The Stock Detective Investor: Beat Online Hype and Unearth the Real Stock Market Winners

By Kevin Lichtman

Click your way to smart, successful investing, with techniques from one of the most beneficial Web sites on the Net "A lively introduction to the latest investment scams, from phony research outfits to pump-and-dumps."-Worth The market's wild ride of the 1990s and the rise of the Internet have put many investors in an enviously successful position. There are more investing opportunities than ever and quicker access to more information than most people knew existed. And yet there is one downside to the market boom that has grown as rapidly as the Dow-securities fraud. So, how do you get in on the online investing revolution while protecting your nest egg? In Stock Detective Investor: Finding Market Gems Online readers will learn strategies to make smarter investment decisions, spot and avoid scams while cutting through all the babble and hype to find investment goldmines. Containing everything from the 10 warning signs of a securities fraud to a step-by-step outline for doing your own legwork, Stock Detective Investor is a must for everyone who wants to safely and successfully invest online. Kevin Lichtman founded FinancialWeb.com and Stock Detective in 1997 after working in the financial services industry for sixteen years. Financial-Web is the parent company of eighteen different free Web sites. Lynn Duke is a national award-winning journalist who worked for newspapers including the St. Petersburg Times for ten years before joining FinancialWeb.com.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471387754
• ISBN13: 9780471387756
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Lots of valuable information for any investor!

I think this book is great! I would have expected a book on stocks and investing to be rather dry but this book is very well written and quite readable. When I think of online investing, I think of buying and selling online but from this book I found there is an astounding amount of SEC and other information on companies out on the Internet these days enabling me to be able to research online as well. The authors have spelled out just what to look for and where to go for researching potential stock investments. The glossary in the back is handy (for me as a novice) as well as the appendix of investing related web site reviews. I have always been leery of stock investing, leaving it to my better half, but with the understanding and resources I am getting from this book, I have the confidence to venture carefully out... I would think ANYBODY who does any stock investing would DEFINITELY want to read this book!