How the stock markets work - Colin Chapman

How the STOCK MARKETS WORK has long been an established favourite for anyone who needs a straightforward, concise, friendly introduction to the stock markets, how they have developed and how they operate today. Since the previous version of the book in June 1998, the growth in popular access to the Internet and the impact of electronic trading on the financial markets have been both rapid and massive. This book is a response to those changes. It is still accessible, ready-to read, and driven mainly by narrative and easy-to-read, and driven mainly narrative and easy to follow examples. But it's been completely overhauled for this seventh edition. It now includes several specialist chapters onthe world wide web and electronic trading, and also incorporates throught the text the ways in which the new technologies have changed and continue to change the life of the financial markets, explaining the impact of those changes on the non-professional or less experienced investor.