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Title: SALES ONLINE DIRECT EXPANDS SHIPPING CALCULATOR APPLICATION.(aiShip )
Publication: Productivity Software (Newsletter)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Worldwide Videotex
Volume: 16Issue: 9Page: NA

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For the geek who's an investor, and the investor who's ageek, we present Online Investing Hacks, 100industrial-strength, bleeding edge tips, tools andtechniques for analyzing and managing online portfolios.

Individual investors have become more computer-literate andtechnology-dependent than ever before.Whether you'relooking for suitable investments, studying alternatives, ormanaging your portfolios, you need data.The Internet canbe a goldmine of financial data and research, but today'sonline investors also use spreadsheets, databases, andfinancial applications to select, study and manageinvestments.If your proficiency has grown to the pointwhere you crave industrial-strength tips and tools toturbo-charge your efforts, this is the book for you.

Online Investing Hacks covers:
Screening Investments
Collecting Data
Fundamental Analysis
Technical Analysis
Executing Trades
Investing in Mutual Funds
Portfolio Management
Updating Stock Data
Financial Planning

Other books for managing online investing are either out ofdate, are for beginners and don't go beyond the most basicadvice, or are so dull and boring they squeeze that last bitof fun out of the topic.Online Investing Hacks is for thecustomer who wants to know the latest techniques, to gobeyond the basics, who gets jazzed by cool online tools andservices, and who actually wants to have a bit of fun whiletrying to strike it rich (or at least not lose their shirt). ... Read more

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good information sources
This book is clearly written and user friendly. Biafore gives links to information sources, making it easy for the reader to get more information on each of the hacks. These links alone are worth the price of the book.

Good book, useful tools, beginner thru expert
I've been trading for over twenty years, including a period as a floor trader on the Chicago Board of Trade.Even with that experience there are tips and tricks in this book I found useful to the point where I employ them daily. To be complete as a reviewer I will say there is a lot of pretty basic stuff from my point of view, but still well worth reviewing since some of it I had forgotten.

Well written, easy reading, well organized

This book can pay for itself very quickly...
Online Investing Hacks by Bonnie Biafore (O'Reilly) is one of those books that can pay for itself in short order, as well as over and over.

Chapter list:Screening Investments; Hacking Excel for Financial Analysis; Collecting Financial Data; Analyzing Company Fundamentals; Technical Analysis; Executing Trades; Investing in Mutual Funds; Managing Your Portfolio; Financial Planning; Index

I worked at Enron from 1998 through 2001, and spent plenty of time during that dot.com era following my stock portfolio.I watched my Enron stock value go from incredible value to a point where it cost more to sell the stock than it was worth.I won a few bets (face it, that's what they were) on a few dot.coms and lost many more.What could have been an incredible nest egg, isn't.This book would have been a lifesaver if I had read and paid attention to it a few years ago.Biafore shows you how you can analyze and invest wisely using a variety of tools available to everyone.

If you're an Excel user, you'll find it an invaluable tool for analysis.She'll show you how you can use it to create financial charts (#13), calculate compound annual rates of growth (#26), and use rational values to buy and sell wisely (#36).#39 - Spot Hanky Panky with Cash Flow Analysis (using Enron as an example) would have literally saved me hundreds of thousands of dollars had I known about it.Even if you don't care about the investing tips, the hack on downloading data via Excel web queries (#7) was something I didn't know how to do (or that you could even do it!).The book has a little something for everyone.

As with all Hacks titles, you probably won't be interested in every single item.Some may not be applicable to your situation or may be too complex for what you care to handle.But all it would take is one hack to work out and change your investing for this book to pay huge dividends.If you do your own investing, you owe it to yourself to get this book.

Excellent Reference/Resource
Online Investing Hacks is an excellent introduction to the world of investment. Though the title does contain the word 'Online', I would say that the general information the book provides on investing is not limited to the online realm.

Overall, I was very happy with the book, and found it incredibly useful. Though I do have several investments (401K, some stock, mutual funds etc) I would hardly consider myself an authority on the subject. This book provided very detailed explanations and tips on various forms of investment, from CD's to Index funds, and everything in between. While the experienced investor might not glean much from reading this book, anyone just getting started will find it an excellent reference, and resource.

The format of the book is similar to the other books in the 100 * Hacks series published by O'Reilly. There are exactly 100 hacks, or topics, which are spread across 9 chapters. Each one is an individual entity and can be read and understood without reliance on any of the other hacks.

One minor annoyance I had with the book is that it is geared toward those of you who, for some reason or another, run Microsoft's Windows OS, or have access to Microsoft Excel. Luckily, of the Excel examples that I played with, Open Office's Calc program handled them with minimal tweaking.

I can easily recommend this book to anyone who wants to invest, but is unsure of what to invest in, or needs some tips on making the most of preexisting investments. Those of you who enjoy research and building your own stats and graphs will also find parts of this book rather intriguing, as it covers data acquisition and manipulation with Excel in great detail. It will make an excellent addition to my reference shelf, and I have a feeling it will be well thumbed through in a very short time.

