Top 10, Part II, Barron's
Barron's: November 23, 1998 Plenty of worthwhile Websites didn't make our cut
By Kathy Yakal
Edited by Randall W. Forsyth
Our second annual list of Top 10 Websites for investors ("Web Masters," October 26) brought a flurry of E-mail from readers who either liked what we said, wanted more information, or thought we'd missed the boat. Fortunately, there were few messages from the latter group.
........To clarify the criteria of the rankings again, sites were judged based on their excellence in six categories: ease of use, depth and usefulness of data, editorial content, tools and interactivity, timeliness, and price (value for the cost). Sites that landed in the top 20 did so because they were very good in all categories and exceptional in some. There are still many, many sites that are worthy of recommendation because they excel in one or two areas -- or at least provide some insight that may be of interest to you. Not every Website needs to be a supersite. In fact, we especially appreciate sites that neatly fill their niches.
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As Mary Tyler Moore begat Rhoda and Lou Grant, so a popular thread on
the Silicon Investor site has grown into a site of its own. Market Gems(www.marketgems.com) is designed for the short-term trader (two to five days) and the day trader. A daily watch list and weekly newsletter are available to subscribers, at monthly, quarterly and annual rates ($25, $70, $275, respectively; A.B. Watley clients get a price break). Some archival data are available free on the site, and the thread still operates on Silicon Investor (www.techstocks.com), where it remains a hot topic. |
