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INVESTOR EDUCATION
Thirteen Steps to Investing -- Learn the basics of investing.
Investment Mistakes to Avoid -- Mistakes that prevent investors from getting ahead.
SuperStar Funds -- Online guide to mutual fund investing.
Money Magazine News -- Today's news for investors. Money's investor resources.
Paul Farrell -- Columns about investing in mutual funds (scroll down the page).
Joe Battipaglia -- Columns by a bullish analyst (scroll down the page).
TODAY'S MARKETS -- QUOTES, CHARTS, & NEWS
Today's Markets -- Indexes, market commentary, price quotes, charts, stock research, etc.
CNBC -- Coverage of issues discussed on CNBC-TV. Includes ticker.
AskResearch -- Charts & price quotes. Stock market indexes. Quotes & charts can also be found at Yahoo & BigCharts. For price quotes plus corporate financial info, visit ABC or MarketGuide. Japanese candlestick charts (interpreting candlesticks).
SmartMoney -- Financial market coverage & resources. Visit Map of the Market. Stock charts. Daily commentary.
CBS MarketWatch -- Coverage of financial markets, business news, stock quotes & charts, market indexes, daily columns.
Stock Site -- Coverage of financial markets, stock quotes, corporate information. Create your own STOCK TICKER. Similar information is provided by Wall Street City. Visit the Neil Cavuto financial website (FoxTV).
Market Crash Index -- Prediction of current market conditions, from Crash to Invest. ("This indicator has never failed to signal before a major market crash.")
Bloomberg's Markets -- Today's results in financial markets.
Market Summary -- Today's market averages, volume leaders, quotes & charts for stocks. Today's volume leaders & price gainers. Today's big movers, new highs & lows, & short interest.
Stocks in the News -- Stocks grabbing the headlines in today's news. More.
Institutional Investments -- Measures of demand and supply for stocks by mutual funds & other institutions.
After-Hours Trading -- Price quotes in the after-hours market. More. More.
Today's Calendar -- Earnings reports & economic indicators to be released today. Economic indicators released this week. Earnings reported this week. Investor's calendar from Value Line.
CNN-fn -- Financial news & headlines. Or take a short-cut to stock indexes, commodity prices, exchange rates and interest rates. For financial news see USA Today, Excite, Yahoo! Quotes, InfoSeek, & the Daily Rocket.
PR Newswire -- Daily news from corporations (press releases, etc.).
INVESTOR RESEARCH
Mutual funds
Order a Prospectus -- Information about mutual funds & an application to make a new investment.
Mutual Fund Research -- Mutual fund information & charts. JustQuotes and FundFocus provide mutual fund information & screens. Morningstar also offers a fund screen. Visit the Mutual Fund Institute (ICI).
Morningstar Mutual Fund Database -- Great research for mutual fund investors. Other mutual fund databases include Lipper & FundsNetwork. Let FundAlarm evaluate your fund. Mutual fund reports from EDGAR. For mutual fund news, visit the Mutual Fund Cafe.
Fund Families -- Companies that operate "families" of mutual funds. Fidelity, Janus, Vanguard, T. Rowe Price, American Century.
Mutual Fund Inflows -- Mutual fund data from the ICI. Equity fund flows since 1987.
$50 Funds -- Mutual funds you can get into for $50.
Mutual Fund Resources -- General information for fund investors. Mutual Fund Magazine. Fund glossary.
StocksYahoo! Company Profile -- A broad array of information about publicly traded companies. Go here first. (Enter TICKER SYMBOL & CLICK GO.)
Hoover Corporate Directory -- General information about publicly held corporations. Or check this site for annual reports for hundreds of companies. More annual reports.
MarketGuide -- Charts & research for stocks. BusinessWeek company research.
Corporate News -- Today's news on companies, industries, IPOs, etc. Enter corporate name or ticker. Stocks mentioned by analysts or in the news. iAlfred corporate news.
Research Net -- Balance sheet, income statement, financial ratios, & earnings estimates for publicly held companies. To retrieve financial data: 1) Type the company's TICKER SYMBOL & click SEARCH; 2) On the next page, click QUICKSOURCE FUNDAMENTALS in the right-hand column.
JustQuotes -- Financial data & research for publicly traded companies. MoneyCentral stock research.
Rapid Research -- Stock performance & financial data for US companies. Enter TICKER SYMBOL in box. Or see Fortune magazine's company database.
Max-Pain Stock Analysis -- Use options market data to predict stock prices. The analysis explained.
Stock 100 -- Five-day stock forecasts using neural software. (Enter TICKER & select 5-day forecast.)
Stock Valuation -- Your favorite stock valued with five valuation models. Enter TICKER SYMBOL in box, then select VALUATION from the adjacent pull-down menu, and click GO. ValuePro stock evaluator lets you calculate a stock's value under different conditions. Quicken's Security Evaluator provides data & analysis for calculating a stock's intrinsic value (option #5). Evaluates mutual funds, too. Awesome!
Fundamental Analysis -- 6-month prediction for your favorite stock, based on "fundamental" analysis.
Stock Price Targets -- Share price forecasts by analysts.
Earnings Estimates -- Earnings estimates from Zack's. (Select ESTIMATES from the pop-up menu.) I/B/E/S earnings estimates. Check a company's earnings history. (select EARNINGS from the menu & provide the TICKER symbol). Here are whisper earnings forecasts. Whisper more. Monitor conference calls between companies & analysts. More conference calls. Calendar of earnings to be reported this week.
Analyst Recommendations -- What the investment analysts are saying about stocks. More. Analyst ratings revisions. Broker reports for stocks.
