Format:
1 Online-Ressource (371 Seiten)
Edition:
3rd ed
ISBN:
9781394155163
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Commodities: Just the Facts -- Chapter 1 Investors, Start Your Engines! An Overview of Commodities -- Defining Commodities and Their Investment Characteristics -- Going for a Spin: Choosing the Right Investment Vehicle -- The futures markets -- The equity markets -- Publicly traded companies -- Master limited partnerships -- Managed funds -- Physical commodity purchases -- Checking Out What's on the Menu -- Energy -- Metals -- Agricultural products -- Chapter 2 Earn, Baby, Earn! Why You Should Invest in Commodities -- You Can't Argue with Success -- Why the 21st Century Is the Century of Commodities -- Ka-boom! Capitalizing on the global population explosion -- Brick by brick: Profiting from urbanization -- Full steam ahead! Benefiting from industrialization -- The BRIC countries -- China -- Brazil -- What Makes Commodities Unique -- Gaining from inelasticity -- Finding a safe haven -- Hedging against inflation -- Taking time to bring new sources online -- Sell in May and go away? Definitely nay! -- Time to Get Down to Business: Commodities and the Business Cycle -- Chapter 3 Investing in Commodities: Only for the Brave? -- Biting Off More Than You Can Chew: The Pitfalls of Using Leverage -- Watch Your Step: Understanding the Real Risks behind Commodities -- Sovereign government risk -- Geopolitical risk -- Speculative risk -- Corporate governance risk -- Tracking Commodities from 2008 through the 2020 Global Pandemic -- Origins of the 2008 crisis -- The 2020 Pandemic -- Managing Risk -- Due diligence: Just do it -- Commodity companies -- Managed funds -- Futures market -- Commodity fundamentals -- Diversify, diversify, diversify
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Chapter 4 Feel the Love: Welcoming Commodities into Your Portfolio -- The Color of Money: Taking Control of Your Financial Life -- Looking Ahead: Creating a Financial Road Map -- Figuring out your net worth -- Identifying your tax bracket -- Determining your appetite for risk -- Making Room in Your Portfolio for Commodities -- Fully Exposed: The Top Ways to Get Exposure to Commodities -- Looking toward the future with commodity futures -- Commodity index -- Futures commission merchant -- Commodity trading advisor -- Commodity pool operator -- Funding your account with commodity funds -- Commodity mutual funds -- Exchange-traded funds -- You're in good company: Investing in commodity companies -- Publicly traded companies -- Master limited partnerships -- Part 2 Getting Started with Types of Investment Vehicles -- Chapter 5 Benefiting from Exchange-Traded Funds -- Getting to Know ETFs -- Accessing a Variety of Commodity Markets through ETFs -- Taking a Look at Leveraged ETFs -- Chapter 6 Making a Splash: Investing in Liquid Commodity Instruments -- Checking Out Commodity Indexes -- Why indexes are useful -- How to make money by using an index -- From Head to Toe: Uncovering the Anatomy of a Commodity Index -- Cataloguing the Five Major Indexes -- The S& -- P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index -- Reuters/Jefferies Commodity Research Bureau Index -- Dow Jones Commodity Index -- Rogers International Commodities Index -- Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index -- Determining Which Index to Use -- Chapter 7 Show Me the Money! Choosing the Right Manager -- Mutually Beneficial: Investing in Commodity Mutual Funds -- Riddle me this, riddle me that: Asking the right questions -- Taking a look at what's out there -- The PIMCO Commodity Real Return Strategy Fund -- The Oppenheimer Real Asset Fund -- Additional commodity funds on the market -- Mastering MLPs
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The ABCs of MLPs -- The taxman only rings once -- General partner -- Limited partner -- Cash flow is king -- Distributable cash flow -- Discretionary cash flow -- The nuts and bolts of MLP investing -- Heads up! Risk and MLPs -- Relying on a Commodity Trading Advisor -- Jumping into a Commodity Pool -- Chapter 8 Exploring Commodity Exchanges and Digital Assets -- Why Do We Have Commodities Exchanges Anyway? -- Identifying the Major Commodity Exchanges -- Ready, Set, Invest: Opening an Account and Placing Orders -- Choosing the right account -- Self-directed account -- Managed account -- Placing orders -- Understanding contract parameters -- Defining different types of orders -- Tracking your order from start to finish -- The clerk -- The floor broker -- The floor trader -- The card clocker -- The floor runner -- The price reporter -- The ring supervisor -- Keeping up at the exchange -- Owning a Piece of an Exchange -- What Are Digital Assets Anyway? -- Chapter 9 Back to the Future: Getting a Grip on Futures and Options -- Taking the Mystery out of Futures and Options -- The Future Looks Bright: