The Wall Street Journal Online's Guide to Online Investing : How to Make the Most of the Internet in a Bull or Bear Market

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Summary: decent information, bad writing and editing
Review: The WSJ branding led to my buying this book without serious browsing. Found out later that the only saving grace of this book is that there are a number of URLs scattered through out the book, and listed at the back of the book in an Appendix. The other aspects like readibility, classification of information, ease of use, are all pretty bad. There is significant amount of information that is repeated in multiple chapters - almost as if you are reading a collection of WSJ articles accumulated over time. Chapter 2 dedicated to IPOs and Chapeter 3 dedicated to Day trading made me wonder why I bought this book... My more immediate concerns were about MFs, Bonds, and websites for sophisticated tools, preferably low-cost or share ware. MFs and bonds were covered reasonably later.

Bad editing job. I hope the authors can make a book out of these random notes (if they are contemplating a second edition). Definitely needs some good body to glue together all the URLs.