Lita Epstein, who earned her MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, enjoys helping people develop good financial, investing, and tax‐planning skills. She designs and teaches online courses on topics such as accounting, reading financial reports, investing for retirement, and getting ready for tax time. She has written more than 35 books, including Bookkeeping For Dummies and Reading Financial Reports For Dummies, both published by Wiley.
Lita was the content director for a financial services website, MostChoice.com, and managed the Investing for Women website. As a congressional press secretary, Lita gained firsthand knowledge about how to work within and around the federal bureaucracy, which gives her great insight into how government programs work. In the past, Lita has been a daily newspaper reporter, magazine editor, and fundraiser for the Carter Presidential Center. For fun, Lita enjoys scuba diving and is even certified as an underwater photographer. She hikes, canoes, and enjoys surfing the web to find all its hidden treasures.
Grayson Roze has worked in the financial services industry for StockCharts.com since 2012. He now serves as a Business Manager at the company. He is the co‐author of Tensile Trading: The 10 Essential Stages of Stock Market Mastery, published by Wiley in 2016. Grayson speaks regularly at various investment seminars, including to organizations such as the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) and the Market Technicians Association (MTA). He holds a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College, where he studied economics and psychology.
At a young age, Grayson began pursuing his interest in the financial markets by attending investment classes and starting to trade under the guidance of his father. At the age of 18, Grayson began investing his own account and has since become an accomplished trader in his own right. Outside of market hours, he enjoys staying fit by biking, hiking, and playing lacrosse, and he is also a passionate automotive enthusiast.
We would like to thank all the people who have been instrumental in making this new edition a reality. In particular, we’d like to thank all the wonderful For Dummies folks at Wiley, especially Tracy Boggier and Michelle Hacker for shepherding this project to completion and for advice and suggestions, and John Forman for keeping us accurate. Also, we want to extend a special thank you to Chip Anderson, president of StockCharts.com, for his support and encouragement throughout this process.
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
Senior Acquisitions Editor: Tracy Boggier
Project Manager: Michelle Hacker
Development Editor: Georgette Beatty
Copy Editor: Todd Lothery
Technical Editor: John Forman, PhD
Production Editor: Selvakumaran Rajendiran
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