Investor's guide to the Net : making money online

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = xvii
• Introduction = xxiii
• 1. Emerging Superpowers of Online and Internet Investing
• Commercial Online Services for Investors = 1
• New Competition : The Internet, Sun, and Microsoft Network = 1
• CompuServe : The Merrill Lynch of Online Services = 3
• America Online : Your Friendly Neighborhood Shopping Mall = 6
• Prodigy : The Wal-Mart of Commercial Online Services = 7
• Delphi, Interchange, and GEnie : Struggling Giants = 9
• The Power Players Creating Wall Street Cyber$pace = 11
• Wall Street Cyber$pace : No Longer an Exclusive Club = 12
• Dow Jones : The Real 'America Online" in Cyberspace = 14
• Reuters : Cyber$pace's Largest Financial "Exchange" = 17
• Knight-Ridder : Cyber$pace Giant in Commodity Futures = 19
• Bloomberg : Wall Street Cyber$pace's Newest Powerhouse = 21
• Battle Lines : Big Institutions Versus Individual Investors = 24
• Basic Starter Kit for the New Cyber$pace Investor = 27
• Investor's War Room : Go First Class, Buy Ahead of the Curve = 28
• The Wall Street Cyber$pace Connection for Investors = 30
• High-Powered Software and Tons of Data at Discount Prices = 30
• The Internet's Fabulous New Web Browsers = 32
• A New Generation of Browsers on the Horizon = 36
• New Browsers from Grad Students and High-Tech Quants = 37
• A Basic Wall Street Cyber$pace Library = 39
• 2. The Internet : lnvestor's Global Resource Library
• Internet Meta-Lists : Links to the World of Investing = 41
• Meta-Lists : Yellow Pages and Road Maps for the Internet = 42
• Yahoo : One of the New Baby Bells of Meta-Lists = 42
• Yahoo : Two Grad Students Having Fun on the Net = 44
• Yellow Pages and Instant Direct Dialing at No Extra Cost = 45
• The Internet Breeding Ground for the Next Bill Gates = 46
• FINWeb : A Texas-Sized Meta-List on Financial Economics = 46
• Financial Economics for the Serious Investor = 48
• The Top Investor Meta-Lists at Universities = 49
• New Commercial Meta-Lists : Investor's Yellow Pages = 52
• Meta-List from a Computer Users' Group : InvestSIG = 52
• American Association of Individual Investors' Meta-List = 54
• Personal Finance at the Global Network Navigator = 55
• Investment News Online : Brokerage Firm's Meta-List = 56
• Innovation : European Investment Firm's Meta-List = 56
• The Wall Street Directory and Your "Money Mentor" = 57
• Wall-Street-News : Internet Broadcasting Superstation = 58
• Bookmark! Create Your Own Personal Meta-List = 61
• 3. News Online : Financial Markets, Money, and Investing
• Financial Newspapers : Electronic Publishing Is Here, Today = 65
• MediaInfo Interactive : "All the News That's Fit to Print" = 67
• London's Financial Times : Setting the Pace on the Web = 69
• Investor's Business Daily : Delivery on America Online = 70
• The Wall Street Journal's Personal journal = 71
• Market Monitor : Dow Jones Expanding in Cyberspace = 74
• New York Times' Business Pages on America Online = 75
• Los Angeles TimesLink : Hotline to Hollywood and Washington = 76
• San Jose Mercury Neu,s : Silicon Valley in a Shrinking World! = 77
• Dow Jones News? Retrieval and Other Multidatabas = 78
• Executive News Services : Digests and Clipping Services = 81
• Executive News Service : ENS at CompuServe = 81
• Prodigy's "Heads Up" Executive News Service = 82
• NewsNet : Comprehensive Industry Sector Coverage = 82
• NewsPage on the World Wide Web = 85
• Profound : Online for News, Quotes, Searches, and More = 85
• InfoManager's InfoExpress : Staying Connected Anywhere = 86
• Farcast News Digest Service : When E-Mail Is Easiest = 88
• Free Internet News Services : Yahoo and the Newsroom = 89
• Executive News Services : Luxury or Basic Utility? = 90
• Newswire Services for Finance, Business, and Investing = 95
• Associated Press and United Press International = 95
• Dow Jones Newswire Services = 96
• Knight-Ridder : Commodities, Options, and Futures = 98
• Reuters Newswire Services : World News Leader = 100
• Bloomberg Business News : The Next Generation = 101
• ClariNet and AP : The Net Investor's "Free" Newswires = 102
• Foreign Newswires Online and on Internet Meta-Lists = 103
• Search and Research Tools : Accessing Large Databases = 106
• Knight-Ridder's Dialog : Searching the Ultimate Database = 106
• Lexis-Nexis : A Superpowered Database in Cyberspace = 108
• Commercial Online Kevword Searches = 109
• Keyword Searching on the Internet = 110
• Internet Searches : New Superpower Search Engines = 112