How to Trade Futures Contracts -- The competition: Who trades futures? -- Getting over the hedge -- The truth about speculators -- Contract specs: Keeping track of all the moving pieces -- Underlying asset -- Underlying quantity -- Product grade -- Price quote -- Price limits -- Trading months -- Delivery location -- Last trading day -- Trading hours -- For a Few Dollars Less: Trading Futures on Margin -- Taking a Pulse: Figuring Out Where the Futures Market Is Heading -- Contango: It takes two to tango -- Backwardation: One step forward, two steps back -- Keeping Your Options Open: Trading with Options -- Following options in action -- Understanding trader talk -- Selecting option characteristics -- Call options: Calling all investors
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Put options: Putting everything on the line -- Looking at American options -- Taking the European alternative -- Part 3 The Power House: How to Make Money in Energy -- Chapter 10 Keeping It Natural: Investing in Renewable Energy -- Always Brand-Spanking New: Getting to Know Renewable Energy -- Sunny Delight: Investing in Solar Energy -- Fast and Furious: Trading in Wind Energy -- Betting on Biomass -- Chapter 11 It's a Crude, Crude World: Investing in Crude Oil -- Seeing the Crude Realities -- No need for a reservation: Examining global reserve estimates -- Staying busy and productive: Looking at production figures -- It's a demanding field: Checking out demand figures -- Going in and out: Eyeing imports and exports -- Going Up the Crude Chain -- Making Big Bucks with Big Oil -- Oil companies: Lubricated and firing on all cylinders -- Flying solo: Looking at individual oil companies -- Oil company ETFs: Strength in numbers -- Get your passport ready: Investing overseas -- Chapter 12 Welcome to Gas Vegas, Baby! Trading Natural Gas -- What's the Use? Looking at Natural Gas Applications -- Calling all captains of industry: Industrial uses of natural gas -- If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! Natural gas in your home -- Going commercial: Natural gas's commercial uses -- Truly electrifying! Generating electricity with natural gas -- Getting from here to there: Natural gas and transportation -- Liquefied Natural Gas: Getting Liq uid without Getting Wet -- Investing in Natural Gas -- Natural selection: Trading nat gas futures -- Nat gas companies: The natural choice -- Chapter 13 Fuel for Thought: Looking at Alternative Energy Sources -- Digging Up New Energy Sources -- Reexamining King Coal: Not As Scary As You Think -- Coal hard facts -- Paint it black -- It's a coal investment -- Coal futures contract -- Coal company
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Investing in Nuclear Power: Going Nuclear without Going Ballistic -- Uranium equities -- Uranium ETF -- Uranium futures -- You've Been Zapped! Trading Electricity -- Brushing up on current affairs -- Investing in the power industry -- Charged and ready to go -- Power to the people -- Chapter 14 Totally Energized: Investing in Energy Companies -- Bull's-Eye! Profiting from Oil Exploration and Production -- Going offshore -- Staying on dry land -- Servicing the oil fields -- Oh My, You're So Refined! Investing in Refineries -- Becoming an Oil Shipping Magnate -- Swimming in oil: Transportation supply and demand -- Crude oil ships ahoy! -- Masters of the sea: Petroleum shipping companies -- Swimming with sharks: Avoiding industry risk -- The New Kids on the Block: EV Transportation Companies -- Part 4 Pedal to the Metal: Investing in Metals -- Chapter 15 All That Glitters: Investing in Gold, Silver, and Platinum -- Going for the Gold -- Getting to know the gold standard -- What makes gold valuable -- How to measure gold -- Good as gold: Finding ways to invest in gold -- Let's get physical -- Gold ETFs -- Stocks in gold companies -- Gold contracts -- Get the Tableware Ready: Investing in Silver -- Checking out the big picture on the silver screen -- Getting a Sliver of Silver in Your Portfolio -- Buying physical silver -- Buying the silver ETF -- Looking at silver-mining companies -- Checking out silver futures contracts -- Bling Bling: Investing in Platinum -- Gathering platinum facts and figures -- Going platinum -- Platinum futures contract -- Platinum-mining companies -- Chapter 16 Metals That Prove Their Mettle: Steel, Aluminum, and Copper -- Building a Portfolio That's as Strong as Steel -- Steely facts -- Investing in steel companies -- Aluminum: Illuminating the Details -- Just the aluminum facts -- Aluminum futures -- Aluminum companies
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Paying a Visit to Dr. Copper
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bouchentouf, Amine Commodities for Dummies Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2023 ISBN 9781394155156
Language:
English
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