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20 Questions to Ask Before Selling on eBay

With over 80 million registered eBay users in the English speaking countries, consumers are empowered to buy just about anything at a price that’s fair. And millions have used eBay to either sell some of the stuff lying around the house, or they make a living utilizing this unique online flea market. The two latest additions to the 20 Questions series break the subject of “eBaying” down into two distinct books for two distinct audiences: eBay buyers and eBay sellers. And if readers were to buy both books, they’d have the complete information on how eBay works and how they could make it work for them.

20 Questions To Ask Before Selling on eBay is designed to take anyone through the steps to sell successfully and profitably. Beginning with how to set up an eBay business and organizing it for success, the book proceeds through how to choose the best products, how to design an attractive and effective listing, getting paid, automating auctions, customer service, and more.

Both 20 Questions eBay books take readers step-by-step through the process, each chapter building on the information taught. The books are written as a fresh and lively narrative, with plenty of bullets, checklists and useful advice learned from the authors’ experiences. It’s all the information both buyers and sellers need to not only get started, but to do eBay their way!

Companion Volume 20 Questions to Ask Before Buying on eBay (ISBN 1-56414-847-5)

Lissa McGrath has worked as the assistant to Skip McGrath, for over four years and is involved in all aspects of the transaction. When Skip is on vacation, Lissa keeps the auctions going and runs the business in his absence. She is the copy editor for The eBay Power Seller’s Manual and How to Start and Run an eBay Consignment Business. Lissa also writes a bi-weekly column for AuctionBytes, the leading online auction news media company.

Skip McGrath (eBay screenname mcgrrrr) is an eBay Gold PowerSeller, hosting the store ‘The Auction Seller’s Resource’ who has received 100% positive feedback on over 3,000 reviews.

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5 Stars Good reference guide
I really liked this book. It gave me all the informations I need to start selling on Ebay. I did research on the ebay website and this book gives it to you in a nutshell. In addition to this book I recommend you still read ebay’s rules and regulations. I recommend this book for anyone who would like to start selling on ebay.

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Investing Online for Dummies 5th Edition

Everybody talks about it—how much you can save , and earn, when you start an online investment program. If you’ve decided you’re ready to find out what all the excitement’s about, you’re in luck. Investing Online For Dummies has been completely revised and updated with the latest tools, Web sites, rule changes, and tips that can make online investing easy and profitable.

To be a successful online investor, you need to know your way around the Web and you also need to understand something about investments. Investing Online For Dummies can help you make sound financial decisions by:

• Outlining basic investment fundamentals
• Explaining how stock options work and helping you determine the value of your employee stock option plan
• Pointing out costly traps and ways to avoid them
• Directing you to resources that provide information you need and helping you make sense of it
• Showing you how to use the Internet to become a savvy investor

This 5^th edition of Investing Online For Dummies provides clear instructions and ample illustrations, taking you from the basics of online investing to making your own online stock transactions to purchasing bonds online. A few of the things you’ll discover:

• What’s important in an online brokerage and how to locate one that meets your needs
• How to find Internet resources that help you select mutual funds
• How to use stock online screens to find investment candidates that will move you toward your financial goals
• Where to look for direct stock purchase and ShareBuilder plans that let you invest online for as little as $25 a month
• How Internet tools can help you analyze and choose stocks and bonds
• The secrets to paying the lowest commissions when trading online

There’s so much information available on the Internet that you can easily feel overwhelmed. Investing Online For Dummies leads you through that maze, showing you how to get started, what you really need to know, where to go online to find it, and how to get the process underway. When it comes to choosing which cruise to take to celebrate your success, however, you’re on your own!

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star You don’t have to buy this.
I came here to write a review for this book, and found that a reviewer below, “A reader”, had already written what I was going to write. This book provides a reader with no information, but with long lists of websites to look at. You can access those websites most often just wasting time (like “A reader” already said). Using search engines like Google/Yahoo is much better than thumbing through this book.

5 Stars Investing Online for Dummies, 5th edition
The delivery was on time. The book is good for me

5 Stars Get Up To Speed With New Strategies, Tools and Resources
This newest edition of “Investing Online for Dummies” reflects the latest changes and improvements to online investing Web sites. Addresses building an online information system, setting up a basic investment strategy, determining how much to invest, selecting an online broker and trading online, finding the right investments, performing Internet transactions securely, saving on commissions, managing a portfolio, and much more.

5 Stars Great
This book was great and opened mind to a whole new world of investing. Thank you.

5 Stars Good Concise Overview to Get One Started
You can’t watch television these days without getting bombarded with ads for on line brokerage companies. What’s been missing has been a centralized source for information about the whole thing. This book provides that source. It’s not complete – if it were it would be so big that you couldn’t carry it around – but it’s a great start.

