Investing Online For Dummies
Investing Online For Dummies is an essential guide that helps you set rational expectations, learn proper risk management, choose an asset allocation, analyze and select investments, and maximize your financial success. With easy-to-understand instructions on how to invest and grow your portfolio online, it also highlights a variety of websites, online calculators, databases, and online communities that will help you make beneficial decisions. This book gives you tips on how to pick winning stocks, find an online broker, construct a profitable portfolio, research investment data online, and what considerations to take into account when making key decisions. Investing Online For Dummies also teaches you to select mutual funds with online databases, buying bonds online, and many more.
From this book you'll learn to:
- Understand the basics of investing and measure risks
- Analyze stocks and financial statements
- Choose an online broker and execute trades online
- Use online tools to calculate your performance
It'll point you to the most informative websites, online calculators, databases, and online communities, and clue you into the secrets pros use to succeed in the stock market:
- Do your homework — master the terminology, set up your computer for online trading, and assemble your list of essential online resources
- Take stock of the market — learn about brokerage accounts and retirement accounts, capital gains, dividends, and more
- Weigh your options — figure out your investing style and the best type of account for you
- Start trading — pick an online broker, enter and execute trades, and track the market
- How am I doing? — analyze your risk and returns with online tools
- Diversify, diversify — discover the magic of asset allocation and mutual funds, bonds, and exchange-traded funds
- Be a financial Sherlock — learn how to put a company under the microscope, read a financial statement, and evaluate a stock's prospects
Open the book and find:
- Advice on tracking the market
- Where to connect with other investors online
- Online tools to calculate your performance
- Ways to uncover trends in financial statements
- How to avoid overpaying for stocks
- Which Wall Street analysts are worth listening to
- Where to find and buy bonds online
- Ten ways to protect your investments and identity online