Fire Your Broker and Trade Online: Everything You Need to Start Investing Online [Paperback]

Jonathan Reed Aspatore (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 26, 2000

Online trading accounts grew fivefold from 1996 to 1999, and should triple again by 2001! Fire Your Broker and Trade Online tells the 45 million investors who are not yet online how they can get started. It focuses on the basics investors need -- from getting the right software and opening an account to executing that first trade -- without bogging them down with technical factoids and confusing misinformation.

From walking the readers through a typical online trade -- with reproductions of actual Web pages-to directions for developing the proper mindset, Fire Your Broker and Trade Online gets investors up and running. This all-in-one online primer includes:
-- Profiles of today's top ten online brokers
-- A detailed chapter on day trading techniques
-- Which sectors are tailor-made for online investing -- and why

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From the Back Cover

The guidebook for investors who want to open an online brokerage account­­but don't know where to start.

Online investing is one of the most empowering tools to result from the Internet revolution. Investors save time and money, get professional research for free, and can trade and access their accounts wherever the can log on to a computer. Millions of Americans, not day traders or thrill-seekers, but everyday people who don't believe in paying more than they have to, now invest online...and you're about to join them.

Fire Your Broker and Trade Online tells you everything you need to know to become an online investor. Want to know how to open an online account? Buy individual stocks without paying brokerage commissions? Trade after hours? It's all here, including:

Today's biggest online brokerage firms­­What you'll pay, and what you'll get, from each. Online Day Trading­­A no-nonsense overview of its techniques, opportunities, and risks. Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)­­How to find them, and where to go to get in early.

Today's Internet has grown to touch and change the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. Online investing is the inevitable next step, and it's here to stay.

Use Fire Your Broker and Trade Online to find the online broker that's right for you, open an account, place your first trade, and get a head start on the future­­when virtually every investor will invest and trade online.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies; 1st edition (June 26, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071359486
• ISBN-13: 978-0071359481
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,017,014 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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