Computer Chronicles

REPEAT [Online Investing] (17x48)

Uitzenddatum: Mrt 21, 2000

Can you make a fortune through online investing? Everybody seems to be trading stocks and bonds online these days. We'll show you how you make a trade, how to integrate your investments into your personal finance software and some websites that can help you make wise investment choices. And we'll check out a new financial information service with enough power to satisfy even the most active day trader. [Episode #1748, First broadcast: 3/21/2000] DLJDirect.com Bob Flowers of DLJDirect.com explains how to sign up to trade online and how to make a trade. Dob also demonstrates the free MarketSpeed software you get with DLJ. He shows off the real-time market data you get, how you can set up a streaming ticker for any selection of stocks, funds or bonds and how you can monitor your portfolio’s overall standing in real time. Quicken Theresa McGuinness, product manager of Quicken2000 shows us how you can import new information on your stocks and bonds into your personal finance software. She demonstrates how you can use the in-built connections between Quicken and Quicken.com to update your overall financial profile, alert you to changes in, or news about, your investments, and keep track of how you are meeting your investment goals. MSN Money Central Jon Markman, Pulitzer Prize winner and managing editor at MSN’s Money Central shows us some essential (and mostly free) places you can go online to get professional quality financial information. He takes us to Yahoo Finance, MSN Investor, ClearStation.com, FreeEdgar.com and Briefing.com. He also gives us some tips on pitfalls to avoid (like trusting what people say in online finance chatrooms). WindowOnWallStreet.com Mitch Ackles shows us WindowOnWallStreet.com, a news, charts and quotes site for the high-end trader. WindowOnWallStreet used to be a software product but has been turned into a web-only monthly fee service. The best thing it offers is access to what’s called Nasdaq Level II. That means y