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Investment
Alphabetical List of Links by Subject

ACCOUNTING --page of links
Ameritrade Holding Corp. --popular brokerage
Annual Report Gallery -order here instead of phoning; more than 1,000 available online
BANKING page of links
Barron's Online (magazine)
Best Personal Finance Hub: MSN: Money Central
Yahoo calls it "a veritable Swiss-army knife of personal finance tools."
Best Portfolio Manager: MSN MoneyCentral Investor
Best Market News: The Motley Fool, and
The Street.com
Best Mutual Fund Hub: Morningstar.com
Best Bond Hub: Bonds Online
Best Social Investing Hub: Co-op America
Best Loan Finder: getSMART.com
Best Way to Shop for Homeowner's Insurance: INSweb
BigCharts.com excellent for technical analysis
Bonds Online
BUSINESS page of links

Read the Daily
Market News

CBS Market Watch
star Clear Station
The Dismal Scientist
Financial Mirror
Financial Times, London
Hoover's Online
star Investors Alley
Markets (Time Warner)
PR Newswire
Smart Money
The Street.Com
star Yahoo! FINANCE
CBS Market Watch --"..good starting point.. It has a clean and clear interface that makes it easy to find basic information on everything from calculating your net worth to the ABCs of IPOs and international investing" (Susan Ives, Alamo PC)
Charles Schwab --most popular online trading site (brokerage)
Clear Station -"ClearStation demystifies technical analysis and makes it actionable for online investors. ClearStation believes that successful investing combines technical analysis, or what ClearStation refers to as price action, with core elements of fundamental analysis and input from a community of fellow investors. By integrating these three investment perspectives, ClearStation offers Members a complete Three Point approach to smart investing.
CURRENCY page of links
Datek Online --popular online brokerage (lowest fee at $9.99, & Dilbert ticker)
Discover Brokerage Direct --popular online brokerage
star The Dismal Scientist --"One of my favorite sites.. more geared to economics than to home finance and investing, but the depth of the information is available is incredible. Some of the neat features are the ability to search by zip code for economic indicators, loads of economic indicators from new home starts to retail sales and many in-depth articles" (Susan Ives, Alamo PC)
ECONOMICS page of links
Efficient Frontier, financial theory
E-trade --popular online brokerage
European Investor
Fidelity Investments --popular online brokerage, and Peter Lynch on investing
FINANCE page of links
Global Value Investing
Hoover's Online --investment tools. The most useful is StockScreener "which helps you search for and sort stocks based on 20 criteria. Each stock comes with a brief analysis; paid subscribers can get deeper reports" (Susan Ives, Alamo PC)
Independent Means --helping daughters gain financial independence
INSURANCE page of links
Investment Advise--The Motley Fool (see comments below)
Investopedia investor education; dictionary and tutorials
Investors Alley
Journal of Finance. For years it has been the leading publisher of important research on a variety of finance subjects, including stock, bond, and commodities trading, international monetary policy, and portfolio theory.
Knowledge at Wharton. Published by the University of Pennsylvania's top-ranked Wharton School of Business, this online magazine reveals its academic origins with scholarly articles and links to full-length research papers. Access to the site is free, but you must register to view its contents.
List of Academic Financial Links
LowerMyBills.com
Market Monitor
Money and MSN Investor --Microsoft site on investing
Money Central from MSN
Morning Star (magazine--has stellar reputation)
star The Motley Fool --"..their first Fool portfolio has more than doubled the returns of the S&P 500. Their approach is that you are the best person to manage your own money, and they focus on stocks. Whether you are a financial wizard or just looking for a place to conservatively drop $100 a month, the Motley Fool is an interactive, provocative and above all fun place to learn the basics" (Susan Ives, Alamo PC).
Quotes and Data
The 13 Steps (training)
MSN MoneyCentral
Jesse Berst Story... "What if you could invest in public companies without going through a stockbroker -- online or otherwise? And pay no fee."
Offshore Investing
Prophet Charts
Quick & Reilly --popular online brokerage (as low as $14.95 per trade)
Quicken --Intuit site on investing
Simulation--Financial Mirror -stock market game
Simulation--Investment Challenge "North America's Most Realistic Stock Market Simulation"
Smart Money, the Wallstreet Journal Magazine of Personal Business
STOCKS & BONDS page of links
Stock Trades -has a TA message board, collections of links,
The Street.Com --"..known throughout the ‘Net as a well-vetted source of financial news (Susan Ives, Alamo PC)
TAXES page of links
Technical Analysis--Clear Station -"ClearStation demystifies technical analysis and makes it actionable for online investors. ClearStation believes that successful investing combines technical analysis, or what ClearStation refers to as price action, with core elements of fundamental analysis and input from a community of fellow investors. By integrating these three investment perspectives, ClearStation offers Members a complete Three Point approach to smart investing.
Technical Anaysis--Decision Point -"a premier spot for learning or improving technical analysis and stock market timing skills. We have one of the largest collections of free technical analysis materials to be found anywhere
Technical Analysis Guru
Undiscovered Managers. posts research papers and articles similar to those found on Efficientfrontier.com. But the group also puts theory into practice by managing more than 10 mutual funds.
Waterhouse Securities, Inc. --popular online brokerage ($12 transaction fee)
Web Sites for Investing Geeks
Worth Online (magazine)
Yahoo FINANCE --"For sheer ease of use, I generally turn to Yahoo's financial section. It's convenient to use, and once I find a stock that interests me I can dig deeper and deeper for information about it" (Susan Ives, Alamo PC)
Yahoo's Best Sites for Investors


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