| Introduction Chapter 1: Finding Investor Stuff on the Net
Building Your Own Online Information System
Identifying new investments
Analyzing investment prospects
Purchasing investments
Monitoring investments
Selling investments
Your Basic Investment Search Strategy
Selecting the best search engine
How Newsgroups Can Help You
Finding the perfect newsgroup
Finally, some investor news reading
Posting the matchless investor question
Getting Investor Information from Mailing Lists
Finding the right mailing lists
Free and Fee-Based Online Investor Databases
Totally free databases
When all else fails, fee-based databases
Get Online Investor Information Geared to Your Needs
Investor Web sites for children
Web sites for young investors
Other investor special interest sites
Chapter 2: Your Basic Investment
Search Strategy
Getting Smart Online
Online investor tutorials
Web sites for new investors
FAQs sources
Glossaries
News You Can Use
Large news organizations
Newspapers
Magazines
Scholarly journals
Electronic newsletters
Practicing with Your New Investment Information
Join the club! Become a member of an investment club
No cost investment simulations
Chapter 3: Selecting an Online
Broker and Trading Online
Selecting the Right Online Brokerage
Checking Out Prospective Brokers
Getting Online Trading Services for Less
Trading online for $15 or less
Finding online brokers with n or low initial account minimums
Rating Online Brokers
How to Open Your Online Brokerage Account
Increasing Profits with Simple Order Specification Techniques
It's Not Your Grandfather's Market Anymore
Understanding Inside Spreads and ECNs
Finding Online Brokerages with Night Trading
Join the after-hours club
Night trading limitations
Sources for extended hours stock information
Going from Hardwired to Wireless Trading
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Chapter 4: What's So Great About
Mutual Funds?
Mutual Fund Mania
Finding Mutual Fund Information on the Internet
Buying Mutual Funds
A Better Way to Buy Mutual Funds
Buying Mutual Funds Online
Opening a mutual fund account
Selling Your Mutual Funds
Starting Your Mutual Fund Account with as Little as $50
Chapter 5: The Keys to Successful
Internet Mutual Fund Investing
Mutual Fund Basics
Discovering the differences between open-end and closed-end mutual funds
Minimizing fees
Understanding Mutual Fund Risks
A Fund for You, a Fund for Me
Finding Facts and Figures Online
Locating and Reading the Prospectus
Checking the facts
Getting it right
How to Screen Mutual Funds Online
Chapter 6: Online Analysis, Buying,
and Selling of Mutual Funds
Going Online with Mutual Funds
Finding the Right Mix of Investments
Matching Mutual Funds to Your Financial Objectives
Using the Internet to Help You Choose the Best Funds in Each Class
Following a mutual fund checklist
How to read an online mutual fund listing
Assessing mutual fund performance
The Ratings War
The Morningstar Rating System
The Value Line Rating System
Using Scoreboards and Ratings
Buying Mutual Funds Online: N Broker Needed
Buying Mutual Funds Online: Using an Online Broker
The Right Time to Sell Your Mutual Funds
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Chapter 7: The Basics of Stocks and
Rates of Return
Taking Stock of You
Understanding Stocks
Types of Stock
Common stocks
Preferred stocks
Stock rights and warrants
Picking the Right Stock for the Right Goal
How to Read a Stock Chart or Table
Finding Ticker Symbols and
Stock Prices Online
Free real-time stock quotes
Free wireless stock quotes
Fee-based stock quotes
What Does the S&P 500 Have to Do with Anything?
Valuing Stocks
Using the Net to Calculate Fair Value
Valuation model input and results
Chapter 8: Internet Stock Screening
Finding the Best Stock Electronically
Choosing the criteria for your first stock screen
Fine-tuning your stock screen
Using your stock screen results
Important ratios for screening stocks
Watching Out for Investment Risks
Using Online Stock Screens
Using Stock Screening Software
Using Those Terrific Prebuilt Stock Screens
Determining Your Own Investment Criteria for Stock Screens
Screening for growth stocks
Screening for income stocks
Screening for value stocks
Screening for Investment Bargains
Stocks selling at below book value
Securities selling below liquidation value
Stocks with low P/E ratios
Companies reporting deficits
Prospective turnaround candidates
Chapter 9: Researching Individual
Stocks
Finding Financial Statements Online
Accessing Web sites that specialize in annual reports
Using a search engine to find an annual report
Using Web sites that link to company home pages
Finding online annual reports: Investor supersites
Researching a company's SEC filing
Downloading SEC filings in just three clicks
Dissecting the Annual Report
Analyzing a Financial Statement
You Don't Have to be a Math Whiz to Calculate Ratios
Utilizing Prepared Online Rati Analysis
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Chapter 10: Digging Deeper:
Researching Investment Candidates
Turning Your Hunches into Investment Strategies
Conquering Uncertainty with Online Research
Gaining new investor insights with breaking news
Locating company profiles and related data
Finding industry and statistical information
Gathering economic and related data
Collecting market information
Checking out analyst evaluations
Tracking down earnings estimates
Researching historical prices
Forecasting earnings and the stock market level
Paying the Right Price
Getting down to fundamentals
Getting technical: Technical analysis
Market timing
Chapter 11: Going with Fixed Income
Securities: Which Type Is Best for You?
