A mere ten years ago, few people could have imagined it, a global network connecting everyone and everything, providing a boundless data stream, accessible to all, at virtually no cost. The Internet has redefined the scope of communications, day-to-day living and business.
It is this profound impact that makes Alpesh Patel's Trading Online such an important book for those of us who make our way in the global trading community. Trading Online is the road atlas to cyberspace, identifying the most direct routes to high-quality, low-cost information for the online trading of financial instruments. By taking the time to read Trading Online, readers will save hours of time lost on the back roads and blue highways of the Internet.
'The best guide on how to use the internet to improve investing performance and reduce costs.'
- Internet Investor
'You have two choices: buy this book or atend a $5,000 course on cyber-trading. I'd take the former.'
- Neil Weintraub, author of Trading Chicago Style
' Read the book, jump aboard the cyber-train and become a better investor.'
- Guy Knight, Vice President, Charles Schwab Europe
'Trading Online is a unique resource for intrepid internet travellers. Readers will save hours of time lost on the back roads and blue highways of the internet.'
- Pat Arbor, Chairman, Chicago Board of Trade
'The investment landscape has been changed dramatically by the internet; this book is the roadmap for this new landscape. A very well done and much-needed guide.'
- Bernard Oppetit, Global Head of Derivatives, Paribas
'You have two choices: buy this book or attend a $5,000 course on cyber-trading. I'd take the former.'
- Neil Weintraub, author Tricks of the Floor Trader
'Patel is a pioneering online trader. Keep Trading Online by your computer for its straightforward guide to trading practices and time-saving reviews of investor resources on the internet.'
- Greg Glass, Electronic Share Information
1. The Quick Guide: Section 1 Summarized
2. Absolute Beginners to Internet Professors
3. Getting Infrastructure: Computer hardware
4. Gatekeepers to the Net: Internet Service Providers
5. The Acceptable Face of the Internet: Browsers
6. Feeling the Need for Speed: Speeding Things Up
Section 2: The Road to Profit
7. Making Your Action Plans
8. Step 1: What's Your Pleasure? The Product Choice
9. Step 2: Traders' Bread and Butter - Price Data
10. Step 3: Doing the Hard Work - Analysis
11. Step 4: The Trade Planned
12. Step 5: Bring Forth the Executioner - Method of Execution
13. Step 6: Eyes and Ears Open - Monitoring
14. Step 7: Keeping Abreast/Education
15. How It All Works in Practice
Section 3: The Skeleton Plans
16. Out of the Cupboard at Last: the Skeleton Plans
Section 4: The Sites
17. Sites with a Little Bit of Everything
18. Getting Technical: Technical Analysis Only Sites
19. Brokers Only (A Sad and Lonely Place)
20. Mutual Funds, Investment Trusts and Unit Trusts
21. The Future and Its Options: Futures and Options Sites
22. Exchanges
23. Bonds and Only Bonds
24. Money, Money, Money: Foreign Exchange Sites
25. Options Analysis Software
26. Recommendation Peddlers: Gurus and Their Newsletters
27. Can We Talk? Discussion Forums
28. E-Zines
Section 5: The Truth is Out There
29. Net Trawlers: Search Engines
30. The Directory Approach: Web Financial Directories
31. Virtual Bookworming: Internet Bookshops
Section 6: Appendices
1. Technical Analysis: What and Why
2. Fundamental Analysis: Stocks
3. The Basics of Futures
4. The Basics of Options
5. Orders
6. Alphabetical List of Sites
7. Recommended Reading
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