Product Description

HOW TO MAKE A MILLION is about Jonathan Maitland's attempts to get rich by buying and selling shares from his own front room on the internet. Despite being a complete e-dunce, he mortgaged his house for GBP50,000, which he trys to turn into GBP1million within a year. This book is his diary, kept over that year, at the end of which the author sells his entire portfolio and works out how much he's made (or lost)! During the year, he interviews key players, eg. Martha Lane Fox, Raymond Snoddy and Nick Leeson, who give him advice, insights and tips, as well as lesser known names, like the 26-year-old Atlanta man who made $7 million last year without leaving his flat, and the growing numbers of builders, cabbies and barmaids who've been hooked.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #775285 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
'At last! A book about investing that doesn't read like an instruction leaflet for a computer! Maitland takes you with him every step of the way: prepare to laugh, learn ... And bite your nails. Excellent stuff.' -- ADAM FAITH 'The most entertaining financial publication I have read in ages . .. The story of the Maitland portfolio is fascinating ... 225 pages of fun and investor lessons to be learned therein' -- Terry Bond, Independent 'His efforts... are chronicled in laugh-out-loud diary entries that owe much to Adrian Mole. The whole adventure zips along at a blistering pace. Many of the insights are so spot-on...' -- Frank Fitzgibbon, The Sunday Times 'Jonathan Maitland is absolutely the last person I would set loose in cyberspace with money ... Don't read this anywhere near a mouse that can click. Terrifying' -- Charles Nevin, Independent

From the Publisher
The Diary of a Share Trader
In a remarkable phenomenon, tens of thousands of Britons have started to buy and sell stocks and shares over the Internet. By 2003, it's thought that three million people in the UK will have personal online accounts. And lots of people are - apparently - making lots of money out of it.

On Tuesday, January 4th 2000, TV broadcaster Jonathan Maitland had an idea. He would mortgage his house for £50,000 in order to try and turn it into £1,000,000 in the next twelve months via the Internet.

This is the diary of his attempt to do just that.

As well as being an invaluable 'how to' guide, packed with useful information, HOW TO MAKE YOUR MILLION FROM THE INTERNET is the funny and fascinating story of a self-confessed e-dunce who becomes a man obsessed. A fanatic whose single-minded quest begins to affect his personal life in unexpected - and often hilarious - ways.

Will he - or won't he - make a million? Only one way to find out.

'Laugh, learn . . . and bite your nails. Excellent stuff' Adam Faith

'Jonathan Maitland is absolutely the last person I would set loose in cyberspace with money. Please, above all, please don't read this anywhere near a mouse that can click. Terrifying.' Charles Nevin, The Independent

'As someone not wildly interested in the Internet or stockmarket, I didn't expect to enjoy a book about both. But from the start I was drawn in . . . It's like, I imagine, having Jonathan Maitland talk to you in the corner of the pub . . . with the added advantage that you can shut the book up every so often.' Alistair McGowan

About the Author
Jonathan Maitland is a TV broadcaster and journalist, who has written for the Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard. He reported for Radio 4's Today programme for six years, before moving on to BBC 1's Watchdog. He has presented his own TV series on cooking and the food industry, 'The Big Dinner' and also presented a TV show about cowboy builders, 'House of Horrors' which was watched by ten million viewers. He currently works for Granada TV as a reporter on the 'Tonight' programme with Trevor Macdonald.