Generic Features of Bonds
Special benefits and exposures
Using the Internet to find new bond offerings
Finding bond indexes and historical data online
Risks and stability
How Small Investors Can Make Money with Fixed Income Investments and Bonds
When to Choose a Money Market Deposit Account (MMDA)
Choosing between money funds and money market accounts
Opening a High-Yielding Deposit Account
The Four Basic Types of Bonds
Uncle Sam's bonds: Treasury securities
Federal government agency bonds
The beauty of tax-free municipal bonds
Floating with corporate bonds
Using the Internet to select bonds
Two Alternate Types of Bonds
Chapter 12: Valuing, Buying, and
Selling Bonds Online
Nice and Simple: Savings Bonds
Where to buy bonds
The good and the bad about savings bonds
Just Uncle Sam, Treasury Securities, and You
Buying Treasury securities via the Internet
Opening your account
How to buy 'em
Tendering your offer
Cashing in or rolling over your Treasury securities
Selling your Treasury securities
Online sources for more information
The Math of Bonds
Calculating bond values
Creating yield curves
The easy way to value your bond returns
Trading Bonds Online
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Chapter 13: Going International
Online
Taking advantage of International Opportunities
Getting Started with Online International Quotes and Indices
International News and Research
Online Trading Abroad
Methods of Making Foreign Investments
Administration troubles
Tax problems
Information difficulties
Buying ADRs is an Easy Solution
The Risks of International Investments
Online ADR resources and research
Indirect Foreign Investing is a Great Approach
Finding International Mutual Funds Online
Chapter 14: Looking for the Next
Big Thing: IPOs, DPOs, and DRIPs
Looking for Investment Opportunities: IPOs
Getting the scoop on IPOs
Understanding the limitations of IPOs
Finding IP news, filings and pricing on the Internet
Finding online brokers that offer IPOs
Including IPOs in mutual funds
Be Your Own Broker with Direct Public Offerings (DPOs)
Recognizing the limitations of DPOs
Buying DPOs
Trading direct public offerings online
Buying Stock in a Direct Purchase Plan (DPP)
Buying That First DPP Share
Profiting with Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs)
Additional features of DRIPs
Not all DRIPs are alike
How to get your first DRIP share
Selecting the right DRIP
Chapter 15: The Internet and
Managing Your Portfolio
Why Manage Your Investments?
Tracking the Right Information
Your Portfoli Management Options
Using Web-Based Portfoli Management Programs
CNBC.com
Clear Station
Morningstar
MSN Money Central
Reuters Money Network
The Wall Street Journal Interactive
Thomson Investors Network
Following Online News with Portfoli Tracking
Business news
Portal portfoli management
Using PC-Based Portfoli Management Software
Personal software programs
Portfoli management software programs
Using Online Brokerage-Based Portfoli Tracking
Keeping the Winners and Selling the Losers: Measuring Performance
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Chapter 16: Almost Ten Warnings
about Cyberfraud
Don't Believe Everything You Read
If an Offer Seems To Good to Be True, It Usually Is
Checking It Out Before You Put Your Money Down
Determining Whether an Investment Is a Pyramid Scheme
What Real Financial Disclosures Include
Tell-Tale Signs of Dishonest Brokers
Where to Complain Online
Your Bank Account Number, Security, and the Internet
Chapter 17: Ten Signals to Sell
Know When to Fold
Set Profit-Taking Goals
You Can't Be Right All the Time
If the Stock Is Going Nowhere, Get Going
Don't Be Fooled by P/E Spurts
Watch Interest Rates
Keep an Eye on Economic Indicators
Watch What the Insiders Are Doing
If the Company or Fund Changes
Chapter 18: Ten Green Flags for
Buying
Buy If the Stock Is at Its Lowest Price
Check Out the Earnings Forecast
Watch for Stocks That Are Trading Under Book Value
Beware of Firms with High Long-Term Debt
Invest in Entrepreneurial Companies
Invest in Industry Leaders
Buy Good Performers
Select Your P/E Ratio Strategy
Low P/E and high dividend approach
High P/E ratios are worth the price
Look for Strong Dividend Pay-Out Records
Appendix
Index
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