The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Direct Stock Investing

A profitable purchase for investment enthusiasts.

The Pocket Idiot's Guide(tm) to Direct Stock Investing reveals an innovative style of investment that has been steadily growing under the huge shadow of Wall Street-home investors opening a Direct Stock Purchase (DSP) or a Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRIP) now offered by hundreds of major corporations, commission free. Investment guru Douglas Gerlach, an expert in this style of guerrilla investing, shows investors how quick, easy, affordable, and profitable stock investment can be.

•Growth area of investing

•Includes a comprehensive list of the top 100 companies that offer these programs and their links

•Accessible, jargon-free step-by-step instructions to get on in this opportu­nity

DOUGLAS GERLACH is the founder and editor in chief of Investorama.com, one of the earliest personal finance sites on the Web.  In addition to the first edition of the The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Online Investing, he is the author of The Investor’s Web Guide, published by Lycos Press in 1997.  Douglas created the Web site of the National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC), and is also a member of the Board of Directors of NAIC’s Computer Group.