Managing Your Investment Portfolio For Dummies - UK [Paperback]

Achieve positive returns on your investments, in any market

With Managing Your Investment Portfolio FD you can build and manage a portfolio of investments thats flexible enough to provide positive returns, no matter what the market is doing. Inside youll 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)

Part I: Its All about Portfolios?7

Chapter 1: Introducing Great Opportunities for Advanced Investors 9

Chapter 2: Assessing Risk: Deciding What Kind of Investor You Are 25

Part II: Picking the Strategies for You?43

Chapter 3: Grasping Basic Hedge-Fund Strategies 45

Chapter 4: Dealing with Volatility and Economic Cycles 63

Chapter 5: Digging Deeper into Alternative Assets: Commodlc-