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Boot Your Broker!: A Do-It-Yourself Kit for Online Investing

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From the Back Cover: Now is a great time to be an investor...Boot Your Broker! is the ultimate guide to online investing. You'll discover the best online financial resources. Learn trading and analysis techniques from Wall Street experts. And best of all, you'll never have to pay high trading commissions again.

* Save with lower commissions
* Take control of your investments
* Place orders from anywhere, at any time
* Manage your portfolio on your computer
* Navigate the best financial Web sites
* Learn about Internet security

Author LauraMaery Gold is an editor and financial columnist for a number of international business publications. A former financial planner and tax advisor, she also has business reporting experience with the Daily Herald, The Money Experts, the China Economic News, The Industrialist, and more.

Author Dan Post is a professional software engineer and database desinger. He has been a long-time columnist for PC World, The Columbia Business Times, and others.

This books is strewn with hyperlink references. If I had bought this book in 97 I would have been much better off, as all the links would probably be available. This said the book has taught me, a very inexperienced trader the basics of the stock market. The major lesson this book has taught me is that there is a lot more to learn. A CD is provided with all the links referenced in the book, so that you don't have to bother typing them, and an updated CD with all of the link working again would be great.

It's clear the authors are very capable financial journalists. Unlike other investing books I've read, this one is actually an amusing read...sort of in the tradition of Tobin. Even the section on technical analysis is readable.

A minor complaint: about a third of the web links are outdated...which is probably inevitable in any book about online anything. Fortunately, though, there's still plenty of meat here, even without the web links.

I'd recommend this book to anyone wanting to understand or review the basics of investing on line.

Love the explanations in this book. Very readable. Helped me understand basic investing.

Even if your unfamiliar with the Net, much of the data regarding in this book is outdated. That being said it still may hold some value for those who are clueless. It breaks internet and pc related information down in a way that will help a novice in this area grasp a few concepts.
If you need stock market 101, 102, and so on, then this is not really a good book. I found that the author trivializes some trading practices that could prove to be dangerous to inexperienced investors. It does give a decent general overview about online trading, and what to expect; however, you can generally get that out off of the e-broker's tutorials.