Market Resources
There are many resources where you can find additional information on trading the markets. Listed for your convenience are sites that offer help and guidance
Including: Blogs and Forums
Non-Profit Organizations
Name: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
URL: http://sec.gov/
In Their Own Words: “The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. As more and more first-time investors turn to the markets to help secure their futures, pay for homes, and send children to college, our investor protection mission is more compelling than ever.”
Name: American Association of Individual Investors
URL: http://www.aaii.com/
In Their Own Words: “AAII is a nonprofit organization that arms individual investors with the education and tools they need to build wealth. From stock investing to financial planning and retirement funding, AAII covers all your needs.”
Investment Resources
Name: US Securities and Exchange Comission:
Investment Tools
URL: http://www.sec.gov/investor/tools.shtml
In Their Own Words: A selection of interactive tools that can help you learn more about investing and making wise investment decisions. Includes Margin Caulculator, Mutual Fund Fee Calculator, and more.
Name: MarketWatch Tools & Research
URL: http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/
In Their Own Words: “MarketWatch offers investment tools and advice. Use our stock research tools to make your next investment more secure.”
Name: MSN Money Central
URL: http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/home.asp
In Their Own Words: “Investing home page features investment tools like stock quotes, charts, a portfolio manager and much more. Plus market news and financial commentary from our award-winning MSN Money journalists.”
Name: MorningStar Investing Tools and
Financial Calculators
URL: http://www.morningstar.com/Cover/Tools.html
In Their Own Words: “Investing Tools and Financial Calculators from Morningstar can help you build a better portfolio.”
Name: Investment Tools: Using Smart Investor
Tools at SmartMoney.com
URL: http://www.smartmoney.com/tools/
In Their Own Words: “Use investment tools including the Investment Portfolio Tracker and the Stocks and Funds Screener at SmartMoney.com. SmartMoney.com offers investment tools for the smart investor like Market Maps and a Price Check Calculator.”
Name: Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/invest/
In Their Own Words: “Bloomberg Investment Tools includes a portfolio tracker, market monitor, fund center, and other vital tools to help you invest with confidence.”
Name: FreeCharts.com
URL: http://www.freecharts.com/
In Their Own Words: “FreeCharts.com provides free stock quotes and charts for equities, mutual funds, and commoditites. With our toolsets, we strive to empower you with the information you need to make better investment choices.”
Name: Stock Investment Tracker Script
URL: http://www.greatmanuals.com/
In Their Own Words: “Stock charting software analyzes financial market information and displays several technical indicators for single security on same chart. Stock investment tracker tool provides access to database of over 20000 securities listed on NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX. Stock market chart software one-click buy and sell feature gives unique opportunity to apply trading strategy to given security and brings cumulative and summarized performance of investment. Technical analysis and charting software maintains stock tickers lists, plots technical indicators, historical charts of securities, records buys and sells and calculate performance of trading session. Historical stock price chart tool includes custom time range selector/navigation and switches between different data providers. Market stock chart software allows customizable view of chart on the basis of different attributes.”
Name: MortgageLoan.com: Investment Returns
Calculator and Online Widgets
URL: http://www.mortgageloan.com
In Their Own Words: “The purpose of the Investment Returns tool is to illustrate how things like inflation, taxes, the length of the investment, and the economic climate can impact the return of an investment.”
Name: theFinancials.com
URL: http://b2b.thefinancials.com/
In Their Own Words: “theFinancials.com can provide your site with superior website content, including quotes, charts, market data, commentary, analysis and other investment analysis tools. Information is customizable both in content and design, providing your site with the financial tools you need while maintaining your site’s brand image and identity. We specialize in providing detailed coverage of financial information unparalleled in our industry. If our detailed Market Coverage doesn’t meet your unique financial data needs, contact our Sales and Marketing staff and we will develop a customized solution. Our core B2B content product for websites combines high-quality, web-ready tables, charts & commentary. Customize currency, interest rate, mortgage, investor relation, commodity & index information precisely the way you want it, at affordable prices. Our solutions include: “
Forums
Name: HSM: Hot Stock Market
URL: http://www.hotstockmarket.com/
In Their Own Words: “HSM message board forums focus on: Penny stocks, stock picks, investing online, stock market info, investor education, FOREX, live chat, and free investor tools.”
