The Internet has leveled the financial playing field. In deleteyourbroker.com, popular financial columnist Christopher Byron shows novice and experienced investors alike how to navigate the wealth of financial information now available and zero in on the most important, the most useful, and the most reliable sites. With his trademark wit, irreverence, and a dash of healthy skepticism, he directs readers to valuable resources on the Internet -- from programs that will evaluate the asset allocation in your portfolio to sites that provide detailed information about a stock's past performance, or those that offer vital financial news, such as announcements of upcoming stock splits. deleteyourbroker.com also provides a solid primer on the fundamentals of investing, from the principles of asset allocation to how to analyze a stock and read a balance sheet and other financial documents.It does all this using Internet resources that you can access free or for a nominal charge. With the no-holds-barred approach for which he is known, Byron cuts through the hype surrounding such practices as day-trading, "Bulletin Board" stocks, online IPOs, and other get-rich-quick schemes, showing readers how to tell the difference between valuable information and misleading smoke screens. He illustrates his lessons with plenty of anecdotes from the world of business -- and spares no one. Packed with practical tips and enlivened by Byron's take-no-prisoners analysis, deleteyourbroker.com is the essential guide for anyone thinking of investing online.
Christopher Byron's career in business and financial reporting spans more than thirty years. He is currently a columnist for
Bloomberg News and a contributing editor and financial columnist at
The New York Observer (where he writes the "Back of the Envelope" column), and
MSNBC.com. In recent years he has been a regular monthly columnist for
Playboy and
Esquire as well. He is one of the best-known Web-based stock commentators today, hosting his live daily webcast,
High Noon on Wall Street with Chris Byron, as well as being featured on the radio on
Wall Street Eye Opener. His work has appeared in
New York magazine (where he wrote "The Bottom Line" column),
Money, The Wall Street Journal, George, Worth, and the
Los Angeles Times. He was also formerly the assistant managing editor at
Forbes, and an editor and correspondent at
Time. The author of three previous books,
Foreign Matter (a novel),
The Fanciest Dive and
Skin Tight, he lives in Weston, Connecticut.
Visit Chris Byron at www.deleteyourbroker.com