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
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
Silicon Investor - company profiles, market insight.
The Global Guru - a free, weekly electronic newsletter written by Nicholas Vardy
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 - Chicago Board Options Exchange
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.
Stock Indexes A-Z - Bloomberg
METASITES
CNN Finance - Cable News Network, Inc.
Yahoo! Finance - set up your own portfolio
Microsoft Investor - market
update, portfolio manager, articles, etc.
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.
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.
Value Line - The most trusted name in
investment research
IPOs (Initial Public
Offering)
IPO.com - Initial Public Offering services
IPO Central - run by Hoovers Online
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
Mutual Funds A-Z -
Bloomberg
InvestingInBonds - everything bond investors need to know
SavingsBonds - Bureau of the Public Debt Online
E*Trade - pioneer in electronic trading on the Internet
Ameritrade - low price on trading
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 - allows you to buy stock in dollars rather than shares
Gomez - ratings
of discount brokerage firms
REAL TIME QUOTES (Not sure how many of
them are still alive!)
QuoteTracker - streaming real-time quotes, Level II quotes
Freerealtime.com - stock quotes and news.
America-iNvest - including Guru picks
Free real-time stock quotes - InfoSpace. 50 quotes per day
Historical Quotes - Yahoo! Finance
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 U.S. stocks and Canadian stocks
Best Calls - for
direct delivery of corporate news
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
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.
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
PCI Short Term Risk & Crash
Indicator - the Pitbull Investor