I have some spare money and wish to do my part for #occupy wall street.
I have in the past really enjoyed trading stocks. Mostly as a stimulating hobby. I have a good broker and simple stock trading and short selling are firmly in my grasp.
I have have made some attempts at teaching myself about options, futures and comodities via the internet. I still hardly know what the hell is going on. Is there a single book or a few books that would help my understanding.
Maybe I’m just out of touch, but how exactly is buying options doing something for the Occupy Wall Street movement?
I do not wish to siderail my own thread but could someone please recomend me a book on humor as well.
Book I learned from is this one by Hull, but it was a much earlier edition. I don’t suppose that the math has changed any.
Again, glancing at the bookcase I see Isaac Asimov’s Treasury of Humor. Always good for a laugh, well, maybe a grin. Jokes are fairly clean. He even gives advice on how to tell the jokes or anecdotes! But remember that these are Asimov’s kinds of jokes.
Obvious as it might be to you that it was a joke, I can guarantee you there’s someone out there who takes it seriously. Anyway, there’s a glut of books out there, but you can mostly divide them into the more mathematical treatments and the less mathematical. Hull’s book is a classic, but it may be a little too mathy for the average investor. I like McDonald’s “Fundamentals of Derivatives Markets” as a less mathy treatment, but that’s pretty damn expensive. Maybe you can buy it used, or get it through the library?