Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street with Your Personal Computer

By David L. Brown

Book Overview

It used to be that if you wanted to invest in the stock market you were at the mercy of professional brokers and money managers. Now, thanks to the information superhighway, anybody with a PC has instant access to the same information as the pros. With just the push of a button you can obtain the complete price and volume history of any stock, learn a company's earnings the minute they are listed, get the leading stock analysts' long- and short-term earnings estimates, access the latest insider trading information, and lots of other crucial financial facts and figures. But all that valuable information is just a lot of numbers without the right kind of tools to help you make sense of it all--and a solid investment strategy to help you meet your goals. Now this amazing book/disk set supplies you with both. Coauthored by David Brown, founder and CEO of Telescan, the number one on-line financial information service, Cyber-Investing shows you how to unleash the awesome potential of your PC to locate extraordinary stock opportunities as they happen. Armed with the powerful investment software featured on the disks along with Brown's proven strategies, you'll generate significant returns year after year. You get tools that: Search through over 9,000 stocks and generate a list that best suits your investment goals--in just seconds Pinpoint undervalued stocks Tell you the best moment to buy or sell Show you trading patterns that could turn an ordinary stock into a major performer Manage your portfolio and keep track of your stocks Reveal the strength or weakness of any company Identify hot stocks targeted by institutional investors And much more Written in a lively, accessible style, packed with easy-to-read charts and tables, and featuring a gold mine of sophisticated investment software, Cyber-Investing makes it easier than ever for novices and seasoned investors alike to pick stocks like the pros Use your PC to pick stocks like the pros--and yield significant returns in any market Stock market guru David Brown knows plenty about computerized investing. His immensely popular on-line financial information firm, Telescan, provides tens of thousands of individual investors with stock quotes and up-to-the-minute data on every exchange in the world. Now, in Cyber-Investing, he shows both beginning and seasoned investors how to unleash the awesome potential of their PCs to pinpoint and follow up on stock opportunities the moment they happen. Armed with the powerful investment software featured on the disks along with David's proven strategies for using them, you can use your PC to: Streamline your investment decision-making process Spot extraordinary stock opportunities Determine the financial strength or weakness of any company Pinpoint undervalued stocks on any domestic or foreign exchange Use state-of-the-art analysis tools to find out when to buy and when to sell Manage your portfolio Generate significant returns year after year after year

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471119253
• ISBN13: 9780471119258
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Practical, entertaining and highly educational

David Brown and Kassandra Bentley have produced a practical and very real approach to cracking the market. Through real life examples, you will learn what makes prices move and how far those prices are likely to move . After reading this book you will have the tools to approach trading with confidence and a very good basis for further growth. You will keep it as one of your favorite book

Learn to analyze stocks with high tech tools

This book is a good guide to the fundamentals of screening and backtesting, using the free software included with the volume. Despite its focus on technical analysis, the book is still easy to follow, as Brown carefully steps through the process of analyzing stocks with high-tech tools