financial independence sooner, rather than later.

The audience for this investing guide includes C-suite executives, middle managers, and those in supervisory positions with executive responsibilities or aspirations. It will also be useful for MBA students, those in executive education seminars, and others who are planning corporate careers.

This book will teach the executive reader:

• How to set the proper goals before investing
• How to maximize corporate resources for your investing goals
• How to understand and choose from the different types of investments, including bank investments, stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), venture capital investments, real estate investments, and alternative investments.
• How design an effective portfolio strategy for an executive's situation

Tired of the 9-to-5 grind and want a way to earn or to supplement your income? Easy.

The media has named the growing trend toward micro-entrepreneurship the Rise of the Creative Class, the Gig Life, or the freelance economy. All of those refer to the nearly 4 million workers who were self-employed this past year, and millions of others who currently supplement their income with freelance work. While the trend has been spotted before, there's one stark difference between micro-entrepreneurs today and the Free Agent Nation citizens of the late '90s: technology. Micro-Entrepreneurship For Dummies shows you how to navigate this confusing technological landscape in order to make a contributable profit.

Micro-Entrepreneurship For Dummies aids you in making the best use of micro-entrepreneurial platforms, with helpful advice that includes information on signing up for and selling products on websites such as Airbnb, Craigslist, Taskrabbit, Uber, and Etsy.

• Micro-enterprise, using online platforms to sell products or services, is a proven way to earn extra money and supplement household income
• In today's struggling economy, the importance of self-run businesses and small enterprise is growing as more people take lower-paying jobs and need a little extra spending money
• Shows you how to sign up for and sell products online

Micro-Entrepreneurship For Dummies appeals to anyone looking to earn or supplement their income from home.