___________________________________________________________________ InvestorMap.com Newsletter - 5/5/1999 brought to you by: http://www.investormap.com - THE guide to investing on the web! ___________________________________________________________________ In this edition: + Intro + Investing News and Articles + Online Investing News + Personal Finance + Year 2000 Update + Free Offers + Feedback + Subscribe/Unsubscribe Instructions ___________________________________________________________________ -- Intro -- Welcome to the latest issue of the InvestorMap.com ezine. We are happy to announce that we were voted a "Top 50 Financial Site" at PRARS. We came in at number 23, but we want to do better. You can help by voting for us at: http://www.prars.com/survey.html If you find our information of use, why not forward it to a friend? Subscribe at http://investormap.com/ezine.htm Newsletter sponsorships and web site banner packages are available. 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The 30+ investment conferences they sponsor each year are available for free in real time and allows Web attendees to discuss the presentations in various chat rooms and ask questions of the presenters via E-mail. http://www.informedinvestors.com/ The Keynote Web Brokerage Index provides weekly online broker ratings based on response time and the availability of accessing and downloading the home pages of 20 brokerage web sites via industry-standard HTTP. http://keynote.com/measures/brokers/ These links will provide you with information on every type of broker from discount and full service, to online, commodity and options. http://investormap.com/broker.htm Online trading gets easier as three brokerages announce wireless trading services where investors can buy and sell stocks online via pagers, cell phones and palmtop computers. http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990423S0026 Should the NYSE and Nasdaq be threatened by emerging electronic communications networks(ECN)? Will these popular online venues for day traders and brokers to trade Nasdaq technology stocks make floor trading a thing of the past? http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/990426/26stre.htm Under the *Today's Market* section on our Daily Markets page get all the latest information on how the NYSE and Nasdaq are performing. http://investormap.com/dailymarkets.htm Got the gambling itch, but don't want to head to Vegas? Want to buy some stock, but don't have the extra cash on hand? Players Sportsbook and Casino, new owner of the wallstreet.com domain name, plans to set up a Web site that lets people place wagers on stock movements without actually investing in stocks themselves. http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/19285.html ----------- New banner sponsor on InvestorMap.com ----------- Redlands Futures and Options - http://www.profittrader.com - a commodities broker specializing in both discount and full service accounts. 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