Investing Online for Dummies, Fourth Edition

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Summary: Solid, Authoritative, Hands-On Guide
Review: This book is carefully conceived and executed and takes the reader through traditional investing subjects integrated with material from the Internet.

Hundreds of sites are covered. They are carefully grouped and discussed. Tools available over the Internet are listed and their use is carefully explained.

There is an important chapter on protecting yourself from fraud, as well as a good discussion on security of Internet transactions

I found the yellow pages of URLs alone worth the cost of the book. The CD-ROM was carefully constructed and contained much useful software.

I have had the book for five months. I keep it by my desk and use it every day. As an example of its usefulness: When the markets began to fall, I was able to learn how to buy US Treasuries directly over the Internet.

The author is an expert who writes clearly and with authority.

Again highly recommended.

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Summary: Not perfect, but very helpful for a beginner
Review: This book takes a complex subject and makes at least some sense of it. For people who already have a lot of experience with investments, this one is probably less than what you want. But if you are just starting out, or thinking about starting out, this book gives a lot of helpful information. I highly recommend it for beginners like me.

Rating:
Summary: Great book!
Review: This book was easy to understand, thoruough, and helped me to understand the complexities of investing online. I had almost zero investing experience, but now I feel equipped to trade, and make my own investment decisions.

Rating:
Summary: Great book!
Review: This book was easy to understand, thoruough, and helped me to understand the complexities of investing online. I had almost zero investing experience, but now I feel equipped to trade, and make my own investment decisions.

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Summary: Nothing but a list of bookmarks
Review: This book was like a video that you rent, but turn off after 15 minutes because the movie isn't worth finishing. It looks like the author used an Internet search engine to collect a large number of web sites, and then used the long list of links (1000's of them, or so it seems) to fill as many pages in the book as possible. However, they're empty pages, devoid of useful information. The author didn't even bother to highlight the 10-20 best sites, so that I wouldn't have to overload myself by trying to check out each one of the many sites listed.

I already know how to use the Internet, but I'm a beginning investor. I was looking for something that would teach me useful techniques for finding the best stocks. If you are new to the Internet and don't know what to type in your web browser, then this book might be ok for you. If you are already comfortable with using a search engine, save yourself a few bucks and go to Google instead of buying this book.

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Summary: Take the Bull Market by the Horns
Review: Today, computers help shop for groceries, buy movie tickets, order clothing and complete your banking transactions. It's no surprise that millions of people are now using their PCs for personal investing. With a variety of brokers, investment options and strategies, financial freedom seems well within your grasp as long as you know how to do it. Investing Online For Dummies, now in it's second edition, is written in the easy-to-understand, conversational style of the popular ...For Dummies series and introduces the reader to Internet based investing.

With so many choices available to the armchair investor, Online Investing for Dummies compares various research sources, broker services, types of investments and investment tactics so that the reader can make intelligent financial choices. It's a comprehensive guide aimed at building wealth for beginner investors of all ages and income levels. Topics include:

$- Where to look on the Internet for investor tutorials and investor supersites.

$- Warnings about online frauds and schemes.

$- Picking the right electronic brokerage and trading online.

$- Selecting winning mutual funds and stocks using Internet screening tools.

$-Strategies for quickly researching bonds and individual stocks online.

$-Purchasing U.S. securities online from the Federal government.

$-Using the Internet to avoid brokerage fees by purchasing shares directly from premier American companies.

$-Using the Internet to evaluate IPO offerings and dividend reinvestment plans.

$-A beginning investor's explanation of day trading.

$-Managing your investments from anywhere, at anytime with online portfolio tracking.

$-Ten signals for selecting which securities to sell.

$-Ten green flags for buying securities at the right time and more!

The accompanying CD contains four bonus chapters that provide information readers need for building a personalized online information system, trading stock options, getting the most out of online banking and betting on tomorrow with futures. The latest versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader, MS Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator are also included. In addition to an electronic version of the book's online investment directory and over twenty software programs in three categories:

$-Free investing software programs for better decision-making.

$-Freeware / shareware programs for portfolio management and interactive investing.

$-Demo versions of high caliber investing programs.

For more information about the second edition don't hesitate to contact me at [e-mail].