Financial Markets Principles

Nowadays everybody can call themselves a Financial Analyst, Financial Specialist or Financial Advisor. The market is full of self-proclaimed professionals. However, only a few of them really know the principals of financial markets, how they work, how they are related to each other and how to analyze them. In this textbook I am trying to explain what a financial market is, how it works and how trading can be done.

This book is comprehensive enough to serve as a textbook for students that are studying finance and as a reference for professionals who are looking for more background information or that are interested in further educating themselves about different markets, trading styles, technical analysis or investment strategies.” This book is also the textbook for the Certified Financial Markets Professional (CFMP) Certification which is supposed to bring some light into the dark jungle of unqualified investment advisors and analysts.