Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street with Your Personal Computer, 2nd Edition (A Marketplace Book) [Paperback]

David L. Brown (Author), Kassandra Bentley (Author), Marketplace Books (Author)

Book Description

Series: A Marketplace Book | Publication Date: February 28, 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.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com 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! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (February 28, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471169862
• ISBN-13: 978-0471169864
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,826,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

David L. Brown
Director and Chief Market Strategist

Sabrient's research team is headed by David L. Brown, former NASA scientist and retired CEO of Telescan, Inc.

A lifelong investor, David designed and developed the critically acclaimed stock search program, ProSearch, and the market timing indicator, the Brown Breakout Ratio (BBR). He was named Stock Traders Almanac's Man of the Year for 1988 for "[showing] the average investor how to spot the stocks that the hottest money managers are buying." He has edited several market letters, including the Undervalued Growth Report, a real-money portfolio which he published for 10 years with a record of nearly 20% compounded annual returns and no loss years.

He has documented his investing expertise in four books on investing, including All About Stock Market Strategies (McGraw-Hill, June 2002) and Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street with your Personal Computer (John Wiley & Sons, 1994, 1997). The latter was named Book of the Year in 1997 by PBS's Inside Money. He has taught finance and security analysis courses at the University of Houston.

A former CEO of two public companies, David has served on the boards of several banks and organizations, including the Advisory Board of the Southwest Council of Public CEOs. In 1985 he served as Chairman of the U.S. Science and Technology Commission.

He holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Houston and a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the Author's Guild.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Tries to sell reader a certain serarch progra,, July 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street with Your Personal Computer (A Marketplace Book) (Hardcover)

The book did do a fair job of showing the reader what is possible with a stock search programs; one in particular Telescan (which a trial version was included with my book.) Overall it lent itself too mush to this single program and read like a user manual for it; the book would be pretty much usless if you don't own telescan at a cost of arround $500.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Telescan marketing tool, April 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street with Your Personal Computer, 2nd Edition (A Marketplace Book) (Paperback)

I was very disappointed in the content and undercover marketing scheme to get signed on to telescan. We need books to enlighten new investors not pay to play.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Learn to analyze stocks with high tech tools, December 2, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street With Your Personal Computer (Paperback)

This book is a good guide to the fundamentals of screening and backtesting, using the free software included with the volume. Despite its focus on technical analysis, the book is still easy to follow, as Brown carefully steps through the process of analyzing stocks with high-tech tools