Amazon.com Review
Day trading such stocks as Amazon.com, eBay, and Yahoo! sounds like a game for the gun slinger: jump into the fray and pull the trigger. Is that really the case? No, according to author Christopher Farrell, who earns his money just as Wall Street does--by making very small, short-term, high-percentage trades. Farrell, who works from home, has traded over 15,000,000 shares of stock via the Internet, producing a 65 percent annual return for his investment fund in its first year. Using detailed, user-friendly examples, Farrell shows how to place orders online and then sell minutes later for small profits that can potentially add up to thousands of dollars a day--
if you pick the right stocks. He explains how the New York Stock Exchange allows traders to buy on the bid and sell at the offer, just like the professionals. Farrell also includes loads of tips, such as how to choose an online broker, how much to pay for commissions, and how to cope with a technology that's still in its infancy. If you've been thinking about joining the estimated 5 million online traders, then this book is for you.
--Thom Hartle
Review
"Of the many day-trading books that have made it on the Business Week list in the past year, Farrell's is perhaps the most readable. Unlike the other tomes written by veteran traders, his book really starts from the beginning, explaining how stocks are traded. Then he lays out some basic common sense---day traders should choose their moments carefully, getting in and out of stocks quickly, aiming to "hit singles, not home runs," he writes... Ultimately,
Day Trade Online is most successful at giving the reader a realistic picture of what the life of an online day trader is like." --
Business Week Online