• ProSearch : Sample Search Tool for Stock Market Selections = 117
• Bottom Line : No One Search Engine Can Do It All = 118
• Cyberspace Magazines on Finance and Investments = 119
• The Electronic Newsstand (E-News) = 120
• NETworth's Investor's Newsstand on the Web = 122
• Time Warner's Pathfinder : Publisher's Own Newsstand = 122
• Online Services : The New Electronic Magazine Newsstands = 125
• Reuters, Dow, and Nexis : Will They Replace Barnes & Noble? = 126
• Internet Magazines for Professionals and Technicians = 128
• Internet Magazines Covering Technology and Computers = 129
• The Future of Magazines Is in Cyberspace = 130
• Investment Advisory Newsletters on the Net = 133
• Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities = 133
• Prodigy Online Newsletters : Wall Street Edge = 134
• AOL's Top Advisors' Corner for Investment Newsletters = 135
• CompuServe's Financial Advisory Newsletters = 137
• Financial Newsletters : Start with the Net's Meta-Lists = 138
• Internet Newsletters : Hot Stocks or Flot Air? = 141
• Internet Newsletters : Where Is Rukeyser's Wall Street? = 142
• Wall-Street-News Forecasts = 143
• Newsletters : By Mail, Broadcast Fax, and 900-Number Hotlines = 144
• Financial Newsletters : Are They Worth the Price? = 146
• The Hot New Cyberspace Investment Clubs = 147
• Special Usenet Newsgroups for Investors Only = 148
• Online Forums and Discussion Groups for Investors = 149
• Club Rules : Read the FAQs and Observe Proper Netiquette = 150
• The Commercialization of the Web's Usenet Newsgroups = 152
• 4. Accessing Major Financial Market Data
• United States and Global Securities Exchanges = 157
• The Chicago Mercantile Exchange = 159
• American (AMEX) and Philadelphia Stock Exchanges = 159
• The Other Major U.S. Securities Exchanges = 159
• Major International Securities Exchanges = 161
• Securities Exchanges Versus Free Quotes on the Internet = 165
• Stock Quotes and Market Index Reports : Basic Data = 168
• Internet : MIT's Experimental Stock Market Data = 170
• Internet : Ohio State University's Financial Data Finder = 171
• QuoteCom and Other Quote Sources on the New Web = 172
• PC Quote : Leading Data Provider to Individuals and Institutions = 174
• PAWWS : More than just a Few Free Quotes = 174
• NETworth : The Website for Mutual Funds Quotes = 176
• Holt's Stock Market Reports on the Internet = 177
• InfoManager : Central Data Manager for the Net = 178
• Internet's Interquote : A Cost Comparison for Quotes = 179
• Quotes from the Big-Three Commercial Online Services = 180
• Competition Is Driving Down the Price of Quotes... to Zero = 184
• Bottom Line : Raw Data Versus Analytics and Instincts = 185
• 5. Investment Research and = Analysis
• Government Economic and Monetary Statistics = 189
• U.S. Census Bureau's Monthly Economic Indicators = 189
• University of Michigan's Economic Bulletin Board = 191
• STAT-USA : Commerce Department's Economic Bulletin Board = 194
• Business Cycle Indicators : Software from Media Logic = 195
• Industry Sector and Company Analysis : Fundamentals = 198
• Hoover's Reports : Profiles of Companies and Industries = 198
• Dun & Bradstreet's Corporate and Industry Research = 202
• The Disclosure Database of Public Companies = 203
• Value Line's Electronic Publishing : Value／Screen = 204
• Standard & Poor's : The Financial Industry's Standard = 205
• Fundamental Research with Dow Jones News／Retrieval = 206
• CompuServe's Company and Industry Sector Analyses = 208
• Securities Filings : EDGAR, Disclosure, and the SEC = 213
• The EDGAR Project at New York University = 213
• The Disclosure Organization Develops EdgarPlus = 215
• Lexis-Nexis and Required SEC Electronic Filings = 216
• Dow Jones' Federal Filings Newswire = 216
• 6. Alternative Securities for Online Investors
• Mutual Funds : Research, Analysis, and Selection = 219
• Morningstar Mutual Funds Research Services = 220
• NETworth's Website : Almost Everything on Mutual Funds = 223
• MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab for Mutual Fund Data = 224
• NYU／Stern School's EDGAR Project and Mutual Funds = 225
• CompuServe's Online Mutual Funds Services = 226
• America Online's Mutual Funds Services = 227
• The Calvert Group : Socially Responsible Mutual Funds = 228
• Reuters and DJN／R : Competing for the Mutual Fund Investor = 229
• Reuters Money Network : Mutual Funds and Much More = 230
• Dow Jones News／Retrieval : The Traditional Leader = 232
• Fixed-income Securities : Treasury, Muni, and Corporate = 238