You can read this book from cover to cover in just a few hours. That is, just a few hours if you don’t take the time to go out on the web looking at the things she suggests. And that right there is the key to this book. Here is a good start that covers the whole field from A to Z, and at nearly each and every point along the way she points you to web sites for more information about specific points.

The problem with going to the web for more information, of course, is that web sites appear, go away, merge or whatever. She admits this, but accepts this risk and gives you multiple sites (you couldn’t possibly visit all that she mentions) or suggests ways to find a missing or dead site.

This is a great way to get the basic information you need before getting started with selecting a broker and deciding what to buy.

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The Day Trader From the Pit to the PC

Praise for The Day Trader

“A legendary S&P floor trader has written a powerful, brutally honest chronicle of his determined rise to the top of his profession. Touching and insightful, this riveting account is one of the best trading memoirs ever.”–—NELSON FREEBURG, PUBLISHER, FORMULA RESEARCH

“The Day Trader provides a rare look into the events that shaped the extraordinary character of one of the most unique people to ever put on a trading jacket . . . it comes as no surprise that Borsellino places himself at the center of the maelstrom surrounding electronic trading versus open outcry and provides a truly balanced, intelligent, and unemotional view of the momentous transformation occurring in the financial markets. It is imperative that anyone involved in trading the markets–—either traditionally or electronically–—read this story and benefit from the insights of one of the great traders of our lifetime.”–—MARIO ALBERICO, FORMER SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, ELECTRONIC TRADING, CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE

“The Day Trader is must reading for anyone in the market. Lewis Borsellino is an Italian American hero who climbed the mountain with guts and honor. The neighborhood kid will always remember where he came from.”–—DOMINIC DI FRISCO, PRESIDENT EMERITUS, JOINT CIVIC COMMITTEE OF ITALIAN AMERICANS

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2 Stars Not a book for people looking for trading education
I guess I’m spoiled by Martin Schwartz’s excellent book Pit Bull. I was expecting a trader’s autobiography something along the same line with The Day Trader, but what I got was the first 130 pages of Borsellino talking about what a tough guy he is and about his mafioso father. After that he dips into a high-level discussion of the changes to the commodities and NASDAQ exchanges over the years. There is virtually no mention of trading technique or psychology, outside of the constant tough guy braggadocio, which is pretty sad to hear from a 40-year-old guy. And definitely don’t buy it if you’re looking for trading advice or techniques. There is none to be found. If you want a nice biographical read about a trader, read Pit Bull or Reminiscences of a Stock Operator instead. Borsellino simply doesn’t write well enough to keep this one interesting. The story wanders around too much and is too repetitious.

5 Stars Excellent Book
The book is not a tech how to book but in all fairness the auther doesn’t claim it as one. This book is more of an autobiography and in that category it is a 5. The auther brags about himself at times but anyone who is that successful has a right too. Excellent read well worth the time!

1 Star A horrible read
I’m not really the type of trader who would look to this guy for trading tips, so the fact that this book was not about trading did not bother me. I don’t really consider “traders” who trade in the pits as actual traders. They have almost no commissions and they can buy at the bid and sell at the ask. If you assume that the true price of a security is in the middle of the bid/ask, then the “Trader” is automatically given an edge by simply buying and selling since they are getting a better than market price. Theoretically a monkey should be able to make a lot of money if they make enough random trades.

So it wasn’t really for trading advice that I read this book. It was more for the psychology and the macro tips of trading. There was none of it in this book. In fact I can summarize this entire book in 5 lines:

1) I’m a great fighter and I can beat up a lot of people.

2) My dad was awesome, he would beat up everyone and he was a thief and went to jail, but it wasn’t his fault and he is a great man.

3) I am very rich and the greatest trader on the planet. Only my fighting skills trump my trading skills.

4) Do not move the exchanges to electronic exchanges. I’ll give you many nonsense reasons but the real reason is that i and my other trader friends would never make a dime trading unless i had the advantageous of trading in the pit. We make a lot of money off of people and this would be taken away via a fair electronic exchange.

5) I get in a lot of fights and beat up people a lot. My dads beats up everyone too. I’m not saying fighting is great and all, but I just think i’m awesome for fighting a lot. Oh yeah, this is the second time i’m mentioning fighting but that’s just cause it’s really awesome and i’m incredibly cool for fighting.

1 Star Has nothing for a Day-trader
It is auto-biographical and has not improved my knowledge about day-trading one bit. It is more egotistical that knowledgeable. I consider it a waste of my money.

2 Stars Not a trading book, but not too boring a story
Dont know whether I had not expected much from this book or what,(I had read through many negative reviews here on Amazon that I know this is not the type of tool book nor sheer biography that one might expect), it is not so boring to me. However, in a trader reader perspective, it is at least 2,000 pips (in yen/$ term, the range in 2002) below the quality level of “Reminiscences of a stock operator” and “Pit Bull”. So unless you had no other book in your mind that you wanna read or you are a contrarian, I strongly recommend you to spend your valuable time on other ones, like those I mentioned above, or scan through the Amazon database for better alternatives.

