FINANCE & INVESTING
MARKET NEWS
Investor's Business Daily -
"For People Who Choose To Succeed"
TheStreet.com - an online financial
publication dedicated to providing investors with timely information
Briefing.com – live market analysis
Standard & Poor's Equity
Investor Services - news headlines, stock reports, S&P Index
Bloomberg Website -
national and international financial news
Red Herring Online - market
analysis, insider news, company profiles
CBS Market Watch
- timely commentary
Business
News Ticker - CBS MarketWatch's headlines, automatically updates itself
every five minutes.
CNBC Business News - a Service of NBC
and Dow Jones
Investor Links - extensive menu
of investor sites
Personal Wealth - Standard
& Poor's Web site
Silicon Investor - company
profiles, market insight…
ORGANIZATIONS
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
(NASD) - the largest securities-industry self-regulatory organization in the
NASD Regulation - check out
your broker (CRD, registration, etc.), file a complaint...
NASD Dispute Resolution - to assist
in the resolution of monetary and business disputes between investors and their
securities firms.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) - an independent, nonpartisan, quasijudicial regulatory agency with
responsibility for administering the federal securities laws.
Securities Industry Association
EXCHANGE SITES
NASDAQ Web Site - quotes, charts back
72 months. Reports from Disclosure (in Adobe Acrobat format)
Nasdaq-100 Index
Tracking Stock (Symbol: QQQ) - introduction and a list of components.
New York Stock Exchange - daily market
summary. Links to companies Web pages.
American Stock Exchange - quotes,
charts, EDGAR fillings, 1997 Amex Fact Book, and an online glossary.
American Stocks - American
Stock Exchange
OTC Bulletin Board - Over-The
-Counter stocks
CBOE –
Future Trading Exchage - a trading
exchange for Politics, Current Events, Financial Indicators, Weather &
other Unique Contracts.
Iowa Electronic Markets – future
markets driven by political and economic events, i.e., elections.
METASITES
CNN Finance - Cable News Network, Inc.
Yahoo! Finance - set up your own
portfolio
MSNBC Commerce -
financial news, tools, "MarketWatch"
Microsoft Investor - market
update, portfolio manager, articles, etc.
Quicken.com - One-click stock analysis
ClearStation.com - a wholly-owned
subsidiary of E*TRADE Group, Inc.
Infoseek Personal Finance
Channel - email you investment info twice a day, and it's free
InvestorGuide - a collection of
free, quality information.
Investment Resources for the
Independent Investor - do your own stock research on the Internet
STOCK ANALYSIS
MarketGuide Investment Center -
rankings on over 10,000 equities. Nice charting presentation.
InvestmentHouse
- try the Analysis section, it's really helpful.
Motley Fool - insightful market
commentary and portfolio-enhancing stock analysis.
DailyStocks - Daily Stocks Inc.
also develops financial based web sites and other projects.
StockFirst - technical analysis,
price alert (positive or negative)
BigCharts -
MarketWatch.com. Nice graphs.
StockCharts
- financial charts, analysis tools and investor education.
Zack's Investment Research - company
profiles, estimate/actual earnings, recommendations, balance sheet, etc.
SEC Fillings -
8K, 10K, 10Q, etc. See my "Business" page.
Bear Stearns - take a look at
portfolios, "the Focus List Portfolio" for example.
Validea.com 
- listen to top ranked
stock-pickers and find most mentioned stocks
Insider Profiles -
VaultReports.com
Ianalyst - ask pros a question and get an
answer within 15 minutes
Multex - Wall Street research reports
Security Stock Watch –
security stocks, security
solutions and security companies.
IPOs (Initial Public Offering)
IPO.com - Initial Public Offering
services
IPO Central -
run by Hoovers Online
MUTUAL FUNDS
Mutual Fund Investor's Center -
comprehensive and educational
Brill's Mutual Funds Interactive
- commentary and articles
Morningstar.Net - guide to fund,
news, analysis, etc.
Mutual Fund Top Performers -
Yahoo! Finance
Mutual Fund News - Yahoo!
Finance
Mutual Fund Index - Yahoo! Finance
Mutual Fund Connection - Investment
Company Institute
BONDS
InvestingInBonds -
everything bond investors need to know
SavingsBonds - Bureau of the
Public Debt Online
ONLINE TRADING
E*Trade 
-
pioneer in electronic trading on the Internet
Ameritrade 
-
low price on trading
Charles
Schwab – full service
FreeTrade - subsidiary of Ameritrade. $0 on
market orders, $5 on limit. $5,000 deposit.
MarketTrade - $7.95/trade
plus free ISP
Scottrade - $7 online trade, no
inactive fees.
myTrack - unlimited
real time quotes
TradingDirect - the Internet
Division of York Securities, Inc.
Share Builder (coming soon) -
allows you to buy stock in dollars rather than shares.
Gomez - ratings of discount brokerage
firms.
REAL TIME QUOTES (Don’t know how many of them are still alive!)
QuoteTracker - streaming real-time
quotes, Level II quotes
eSignal - streaming
quotes
Freerealtime.com - stock quotes and
news.
America-iNvest -
including Guru picks
Free
real-time stock quotes - InfoSpace. 50 quotes per day.
HISTORICAL QUOTES
Historical Quotes - Yahoo! Finance
Global Financial Data -
long-term historical data on Stock Markets back to 1690; Exchange Rates back to
1590; Interest Rates back to 1700; Inflation back to 1264; and much more.
Global Financial Data,
FOR TRADERS
Traders Resource - the
information resource center for active stock traders
Standard & Poor's (The McGraw-Hill Companies) –
Company credit ratings
PC Quote - delayed quotes for
Best Calls - for direct delivery of corporate
news
DIRECTORIES
DailyStocks - directory lists
hundreds of investment Web sites
Wall Street Research Net (WSRN) - over
500,000 links for investors
eFinance Directory –
original articles, tips and other resources
TOOLS
Investor Words - investing
glossary on the Web
InvesTools - "Trusted Advice
for Independent Investors"
Gainskeeper.com - helps you
complete Schedule D, the federal tax form for capital gains and losses.
Quote.com
- eSignal
SPECIAL NEEDS
DRIP Advisor - dividend
Reinvestment Programs
DRIP Investor - buy stocks
without a broker
EarningsWhispers.com - they
"merely follow stock rumors and estimates," but worth checking.
WhisperNumber - its accuracy
has beaten the Street.
Roth IRA - provides technical and
planning information on Roth IRAs to practitioners and consumers.
I Hate Financial Planning
- for those
whose income is between 35k to 100k USD.
North American
Securities Administrators Association - on how to spot a con artist
(identify scams)
National Consumer League -
on telemarketing fraud tips
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