The New Online Investor, 2nd Edition [Paperback]

The online revolution is turning private investment into a mainstream activity, widening and deepening share ownership and redistributing market power. In the US, the process is well underway, and the UK and Europe are not too far behind. Peter Temple can justifiably claim to have been one of the first on the Internet investment scene. Online Investor was first published in 1997 and with Stephen Eckett's Investing Online was one of the forerunners. If Internet years are really measurable in months, as people say, this revised and updated version is long overdue.

The New Online Investor will "help private investors gain access to cheap tools that can help improve their investment performance." As a full-on guide to navigating and profiting from the Web, it is up there with the best of them. Access and information are the key words for clued-up private investors and Peter Temple's accessible style will help tap into that money-making edge. The first quarter of the book caters for Web beginners. It is basic, but will prove useful for would-be online Buffett's yet to suss out the Internet. From there on, the financial information comes thick and fast. There is excellent work on Web-based research using bulletin boards, newsgroups and online services and essential information on accessing share prices, company data and software online. Later chapters address the share dealing process itself as well as introducing some of the more adventurous securities and derivative products available for online trading.

The clean and sober page design contrasts with the more in-your-face style of other online publications and the pearls of wisdom in the text occasionally require digging out, but it is worth the effort. Temple expresses clearly and concisely the fundamentals of trading wisdom; "value rather than price is what the investment process is all about," "getting swayed by the reactions of the crowd is the antithesis of what makes a successful investor." The New Online Investor deserves to become one of the cornerstones of every serious beginner's online library. --Iain Campbell

"Ideally suited to the investor who has a basic knowledge of how to get on line and now wants the web to work for him. The really refreshing thing about this paperback is that it is written by an English expert and deals with British companies".

"An invaluable guide for any investor keen to get to grips with the internet; a valuable work of reference for those who already have." --Simon London, Personal Finance Editor, Financial Times

"Analyst's subscribers were among the first to benefit from Peter Temple's knowledge of the online investing scheme, and this excellent book should now enable his views to reach a much wider readership." --Jeremy Utton - Editor and Founder, Analyst

The new online investor the revolution continues 2nd edition Peter Temple More and more, clued–up private investors are realising that using the web to research, trade and track their investments gives them a money–making edge. Written by an experienced financial journalist and acknowledged expert on the subject, this book assembles all the key information, including essential web addresses, that online investors need to make the most of their money. Detailed case studies show how investors can collect a wealth of free information from company web sites, online newspaper archives, bulletin boards and other net resources. Building on the success of The Online Investor, first published in 1997, The New Online Investor contains new chapters and a wealth of wholly new and radically updated material. Detailed comparative assessments of the best and worst company web sites, information on bonds and economics related sites, facts and figures on the latest developments in buying and selling shares online and much more besides are included in the book. "An invaluable guide for any investor keen to get to grips with the internet; a valuable work of reference for those who already have." Simon London–Personal Finance Editor, Financial Times "Analyst′s subscribers were among the first to benefit form Peter Temple′s knowledge of the online investing scene, and this excellent book should now enable his views to reach a much wider readership." Jeremy Utton – Editor and Founder, Analyst

Some additional comments on the book
There are still more investors off-line and than on-line, especially in Europe, so part of this book is directed at them. For the already connected and for expert online investors, my goal was to try and devise a systematic way of looking at all types of financial information on the web, from company web sites, through to the sites of banks, pensions companies and unit trusts. We've done this compiling databases of the characteristics of these sites, and then using these to generate the tables that appear in the book.

Although there is a comprehensive glossary of sites in the book, we've also supplemented this with a web site..This site contains direct links to the sites of more than 600 company sites, plus numerous others in all areas of online investing. New links are added week by week. The site is an ideal accompaniment to the book.

We hope you enjoy reading the book.

The new online investor the revolution continues 2nd edition Peter Temple More and more, clued–up private investors are realising that using the web to research, trade and track their investments gives them a money–making edge. Written by an experienced financial journalist and acknowledged expert on the subject, this book assembles all the key information, including essential web addresses, that online investors need to make the most of their money. Detailed case studies show how investors can collect a wealth of free information from company web sites, online newspaper archives, bulletin boards and other net resources. Building on the success of The Online Investor, first published in 1997, The New Online Investor contains new chapters and a wealth of wholly new and radically updated material. Detailed comparative assessments of the best and worst company web sites, information on bonds and economics related sites, facts and figures on the latest developments in buying and selling shares online and much more besides are included in the book. "An invaluable guide for any investor keen to get to grips with the internet; a valuable work of reference for those who already have." Simon London–Personal Finance Editor, Financial Times "Analyst′s subscribers were among the first to benefit form Peter Temple′s knowledge of the online investing scene, and this excellent book should now enable his views to reach a much wider readership." Jeremy Utton – Editor and Founder, Analyst

Peter Temple has worked in or written about the City and investing for 30 years. He is a regular contributor on personal finance and the web to the Financial Times, the Investors Chronicle and Analyst, and has lectured and broadcast on the subject. He is married with two grown up children and lives in Woodford Green, Essex.