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Trading for Dummies

The friendly, easy-to-understand guide to stock trading
Trading For Dummies presents practical, how-to guidelines on observing market behavior, identifying trends and patterns, and predicting future performance. Readers will discover how to develop strategies for when to buy and sell stocks, spot easy chart patterns, choose the right stock to trade, and develop a personal trading strategy. Readers will also find information on choosing a broker, using a trading center, and protecting their principal. Further sections provide advice on designing and keeping a trading log and using the Internet for research-plus strategies and tips for swing and day trading. Trading For Dummies is an approachable, non-intimidating guide to finding stocks that move and trades that pay.
Michael Griffis (Winchester, VA) is a stockbroker who has helped businesses and individuals manage investments in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, retirement plans, 401(k) plans, and asset management programs. Lita Epstein (Coconut Creek, FL) designs and teaches online courses on topics such as investing for retirement, getting ready for tax time, and finance and investing for women. She is the author of Streetwise Retirement Planning and the coauthor of Teach Yourself Retirement Planning in 24 Hours.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Must read for those who want to make money
Great book. Covers all the bases, including fundamental and technicals. I have read a few of the other Dummies books on investing and all were well written. This book is for those who want to make money, not just buy and hold and hope for the best. I learned more about trading/investing with the Dummies series than 4 years of college majoring in finance. And yes, I have made money.

2 Stars Not up to the Dummies standard
I had hoped that, since this book discusses both fundamental and technical analysis, it would be a balanced blend of the two. However, it is almost entirely a technical analysis book, that acknowledges the existence of fundamentals and not much else.

The fact that the book doesn’t match my investment style isn’t enough on its own to earn a two-star rating from me. Unfortunately, it is also poorly written, and poorly edited. It is wordy, jargony, confusing, vague, and occasionally (as near as I can tell) inaccurate. Most significantly, it is missing the spark that made the reputation of the Dummies books – the inspired organization and careful choice of topics that allow a single book to provide a useful foundation in a complicated subject.

That said, I did (laboriously) read the whole thing. It added some polish to my chart-reading abilities. It also helped me to understand some previously inexplicable aspects of market behavior. I am not likely to become a technical analyst anytime soon, but I now feel slightly better prepared to share the marketplace with them.

5 Stars Good start up books
The book is very fundamental but I need this anyway. This book provides clarifications on the basic of trading. You will find terminologies quickly that you will need for trading which is very helpful to me. Don’t expect this book to show you how to make money but to understand how trading works.

5 Stars Excellent foundation for the beginning trader
Trading for Dummies is an excellent book for anyone interested in starting to trade stocks. This book really kept me wanting to read on and on because every section was filled with plenty of information. The way the chapters are arranged were very good in that you don’t have to be going back and forth to understand the whole concept. One thing I noticed was that this book is for someone who wants to be a position trader as opposed to a day trader, which is good because that is what I want to do. For someone who knows absolutely nothing about how the stock market works, this book is an excellent read. Overall I give it the full five stars.

5 Stars Great Introduction
IMHO The reason the “for dummies” brand has been successfull aside from the catchy name, is the actual content and material of the books themselves.

This book has been a great read for some one like myself that already had an idea of what investing entails, but that does not preclude total beginners with no idea from gaining an immense amount of great information from this book.

It is written in plain language and is a great place for a beginner to start his journey.

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The Truth About Day Trading Stocks A Cautionary Tale About Hard Challenges and What It Takes To Succeed Wiley Trading

A realistic guide to day trading today’s stock market

The Truth About Day Trading Stocks is an uncompromisingly realistic look at the challenges involved in becoming a successful day trader. Based on author Josh DiPietro’s ten years of experience as a day trader, this book dissects the psychological and strategic pitfalls that cause most aspiring day traders to fail. Written in an engaging and sometimes humorous tone, The Truth About Day Trading Stocks relates his own experiences, and in so doing, provides the reader with valuable lessons. This book is an antidote to trading industry hype that encourages traders to believe that trading is easily learned and is a fast path to wealth. It explains that the conventional route of attending seminars, buying software, and opening an account with a major brokerage house is a path to failure. Instead, a trader must learn hard lessons of self-discipline, consistency, and staying in the game for the long haul to have a real chance of success. The goal of this guide is to slow down the over-eager, over-optimistic amateur day trader by imparting a realistic view of the challenges of day trading and providing tools, techniques, and insights to become a successful trader without losing a huge amount of money in the process.

Josh DiPietro (West Dennis, MA and New York, NY) has been day trading stocks for ten years. He operates a Web site, www.daytraderjosh.com, and provides training programs for aspiring day traders.

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