deleteyourbroker.com Using the Internet to Beat the Pros on Wall Street [Paperback]

Fund managers and brokerage firm traders have nothing on the savvy individual investor with a PC, Internet access -- and this book.
The Internet has leveled the investment playing field, cutting out the broker as middleman and distributing information once available only to professionals. But challenges still abound: Are there safe ways to invest in the high-tech sector? Is that hot IPO you just read about all it's cracked up to be? Where can you go for free, reliable financial information?
InDeleteyourbroker.com,expert stock market commentator Chris Byron demystifies online investing, pointing readers to the most valuable and reliable resources on the Internet and explaining how to use these tools to make well-informed investments. With this as a guide investors will discover:
asset allocation toolsthat model how much money you invest in different sectors of the market to minimize risk and maximize your returns
customized chartsfor any stock or index you can think of
balance sheets, earnings and cash flow statementsthat $1200-an-hour professionals use to analyze the market
the latest on IPOs-- if risk is your game -- from SEC filings to underwriters and moreChristopher Byron'scareer in business and financial reporting spans more than thirty years, and his work has appeared inMoney, The Wall Street Journal, Esquireand theLos Angeles Times,among other publications. He is currently a columnist forBloomberg Newsand MSNBC.com, and is a contributing editor and financial columnist atThe New York Observer.One of the best-known Web-based stock commentators today, he hosts a live daily webcast,High Noon on Wall Street with Chris Byron,and the daily syndicated radio programWall Street Eye Opener.He lives in Weston, Connecticut.Chapter One: How the Internet Has Changed Investing

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