Investor's Web Guide: Tools and Strategies for Building Your Portfolio (Lycos Press in Sites Series) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Douglas Gerlach (Author)

Book Description

Series: Lycos Press in Sites Series | Publication Date: April 1997

Here is an easy-to-use directory of the most valuable Web sites of information for investors and investment clubs. Readers will be able to make informed decisions about buying and selling securities. The CD-ROM is dual platform and includes a hyperlinked HTML version of the entire book.

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Amazon.com Review

If you're looking to strike it rich, or strike out on your own as an investor, the information in The Investor's Web Guide can help you on your way. Douglas Gerlach's approach is outward looking, toward a vast index of sites that can help with the investment process, rather than focusing on a particular way of handling stocks or mutual funds. The book begins with a large directory of resources, classifying them, grouping them by markets and types of investments, and categorizing their utility. The goal is to find information, as you would using a robust search engine, and the approach pays off if you want to change the ways you manage your portfolio.

The second part of the book is devoted to interpreting the available information. Some chapters target beginning investors and cover the usual cautions one must exercise, but the sections quickly move to knowledge management, with topics such as "How to Study A Stock," understanding financial statements, how to create a portfolio, and how to track its performance. The accompanying CD-ROM (for both Windows and Mac) includes links for all of the sites as well as a collection of sign-up offers for Web browsers and Internet providers.

From Library Journal

During the gold rush, the people who usually got rich were the folks selling the shovels and the overalls. My guess is that if you really want to make money on the Internet, you should write a book about money and the Internet. Short of that you might want to try this guide, which has more than just get-rich-quick schemes. Gerlach, with assistance from the staff at Ivest-O-Rama, actually takes the reader through the intricacies of buying and selling stocks, bonds, and mutual funds; the criteria for selecting an online broker; using net tools to evaluate portfolio performance; and even the dangers of scams and fraud. Published under Que's new Lycos imprint, the text does stress the use of the Lycos site in performing various operations.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 425 pages
• Publisher: Ziff Davis Pr (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789711877
• ISBN-13: 978-0789711878
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,931,039 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not very helpful, July 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Investor's Web Guide: Tools and Strategies for Building Your Portfolio (Lycos Press in Sites Series) (Paperback)

I found INVESTOR'S WEB GUIDE to be almost completely useless. If you're not already an investor, then you might find it interesting. Otherwise, don't waste your time or money.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book is better than other similar ones., April 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Investor's Web Guide: Tools and Strategies for Building Your Portfolio (Lycos Press in Sites Series) (Paperback)

I spent about an hour in a book store flipping through this, and I definately thought it was much more attractive than similar ones. This book, unlike others, is organized, and every single page has the same amount of Web Site descriptions, which is about 10 per page. To briefly describe them, every single description of a website is the same length, and looks nice and squared off into 10 blocks of text on each page, meaning that descriptions don't run on with endless babble, and more importantly, making the reading and then going back later to revisit easier on your eyes... It is also something like 400+ pages, and I was unable to count just how many addresses there were (maybe 3000 or so)... THE ONLY THING that does concern me is that if the book really was published in 1997 as it says, then that leaves a year and a half 'till now of open time, possibly missing some new up and coming hot sites. But you do get a few thousand addresses in this book.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Packed full of information -- a great book!, August 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Investor's Web Guide: Tools and Strategies for Building Your Portfolio (Lycos Press in Sites Series) (Paperback)

What a great book! Investors Web Guide book has 425 pages packed full of information. I jumped into stock screening section and immediately put the suggestions to work. When my copy arrived I had a hard time putting it down. This book is a great service to investment clubs and individual investors and worth every penny (well nickel) I paid!