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Themes & Topics
Cyber Investing

Compete for prizes in CNNfn's Final Bell stock market simulation

• New Sites Are Moving Markets

• Low Cost Brokers, New Sources Of Information: Chat Groups, Newsletters, Listservs, and Home Pages,

• On-Line Trading

• Role of SEC

• Java Software

• Be Warned

• Resources On-Line

New Sites Are Moving Markets

• Online hype muscling stocks. (CNNfn)
• Amateur Internet gurus are moving stocks in a big way. (BusinessWeek)
• Motley Fool Investment Site Moves Market. (N.Y. Times)
• Investing In A Fool's Paradise. (FORTUNE)
• The Motley Fool Home Page.

Low Cost Brokers:

• The Best And Worst Discount Brokers (smartmoney)

• Web Site Review (PC Magazine)

• Competing with Wall Street and Discount Brokers. (BusinessWeek)
• Investors Rush The Net. (Time)
• Brokers lukewarm towards the Internet. (CNNfn)

New Sources Of Information:
Chat Groups, Newsletters, Listservs, and Home Pages

• Investors Beware In Internet Chat Rooms (SF Chronicle, June 22, 1998)
• Bond Investing Online (Forbes)
• DST opens mutual fund database to Internet links (webfinance)
• On-line advisory service no threat to planners
• Sources of online financial information. (N.Y. Times)
• Internet spurs spending by financial powers. (GT Online)
• Need data on a fund? Check out its home page. (U.S. News)
• Cyberspace: The investor's New Edge. (FORTUNE)
• The Web's Financial District Is Bustling. (PC Magazine)
• Listserv: Tom Petruno's thrice-weekly Market Beat column available in electronic form free of charge. (Los Angeles Times)

On-Line Trading

• WSJ Special Report:
  • Comparison Shopping
  • Consider the Source
  • The Rush to Trade On-Line Is Changing The Nature of Individual Investing

  • Trading On-Line vs. the Old-Fashioned Way: One Reporter's Step-by-Step Comparison

  • What Can You Do If You Have A Grievance About an On-Line Trade?

• Online brokers widen net Services expand after electronic trading jam in October market fall (SF Chronicle, June 19, 1998)
• Online trading is quick, cheap and growing fast. But this kind of convenience can be dangerous (Time, May 11, 1998)
• Online stock trading: Easy, addictive (USAToday, September 14, 1997)
• Who's really on top in on-line brokerage? (webfinance, registration required)
• Electronic Trading Is Sizzling (San Francisco Chronicle, September 27, 1996)
• Schwab to offer trading via World-Wide Web. (PC Week)
• Yahoo! - Online Trading

Role of SEC

• SEC Charges 44 With Fraud Via Internet (San Francisco Chronicle, October 29, 1998)
• Market regulators step up online enforcement. (Money)
• easing regulation. (GT Online)

Java Software

• Developed by Campbell R. Harvey at Duke University: Bond Valuation, Country Risk, 2-assets Mean-Variance graph, 3-assets Mean-Variance simulation, Price Dynamics (Black Scholes model), Graph of Options combinations (Advanced), Graph of Options combinations, Graph of Options combinations (Black-Scholes valuation), Efficient Frontier, Option Pricer, International Cost of Capital and Risk Calculator

Be Warned

• Online pyramid schemes The difference between a legitimate opportunity and a fraudulent offer (CNNfn, November 4, 1998)

• California Man Gets 10 Years in Jail For Securities Fraud on the Internet (WSJ, November 6, 1998)

• Scams on the Net (Upside, September 25, 1998)
• Stock Scams Invading the Internet (WashingtonPost, April 19, 1998)
• Avoiding Traps in On-Line Investing. (N.Y. Times)

Resources On-Line

Guide To Investing On The Web (Investor Guide)

P/E Calculator (Financial Times - registration required)