- Paperback: 268 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Dec 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0028623983
- ISBN-13: 978-0028623986
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.5 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,767,326 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book will teach how to invest online from start to finish including how to set-up an account and use on-line services to tap into the world's financial services right from a personal computer. It will help save money with lower commissions and teach how to invest easier, faster, smarter and cheaper than ever before. Finally, get peace of mind with tips on how to minimize the risk of intrusion to the privacy of an online account.
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Format:Paperback
There are a lot of books about investing and investing online and a dozen webpages for every book. None of them give to you a really good entry point and they leave a lot of essential fundamental terms undefined, which to us neophytes is maddening.
This book might be a little bit superficial, depending on your personal knowledge and experience, but I have found it to be a good review and survey of the subject and it addresses a few things I've over looked.
Remember, it is trying to develop a knowledge base in the individual that addresses computer basics and the computer's role as an enabling tool and the really almost unrelataed subject of investing. And, of course how the computer makes it possible for anyone can use the former as a tool for accomplishing the latter.
I'm sure many of the web references have changed. I have not had time to check them out. Usually changes mean the page has been up-graded or it has died. The online investor will have to learn how to pursue this from experince. If he is not willing to do this he doesn't want to be investing online.
The major weakness I noted was the introduction to part II promises to help the reader develop a strategy. It gets started but peters out. Most importantly they don't discuss development of entry and exit criteria and realization of profits and timing. "Holding and folding" (when), needs to be discussed.
They give some pretty good one paragraph descriptions of the most basic technical indicators, but they talk about doing this AFTER you've acquired the equity.
The cover talks about saving commissions as being paramount. We all want to do that but our real objective to grow our investment in a way that will suit our needs.
Finally, like so many "how to" books, Gold and Post leave out the personal element, which indicates they are pretty fair reporters, but I am not sure they've tried any or all of the recipes they put in their books.
Since the book was written in 1997 it is ready to be up-dated. Technology and services on-line have blossomed since then.
But my intitial evaluation still holds, It's the best book I've found for the person getting started. But like most things, it doesn't do your work for you, but you might have a clue where to start and where to find out out more and how some of it fits together.
Format:Paperback
I am a beginner investor and I am very disappointed with this book. This book gives all kinds of internet address's to look up for investing information. But I bought the book so that so that I wouldn't have to do all the research on the internet. Furthermore, several of the internet addresses come up "not found".
Format:Paperback
After insulting your intelligence with BASIC computer operation this book launches into two different areas which consume 95% of it's content: 1) Search engine results and 2) A never-ending advertisement for E-Trade.
As a fan of Lasser's tax books I was at a loss to explain this work. $15.95 is a lot to pay for 230 pages of search engine results. A better title would have been, "Web Sites for Investing Idiots"! Even my being a novice invester did not help this book to teach me anything new.
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