Websites of note
I sorted them by five categories; constantly on during trading, daily reads, weekly use, monthly use, and less frequent. The numbers are the order that I bookmarked them. Newest sites generally last.
Constant use during trading
1) siliconinvestor.com
SI despite its flaws allow people to start webpages, has PM, inboxes, and a good search engine. Worth every penny of the $200 lifetime membership
2) thestreet.com
I pay $200/year for realmoney.com the pay version, but I read it every day. Good search engine for research. Adam Lashinsky is always a good read. Has news before others at times. Writing has improved in the last two months.
3) briefing.com
Good daily news feed with some analysis. Good site to do research. I think I pay $10/month.
Daily Reads
4) quicken.webcrawler.com
This is the site I like to track my portfolio with. CNBC, SI, and other have good portfolio trackers too. I like the color and customization options for this.
5) askresearch.com
I like the color of red/green for volume. Also can look at multitude of data such as MACD, RSI at the same time. Only can go back four years for data.
6) wallstreetmonitor.com
Stan S.’s site. Free charts are well done. Only one to have the Nasdaq hi/lo differential. I read his charts every morning. $10/mo for more charts.
9) interactive.wsj.com
I pay $29/yr since I subscribe to Barron’s. I read the front page, Asia page, tech center, and heard on the street daily. For $2.95 has a great search engine for articles. Can view Barron’s online when it doesn’t get deliver (like yesterday)
13) stockcharts.com
Best place to get sector movement daily. I read Arthur Miller column’s each day. Good charts too.
14) cboe.com
I watch the put/call here.
16) tradetrek.com
I pay $8/mo the get block trade info, money flow, and time/sales.
18) ideaadvisor.com
Up and coming site with analysis on many sectors.
19) cbs.marketwatch.com
I read the front page, sector reports, market pulse, and Candera’s column daily. Bambi’s column worth a peek now and then.
20) quote.bloomberg.com
Good read at night for recent financial headlines since it focuses on Asia. Site has the analyst who upgrades a stock too.
23) news.bbc.co.uk
The BBC site always has the British slant on US news.
28) businessweek.com
Daily glance over a couple of columns at the top.
38) moneycentral.msn.com
I read Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner, Jubak, and Markman.
39) latimes.com
Good articles not found elsewhere on CA companies.
42) money.com
Daily glance at top columns.
46) wired.com
More of a current event page on Napster and the like, but some good articles.
53) siliconstrategies.com
Daily news of the semiconductor industry.
54) sfgate.com
News of business from the San Fran Area.
55) www0.mercurycenter.com
Silicon Valley news and my quick way to see current Reuters and AP headlines.
56) stockhouse.com
Good Canadian News site.
60) nytimes.com
Good round up of news. Columnists like Gretchen write too infrequently.
64) forbes.com
Daily scan of article. Good columns once in a while.
66) personalwealth.com
Daily read of picks and pans.
67) securitytrader.com
Daily free charts that are very visual. Of course only successes are shown.
68) investorlinks.com
Daily summary of news like onlineinvestor.
69) www2.barchart.com
I check the top movers to see what’s hot.
75) chicago.tribune.com
Chicagoland business news.
77) metamarkets.com
I read Luskin daily. Other once in a while.
80) boards.fool.com
Most recommended Fool posts.
82) morningstar.com
Glance over daily columns.
87) smartmoney.com
Much improved columnists now. Daily news included.
91) upside.com
Daily scan of news.
92) investor.cnet.com
Much improved site for news.
Weekly Use
7) ragingbull.altavista.com
A spare site for DD. Really has fallen off in the last year. The search engine is horrible.
10) sec.gov
A good site to read the 10Q of companies. Must for research.
11) my.yahoo.com
Messageboard from hell that has nuggets available if you can wade through it. Only can ignore 100 posters. Good news updates.
12) tdwaterhouse.com
My site for trading. $12 trades and $15 for limits is still the deal. Good order execution with most limits filled below price. Gives the S&P Outlook for free as a bonus. No complaints from me in six months. Just have to watch to make sure you don’t buy on margin since it is easy to click on the icon by accident.
15) insidertrader.com
Good insider trading info and well as what the form 3, 4, 144 mean. Institutional holders are also on this site.
