This is a nuts and bolts guide to opening online accounts, getting the right kind of computer equipment, establishing web security, accessing accounts and selecting online brokerages. The author, a financial writer, takes the reader through the distinctions between online investors, who tend to be fundamentalists interested in corporate earnings and market conditions, and day traders, who tend to follow such technical indicators as momentum and volume.
Canadian investors can and do trade online.
But the online industry has been shaken by frequent reports of atrocious service, long waits during which stock prices wander adversely to the interest of the trader, useless help desks, and bad trade reporting and correction. Your Broker will be helpful to the investor who has, in spite of current problems,decided to be his own broker and chosen to trade online. It's complete enough that one should not wade into online trading without it. Read it and be warned.