Name: MarketThoughts.com Discussion Forum
URL: http://www.marketthoughts.com/forum/index.php
In Their Own Words: “Our mission is to educate readers about the stock market and the economy beyond the headlines. We provide a twice-a-week commentary which usually involves focusing on the fundamentals and technicals of the current stock market, but may also include individual sector and stock analysis – as well as more general investing topics such as the Dow Theory, investing psychology, financial history, and the general economy.”
Name: Mr. Market’s Stock Picking Forum
URL: http://www.mrmarketishuge.com/
In Their Own Words: “I have 32 consecutive profitable trades of 15% or better. How is this possible? Every day there are hundreds of stocks setting new highs, no matter what happens in the overall market. You can join in on the fun. Register for free and you’ll be able to post messages on this forum and also receive emails when Mr. Market makes his own trades.”
Name: Candlestick Trading Forum
URL: http://www.candlestickforum.com/
In Their Own Words: “For those of you who are involved in the stock market, technical analysis can be somewhat of a mystery. You research and study, yet your trades just don’t end up being very successful. I want you to get ready to find out more about that 300 year old secret of Jap.”
Name: HowTheMarketWorks.com Forum
URL:http://www.howthemarketworks.com/phpBB2/index.php
In Their Own Words: “This website was created in 2004 to help people understand how the stock market works. Hopefully you will find the information here useful and will be able to begin trading for the first time or simply have a better understanding of what happens behind the scenes.”
Portals
Name: Site-By-Site! International Investment Portal & Research Center
URL: http://www.site-by-site.com/
In Their Own Words: “A portal to global financial markets: Stock and derivative exchanges, central banks, country profiles, economic and business news from around the world, equity research, adr’s and etf’s, closed-end funds, statistics and economic data.”
Name: Google Finance
URL: http://finance.google.com
In Their Own Words: “Google Finance offers a broad range of information about stocks, mutual funds, public and private companies. In addition, Google Finance offers interactive charts, news and fundamental data.”
Name: Financial Web – The Independent Financial Portal
In Their Own Words: “We strongly encourage you to study our ever-growing archive of informative financial articles, and take advantage of the many resources that we provide. They’re all here to help you along your way to a rock-solid financial base for yourself and your family.”
Name: Investing Value – Business and Investment Portal
URL: http://www.investingvalue.com/
In Their Own Words: “Online investing guide with business and investment articles, investor tools online and resources to help you invest.”
Name: Eljaysun.com:The Financial, Banking and Investment Portal
URL: http://www.eljaysun.com/
In Their Own Words: “Financial, stock market & general Investment information contained into a single convenient site interface.”
Investment Guides and Blogs
Name: Moneysmartz
URL: http://www.moneysmartz.com/
In Their Own Words: “A research study by Fidelity Investments found that only 29% of Americans think they are competent at planning their personal finances. Despite an abundance of information, tools, and resources to manage and plan our finances, many of us feel overwhelmed and confused and as a result put off what we could start today. The goal of Moneysmartz is to help you get started and stay on track in the management and planning of your personal finances.”
Name: SIN Letter
URL: http://www.sinletter.com/default.aspx
In Their Own Words: “Suria Investment Newsletter (SINLetter) is a free stock investment newsletter with a focus on international investing that highlights two stocks each month. The objective of this newsletter is to provide you with unbiased initial research and basic facts about individual stocks so that you can then research them further before deciding to add them to your portfolio or not. Even if you are currently not an active investor and would like to learn more about stock investing, this newsletter will hopefully prove to be a good starting point.”
Name: Thai Stock Tips
URL: http://www.thaistocktips.blogspot.com/
In Their Own Words: “Offers free but valuable tips, stock picks, advices on trading and investment in the Stock Market of Thailand. We offer practical technical anylasis, such as “lock profit point”,”entry point”, etc. for dummies… Too good to be true? Seeing is believing.”
