Investing Online For Dummies^®, 8th Edition

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Why reading this book is worth your while

Who invests online?

Conventions Used in This Book

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Getting Started Investing Online

Part II: Using Online Investment Resources

Part III: Maximizing Investment Knowledge

Part IV: The Part of Tens

Bonus Chapters on the Website: Alternative Investing Strategies

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Getting Started Investing Online

Chapter 1: Getting Yourself Ready for Online Investing

Why Investing Online Is Worth Your While

Getting Started

Measuring How Much You Can Afford to Invest

Turning yourself into a big saver

Using personal finance software

Perusing personal finance websites

Saving with web-based savings calculators

Relying on the residual method

Using web-based goal-savings calculators

Deciding How You Plan to Save

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Learning the Lingo

Setting Your Expectations

Keeping up with the rate of return

The power of compounding

Determining How Much You Can Expect to Profit

Studying the past

What the past tells you about the future

Gut-Check Time: How Much Risk Can You Take?

Passive or Active? Deciding What Kind of Investor You Plan to Be

How to know if you’re a passive investor

Sites for passive investors to start with

How to know whether you’re an active investor ...