Investing Online for Dummies, 2nd Edition Shows How Simple Money Management Can Be

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. To demystify the process, IDG Books Worldwide has published Investing Online For Dummies, now in it’s second edition. Written in the easy-to-understand, conversational style of the popular …For Dummies series, Online Investing introduces the reader to Internet based investing.

With so many choices available to the armchair investor, Online Investing 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 and directly from the Federal government.
• Using the Internet to avoid brokerage fees by purchasing shares 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, 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.
• Freeware / shareware programs for portfolio management and interactive investing.
• Demo versions of investor programs, such as StockVue, First Finance, MetaStock, Power Optimizer, and RAMCAP.

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