This text can help you become an informed practitioner of investments. We will focus on investments in securities such as stocks, bond, or options and futures contracts, but much of what we discuss will be useful in the analysis of any type of investent. The text will provide you with background in the organization of variour securities markets will survey the valuation and risk management principles useful in particular, markets, such as those for bonds or stocks; and will introduce you to the principle of porfolio construction