Hoover's Stock Screener -- Screen Hoover's database for stocks by criteria you define.
Relative Strength -- Stocks with the largest percentage gains in the most recent month, year, & 3-years.
Spice Up Your Portfolio with Sector Funds -- Focus on a single industry. There's always a bull market somewhere. The best sector funds (3/6/00). See Dow Jones US sectors for the best- and worst-performing sector groups. Fidelity sector funds. iShares invest in specific sectors or nations.
DowJones Sectors -- Stock performance for major industries. CNBC, SmartMoney Sectors, & Bloomberg, WSJ industry lists. Company performance grouped by industry. More. Current NEWS on key industries. Fidelity Select Funds offer investments in specific industries. The e-50 stocks. Featured industry = semiconductors. Semi index. Featured industry = biotechnology. More. More. More.
Sector Performance -- Check on the performance of major sectors & the stocks within those sectors. Sector Sentiment (= optimism or pessimism). Sector Ratings (predictions). Sector analysis from Fidelity (download "S&P Sector Dymanics" and "Select Update"). Look at your sector's performance with Map of the Market. Sector Scorecard from S&P.
Sector Rotation -- Stock performance over the business cycle. Understanding the sector rotation chart.
Index Your Investments -- Index stocks (or "exchange traded funds"): DIA, SPY, QQQ, FFF, MDY. No-load index mutual funds. More index funds. List of all indexes. The latest indexing trend. S&P sectors including utilities, technology, industrials, consumer goods, etc. Are ETFs inferior to index mutual funds.
Market Timer's Website -- Resources for market timers (investors who get in & out of the market instead of buy-and-hold).
Insider Trading -- Stock purchases & sales by corporate managers. More insider trading.
Technical Analysis -- Current "buys" and "sells" according to technical patterns of stock performance. (Note: Technical analysis is considered Voodoo by many observers; use with caution!) John Murphy column.
Money Flow -- Chart the flow of cash into or out of a stock. (Enter TICKER SYMBOL & CLICK GO. Then, see the BOTTOM CHART for money flow.) This is a momentum indicator, and lags behind turns in the market. (Watch for the stock to reverse directions when the indicator exceeds 80 or falls below 20.) Explanation of money flow. Other technical indicators.
Institutional Interest -- Check the institutional investors in various stocks. More.
Yahoo! Message Boards -- Where people go to ask & give advice on stocks. Raging Bull Silicon Investor
IPOs This Week -- New stock offerings. More. More.
Stock Split Calendar -- Upcoming stock splits. Recent stock splits. More.
Dogs of the Dow -- Investment strategy requiring one trade a year.
Mergers & Acquisitions -- Deals or hostile bids.
Stock Buybacks -- Companies purchasing their own stock.
Drip Central -- Companies with dividend reinvestment plans.
Neural Net -- Statistical software picks stocks & estimates the likelihood the S&P500 will rise. Neural net forecasts the DJIA's direction in coming weeks.
Historical Stock Prices -- Retrieve historical stock price data by ticker symbol. More.
Company Snapshot -- Financial data for Fortune 500 companies.
EDGAR -- Corporate information from SEC filings.
Corporate Webpage Locator -- Locate the webpage of most companies.
Venture Capital -- Venture capital firms & where they are investing their money. Great database!
OTHER MARKET INFORMATION
Folio.fn -- Create your own mutual fund. You specify the investments and Foliofn takes care of the rest. NetFolio. Read about it first.
Rating the Pundits -- Predictions from the best stock pickers on Wall Street. Includes Ed Hyman & Abby Cohen.
Analyst Rankings -- The best stock analysts on Wall Street. Top analysts & their recommendations.
Market Mavens -- Opinions from investment newsletters. Donoghue (sectors). Pring (technical analysis). Duarte (market outlook).
Measuring Risk -- The proper measure of risk on stocks. "Beta is dead." Sharpe ratio.
VIX -- Index of market volatility.
Limit Order Pricer -- Estimate the likelihood that your buy or sell order will be executed at a desired price.
Treasury Direct -- Treasury security investors can buy bonds & manage their accounts at this website. Yields on Treasury securities. Treasury yield curve. Quotes for all bonds. Bond news & quotes on various bonds (Treasuries, municipals, corporates). More bond resources. US government savings bonds.
Interest Rates -- Current interest rates on Treasuries, mortgages, car loans, etc.
Futures Markets -- Get futures price quotes & trade futures.
Options -- Quotes on options & LEAPS. More options quotes. Understanding options.
Futures -- Futures prices for market indexes (S&P, NASDAQ) and exchange rates. Use this to check investor sentiment when the markets are closed.
Exchange Rates -- Daily exchange rates since 1990.
Gold -- Ways to invest in gold (Forbes).
ADRs -- Price quotes for "receipts" in foreign shares. Research on ADR stocks/companies (provide TICKER or select INDUSTRY or COUNTRY and click GO).
Foreign Stock Indexes -- Indicators for major world markets. Information & price quotes from foreign stock exchanges. More foreign markets. More. Mainly European exchanges. British stocks & brokers.
Long-term Chart for the DJIA -- Long-term returns on stocks & bonds. DJIA and S&P charts. DJIA data. Historical returns for stocks & bonds since 1928. 50-year record for stocks & bonds.
Stock Dividends & Bond Yields -- Long-term performance of stock dividends & bond yields.
Financial Data Finder -- Links to financial data.
Investor Links -- Investor resources of all kinds! More links. More. More.
Glossary of Financial Terms -- Business & investment terms defined. Business terms. More business terms.