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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.63
EAN: 9780764584565
ISBN: 0764584561
Label: For Dummies
Manufacturer: For Dummies
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 408
Publication Date: 2005-04-15
Publisher: For Dummies
Studio: For Dummies

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Everybody talks about it—how much you can save , and earn, when you start an online investment program. If you’ve decided you’re ready to find out what all the excitement’s about, you’re in luck. Investing Online For Dummies has been completely revised and updated with the latest tools, Web sites, rule changes, and tips that can make online investing easy and profitable.

To be a successful online investor, you need to know your way around the Web and you also need to understand something about investments. Investing Online For Dummies can help you make sound financial decisions by:

Outlining basic investment fundamentals
Explaining how stock options work and helping you determine the value of your employee stock option plan
Pointing out costly traps and ways to avoid them
Directing you to resources that provide information you need and helping you make sense of it
Showing you how to use the Internet to become a savvy investor

This 5^th edition of Investing Online For Dummies provides clear instructions and ample illustrations, taking you from the basics of online investing to making your own online stock transactions to purchasing bonds online. A few of the things you’ll discover:

What’s important in an online brokerage and how to locate one that meets your needs
How to find Internet resources that help you select mutual funds
How to use stock online screens to find investment candidates that will move you toward your financial goals
Where to look for direct stock purchase and ShareBuilder plans that let you invest online for as little as $25 a month
How Internet tools can help you analyze and choose stocks and bonds
The secrets to paying the lowest commissions when trading online

There’s so much information available on the Internet that you can easily feel overwhelmed. Investing Online For Dummies leads you through that maze, showing you how to get started, what you really need to know, where to go online to find it, and how to get the process underway. When it comes to choosing which cruise to take to celebrate your success, however, you’re on your own!

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Summary: Investing Online for Dummies, 5th edition
Comment: The delivery was on time. The book is good for me

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Summary: You don't have to buy this.
Comment: I came here to write a review for this book, and found that a reviewer below, "A reader", had already written what I was going to write. This book provides a reader with no information, but with long lists of websites to look at. You can access those websites most often just wasting time (like "A reader" already said). Using search engines like Google/Yahoo is much better than thumbing through this book.

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Summary: Good Concise Overview to Get One Started
Comment: You can't watch television these days without getting bombarded with ads for on line brokerage companies. What's been missing has been a centralized source for information about the whole thing. This book provides that source. It's not complete - if it were it would be so big that you couldn't carry it around - but it's a great start.

You can read this book from cover to cover in just a few hours. That is, just a few hours if you don't take the time to go out on the web looking at the things she suggests. And that right there is the key to this book. Here is a good start that covers the whole field from A to Z, and at nearly each and every point along the way she points you to web sites for more information about specific points.

The problem with going to the web for more information, of course, is that web sites appear, go away, merge or whatever. She admits this, but accepts this risk and gives you multiple sites (you couldn't possibly visit all that she mentions) or suggests ways to find a missing or dead site.

This is a great way to get the basic information you need before getting started with selecting a broker and deciding what to buy.

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Summary: Get Up To Speed With New Strategies, Tools and Resources
Comment: This newest edition of "Investing Online for Dummies" reflects the latest changes and improvements to online investing Web sites. Addresses building an online information system, setting up a basic investment strategy, determining how much to invest, selecting an online broker and trading online, finding the right investments, performing Internet transactions securely, saving on commissions, managing a portfolio, and much more.

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Summary: A great guide for online investing
Comment: As I surf the Web, I often feel that it's like visiting a library where all the books have been spilled on the floor. The information is there but I don't know where to begin my search. "Investing Online For Dummies" explained how to get started, steered me to free or low cost online services, pointed out the important parts of Web sites, and showed me the process of online investing.

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