You Too Can Be An Intelligent Investor is a practical guide to understanding the stock market and making informed investment decisions. Mahesh Chandra Kaushik explains stock-market fundamentals in accessible language, covering topics such as opening a Demat account, reading financial statements, understanding market terminology, stock-price movements, online trading, and dealing with investment losses.

The book also introduces fundamental and technical analysis and discusses different investment and trading avenues, including mutual funds, commodities, intraday trading, margin trading, algorithmic trading, IPOs, currencies, ETFs, index funds and REITs.