Links from The Investment FAQ: Investor Education
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These sites offer timeless material suitable for investor education.
Some are other lists of frequently asked questions.
(You might say they're my competition!)
These sites are grouped into:
- The Australian Investment FAQ (for newsgroup aus.invest) is
maintained by Travis Morien.
http://www.travismorien.com/FAQ.htm - The Financial Planning FAQ (for newsgroup misc.invest.financial-plan)
is maintained by Susan Wasserman. (As of mid-2002, it had not been
updated since 1998.)
http://stump.algebra.com/~mifp/faq.txt - "Die Finanz FAQ," a German-language FAQ about investments, is
maintained by Andreas Haarmann.
http://www-fs.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~harry/finanz/faq.html - The Futures FAQ (for newsgroup misc.invest.futures) is maintained by
Richard Hiatt.
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~heinsite/FAQs/futuresfaq.html - The Index Mutual Funds FAQ is maintained by Dale C. Maley.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/3524/faqperm5.html - The Taxes FAQ (for newsgroup misc.taxes) is maintained by Wayne
Ross. As of mid-2002, this FAQ had not been updated since 1996.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/taxes-faq/ - AllExperts.com offers professional analysts willing to answer
general questions about the stock market for free.
http://www.allexperts.com/central/money.shtml - The Alliance for Investor Education web site is a clearinghouse
for investor education materials.
http://www.investoreducation.org - MoneyChimp is the (somewhat odd) name of a site with educational
resources on various investing topics, including financial statements,
risk, Roth IRAs, and more.
http://www.moneychimp.com - Edustock is an educational web page designed to teach young and old
alike, what the stock market is, and how it can work for them.
http://library.thinkquest.org/3088/ - eFinancePortal is a financial, business and educational portal that
was developed exclusively for the State of New Jersey.
http://www.efinanceportal.com/ - Entrepreneur Books reviews investing, personal finance, and small
business books.
http://www.entrepreneurbooks.com - Equity Analytics, Ltd. maintains a site with information on stocks,
bonds, options, futures, commodities, technical analysis, and Dow
History, as well as financial planning, insurance, and retirement
planning. Also offers market quotes on many stocks, indexes, world
currencies, bonds, futures, and commodities.
http://www.e-analytics.com/ - Investing for Beginners, from About.Com, is maintained by Joshua
Kennon. The site includes interviews with finance personalities, a
series of investing lessons explaining how to analyze financial
statements, and more. Lots of pop-up ads, though.
http://beginnersinvest.about.com - Investors Alliance is a nonprofit educational membership
association for individual investors.
http://www.powerinvestor.comInvestorDictionary.com is the online financial dictionary for investors, with access from mobile devices.
http://www.investordictionary.com/ - InvestorPlace.com enables independent investors to reap profits
from the unbiased advice of respected investing advisors in
technology, Internet, global, retirement, growth stocks, and mutual
funds. Updated daily.
http://www.investorplace.com - InvestorWords.Com offers a huge glossary of investment and
finance terms.
http://www.investorwords.com - Liberty Research offers information about technical analysis.
http://www.libertyresearch.com/ - James Mallett maintains a site with basic financial planning
information.
http://www.improveyourfinances.com/ - Money Magazine offers Money 101.
http://www.money.com/money/101/ - MortgageLoan.com offers a glossary with over 700 terms.
http://www.mortgageloan.com/finance-glossary - The Motley Fool offers "Fool's School" for investors.
http://www.fool.com/School.htm - The Mutual Fund Education Alliance (MFEA) offers the Mudual Fund
Investor's Center, with basic information, listings of fund companies,
etc.
http://www.mfea.com - Stock Trading Research offers a collection of articles
to help you understand how the stock markets really work and how to
identify the stock market trends.
http://www.stock-trading-research.com - The Option Trading Guide offers options basics, technical
analysis, and a resource library.
http://www.option-trading-guide.com - The Orion Futures Group offers a "Futures 101" primer.
http://www.orionfutures.com/fut101.htm - The Orion Futures Group offers an "Options 101" primer.
http://www.orionfutures.com/opts.htm - The Securities Industry Association offers basic investor
education materials, as well as news releases, position papers, and
other reports.
http://www.siainvestor.org/ - Solomon Bros. offers a free service to help investors with
research and safe investing. This site was the result of a settlement
forced on them a few years ago when they got into trouble.
http://www.investorprotection.org - Trading Glossary offers a glossary of over 6,000 terms about
finance and investment.
http://www.trading-glossary.com - The VA Mortgage Center offers a glossary of common terms used in
home mortgages, which special emphasis on loan terms used by the
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/va_loan_glossary.htm - The Washington Post has a huge glossary of investment and finance
terms on their web site.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/glossary/