The Internet has breached the Portland stone walls of the stockbrokers' offices and unleashed a tide of highly valuable financial information. Up-to-the-second facts and figures that can be captured by the PC user and transformed into pure profit through investment.

The silent revolution has been chronicled in a new book, More Profit from your PC, by David Linton, the young Australian founder of London-based Updata Software, a market leader in software packages for the UK investor.

No longer does the personal investor have to rely on secretive City types to pass on financial information - it's all starting to appear on the Internet. If you know where to look.

Linton's easy to read narrative tells you exactly how to obtain a slice of the action and what it will cost you (there's plenty of info for free, too).

The man with the mouse not only spells out the difference between gut feeling and gut reaction but shows the reader - using 250 graphics - exactly how trend-lines work and why it's essential to cut losses and let profits run.

"You might not have noticed," says Linton, "but for 90 percent of the time share prices are going nowhere - so investors have to concentrate on the remaining 10 percent where fortunes are found and lost."

The graph, he demonstrates, represents everything that everyone in the market already knows. The skill is to beat the professionals with the power of the PC.

Profit from your PC is available from all leading bookstores including Dillons, Waterstones and Foyles and has an RRP of ú14.99. For more information please contact: Jacki Vause at V&A Ltd, 115a Gloucester Place, London, W1H 3PJ. Tel: 0171 224 4554. Fax: 0171 935 4052. Email: vausey@aol.com; or David Linton at Updata Software on 0181 874 8191.

The RAM-raiders have the city within their Net. The future beckons the home-based investor locked on to the information superhighway.

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