Excellent resource for all investors
It seems like everyone is involved in investing in some form or another.While I always felt like I should be investing too, it was never clear to me how to begin this process.After all, it's my money.How can I be sure I'm investing in something that will provide some sort of reasonable return?This book is an excellent resource in answering some of those questions and putting the new investor on the right track.

This book is written in the same format as the other "hacks" series by O'Reilly.This format is very easy to read, and the format makes it very easy to find answers.Rather then having to read the book from cover to cover, the reader can pick out topics they are dealing with, read the answer, and move on.Since many of the people interesting in a book of this nature will likely have little time, the book's format works to its advantage.

The book begins with some basic introduction to the stock market and tips for selecting appropriate stocks or mutual funds.The whole middle section of the book deals with data analysis.The author discusses how to understand a company's balance sheet (e.g. what that P/E ratio means), how to spot companies in financial trouble, how to pick a good stock, and even how to trade.There is also a good discussion on minimizing the effect of taxes on your little return on investment.

The author even goes further and gets into a discussion on financial planning.In addition to discussing debt reduction, the author also talks about IRA plans and different strategies for saving for your child's education expenses.I think my favorite part of this book was the discussion on different education savings plans.The author discusses the ins and outs (as well as tax consequences) of each of the plans, and provides some examples illustrating the fact that it's better to start saving earlier than later.

This is an excellent book, not just for its investing advice, but also for its sound financial planning.This is a great book for anyone who is interested in increasing their wealth, saving for a rainy day, or simply saving for future financial goals.


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This digital document is an article from FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1088 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Technology: friend and foe.(RESPIRATORY CARE ON-LINE)
Author: Lisa Rapple
Publication: FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: 40(2)

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We use the square of odd and even numbers to get not only the proof of market movements, but the cause." W.D. Gann.

The purpose of this work is to explain concisely and in detail simple mathematical and graphical techniques for applying WD Gann's Square of Nine to real world stock, stock option, and forex trading situations. The Square of Nine is not your usual method of technical analysis.It's like nothing you've ever seen. A completely unrelated technique that either confirms or contradicts your usual methods can be invaluable when making decisions. The Square of Nine is not the magic bullet, although it can seem like it at times. It is about as objective as it gets. Either price and time square or they don't.

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The Cabell case belongs to comedy in the grand manner. For fifteen years or more the man wrote and wrote--good stuff, sound stuff, extremely original stuff, often superbly fine stuff--and yet no one in the whole of this vast and incomparable Republic arose to his merit--no one, that is, save a few encapsulated enthusiasts, chiefly somewhat dubious. It would be difficult to imagine a first-rate artist cloaked in greater obscurity, even in the remotest lands of Ghengis Khan. The newspapers, reviewing him, dismissed him with a sort of inspired ill-nature; the critics of a more austere kidney--the Paul Elmer Mores, Brander Matthewses, Hamilton Wright Mabies, and other such brummagem dons--were utterly unaware of him. ... Read more

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Troubadores, Courtships and Nostalgia for Youthful Love
The "line" extends over ten courtships from April 14, 1355 to May 27, 1559 and traverses northern France and southern England during the Hundred Years War,the rise of the French Monarchy and the accession of the Tudor Family to the English Throne. In the first courtship, Sir Adhelmar deNointel and Hugues d'Arques vie for the hand ofMelite de Puysange. Huguesand Melite marry but have to flee to England to save their lives. From thiscouple a line develops that goes back and forth from England and France.Sylvia, Melite's daughter, and Falstaff are youthful lovers, but marryothers. Noel, Sylvia's son, vies with Francois Villon for the hand ofCatherine de Vaucelles and wins.And so it goes.The stories aroundFalstaff, Villon and Will Sommers--court fool to King Henry VIII providepathos, wild adventure and wit in that order. Cabell makes a magnficentsummation of the line: "For they loved very greatly, these men andwomen of the past.Nature tricked them to noble ends, lured them to skyeyheights of adoration and sacrifice.At bottom they were, perhaps, no moreheroical than you or I: Indeed, Melite was a light woman, and Falstaff isscarcely describable as immaculate; Villon thieved, and will Sommers wasbut a fool . . . and yet to each in turn was granted to love greatly, toknow at least one hourof pure magnanimity.This work was a favorite ofPresident Theodore Roosevelt and his letter of praise of the work to theauthor was one of Cabell's prized possessions. ... Read more

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A Prayer

The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous,
powerful, or "good," but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiate
health, cheerfulness, calm courage and good will. I wish to live without
hate, whim, jealousy, envy, fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank,
natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected--ready to say "I do
not know," if it be so, and to meet all men on an absolute equality--to
face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

I wish others to live their lives, too--up to their highest, fullest and
best. To that end I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate,
give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not
needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help
themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example,
inference, and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That
is to say, I desire to be radiant--to radiate life.



Life and Expression

By exercise of its faculties the spirit grows, just as a muscle grows
strong thru continued use. Expression is necessary. Life is expression,
and repression is stagnation--death.

Yet, there can be right and wrong expression. If a man permits his life
to run riot and only the animal side of his nature is allowed to express
itself, he is repressing his highest and best, and the qualities not
used atrophy and die.

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