Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street with Your Personal Computer (A Marketplace Book) - Softcover

Brown, David L.; Bentley, Kassandra; Marketplace Books

9780471169864: Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street with Your Personal Computer (A Marketplace Book)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471169862 ISBN 13: 9780471169864

Publisher: Wiley, 1997

The Best Investment Book of the Year 1997 stock trader's almanac

"Here at last is the definitive resource for some of the best cyber-investing tools and techniques."--Money Magazine

"Cyber-Investing is worth every penny for anyone who has or plans to have significant investments in stocks and bonds."--CompuServe

With this book and software, anyone with a PC can learn to pick stocks like the pros and yield significant returns in any market. Completely revised and updated, the second edition now includes updated software as well as a new Cyber-Investing Kit packed with free online time and financial services, free online newsletters, and more. All graphics have been updated and there is expanded coverage of the Internet as well as the very latest cutting-edge electronic investment tools .

DAVID L. BROWN (Houston, Texas) is Chairman and CEO of Telescan, Inc., a leading information and technology provider for investors. KASSANDRA BENTLEY (Houston, Texas) is a writer who specializes in financial and computer topics.

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Review:

The boundaries once separating individual investors from the stock market are among those blurred by the proliferation of personal computers. Today, of course, anyone can obtain detailed information on historic, current, and projected fiscal performances. Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street With Your Personal Computer, by David L. Brown and Kassandra Bentley, is a guide to some of the best financial software and online tools available--and, more importantly, to ways they can be effectively utilized.

From the Inside Flap:

Cyber�Investing Cracking Wall Street with Your Personal Computer Thinking of investing, but don’t want to rely solely on professional brokers and money managers? Thanks to the on-line revolution, anyone with a PC has instant access to the same vital facts and figures as the pros. But all that information is just a lot of numbers unless you have the right tools to make sense of it all—and a solid investment strategy to help you meet your goals. Now, this completely revised and updated edition of the critically acclaimed book/disk set gives you both. Coauthored by David Brown, founder and CEO of Telescan, the number one on-line financial information service, Cyber-Investing shows you how to unlock the potential of your PC and discover extraordinary investment opportunities. With just a click of a button you can locate: complete price and volume information on virtually any stock, analysts’ long-and short-term earnings estimates, corporate financial statements, the latest insider trading news, and much more. Your new Cyber-Investing Kit offers free on-line time, as well as on-line newsletters. Complete with easy-to-use investment software, this indispensable guide provides:

Evaluation tools to help you zero in on the "best of the best" from among thousands of stocks and mutual funds, including search programs to uncover undervalued securities
Fundamental tools that can reveal the underlying strength or weakness of a company
Technical timing tools that detect the likely reversal of an uptrend or downtrend, allowing you to time your trades to minimize risk and maximize reward
Company research tools that offer a wide variety of information on public companies
Portfolio tools that help you update and monitor your portfolio

With Cyber-Investing, the information superhighway leads straight to Wall Street, making it easier than ever to pick stocks like the pros!

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