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| About the authors | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Getting online | |
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| Essential hardware | |
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| What you will learn | |
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| The brains--computers | |
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| Modem | |
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| Monitor | |
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| Printer | |
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| Internet service providers and access providers | |
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| Browsers | |
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| Websites | |
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| Trading online | |
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| Do you really want to trade online? | |
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| What you will learn | |
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| Module outline | |
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| Don't fall foul of misconceptions | |
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| The three golden rules | |
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| Practice makes perfect | |
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| Key terms | |
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| Mechanical or discretionary? | |
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| Your very own system: you just gotta have one | |
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| News--how to get it and how to use it | |
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| What you will learn | |
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| Module outline | |
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| General news | |
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| Types of news | |
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| Case study: getting sector news | |
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| The firm | |
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| What are we looking for in company newsflow | |
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| Key terms | |
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| Search engines | |
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| Summary | |
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| Choosing stocks--technical analysis | |
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| Tools and strategies | |
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| What you will learn | |
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| Module outline | |
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| TA: What? Why? | |
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| The tools and the strategies | |
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| A little more sophisticated analysis | |
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| Momentum-based strategies | |
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| The final instalment--nearly there | |
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| Stochastics | |
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| MACD (or Mac-D if you're hungry) | |
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| A quick round-up of the tools and strategies | |
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| Technical sites and software | |
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| Choosing stocks--fundamentals | |
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| Key ratios and statistics | |
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| What you will learn | |
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| Module outline | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Price and volume | |
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| Growth rates | |
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| Valuation ratios | |
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| Picking stocks based on 'cash is king' | |
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| Cash flow and net income | |
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| Share-related items | |
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| Picking stocks based on dividends, management effectiveness and profitability | |
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| Dividend information | |
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| Management effectiveness | |
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| Profitability | |
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| Picking stocks based on what the experts think | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Performance | |
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| Institutional ownership | |
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| Insider trading | |
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| Earnings estimates | |
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| Fundamentals--web guides and tests | |
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| Web guides | |
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| Summary | |
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| Making the trade | |
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| Choosing brokers | |
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| What you will learn | |
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| Module outline | |
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| On or off? | |
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| Security: how safe is the process? | |
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| What to look for | |
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| The sites | |
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| Broker ranking tables | |
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| More and more lists of brokers | |
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| Summary | |
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| Opening an account | |
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| Getting going: opening an account and all that jazz | |
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| Placing your first trade | |
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| Types of orders | |
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| Using your account | |
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| Summary | |
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| Planning trades | |
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| What you will learn | |
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| Module outline | |
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| What works? Building a trading strategy | |
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| Journal keeping | |
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| Seven traders | |
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| How much risk can you tolerate? | |
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| How to manage risk | |
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| Ten-step trading analysis form for shares | |
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| Monitoring | |
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| What you will learn | |
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| Module outline | |
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| Monitoring what? | |
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| Monitoring when? | |
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| How the internet helps | |
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| The sites | |
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| Summary | |
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| Stay sharp--educate thyself | |
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| What you will learn | |
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| Module outline | |
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| Trawl the net: search engines | |
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| Market news and commentary | |
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| Recommendation pedlars: gurus and their newsletters | |
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| The sites | |
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| Discussion forums | |
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| Chatrooms and boards | |
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| E-zines | |
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| Summary | |
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| Recommended reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |