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Summary: If You Are a Complete Idiot, This Book is For You
Review: Believe the title! If you read BusinessWeek and have Internet access, this book is a waste of your time. While it defines the most basic terms of the Internet and investing (which you already know if you read the business section of your newspaper or a business magazine), it does not explain the more intricate methods of investing. The book is really a compendium of web sites. For example, instead of explaining HOW TO DO fundamental analysis, it tells you to go read a web site. Save your money. Search the web at www.dogpile.com with the term "investing" and get the same results free, in an instant.
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Summary: If You Are a Complete Idiot, This Book is For You
Review: Believe the title! If you read BusinessWeek and have Internet access, this book is a waste of your time. While it defines the most basic terms of the Internet and investing (which you already know if you read the business section of your newspaper or a business magazine), it does not explain the more intricate methods of investing. The book is really a compendium of web sites. For example, instead of explaining HOW TO DO fundamental analysis, it tells you to go read a web site. Save your money. Search the web at www.dogpile.com with the term "investing" and get the same results free, in an instant.
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Summary: Road Map for beginners
Review: I am a self-confessed rank beginner in the world of investing in general and online investing in particular.This book starts you off with the REAL basics - ie assuming no knowledge of connecting to the internet (admittedly tedious for most these days...) and then guides you by the hand through various websites where enourmous amounts of information are found... I don't imagine it is the almanac of investing for a moment...but it doesn't promise to be either. More of a roadmap - showing what's out and about to use as you get more proficient at investing. I would like to see what an actual trader thinks of it...but seems to be a refreshingly unpretentious place to start for the utterly confused...if not completely idiotic. -h@wkspy
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Summary: this book is terrific
Review: Like Doug's acclaimed Investorama website, this book delivers on the (oft-promised, rarely delivered) goal of investing made simple. And this truly is one stop shopping. New to investing? This book is for you. Got some experience managing your money, but intimidated by the world of online investing? This book is for you, too. Doug just may know more about online investing than anybody else alive -- and he has poured his knowledge into this book. Yet, despite being packed with info, the book is well organized and easy to read.
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