| BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : MAY 24, 1999 ISSUE | ||||||||
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| COVER STORY
Wired-Up Investing Books DAY TRADE ONLINE by Christopher A. Farrell (John Wiley & Sons, $29.95) How to use online brokers to trade NYSE stocks, as told by a 25-year-old day trader. Skip it. ELECTRONIC DAY TRADERS' SECRETS by Marc Friedfertig and George West, with Jonathan Burton (McGraw-Hill, $29.95) Interviews with 13 successful day traders. Confusing and contradictory. GETTING STARTED IN ONLINE INVESTING by David L. Brown and Kassandra Bentley (John Wiley & Sons, $18.95) Self-promoting primer that's short on investing knowhow. INVESTING ONLINE FOR DUMMIES by Kathleen Sindell (IDG Books Worldwide, $24.99) Great overview of online investing, but Sindell's site recommendations are questionable. THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO ONLINE INVESTING by Douglas Gerlach (Macmillan Publishing, $16.99) Gerlach knows his stuff, but he shamelessly plugs his own sites over better competitors. THE DAY TRADER: FROM THE PIT TO THE PC by Lewis J. Borsellino, with Patricia Commins (John Wiley & Sons, $29.95) Interesting tell-all of a successful S&P futures pit trader. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP |
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 Your Guide to Online Investing COVER IMAGE: Our Guide to Online Investing CHART: The Biggest Online Brokers TABLE: Broker Scoreboards TABLE: Online Brokers That Meet Your Needs Gotta Do the Legwork ``A Diversity of Thought'' Testing the Waters Commentary: Why Old-Line Firms Need New Online Tricks TABLE: Full-Service Dream The Right Tools for the Right Trades Street.Cop TABLE: Smart Investing on the Web TABLE: Web Resources for Online Investors Rocket Science Made Simple TABLE: Quant for a Day How to Seal a Great Bond Deal TABLE: Where to Buy...And Get Info What to Read: The Good, the Bad, and the Terrible TABLE: Wired-Up Investing Books Investor Beware of Web Talk TABLE: Separating Fact from Fiction TABLE: Cross Checkers Smells Fishy? Tell the SEC This EDGAR Is a Real Know-It-All TABLE: Searching the SEC Commentary: Analyst Calls: Let Investors Listen TABLE: Calling All Netizens The Barker Portfolio: A Battle Plan for Accidental Investors Inside Wall Street: Wells Fargo Online CHART: The Rise Trails Other Banks Inside Wall Street: Bidding for 3COM? CHART: Prior Takeovers Fizzled Out Inside Wall Street: A TV-To-Net Linkup CHART: ACTV's Rise Is Due to E-Commerce INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online | |||
