Foreword | p. xxi |
Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
Introduction | p. xxv |
Getting Started | |
Investing Online: The Internet, Quicken, and Quicken.com | p. 3 |
The Internet's Impact on Investing | p. 4 |
The Rise of the Internet | p. 5 |
Bringing Order to the Chaos | p. 5 |
The Benefits of Online Investing | p. 6 |
Tools in Quicken and on Quicken.com | p. 8 |
Mastering the Basics of Investing | p. 11 |
Why You Need to Invest | p. 12 |
Battling Inflation | p. 12 |
Many Happy Returns | p. 13 |
The Essentials of Stocks and Bonds | p. 13 |
What Stocks and Bonds Earn | p. 14 |
Taking Stock | p. 14 |
Getting More Information on Quicken.com | p. 15 |
Common and Preferred Shares | p. 16 |
How You Make Money with Stocks | p. 16 |
Types of Stocks | p. 17 |
The Basics of Bonds | p. 19 |
How Bonds Work | p. 19 |
How Bonds Are Priced | p. 20 |
Understanding Yield | p. 20 |
Government Bonds: The Safest Haven | p. 20 |
Checking Prices on Quicken.com | p. 22 |
Corporate Bonds | p. 23 |
Zero-Coupon Bonds | p. 23 |
Easy Investing with Mutual Funds | p. 24 |
What's in a Fund? | p. 24 |
Stocks or Funds? | p. 25 |
Finding Funds | p. 26 |
Other Investments | p. 26 |
Real Estate Investment Trusts | p. 26 |
Commodities | p. 26 |
Setting Up Your Investments with Quicken | p. 29 |
Quicken Investment Features | p. 30 |
Investing Center | p. 31 |
Portfolio View | p. 32 |
Security Detail View | p. 33 |
EasyActions | p. 34 |
Quicken Quotes | p. 35 |
Brokerage Downloads | p. 35 |
Investment Reports and Graphs | p. 35 |
Is Your Brokerage Firm a Quicken Partner Institution? | p. 36 |
Quicken.com Investment Features | p. 36 |
Quicken.com Channels | p. 37 |
Investing Pages | p. 38 |
Customizing the Quicken.com Portfolio | p. 42 |
Quicken Investment Accounts | p. 42 |
Types of Accounts | p. 42 |
Other Information for Setting Up Investment Accounts | p. 43 |
Setting Up Investment Accounts | p. 45 |
Quicken Security Details | p. 46 |
Types of Securities | p. 46 |
Modifying the Security Type List | p. 47 |
Other Information for Setting Up Securities | p. 47 |
Modifying the Investment Goals List | p. 48 |
Entering Account Balances | p. 50 |
Setting Up a Security | p. 51 |
Starting-Balance Strategies | p. 51 |
Examples of Starting-Balance Strategies | p. 53 |
Exporting Your Portfolio to Quicken.com | p. 54 |
Entering Purchase and Sale Transactions | p. 55 |
Building Your Financial Plan | |
Setting Your Financial Goals | p. 59 |
Getting Your Finances Under Control | p. 60 |
What's Your Net Worth? | p. 60 |
Checking Your Net Worth with Quicken | p. 62 |
Tracking Your Spending | p. 64 |
Entering Transactions in Quicken | p. 65 |
Creating a Budget with Quicken | p. 67 |
Using Quicken to Compare Budgeted to Actual Results | p. 70 |
Using Alerts | p. 72 |
Climbing Out of Debt | p. 74 |
Good and Bad Debt | p. 74 |
Using the Debt Reduction Planner | p. 75 |
Getting Help | p. 77 |
Finding the Best Deals | p. 78 |
Managing Your Credit Cards | p. 78 |
Shopping for a Credit Card with Quicken.com | p. 80 |
Finding the Best Mortgage | p. 81 |
Using the Loan Calculator | p. 82 |
Using the Refinance Calculator | p. 84 |
Saving Smart | p. 84 |
You Can Save More Than You Think | p. 85 |
Using the Investment Savings Calculator | p. 86 |
Putting Savings to Work | p. 87 |
Finding High-Paying Savings Accounts | p. 88 |
Determining Your Goals | p. 89 |
What's a Realistic Goal? | p. 90 |
Long-Term vs. Short-Term Goals | p. 90 |
Using the Planning Center | p. 91 |
Saving for College | p. 93 |
Checking College Costs on Quicken.com | p. 94 |
Retiring Rich | p. 96 |
Designing Your Investing Strategy | p. 99 |
Understanding the Risks of Investing | p. 100 |
Market Risk | p. 100 |
Investment Risk | p. 101 |
The Long Run: Buy and Hold | p. 101 |
The Power of Compounding | p. 102 |
Diversify, Diversify, Diversify | p. 103 |
It's in the Mix | p. 104 |
Grouping Stocks by Sector | p. 105 |
Not Too Much, Not Too Little | p. 105 |
Modern Portfolio Theory | p. 106 |
The All-Important Asset Allocation | p. 106 |
Assessing Your Risk Tolerance | p. 107 |
Specifying Asset Classes | p. 108 |
Viewing Asset Allocation | p. 110 |
