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Online Investing Hacks 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools

By Bonnie Biafore
First Edition June 2004
Pages: 504
Series: Hacks
ISBN 10: 0-596-00677-2 | ISBN 13: 9780596006778
(Average of 3 Customer Reviews)

Book description

Individual investors have become more computer-literate and technology-dependent than ever before. Whether you're looking for suitable investments, studying alternatives, or managing your portfolios, you need data. The Internet can be a goldmine of financial data and research, but today's online investors also use spreadsheets, databases, and financial applications to select, study and manage investments. If your proficiency has grown to the point where you crave industrial-strength tips and tools to turbo-charge your efforts, Online Investing Hacks is the book for you.
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For the geek who's an investor, and the investor who's a geek, we present Online Investing Hacks, 100 industrial-strength, bleeding edge tips, tools and techniques for analyzing and managing online portfolios. Individual investors have become more computer-literate and technology-dependent than ever before. Whether you're looking for suitable investments, studying alternatives, or managing your portfolios, you need data. The Internet can be a goldmine of financial data and research, but today's online investors also use spreadsheets, databases, and financial applications to select, study and manage investments. If your proficiency has grown to the point where you crave industrial-strength tips and tools to turbo-charge your efforts, this is the book for you. Online Investing Hacks covers:

Screening Investments
Collecting Data
Fundamental Analysis
Technical Analysis
Executing Trades
Investing in Mutual Funds
Portfolio Management
Updating Stock Data
Financial Planning

Other books for managing online investing are either out of date, are for beginners and don't go beyond the most basic advice, or are so dull and boring they squeeze that last bit of fun out of the topic. Online Investing Hacks is for the customer who wants to know the latest techniques, to go beyond the basics, who gets jazzed by cool online tools and services, and who actually wants to have a bit of fun while trying to strike it rich (or at least not lose their shirt).

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Book details

First Edition: June 2004
Series: Hacks
ISBN: 0-596-00677-2
Pages: 504
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 3 Reviews)

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Excellent collection of investing tools, January 30 2005

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A must read for anyone who needs to take advantage of all that Excel and the Internet provide in evaluating investments.

Does Tim know about this?, July 09 2004

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I am sad to see the company once celebrated for publishing the early Nutshell books, and others such as Unix Power Tools and the Perl books, etc., selling a book on gambling tips. And for O'Reilly, to apply the word "hack" to this title...

One gentle caveat, July 09 2004

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Submitted by Wary Investor [Respond | View]

First, an up-front admission: I have read the table of contents, not the book. For the purpose set forth, the book may be excellent, but there is the very real danger of the "improved means to an unimproved end." There are many sources (such as Bill Bernstein's web page and books) that show (1) how important Asset Allocation is; it APPEARS to be a tiny part of this book. And (2) predicting what will happen in the future is a fool's errand. If you want to do computer calculations, this book looks great. If you want to build a solid portfolio, my experience suggests that you should study Asset Allocation strategies, rebalancing, index funds and web pages like Bernstein's. In my humble opinion. Your mileage may vary. Objects in the mirror may be closer ...

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O'Reilly Staff Pick - March 2006

Suzanne Axtell, Conferences Publicist It's tax season and that's reminded me of a book I don't turn to often enough, but should keep in the bathroom to consult more often: Online Investing Hacks. Because it's a Hacks book, it's broken up into manageable chunks. I can open it to just about any page and get a piece of advice that even I can follow. Bonnie does a great job of explaining how to use the proper components to make sense of the sometimes overwhelming amount of financial data that's out there.

-- Suzanne Axtell, Conferences Publicist

Media reviews
"Apart from how-to descriptions, the hacks contain interesting and useful discussions of investment issues. A well-presented and well-designed text that explains many highly technical topics in comprehensible language. A good buy."
-- Major Keary, Book News

"Online Investing Hacks by Bonnie Biafore is one of those books that can pay for itself in short order, as well as over and over...Biafore shows you how you can analyze and invest wisely using a variety of tools available to everyone. If you're an Excel user, you'll find it an invaluable tool for analysis...All it would take is one hack to work out and change your investing for this book to pay huge dividends. If you do your own investing, you owe it to yourself to get this book."
--Thomas Duff, twduff.com, November 2004

"It would take many hours online to learn how to get and use the available investment information. Author Bonnie Biafore has already done that for us--all we need do is study this book, and follow the procedures described. This book will take the mystery out of investing and enable you to put your computer to good use in planning and tracking investments."
--Ed Laskowski, Sierra Vista PC Users Group, October 2004

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