Amazon.com Review
Online Investing is a wonderful guide for using the Internet to find, research, and buy winning stocks. Jon D. Markman, managing editor at MSN MoneyCentral Investor, writes that the Internet makes it easy to build a highly profitable portfolio. "It just takes discipline, a computer, the Web and the barest amount of commitment and interest." The first section of the book explains how to operate MoneyCentral's Investment Finder, a "market X-ray machine" for screening equities for fast-growing earnings, sales, market capitalizations, daily volume, and other criteria. It's a remarkably simple technique for assembling portfolios based on momentum, value, or growth investing. Unusually lucid and readable, the book helps investors get the most out of Web sites such as Yahoo! Finance, TheStreet.com, Bloomberg.com, and Briefing.com. A former columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Markman is a champion of online discussion groups, which he calls "the one resource that can keep pace with the market's fearsome flood of information." Online Investing is for both beginning and experienced investors who aspire to be at the forefront of personal finance on the Internet. --Dan Ring