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.
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 –
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
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.
- 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
IPOs (Initial Public Offering) REAL TIME QUOTES (Don’t know how many of them are
still alive!)
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”
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 (coming soon) - allows
you to buy stock in dollars rather than shares.
Gomez - ratings of discount brokerage
firms.
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)