Structured in three blocks, the book makes an in-depth study of both traditional and modern approaches to securities analysis and portfolio management. Block 1 deals with the basic concept of stock exchange, its issues, offers and trading mechanism. Block 2 describes portfolio theories and models such as CML, CAPAM, SML, APT Model, Black & Scholes Option Pricing Mechanism, Sharpe, Treynor & Jensen Ratio, and Modern Portfolio Theory with ample numerical applications. Block 3 includes financial basics that helps in understanding the impulse of portfolio theory through P/E Ratio, WACC,etc. It is hoped that the students of Management will consider this book a valuable assets while for the teachers it is an ideal reference book. Even the students of distance learning program will find it useful owing to its comprehensible explanations, charts, diagrams and rich illustrations.