What is a share of stock? -- Wall Street : how it works -- Analyzing your company -- Reading the financial pages -- Investing and trading -- Growth stocks -- Manias, fads, and panics -- From Wall Street to main street -- Bonds, preferred stocks, and the money market -- The Internet -- Global investing -- Gold and silver -- The principles of technical analysis -- Stock options and other derivatives -- Personalities of Wall Street. An investing classic updated to meet the realities of a changing economy. Features new sections and information on the current shift to exchange traded funds (ETFs), using the Internet as an investing tool, recent scandals, and other subjects important to readers today.