Amazon.com description: Product Description: Here's an unusually practical guide to making investment decisions. Updated and expanded, this second edition shows how to recognize profitable market opportunities, and how to avoid common investment errors. Covers the wide range of investment instruments available, emphasizing the workings of the securities and financial markets. Describes indispensable sources of market information, both published and on-line. Outlines the major strategies for common stock selection--fundamental analysis, technical analysis, and the efficient markets approach--and makes clear the risk-return concepts which underlie all investment analyses.