Kathleen Sindell – Investing Online for Dummies (5th Edition)

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Everybody talks about it—how much you can save , and earn, when you start an online investment program. If you’ve decided you’re ready to find out what all the excitement’s about, you’re in luck. Investing Online For Dummies has been completely revised and updated with the latest tools, Web sites, rule changes, and tips that can make online investing easy and profitable.To be a successful online investor, you need to know your way around the Web and you also need to understand something about investments. Investing Online For Dummies can help you make sound financial decisions by:

• Outlining basic investment fundamentals
• Explaining how stock options work and helping you determine the value of your employee stock option plan
• Pointing out costly traps and ways to avoid them
• Directing you to resources that provide information you need and helping you make sense of it
• Showing you how to use the Internet to become a savvy investor

This 5th edition of Investing Online For Dummies provides clear instructions and ample illustrations, taking you from the basics of online investing to making your own online stock transactions to purchasing bonds online. A few of the things you’ll discover:

• What’s important in an online brokerage and how to locate one that meets your needs
• How to find Internet resources that help you select mutual funds
• How to use stock online screens to find investment candidates that will move you toward your financial goals
• Where to look for direct stock purchase and ShareBuilder plans that let you invest online for as little as $25 a month
• How Internet tools can help you analyze and choose stocks and bonds
• The secrets to paying the lowest commissions when trading online

There’s so much information available on the Internet that you can easily feel overwhelmed. Investing Online For Dummies leads you through that maze, showing you how to get started, what you really need to know, where to go online to find it, and how to get the process underway. When it comes to choosing which cruise to take to celebrate your success, however, you’re on your own!

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From the Back Cover
Get up to speed with new strategies, tools, and resourcesGain control of your investments and pay less in fees and commissions — here’s how

Whether you’ve invested online before or you’re planning to start, this plain-English guide will steer you around the jargon and past the pitfalls. Uncover the best investing resources online, find out if you’re earning enough to offset risks, and use online tools to see whether replacing assets in your portfolio will cost you at tax time.

Discover how to

• Build an online investment information system
• Analyze and choose stocks and bonds
• Find appropriate investments
• Track your portfolio
• Avoid costly traps and unnecessary risks

About the Author
Kathleen Sindell, PhD, is an expert on e-commerce and e-security, an adjunct faculty member for the Johns Hopkins University MBA program, and an e-commerce consultant.

Product details
Publisher ‏ : ‎ For Dummies; 5th edition (April 15, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English

About the author
Kathleen Sindell, Ph.D.has over 25 years of experience working in, for the financial planning profession, and for the goal of financial literacy as a professor, author, speaker, and advocate. At the heart of her contributions has been her belief that clearly presented information presented in books, courses, articles and by trained professionals to all citizens regardless of their socio-economic condition, education, race, or gender are fundamental to a healthy society and to individual financial security.

Dr. Sindel is an experienced writer and is the author of numerous academic, popular, and professional finance articles, Web sites, blogs, proposals, and books, including the bestselling reference books, “The Unofficial Guide to Buying a Home Online”, “Managing Your Money Online for Dummies”, and “Investing Online for Dummies, Eds. 1-5” (listed for two consecutive years on the Wall Street Journal’s Bestselling Business Book List). Dr. Sindell has written 14 business / finance reference books. At the request of Irwin Professional Publishing, she converted her dissertation, titled ‘A Risk Management Approach for Financial Institutions Holding Construction Loans’ to a 520 page book titled, ‘The Handbook of Real Estate Lending’ (1996). Dr. Sindell is knowledgeable about desktop publishing, graphic design, page layout, and multimedia software. Her most recent book “Social Security: Maximize Your Benefits, 2nd Edition” (April 2016) is an on-demand publication available as an e-book or print. Sindell completed the graphics, layout and assembly as well as the writing. For over three-months, “Social Security: Maximize Your Benefits, 1st Ed. “” was listed in Amazon.com’s 100 Bestselling Retirement Planning Books.

Sindell has an in-depth understanding of the financial services / real estate industries and holds a California Contractor’s License #452957, Classifications C61 and D5 (Inactive), and has held FINRA Series 7, 63 and 65 licenses. Dr. Sindell’s public speaking and writings assist individuals in gaining financial literacy. Sindell tracks a variety of financial sources to identify emerging investor and personal finance trends then creates educational investor and finance presentations or materials for publishers, organizations, trade associations, and educational institutions.

Sindell is a Full Professor (Adjunct) and Certified Financial Planning (CFP) Chair at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). Sindell assisted in the CFP Certification activity, oversaw the first renewal of the CFP registration status, develops CFP approved curriculum, supported Financial Planning in achieving the status of ‘minor’ for undergraduates from the Maryland Board of Higher Education. Organized the UMUC CFP Advisory Board and UMUC FPA Student Chapter, secured start-up funding for the UMUC FPA Student Chapter from the FPA NCA and FPA Baltimore chapters, solicited two scholarships from FPA NCA, instructs the CFP Board approved courses of Financial Wealth Building, Health and Life Insurance, Investing, Retirement and Estate Planning, and the Financial Plan Development Capstone course.

Kathleen Sindell recently received the 2017 Financial Planning Association, National Capital Area (FPA NCA) Norma Severns Leadership Award. The Norma Severns Leadership Award is annually presented to an individual who displays extraordinary efforts to advocate for ethical and objective financial planning and to advance the FPANCA’s mission to adhere to the highest ethical and professional standards.

Highlights of Activities

• FPANCA Board Member and Pro-Bono Co-Chair for over seven years (2009 – 2016).

• FPA BE Baltimore Annual National Conference Task Force Member (2016)

• FPA NCA Norma Severns Leadership Award (2017)

• Co-chair Metro Washington Financial Planning Day (2011, 2014, 2015, and 2016)

• “Social Security: Maximize Your Benefits (2nd Edition)”, Spring 2016

• Journal of Financial Planning, Editorial Advisory Board (2015 – 2017)

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