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Highly Recommended Sites:
WallStreetTape.com
Stock Market News Portal offering custom stock market content, Stock Charts, Stock Quotes, Business News, and Stock Market News.
AIMR.org
This is the site of the Association for Investment management and Research, the "governing body" for Chartered Financial Analysts. Most analysts and portfolio managers are CFAs and this site provides a way to learn what they are talking about.
Investopedia.com
Excellent source for educational articles on investing.
Blackstrap Capital
Provides a proprietary spreadsheet for analyzing stocks. This subscription tool organizes financial data into graphs and tables that help investors get a handle on a company's fundamentals.
BigCharts.com
Real time market and company news and a good charting tool.
Investors.com
Website for Investors Business Daily. Both are great sources of information
on stocks. While the paper's content is a little to focused on technical analysis,
it is a good source of new ideas on underfollwed stocks.
SEC.gov
One of the better government sites! From the home page you can access news, check broker credentials and, most importantly, get free access to company filings (a must for careful investors).
NASDAQ.com
Lionshares.com
Good source for finding out what institutions are buying/selling.
BizStats.com
"No chats, just stats." Site provides free access to useful business statistics and online analysis of businesses and industries. You should bookmark this one.
Contrarian Investing Association
Interesting site with good links.
Fundamental Research Sources:
CBS MarketWatch
Real-time business news
The OSU Virtual Finance Library
A robust reference site brought to you by The Ohio State University.
Zacks Investment Research
One of the major data aggregators left. Zacks collects EPS forecasts and research reports and develops consensus estimates.
On24.com
Business news and commentaries
SmartMoney.com
Your basic business news site (with some pay per view stuff), but the most unique thing is their graphical presentation of how stocks and sectors are performing. This multicolored chart provides a good perspective of what's going on.
Wall Street City
Headlines and commentary, but also provides some stock screening tools.
WSRN.com
A little bit of everything.
Statistical Data Locators
Brought to you by Nanyang Technological University Library, this is a great site to search for data from government agencies and other original sources.
ContraryInvestor.com
Monthly commentary from a different perspective. A good site that also provides a "Library" and useful Links page.
Stock Worm
Provides a suite of tools for stock analysis. Most of the offerings are technical tools, not much fundamental data.
Investorguide.com
Provides good news and chart offerings, but the most impressive thing is the numerous links to other sources.
Multex.com
Good site. You can buy research reports form all the main brokerage houses and they have good email newsletters and on-line chat sessions.
Lycos Finance
Like Yahoo Finance, it provides a multitude of information on topical stocks and headline news.
Goldstock.com
Cyclical trading system ($220 for 2-year subscription) for stocks, commodities and options.
411Stocks
"Detailed stock information on all US stocks, including analysts' recommendations, earnings estimates, and technical indicators. "
Completetrader.com
Professional traders' secrets revealed.
Fantasy Stock Market
"Free, fun and educational investment game. "
A Forecasting Stock Split Report
Our Stock Split Report is dedicated to forecasting stock splits and providing you such information before the split is announced.
1 Market Reporter
"A Great Business and Finance Site. This site includes stockpicks, news, up & downgrades, and much more! "
DreamTrade.com - Financial Portal For All The Investors.
Live daytrading chat room will open in market hours(9:30-4:00EST). The room is hosted by professionals with many years of experience
on daytrading.
StreetForce.com
Separating Hype from Hope on the Street
Big Play Stocks
The place where playing the stock market is a sport!
StreetQ
Your first source for financial rumors.
BuckInvestor.com
Building Wealth By bucking The Trend
CyberInvest.com
CyberInvest.com offers free guides to hundreds of the best investing resources on the Web.
The guides are formatted to allow at-a-glance comparison of investing tools,
and organized for your convenience in functional categories such as stock prospecting, company research,
mutual funds, discount brokers, IPOs, portfolios, news, global investing, and more.
MicroStar Research and Training
"Easy to use stocks, bonds, mutual funds and futures software available. Take control of your financial future."
Summit Trading
A Houston-based day trading firm with offices around the country. Remote trading is also offered!
StockProfilers.com
The Web's fastest growing investment site catering to the needs of daytraders and short-term investors.
Our goal is to educate and inform our investors. We provide free strategies and stock profiles that we feel have huge upside potential.
Trading Sites:
(While we prefer a long-term investment philosophy, these sites are presented for your information)
JagNotes
Technical and other trading commentary. Some of the resources are free, but the main offerings appear to be subscription-based.
Technical Analysis:
Market Cycles
Subscription based charting site.
Completetrader.com
Member only site for technical analysis and trading tips.
Easy Stock
Provides on-line technical analysis tools to help investor trade stock in a easy way.
Investertech.com
Provides on-line technical service, Industry Charts, Java Chart, Screen Stock of most technical indicator.
Stocktables.com
Subscriber site that provides technical analysis and screens
Ask Research
A lot of technical charts (commentary is supplied by a link to CBS Marketwatch)