Name: Project Stocks
URL: http://projectstocks.com/
In Their Own Words: “Project Stocks is a collection of stock market information as well as investment opportunity ideas. Whether your expertise is in stocks and bonds or real estate we have information about other types of investments that may go unnoticed. Thank you for stopping by and if there is anything we can do to make this site better, please let us know. Your feedback is encouraged and we greatly appreciate your thoughts.”
Name: Deminvest
URL: http://deminvest.wordpress.com/
In Their Own Words: “In today’s global capitalistic society, proletarians can count more by investing the few dollars they have in the right stock, than voting. The single vote counts less than a single dollar. Marx’s “property of productive means” by proletarians can nowadays happen only trough smart investments”
Name: BigCharts
URL:http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/
In Their Own Words: “BigCharts is the world’s leading and most advanced investment charting and research site. Interactive online charting service giving free and unlimited access to charts, reports, indicators, and quotes on 22700 US stocks, mutual funds, and other investments.”
Name: A to Z Investments
URL: http://www.atozinvestments.com/financialcharts.html
In Their Own Words: “Discover management charts and tools that estimate ROI with financial investment charts. Receive free practical investment advice and tips delivered weekly to your email box with contributions from financial planners, investors, and financing and loan professionals.”
Name: Stock Charts
In Their Own Words: “Welcome to StockCharts.com! Our mission is simple – to make you a better investor. Our SharpCharts tool lets you create the web’s best looking financial charts. Our Scan Engine shows you the market’s best investing opportunities. Our Chart School is full of easy-to-read educational articles. And our Chief Technical Analyst, John Murphy, guides you through the markets with unmatched expertise.”
Name: Tradingcharts.com
URL: http://tradingcharts.com/
In Their Own Words: “We chart thousands of price charts daily, following nearly every stock & commodity traded in North America, and every major and minor forex currency pair (foreign exchange) currency pair – plus many internationally traded stocks and commodity futures. The charts plot technical indicators such as closing price, trading volume and moving averages in graphical charts, suitable for use in technical analysis to help determine market trends. Charts are offered with intra-day, daily, weekly and monthly resolution to provide multiple views of the most recent price data.”
Virtual Games / Exchanges
Name: Virtual Stock Exchange by MarketWatch
URL: http://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homepage.aspx
In Their Own Words: “Virtual Stock Exchange is an online simulation trading game where you build and manage your own portfolios and compete in games against your friends, classmates, colleagues or other players – risk-free! Whether you’re new to the U.S. financial markets or a seasoned trader, this is a powerful tool for building skill, testing and refining your strategy, or gaining important investing experience.”
Name: Fantasy Stock Market
URL: http://www.fantasystockmarket.com/
In Their Own Words: “Since 1998, Fantasy Stock Market has provided a fun, interactive and competitive way to learn about investing and the stock markets to over 1/2 Million individuals and 10,000 Leagues. You can compete against other Fantasy Stock Market members with your own Fantasy $100,000 account. See how your investing skills stack up.”
Name: The Great Game
URL: http://www.thegreatgame.com/
In Their Own Words: “The Great Game%u2122 is an on-line educational fantasy stock trading game where you can experience investing in shares on the UK stock market without any risk or costs or any fear of losing your shirt if you do get it wrong! It’s free, really easy to use and you don’t have to know anything about the stock market or investments to play. “
Name: BullBearings
URL: http://www.bullbearings.co.uk/
In Their Own Words: “BullBearings is the UK’s leading virtual online trading website. Set up your own virtual stocks & shares, spread betting, CFD or FX trading portfolio and compete against your friends, colleagues and everyone else in our fantasy trading competitions and competitive leagues. Whether you’re new to share trading or a seasoned stock market trader join for free today and see how good a trader you really are!”
Name: Stock-Trak
URL: http://www.stocktrak.com/
In Their Own Words: “Stock-Trak is the web’s leading provider of educational and challenging stock simulations for colleges, high schools, and the investing public. We also offer branded, white label stock challenges for university trading rooms, corporations and financial web sites that are looking to offer educational, traffic building, or branding opportunities. Stocktrak.com is our premier site for colleges and the investing public, the SMS is our brand for our high school stock market games, and www.barronschallenge.com and www.forbesstockgame.com are just two examples of our many branded stock challenges that we have produced.”
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