Online Investing for Dummies helps you reduce risk and separate the gimmicks from the gold, pointing investors of all experience levels to the pro-tips, calculators, databases, useful sites, and peer communities that will lead to success. Updated to include information on mobile trading and the influence of social media on the markets, the book also covers the basics―showing you how to figure out how much to invest, find data online, and pick an online broker. It then progresses through to more advanced topics, such as calculating returns, selecting mutual funds, buying bonds, options, commodities, and IPOs, taking you and your money wherever you want to go in the global market.
Author’s Note:
You might be wondering why you need a book like this one to help you invest online. After all, if you’re looking for information about investing online, you can certainly type investing online in a search engine and get thousands of search results. But that’s the problem. You’ll get thousands of search results. Some of the sites you’ll find by using a search engine might have secret agendas and push financial products hazardous to your goals. Yet other sites offered up by a search engine might be filled with bad information, causing you to unknowingly make poor investment decisions. Worse yet, you might stumble on fraudulent websites determined to steal your identity or money. Sure, you might find some good websites through a web search, but how can you tell the good from the bad when you get hundreds, if not thousands, of results?
Along came Online Investing For Dummies, 10th Edition. This book is here to act as a down-to-earth guide for getting started with online investing. I steer you clear of unnecessary investing gobbledygook, and I point you to resources that you can trust. I’ve already done all the mucking through the thousands of investing websites to find good ones — you shouldn’t have to do so as well!
Online Investing For Dummies, 10th Edition has been updated and refreshed to be your intelligent guide through this often-confusing and constantly changing world of investing online. As the author, I can share the tricks, tips, and secrets I’ve learned from a career writing about online investing for readers just like you. This book can save you the trouble of fumbling through the Internet looking for the best online resources.
In this edition, you’ll find online sites that may be even more relevant to you now if you missed out on the powerful bull market that kicked off in 2009. After watching stocks more than quadruple their value between March 2009 and March 2019, you’re probably more aware than ever of the potential gains of investing. Sadly, some investors allowed their fear to convince them to bail out of stocks at just the wrong time. Many investors panicked and pulled the ripcord in March 2009, scared to death by the vicious financial crisis that raged in 2008 and 2009. Stocks lost more than half their value between October 2007 and March 2009, prompting some investors to write off investing as being too risky or just a bad idea.
And that’s why this book is so important. If you don’t have a strategy, the emotions of fear and greed take over and short-circuit your reasoning. Investing based on emotion is typically a good way to lose money and miss opportunities. The Internet can help you keep emotions out of investing and make you a smart and skilled investor. This book shows you how to use the information you find online to become a more informed investor who is better able to stomach the market’s ups and downs.
Contents:
- Getting Yourself Ready for Online Investing .
- Getting Your Device Ready for Online Investing.
- Choosing the Best Account Type for You.
- Connecting with an Online Broker.
- Getting It Done: How to Enter and Execute Trades .
- Why Stock Prices Rise and Fall.
- Connecting with Other Investors Online .
- Measuring Your Performance .
- Choosing an Asset Allocation.
- Finding and Buying Mutual Funds.
- Finding and Buying Exchange-Traded Funds.
- Putting Companies Under the Microscope .
- Evaluating Stocks’ Prospects.
- Finding Investment Ideas with Online Stock Screens.
- Analyzing the Analysts and Stock Pickers.
- Researching and Buying Bonds Online.
- Ten Top Mistakes Made by Online Investors.
- Ten Ways to Protect Your Investments and Identity Online.
- Online Investors’ Ten Most Common Questions
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