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Investing Online

FOR

DUMmIES

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5 TH EDITION

by Kathleen Sindell, PhD

Investing Online For Dummies ® , 5th Edition

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About the Author

Kathleen Sindell is the author of Managing Your Money Online For Dummies

(Wiley, 2004), Safety Net: Protecting Your Business on the Internet (Wiley, 2002),

Loyalty Marketing for the Internet Age (Dearborn, 2000), The Unofficial Guide

to Buying a Home Online (Hungry Minds, 2000), and A Hands-On Guide to

Mortgage Banking Internet Sites , a separate directory published by Mortgage

Banking Magazine (2000, 1999, 1998, 1997). Dr. Sindell is a contributing author

to the Encyclopedia of Computer Science (Groves Dictionaries Inc., 2000) and

the online investing columnist for Investor Direct magazine (1999). She is the

author of The Handbook of Real Estate Lending (McGraw-Hill Professional

Publishing, 1996). Dr. Sindell is an expert on electronic commerce and is an

adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University MBA program. She is

the former Associate Director of the Financial Management and Commercial

Real Estate Programs for the University of Maryland, University College

Graduate School of Management & Technology.

Dr. Sindell provides consulting and publications about management, finance,

security, and real estate in the e-commerce environment. Her goal is to

improve the quality of life and economic well-being of people and business

organizations by providing information that they might not otherwise have

or understand.

She received her B.A. in Business from Antioch University, an MBA in Finance

from the California State University at San Jose, and a PhD in Administration

and Management from Walden University, Institute for Advanced Studies.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my dear friends Arlene Meilich and Gail Pasternack.

Author’s Acknowledgments

Investing Online for Dummies, 5th Edition, illustrates the latest trends in

online investing and represents my desire to help people take control of their

finances by accessing high-quality Web-based investing information. My grati-

tude and thanks to Bob Woerner, senior acquisitions editor, for his guidance.

Development editor Mark Enochs made working on this book a joy. My appre-

ciation to Andy Hollandbeck and Teresa Artman for their excellent copy edit-

ing. It was a pleasure to work with technical editor Dan Chesler. I am also

grateful to the many folks who work behind the scenes at Wiley Publishing.

It was a delight to work with my literary agent, Carole McClendon, and all

the folks at Waterside Productions on this fifth edition of Investing Online

For Dummies .

A very special thank you to my brother-in-law, Gerald Sindell, for his pro-

found counsel on everything relating to the business of publishing.

Publisher’s Acknowledgments

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