Amateur hour on Wall Street

摘要

Nancy sy is a 42-year-old credit specialist for Syncor International, a Woodland Hills, Calif, pharmaceutical distributor. Sy used to invest in the blue chips like Merck, Philip Morris and McDonald's. But starting in early 1997 she began buying Web stocks through an account at E-Trade, using tips from the Motley Fool Web site. In two years she has increased her portfolio from $39,000 to $100,000-plus by investing in stocks like Amazon.com, America Online and eBay.