Online Stock Trading Comparison of Related Books

I like the fact that he includes coverage of how to choose a good broker because there’s just too many of them on the internet for a novice to make an informed decision. There’s a lot to figure out even before we can safely make an comparison between brokerage firms and their fees. Griffis starts at the bottom and explains how to decipher online information before he tries to tell us what to do with it. I’m getting this one for sure.

“Investing Online for dummies” by Kathleen Sindell is not dummy enough for me. She first came out with the book in 2000 and it sank for the very same reason. In this updated version, she kept the same first sentence although she did get rid of most of the dead links that were in her first book. That may be the only difference however, because the rest of it looks frighteningly familiar. Sindell probably should have just broken out of the “dummy” mold and geared her book more toward the sophisticated investor.

As far as an comparison between these two, there really isn’t much of a comparison at all. Giffis starts at the beginning, Sindell doesn’t. I vote for “Trading for Dummies”.


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