On the Web:

CheckFree Ticker Symbol Lookup  Enter the ticker symbol and get a current quote. Look for stocks, bonds, money market funds, mutual funds. 

Day Trading  From the SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission), this site provides an overview of day trading with a link to their publication, "Day Trading: Your Dollars at Risk." Also includes fact sheets, tips, and warnings about day trading and day traders.

The Internet & Online Trading  Also from the SEC, this site provides tips on investing wisely and avoiding fraud on the Internet.

Investing Online Resource Center  Learn the how-to's of investing, expand your knowledge if you are already familiar with online investing basics, try their investing simulator center to test different investing scenarios.

Kiplinger.com  Kiplinger, known for its investment advice, presents a ranking of online brokers using a weighted system. Check for additional articles in Kiplinger's magazine that rank brokers.

Most major brokerages offer online trading. Some of the better known are: 

• Charles Schwab
• Morgan Stanley
• Merrill Lynch Online Services
• E*Trade
• Daytek (Ameritrade)

There are many online brokers. These names represent only a few and no recommendation or endorsement of them is implied.

About Online Trading:

The Internet and Online Trading  From the Securities and Exchange Commission; information on how to use the Internet to invest wisely and how to avoid fraud.

As with online banking, books may provide general information on security trading online but recent magazine and newspaper articles are often a better source of information.

The Library, however, has several guides and handbooks on this subject available for checkout. To view the availability status or to place a hold, click on the title:

• The Online Trading Survival Guide: an Indispensable Handbook for Today's Wired Investor by Jack Guinan
• The electronic trading of options: maximizing online profits by Howard Abell
• Trade stocks online by Mark L. Larson
• The Day Trader's Survival Guide: How To Be Consistently Profitable in Short-term Markets by Christopher A. Farrell
• Dot.con: the greatest story ever sold by John Cassidy
• Deleteyourbroker.com: using the Internet to beat the pros on Wall Street by Christopher Byron
• The street.com: guide to smart investing in the Internet era; everything you need to know to outsmart Wall Street and select winning stocks by Dave Kansas
• CNBC 24/7 trading: around the clock, around the world by Barbara Rockefeller

For other titles on this subject check the catalog under: Investments, Computer Networks; Investments, Computer Network Resources; or Electronic Trading of Securities.

Go to the Library catalog

• Business & Company Resource Center
  Search for news and articles on online trading. An extensive business, company and industry database with news, articles, financial documents, rankings, company histories, industry reports, and more. Searchable by company, industry, or article keyword.
   
• Infotrac OneFile
  A large periodicals database featuring the full text and citations for newspaper and magazine articles. Search for articles on online investing, electronic trading, day trading, etc.
   
• Newsbank
  Consists of two databases: America’s Newspapers, which indexes the full text of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Orange County Register, San Diego Union-Tribune, USA Today, the Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle from roughly 1985 to the present; and Noticias en Español, which provides full text articles in Spanish.

Suggested search terms: Online Investing; Technological Innovations; Personal Finance—Computer Programs; Electronic Trading (Securities); Security Dealers; or Stock Exchange—Automation.

Go to the Library's databases