Links from The Investment FAQ: Advice, Commentary, and Market Analysis

• Forums for investors to exchange ideas.
• Magazines (weekly/monthly) on the web
• Providers for US markets
• Providers for non-US markets

Forums and Chat about Investing

• The CompuServe Investor's Forum (CSi), one of the oldest online investment forums, offers fully threaded discussions, file libraries, chat (Java required), etc. Most things are available to guests (e.g., reading discussions in most sections and accessing file libraries), but access to some areas is restricted to CS members.
  http://www.csi.com/go_C.asp?PIN=Investors

• The Motley Fool offers discussion boards.
  http://www.fool.com

• The RCM Financial Group LLC offers discussion groups for financial professionals, multimedia presentations, online active spreadsheets, links to over 300 search engines, etc. This site also offers a fully functional, 7 day trial of the customized Datafile II and economic valuation overlay.
  http://www.rcmfinancial.com/NewMediaFinancial/

  The Raging Bull is a collection of bulletin boards and columns designed to provide investors with ideas.
  http://www.ragingbull.com

• The Silicon Investor offers discussions and information about technology stocks.
  http://www.techstocks.com/

• Barron's Online offers a market view as well as investment ideas from the experts. Free, but registration is required.
  http://www.barrons.com/

• Business Week
  http://www.businessweek.com

• Fortune offer selected articles from the current issue.
  http://pathfinder.com/fortune/

• Accupoint offers market timing tools.
  http://www.profitbooks.com/stocks/ticker.html

• The Burris Stock and Options report offers daily stock and option recommendations for active traders (free samples online, $700 annually after that).
  http://www.stocksavvy.com

• Billington Publications offers an online edition of "Stock Focus."
  http://www.billington.com/

• Canslim.Net is a site for investors who follow the strategy of William J. O'Neil, founder of Investor's Business Daily.
  http://www.canslim.net

• Keith Dackson offers resources for long term investors.
  http://www.integrated-investments.com/

• Expert Traders Inc. offers research and advice on trading the S&P 500 index.
  http://www.SPtrading.com

• First Capital Corp. offers detailed opinions on market segments and their relative performance.
  http://www.firstcap.com/smt/ms.html

• Doug Forman maintains Doug's Trading Notes, a site with trading tips, etc.
  http://www.teleport.com/~jdforman

• Francis Gaskins & Co. rate upcoming IPOs, especially software, Internet and communications companies.
  http://gaskinsco.com

• The Gartner Group and Forrester Research provide offerings in info-tech market research.
  http://www.gartner.com

• The Global Finance Report offers free reports on U.S. stock markets, written with foreign investors in mind.
  http://www.gfreport.com

• The Growth List specializes in information related to technical analysis.
  http://www.growthlist.com

• Gruntal & Co. offers extensive coverage of technology issues, and will send you reports by mail.
  http://www.gruntal.com

• Hoover's Online Co. offers several newsletters with links to prior and related stories, foreign news, and Hoover's other products.
  http://www.hoovers.com/free

• The Green Jungle offers original articles about investing and money, information about other educational resources, recommended reading, links and more.
  http://www.greenjungle.com/

• The IMF Corporation hosts The Pitbull Investor, Stock Systems for Long and Short Trading.
  http://www.imfnet.com/pitbull

• InSight InFormation offers technical market opinions. Their analysts update their web site daily with comments on the stock, bond, currency, precious metals, and other world markets.
  http://avidinfo.com/

• International Capital Ideas offers a publication dedicated to making stock trading worth your while.
  http://www.capitalidea.com

• InvestTech offers technical analysis with daily buy and sell signals for Internet Stocks, S&P 500, DJIA and more. Includes advanced recognition of geometrical price patterns.
  http://www.investech.com/

• INVESTools offers the individual investor information and services including newsletters, company research reports, earnings estimates, mutual fund reviews, and discussions. Documents are sold individually.
  http://www.investools.com/

• Invest Yourself is an online newsletter designed to help investors make profits in the stock and options market on a daily basis.
  http://www.investyourself.com">

• The Investor's Free Forum offers commentary, information, and more ads than I've ever seen on a single site.
  http://www.investorsforum.com

• iVolatility.com provides stock options analysis, online trading tools, and access to a daily updated historical and implied volatility database on more than 7700 stocks and 2300 options of US stocks.
  http://www.iVolatility.com/

• The Motley Fool is an on-line financial forum for the individual investor.
  http://www.fool.com/

• Nestegg, run by IDD Enterprises, is an interactive magazine dedicated to personal finance. It offers articles that change daily, commentary on the markets, an IPO resources center, and more.
  http://nestegg.iddis.com/

• PrognoSYS focusses on the prediction of stock indices using Neural Nets.
  http://www.webcom.com/~progsys

• The SharkHQ site offers investors a variety of free information relating to the stock market, including a daily newsletter with stock tips and picks.
  http://www.sharkhq.com

• StockCircuit offers news, commentary, chat, message boards, etc, primarily relating to small technology issues.
  http://www.stockcircuit.com

• Traders.Com, run by the Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine, offers serious traders with information on how to apply charting, numerical and computer trading methods to trade stocks, bonds, mutual funds, options and futures.
  http://www.traders.com

• TradersLog.com is a portal site for active traders and investors. The site includes daily analysis of the stocks, options, futures, and forex markets along with educational articles.
  http://www.TradersLog.com

• Roemer Weather Inc. offers the Trade Winds newsletter, which relates the weather to the economy and the stock market.
  http://www.investaweather.com

• The Trader's Depot offers stock picks and stock tips. Stock newsletter featuring growth stocks that can triple your profits. Trading strategies and tips to make money trading stocks. Free newsletter about stock market picks, market timing and trading. Free current small cap stock pick sample.
  http://www.tradersdepot.com

• Robert Valentine writes The Money Alert, your personal finance information source with financial articles, investment commentary, retirement advice, and more.
  http://www.themoneyalert.com

• Wall Street City offers commentary and analysis of the markets.
  Also portfolios with up to 150 securities in each, charts, etc.
  http://www.wallstreetcity.com/

  The Wall Street Guru offers commentary and stock picks from analysts.
  http://www.wallstreetguru.com/

• Wall Street News offers information gleaned from financial newsletters published by Wall Street's leading forecasters.
  http://Wall-Street-News.com/forecasts/

Reports and Commentary for Non-US Markets

• Baring Securities' research arm (part of Dutch ING Bank) offers copious world market analyses to registered users.
  http://www.ingbank.com

• Netfund analyzes investment opportunities on the Paris stock exchange; all information is written in French.
  http://www.fastnet.ch/NETFUND/HTML/home_finance.html

• Stockdepot.com offers information on Canadian stocks including two stock market newsletters, The Buy Low, Sell High ! Small-Cap Canadian Stocks Review and The Canadian Oil and Gas Stocks Review.
  http://www.stockdepot.com