17) hoovers.com
The only place now to get a quick quarterly breakdown on a company’s revenue. Slow site.
27) boston.com
Good for the Boston business point of view.
31) eprairie.com
Unique tech news, but not too many nuggets.
35) internetstockreport.com
Internet stock news.
42) multex.multexinvestor.com
Daily reports are free. Many are for a fee. Headlines are free.
44) netimperative.com
British internet news. Not much nuggets, but more a view of the sector.
47) newsobserver.com
NC news, home of CREE and the techs out there.
49) nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com
Has news on Asia not elsewhere found.
50) magnetsearch.com
Summary of on-line articles.
65) zdnet.com
Internet articles.
71) tokyojoe.com
Always nice to know what the king of P&D is hyping.
74) fbr.com
An article a day commentary on the stocks and markets.
76) nwfusion.com
IT/networking online mag.
78) mrci.com
Nasdaq’s future site.
83) garzarelli.com
Weekly posts on her thoughts.
88) 4w.com
Periodic free thought from a man who has been in the game a long time.
89) investors.com
Used to read the news scan. Money flows into stocks is read often.
90) 123jump.com
CEO interviews are good.
93) swiftsolution.com
RMBS messageboard.
94) stockjungle.com
Good stock picking contest. Interesting to watch what people are playing.
95) marketvibe.com
Summaries of interest posts, but nothing new lately.
96) suite101.com
Brinkerheads went here apparently.
Monthly Use
8) vcall.com
Used to listen to conference calls for stocks I own. Not all stocks have calls too.
21) mobydata.com
A place to see what companies are in a sector fund.
24) bigcharts.com
I use it see stock movement for a specific period of time. Can go back to 1971.
32) globetechnology.com
Canadian news on tech. Not much nuggets so I check it once in a while.
33) eb-mag.com
Monthly tech mag online. Some good articles.
43) mutual-funds.com
Monthly on-line mag. Some nuggets once in while.
48) nightlybusiness.org
Used to have good interviews.
57) ipsfunds.com
Robert Loest’s diary of trading.
58) technologyinvestor.com
Commentary is sporadic. Seems to push conferences vs. analysis.
61) trimtabs.com
Shows inflows of mutual funds on weekly basis.
63) viwes.com
Shows top shorted stocks.
70) schaeffersresearch.com
Once in a while a nugget emerges from Bernie.
81) wallstreettape.com
View posts from six boards simultaneously.
85) riskgrades.com
Site for analysis of risk in a portfolio.
86) globinvestor.com
Compares US markets vs. others in US dollars.
97) validea.com
See how good that talking head on CNBC really is.
Yearly use
22) home.att.net
Once a good chart analysis site, but apparently retired.
25) biospace.com
Used daily when I had biotechs. Good news of what is happening in the field.
26) bobbrinker.com
Used to frequently to read messages before censorship and mutiny removed the board. Good guage of investor sentiment when it was running.
29) chartpatterns.com
Handy little site to understand chart patterns.
30) clinicaltrials.gov
Current info on clinical trials. Used when researching biotechs.
34) delphion.com
Good site to check those alleged patents out.
36) ipolockup.com
A Place to check for those IPO lockups. Usually Fred Langford reminds people so I rarely check.
37) newgritch.island.com
A place to watch after hours trades if looking to buy there.
40) litwick.com
Candlestick charting info.
41) marketsigns.com
Has S&P 500, Nasdaq stock info for screening.
51) quote.com
I use to watch trades go buy for a fee. 15 minutes delayed is free.
52) sedar.com
Canadian info ala the SEC of Canada.
59) nasdaqnews.com
I check out sector fund makeups here also.
62) snopes2.com
Good place to debunk some urban legends.
72) bea.doc.gov
Economic data a click away.
73) amex.com
AMEX sector indexes.
79) smallcapcenter.com
Canadian insider trading site.
84) efficientfrontier.com
Asset allocation site.
98) clearstation.com
Good intro to charting. All TA.
99) cnbc.com
Crowded site with a lot of hype.
100) cnnfn.cnn.com
For some reason, I really haven’t used it much.
101) individualinvestor.com
Some analysis, but tends to be older. A lot of hype on the site.
102) edgar-online.com
Site used when the sec site is not pulling up my 10Q.
Hope some of these sites help.
Jack |
