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TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing in the Internet Era: Everything You Need to Know to Outsmart Wall Street and Select Winning Stocks [Hardcover]

Dave Kansas (Author), Street.com (Author)
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Book Description

January 2, 2001
TheStreet.com is the exciting financial news Internet Web site cofounded by James J. Cramer that has become one of the most trusted news sources-and the go-to investment site-in the world of finance. With more than three million unique visitors a month, and the company's up-to-the-minute news featured at NYTimes.com, AOL, and Yahoo!, TheStreet.com has become the way informed investors discover what's hot and what's not in the stock market and on Wall Street.

Now, drawing on its unparalleled expertise, TheStreet.com has laid bare the fundamentals to investing in the stock market with their comprehensive investment guide, TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing in the Internet Era. Written with refreshing clarity and an irresistible touch of attitude by Editor-in-Chief Dave Kansas, and featuring contributions from TheStreet.com's premier columnists and specialists, the book reveals the ins and outs of investing in stocks offers a crash course in how revolutionary long-term changes to the New Economy will affect stocks' value and future growth.

Among the issues the book tackles are:

*How to navigate the risk and uncertainty of today's volatile market

*How interest rate changes, buy backs and splits, and earnings reports can affect the price of a stock.

*How to use the resources of the Internet to find, research and screen stocks.

*How to build a portfolio fitting for the New Economy

*How to identify the stocks TheStreet.com describes as "High Octane" (stocks that hold out the promise of both great reward and hefty risk), "Core Performers" (solid investment opportunities in various sectors of the economy), and "Income Engines" (safer stocks with a dividend kick)

Beyond these basics, the book offers informed advice on when to buy and when to sell, how to tell when a company's story has changed, how to find and research great stock ideas, how to figure out a stock's financials, how to read a stock chart, the ins and outs of IPOs and options, and penetrating insights into how the economy has changed and what that means in terms of future stock performance.

Providing the tools and information the individual investor needs to secure a competitive advantage against the big Wall Street firms, TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing in the Internet Era is destined to be the investment bible for the new millennium.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Introduced by James Cramer, controversial founder of TheStreet.com, this comprehensive and sophisticated guide shows readers how to navigate today's turbulent financial markets. Catering to a broad range of experience, the book covers such topics as stock selection and buying and selling decisions, with particularly strong advice on diversifying one's portfolio. The extensive chapter on tech stocks overshadows the other material on options and IPOs, which seem rushed. Still, given Cramer's TV visibilty and the built-in audience at his Web site, this solid investment book should do well at stores and online. (Jan.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

More than three million people visit TheStreet.com each month to get the first word on investing. Now, get more tips from the site's editor-in-chief.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday Business; First Edition edition (January 2, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0385500947
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385500944
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,435,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Well written, fundamental advice, February 26, 2001
This review is from: TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing in the Internet Era: Everything You Need to Know to Outsmart Wall Street and Select Winning Stocks (Hardcover)
The information in this book is by no means ground breaking. However, it is a well written book that provides solid all around advice for the new investor.

The book touches on many aspects of investing without being biased toward any particular one. It basically gives an overviews of many of the tools available to make investing decisions and leaves it to the reader to choose and learn more. For example, it starts out with an overview of economic factors and then moves into fundamental analysis, charting and buy/sell guidelines. It then touches on options, IPO's and tax issues.

Compared to other "newbie" books such as those by the Motley Fool, I think this offers a much more rounded approach. These books (and others) tend to present a biased view of the "correct" way to invest. This book gives a broader view that gives the reader more starting points to continue their learning and ultimately make better investing decisions.

One final comment -- there is not a lot of advertising for the thestreet.com in this book. Many chapters are accompanied by lists of websites to help you explore the topic presented in the chapter. Naturally, thestreet.com is often in the list, but all websites are given very fair treatment throughout the book.

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book; as good as the web site, January 7, 2001
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Newton Kendrick (Los Gatos, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing in the Internet Era: Everything You Need to Know to Outsmart Wall Street and Select Winning Stocks (Hardcover)
Easily the best book about investing I have read. TheStreet.com guide is the best book for investing in 2001, but it will also be relevant and excellent five years from now. The parts on investing in volatile times and developing "sell" criteria are especially helpful. The array of contributors is exceptional.
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19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The One Book You Must Read, January 7, 2001
This review is from: TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing in the Internet Era: Everything You Need to Know to Outsmart Wall Street and Select Winning Stocks (Hardcover)
Full Disclosure: Amazon.com customers should know right off the bat that I am a columnist on TheStreet.com, and have many friends among the co-authors of this book, so I am undoubtedly biased about this book. (But I didn't write any part of the book; I'm busy on two new investing books of my own these days....)

That said, I think this is the one book about investing that you simply MUST read if you're in the market now, or considering getting in.

The investing landscape has changed profoundly over the past year, and virtually every other "how to" book on investing I know deals -- often very well -- with the way things *were.* This one looks at the way things ARE, and WILL BE this year...and gives you the tools and perspective you need to make money in a vastly more difficult market.

Far from the easier and fondly-remembered world in which we invested in 1998 and especially 1999, during 2000 and now in 2001, this has become a market in which stock-picking is much harder -- but good stock-picking is even more important than it was. There are no easy bets any more.

You need the information in this book to prosper in 2001 and, almost certainly, beyond. The easy-money days are not coming back anytime soon...though I'm convinced that the decade ahead of us will be the best time to make money in the adult lifetimes of most of us now in the market.

Remember my bias...but consider this one seriously. It's the one book you really do have to read this year. --JS

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