Calvin North’s book, Stock Trading: Invest and Trade in the Stock Market, is designed with the beginning investor in mind. It offers insight into the basics of stock market trading and explains terms you might not be familiar with, such as stocks, options, bear market, and bull market. Trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the image most people have, thanks to television and movie depictions of how the market works. When the market is open, you see hundreds of people rushing about shouting and gesturing to one another, talking on phones, watching monitors, and entering data into terminals. Learning trading basics gives new traders an opportunity to learn about the various markets and the one in which they want to trade. When learning the basics, traders determine if they want to trade stocks, futures, options or forex trading. Upon making this choice, they can then delve deeper into the trading basics specific to that market.