Using Quicken's Asset Allocation Guide | p. 111 |
Setting Up Your Target Asset Allocation | p. 112 |
Jump-Start Your Investing Plan | p. 113 |
Visiting the Message Boards on Quicken.com | p. 114 |
Participate in the Message Boards on Quicken.com | p. 115 |
Join the Club | p. 116 |
You Don't Need a Million: Start Small | p. 116 |
Retiring Rich | p. 119 |
Retirement in the New Millennium | p. 120 |
The Importance of Planning | p. 120 |
How Much You'll Need | p. 121 |
Using the Retirement Calculator | p. 122 |
Using the Retirement Planner | p. 123 |
Get Started--Right Now | p. 125 |
Crafting an Investment Plan | p. 126 |
Count on Social Security | p. 126 |
Pension Plans | p. 126 |
Using the Quicken.com Retirement Channel | p. 127 |
Investing for the Rest | p. 128 |
The Benefits of Tax-Deferred Savings | p. 128 |
Accounts You'll Need | p. 128 |
Individual Retirement Accounts | p. 129 |
Which IRA Is Best? | p. 130 |
Should You Convert? | p. 130 |
Using Quicken.com's Roth IRA Planner | p. 131 |
Accounts for Small Businesses and the Self-Employed | p. 131 |
Variable Annuities | p. 132 |
The 401(k) Revolution | p. 133 |
401(k) and 403(b) | p. 133 |
The Benefits of 401(k)s | p. 134 |
Maximizing Your 401(k) | p. 135 |
Roll It Over | p. 136 |
Updating 401(k) or 403(b) Account Balances in Quicken | p. 137 |
Turbocharge Your Account with the Right Investments | p. 140 |
Taking on Taxes | p. 143 |
Don't Ignore Uncle Sam | p. 144 |
Understand the Tax Implications of Your Investing Decisions | p. 144 |
Learn About Tax Rules | p. 145 |
A Real-Life Example | p. 145 |
Keep Good Records | p. 145 |
Getting Tax Information on Quicken.com | p. 146 |
Taxable and Nontaxable Accounts | p. 147 |
Entering Tax Information for Quicken Investment Accounts | p. 148 |
Using the Taxes Center | p. 150 |
Selling Securities | p. 151 |
Capital Gains and Losses | p. 151 |
Establishing the Cost Basis | p. 153 |
Accounting for Security Sales | p. 155 |
Using the Capital Gains Estimator | p. 156 |
Preparing a Capital Gains Report | p. 158 |
The Mutual Fund Tax Trap | p. 159 |
Watch the Taxes on Employee Stock Options | p. 160 |
Dividends Are Income, Too | p. 161 |
Preparing an Investment Income Report | p. 162 |
Finding the Right Investments | |
Finding the Right Mutual Funds | p. 167 |
Why Funds Are Favorites | p. 168 |
What's in a Fund? | p. 168 |
Learning About Mutual Funds on Quicken.com | p. 169 |
Net Asset Value | p. 170 |
The Benefits of Investing in Funds | p. 170 |
The Drawbacks of Funds | p. 171 |
Types of Funds | p. 171 |
Open-End and Closed-End Funds | p. 171 |
They Are What They Hold | p. 172 |
Learning About a Fund Family | p. 175 |
Funds by Strategy | p. 176 |
Keeping Costs Down | p. 177 |
Loads and No Loads | p. 179 |
Expense Ratios | p. 179 |
Buy Direct and Save | p. 180 |
Finding the Right Funds | p. 180 |
The Top 25 Funds | p. 181 |
Using Quicken's Mutual Fund Finder | p. 182 |
Researching Funds | p. 184 |
Reading the Prospectus | p. 185 |
Checking Past Performance | p. 186 |
Measuring Fund Risk | p. 187 |
Getting In-Depth Information About a Fund on Quicken.com | p. 189 |
Planning Your Stock Strategies | p. 193 |
Understanding How Stocks Behave | p. 194 |
Is the Market Efficient? | p. 194 |
One True Thing | p. 195 |
Inexpensive Doesn't Mean Cheap | p. 195 |
Picking the Right Stocks | p. 196 |
Blue-Chip Stocks | p. 196 |
Cyclical Stocks | p. 196 |
Penny Stocks | p. 196 |
Learning About Stocks on Quicken.com | p. 197 |
Foreign Stocks | p. 198 |
Tracking Stocks | p. 198 |
Growth Stocks | p. 199 |
Value Stocks | p. 199 |
Stock Strategies | p. 200 |
Going for Growth | p. 200 |
Seeking Value | p. 200 |
Contrarian Investing | p. 201 |
Dogs of the Dow | p. 201 |
Dollar-Cost Averaging | p. 201 |
Buying Direct with DRIPs | p. 202 |
Doing Your Research | p. 203 |
Tracking Analysts' Estimates and Research | p. 203 |
Researching Stocks on Quicken.com | p. 206 |
Reading an Annual Report | p. 210 |
It's the Economy | p. 212 |
Picking the Best Stocks | p. 217 |
The Nature of Stocks | p. 218 |
Fundamentally Speaking | p. 219 |
The Financial Statements | p. 219 |
Finding Financial Statements and SEC Filings on Quicken.com | p. 220 |