• America Online : Bond Mutual Funds = 240
• CompuServe's Bond Market Research Services = 242
• The Web and the Bond Market : Limited Free Information = 243
• Professional Bond Traders Need High-Powered Data = 246
• Commodity Futures, Options, and Precious Metals = 248
• World Wide Web : A Bright New Face for the Exchanges = 251
• The Web : A World Market for the New Brokerage Firms = 254
• Usenet Newsgroups for Commodities and Futures Trading = 256
• Commodities on the Commercial Online Services = 258
• Cyberspace Is Old Hat to Professional Traders = 260
• Knight-Ridder Financial : Cyberspace Leader in Commodities = 263
• FutureSource : Total Packages for Commodities Trading = 265
• FutureLink and Futures World News for Traders = 266
• Bottom Line : Futures and Options ＝ Risk and Stress! = 267
• 7. New Software for Real-Time Trading Systems
• New Total-Service Packages for Cyberspace Investors = 271
• Competition : The Investor's Search for a Total Package = 272
• Real-Time Data Delivery Systems for Individual Investors = 276
• Dow Jones News／Retrieval and Reuters Money Network = 278
• S&P Comstock : The Leaders Rely on Standard & Poor's = 279
• Data Broadcasting Corporation : Signal and QuoTrek = 280
• BMI : Bonneville Market Information-First Class = 282
• DTN Wall Street : "No Computer Needed!" = 283
• StockQuoter 2 : Discount Competition for DBC and DTN = 284
• Tradeline Electronic Stock Guide = 284
• Telemet America : A Leader in Radio Technology = 285
• Dial／Data : Reliable Real-Time Data Delivery to Investors = 286
• CD-ROM Technology : Historical Data and Telechart 2000 = 287
• Equis' DownLoader for Data Management = 289
• New Software for Technical Analysis and Trading Systems = 291
• Telescan Analyzer : Cyberspace Analytical Powerhouse = 294
• Equis Research : MetaStock, Downloader, and The Technician = 296
• Omega : Wall Street Analyst, SuperCharts, and TradeStation = 298
• Windows on WallStreet from MarketArts = 301
• Aspen Research Group : Software for the Global Investor = 302
• Specialty Software Systems for Very Special Investors = 303
• The Lowly Spreadsheet : Are We Going Back to Basics? = 305
• New Software Battles : Spreadsheets, Chartists, and Quants = 307
• Individual Investors : Profiting from the New Technologies = 310
• Bottom Line with Investment Software : Go First Class = 312
• 8. New Electronic Brokers and Portfolio Management
• Electronic Trading and Do-it-Yourself Brokerage = 315
• PCFN : Investment Banker Turns Discount Broker = 317
• Charles Schwab : Discount Broker Is Full Service Online = 318
• Fidelity On-line Xpress : FOX Chasing Mutual Funds and Stocks = 321
• Quick & Reilly : A New Breed of Broker = 322
• E*TRADE Securities : Global Coverage from Silicon Valley = 323
• AccuTrade Is Cruising the Financial Superhighway = 324
• WealthWEB : Aufhauser's Winning Website = 325
• Lombard's LIST : Unlike Any Online System You've Seen = 327
• Lind-Waldock : The Nation's Largest Futures Discounter = 328
• Bottom Line : Will AT&T, Sprint, and MCI Be Your Next Broker? = 329
• Portfolio Management and Personal Finance Software = 330
• Home-Banking Revolution : Big Banks, Quicken, and Competition = 331
• Home-Banking Competition : Computer Associates and Microsoft = 332
• WealthBuilder from Reuters Money Network = 333
• TechServe's CAPTOOL : The Professional Choice = 335
• Bottom Line on Portfolio Management Software = 336
• 9. Alternative Information Systems for Cyberspace Investors
• Financial Television and Radio Broadcasting = 339
• CNBC : National Television for Cyberspace Investors = 340
• Regional Television : KWHY-TV in Los Angeles = 342
• Television Networks Moving into Cyberspace = 345
• Radio Also Delivers Investment News = 346
• Bottom Line : Local Television Going Worldwide = 347
• Bulletin Board Systems for Investors = 348
• American Association of Individual Investors = 349
• FinComm and the Free Financial Network = 350
• The BBS of the Future : Strategic Demands and Alternatives = 352
• Creating a Marketing and Tech-Support BBS for Your Business = 353
• Bottom Line : Federal Policies Are Commercializing BBSs = 354
• 10. Other Resources for Investors
• The New Mental Game : Cyberspace Psychological Coaching = 358
• The Winning Edge : Investment Games and Simulations = 359
• Marketing Yourself : Successful Selling in Cyberspace = 363
• Transactions : E-Cash, Firewalls, Hackers, and Scams = 366
• Cyberspace Dictionaries of Investment Terms = 370
• Catalogs, Books, Periodicals, and Software = 373
• Epilogue = 375
• Index = 379