CONTENTS:- Introduction to Securities; Markets for Securities and Taxes; Risk and Return; Company Studies and Earnings Forecasts; Company Analysis and Equity Research; Security Princing; Financial Arithmetics for Equity and Bonds; Bond Analysis-Macro-Level; Options Trading; Fundamental Analysis; Technical Analysis; Efficient Market Theory [Random Walk Hypothesis]; Introduction to Portfolio Theory; Capital Market Theory; Risk and Return in Portfolio Management; CAPM; Portfolio Analysis; Diversification and Techniques of Risk Reduction; Basics of Port folio Management in India; Markowitz Model; Modern Portfolio Theory; Portfolio Management; Linear Programming Application; Mutual Funds and their Schemes; Disinvement Management; Securities Market Report; Selected Bibliogrphy;