Personal Investing Online

(This is a Chapter Exerpt from a book on Investing Ghost written by Glenn Hefley -- this is chapter 7 -- Personal Investing Online)

Online access is the greatest development in the last century for personal investors. All levels of investing have benefited from this explosion of information and communication, but the personal investor has reaped the greater portion of the pie. Information and access to other investors, and investor groups have given the home researcher tools that use to take brokers and advisors decades to create and groom. This isn't to say that all of the information out there on the internet is "real" or "correct", but a good portion of it is, and there are more than enough resources to place you in decision making positions.

To be accurate, it really isn't the Information age, but rather the Communication age. The computer started out as a source of information storage and access. Spread Sheets were quite nice to crunch some numbers and databases for notes were good tools. When the computer was connected to the internet and given access to other investors however, it became a tool of communication. Email, news groups, news websites, personal and company blogs, as well as investor forums sprang up give the personal investor access to a huge community of people looking for real information.
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