Description: The Wall Street Journal is the world's most authoritative source of business and financial information. And the World Wide Web's most successful and acclaimed source for critical business news and information is The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition. What better source, then, for the most authoritative, best written guide for steering investors through the Internet's vast array of financial information, tools, resources and opportunities than the editors and reporters of the Interactive Edition?

The explosive growth of the Internet and online services has transformed individual investing. The sophisticated tools and access to information once enjoyed only by financial professionals and the most well-heeled of investors are now easily available to anyone with a computer and a modem. But online investing can be a treacherous cyber jungle. Online Investing provides the solid information investors need to critically evaluate information they find on the Net, steering them toward reliable resources and away from dubious ones. Readers will learn how to screen and select stocks and mutual funds, choose an online broker, understand the criteria which make for a useful stock screen, evaluate many of the leading personal-finance websites, avoid scams, and recognize trouble spots (such as the popular financial-information website that takes cash from companies eager to be its "Stock Pick of the Month.")

The Wall Street Journal is known for its lively writing, clarity, and use of colorful examples, all qualities which will be apparent in Online Investing.

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