If the last financial crisis cost you money, you may be wondering whether you should continue investing in the market. After all, you have bills to pay and a job to keep and you can't spend all your free time crunching numbers.

With the help of an expert, you can control your financial future by making small shifts in what you are already doing. Author Coreen T. Sol, Chartered Financial Analyst, gives you the tools you need to

• avoid mistakes that could cost you money;
• find good alternative investments;
• maximize the benefits of a retirement plan; and
• write your own investment policy statement.

This guidebook provides bold-faced terms and a glossary, along with instructions that make understanding the market fun and easy. You'll have to do some homework, but you can start taking simple steps to accomplish your dreams with the guidance in Practically Investing.