- Big Charts (bigcharts.com) Bills itself as "The world’s
coolest charting and research site." Free interactive charts,
quotes, industry analysis, intraday stock screeners, market news and
commentary. The charts at this website offer most all indicator studies,
plus you can overlay indexes on stock charts. Great charts for beginners
who don’t have charting software yet.
- BigEasy Investor (bigeasyinvestor.com) Popular among traders, this easy-to-use,
free site offers stock screening, charts, analysis, and research.
It also features extensive educational tools for both novice and seasoned
traders. The Trader’s Playbook shows "hows" and "whys"
of good plays, and the Trader’s Dictionary offers a great market
terms resource.
- Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) Offers news, detailed stock lists, quotes,
and more. Also, you can sign up for Bloomberg’s Market Monitor,
which will track up to ten stocks, or indexes and give you updates
on their performance.
- CBS Market Watch (cbs.marketwatch.com). Offers a portfolio tracker, stock screener,
charting utilities for technical analysis with direct links to data
from Hoover's and Zack's.
- Microsoft MoneyCentral (moneycentral.msn.com) Real-time quotes, portfolio and charting
tools. Provides timely news, analysis, SEC filings and a stock and
fund screener. An inside view from six professional advisors, insider
trading and analyst recommendations.
- DailyStocks.com (dailystocks.com) This site bills itself as the Web’s
first and biggest stock research site. It offers research including
quotes and screens. If you still can’t find the data you need,
Daily Stocks boasts a three-page list of links to other Web sites.
- Fairmark Press (fairmark.com) Tax guide for traders/investors. Offers
tax forms and publications, books, and handy "Reference Room,"
a message board for tax questions.
- Investor’s Business Daily
(investors.com) Features selected articles from the daily
newspaper. Provides easy-to-use stock charts and screens. You can
also access IBD’s stock ratings through the "Stock
Doctor" section.
- The Motley Fool (fool.com) A comprehensive site where your portfolio
can link to customizable charts, quotes, news, estimates and other
data. Offers one of the liveliest message boards.
- Quicken.com (quicken.com) A full-service personal-finance site that includes
banking, mortgage, and insurance information, as well as a portfolio
tracker, quotes, a stock screener, news and a mutual fund finder.
In addition, you will find a retirement planner and a Roth IRA calculator.
- Quote.com (quote.com) Provides real-time market information
and displays an unlimited number of charts, quote sheets, hot lists,
historical time and sales data, and summary period data - all updated
live in real-time.
- Sortwizard
(http://www.sortwizard.com)
The SortWizard is a real time stock screening tool enabling users
to search the entire market without symbol list size limitations.
In seconds, scan the market in to generate stock trading lists that
meet your specific criteria. Write your own customized formulas selecting
reference information from a comprehensive list of data fields and
a custom database. 2 week free trial available.
- StockCharts (stockcharts.com) Everything about charts
you’ve ever wanted to know, and then some.
Good market commentary, along with sections on
"Tools & Charts" and "Chart
School," which lists every type of chart
imaginable. "The Experts" features
advice from noted technical analysts like Arthur
Hill and John Murphy.
- Thomson Investor Network (thomsoninvest.net) Offers news and expert tips. You can check
how analysts at brokerage houses rate your stock picks. Check out
the First Call earnings estimate section.
- Yahoo! Finance (quote.yahoo.com) Tools include a stock screener, portfolio,
message boards and stock chat area, a personal stock pager and company
profiles. One page will display quotes and historical charts, current
news, along with links to research and related user messages.
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