Learning More in Quicken.com's Glossary | p. 221 |
Reading the Balance Sheet | p. 222 |
Reading the Income Statement | p. 223 |
Reading the Statement of Cash Flows | p. 225 |
Using Quicken.com's Stock Evaluator | p. 226 |
Building Stock Screens | p. 231 |
Choosing Your Criteria | p. 231 |
Screening Stocks with Quicken and Quicken.com | p. 232 |
Applying Technical Analysis | p. 236 |
Reading the Charts | p. 236 |
Charting Multiple Stocks | p. 238 |
Charting Market Indexes | p. 238 |
Charting Stocks with Quicken | p. 239 |
Charting Stocks with Quicken.com | p. 242 |
Online Trading | |
Opening a Brokerage Account | p. 249 |
Finding the Best Broker | p. 250 |
What Do Brokers Do? | p. 250 |
What Do You Need in an Online Broker? | p. 252 |
Finding an Online Broker with Quicken.com | p. 253 |
Features of Online Brokerages | p. 254 |
Finding a Quicken Partner Brokerage Firm | p. 256 |
You're Covered | p. 257 |
Downsides of Online Brokerages | p. 260 |
Opening Your Online Account | p. 260 |
Setting Up an Account for Online Investment Tracking | p. 261 |
Account Security | p. 264 |
Getting the Most from Your Account | p. 264 |
Ready, Set, Trade | p. 267 |
The Stock Exchanges | p. 268 |
The Over-the-Counter Market | p. 269 |
How Trades Are Made | p. 269 |
The Path of a Trade | p. 270 |
Electronic Communications Networks | p. 270 |
Trading Terminology | p. 270 |
Calling Up Quotes | p. 273 |
Delayed vs. Real-Time Quotes | p. 273 |
Where to Get Quotes | p. 274 |
When a Stock Splits | p. 276 |
Getting Quotes on Quicken.com | p. 277 |
Getting Your Order Right | p. 280 |
Types of Orders | p. 280 |
Night Moves: After-Hours Trading | p. 281 |
The Risks and Rewards of Day Trading | p. 283 |
How Day Trading Works | p. 283 |
How Day Traders Make Money | p. 284 |
What You'll Need | p. 285 |
Monltoring and Expanding Your Portfolio | |
Keeping on Track | p. 289 |
The Importance of Portfolio Tracking | p. 290 |
What Portfolio Tracking Does | p. 290 |
How Much Is Enough? | p. 291 |
Measuring Total Return | p. 291 |
The Benefit of Entering Transactions into Quicken | p. 292 |
Manually Entering Investment Transactions into Quicken | p. 293 |
Downloading Investment Transactions into Quicken | p. 297 |
Viewing Portfolio Performance | p. 307 |
Generating Investment Reports and Graphs | p. 308 |
Keeping Tabs on Your Stocks | p. 310 |
Get the News You Need | p. 311 |
Checking for News with Quicken and Quicken.com | p. 312 |
Company News: Mergers, Spin-offs, and Buybacks | p. 314 |
Insider Signals | p. 317 |
Other Online News Resources | p. 318 |
Go to the Boards | p. 318 |
Finding Insider Trading News on Quicken.com | p. 319 |
Steer Clear of Rumors and Fraud | p. 320 |
Checking In at Quicken.com's Message Boards | p. 321 |
Measuring Your Portfolio's Performance | p. 325 |
Comparing Your Investments to Benchmarks | p. 326 |
Benchmarking Stocks | p. 326 |
Tracking Indexes with Quicken | p. 327 |
Benchmarking Mutual Funds | p. 328 |
Checking Mutual Fund Benchmarks on Quicken.com | p. 329 |
Rebalancing Your Portfolio | p. 330 |
Why Rebalance? | p. 330 |
Adjusting Your Holdings | p. 330 |
Addition and Subtraction | p. 331 |
Rebalancing Your Portfolio with Quicken | p. 331 |
When to Hold 'Em and When to Fold 'Em | p. 333 |
Setting Target Prices | p. 334 |
Using Quicken's Price Alerts | p. 335 |
Other Selling Strategies | p. 337 |
Will It Turn Around? | p. 338 |
Revising Your Master Plan | p. 338 |
Taking Investing to the Next Level | p. 343 |
Inside Initial Public Offerings | p. 344 |
Doing the Deal | p. 345 |
Reading the Prospectus | p. 345 |
Getting Your Hands on Shares | p. 346 |
IPO Investing Strategies | p. 347 |
Other Types of Offerings | p. 347 |
Finding IPO Information on Quicken.com | p. 348 |
Buying on Margin | p. 349 |
Boosting Your Profits with Options | p. 351 |
Buying an Options Contract | p. 351 |
Getting Started in Options | p. 353 |
Investments to Add to Your Portfolio | p. 354 |
Playing the Indexes with Exchange-Traded Funds | p. 355 |
Using Warrants to Boost Stock Returns | p. 355 |
Having It Both Ways with Convertible Bonds | p. 356 |
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