Good resources for investing ideas.
My educational foray into stock market investing has turned into a personal hobby as well as a money making venture. I've had a lot of help in learning how to evaluate companies and funds, value stocks, and choose compelling long and short term investments. These are a few of the resources that have been most useful:
Motley Fool (www.fool.com). Most people know these guys, some don't take them seriously at all. They offer free and paid services, I've subscribed to their Rule Breakers and Hidden Gems and Stock Advisor newsletter services at one point or another, and found them all interesting and in some ways illuminating. The forums are great, though they're not free they are free from the spamming of the Yahoo Finance and other free boards. For those who don't like investing or feel intimidated, this is the best place to start -- they make it entertaining and accessible without dumbing it down, and they empower the individual investor without hype or much hyperbole.
Yahoo Finance (finance.yahoo.com). Hands down the most complete free site out there, great for monitoring big lists of stocks in any number of portfolios you might want to track. Good news coverage of all the stocks in your portfolios. Message boards are a real melange -- some are good and have knowledgeable posters, but most are full of chaff, bitter feuds between longs and shorts, and braggadoccio. Good content for each stock, including financials, analyst ratings, sec filings, etc.
Morningstar (www.morningstar.com). The basic info and articles are free, and this is the granddaddy of the mutual fund sites. They have great information about virtually every mutual fund currently on offer, and you can search for funds that match your specific criteria (ie, initial investment of less than $1,000, below average expense ratio, focus on large companies, etc.). Good articles under both the "stocks" and "funds" tabs from their analysts, though certainly drier than the Fool writers and less fun to read. Analysts are very conservative for the most part, which is certainly a good perspective to have.
Those are the three biggies I come back to again and again, though now that I've decided to pretty much leave my fund investments as they are use future funds to focus on individual stocks, I'm going to Morningstar less and less.
My educational foray into stock market investing has turned into a personal hobby as well as a money making venture. I've had a lot of help in learning how to evaluate companies and funds, value stocks, and choose compelling long and short term investments. These are a few of the resources that have been most useful:
Motley Fool (www.fool.com). Most people know these guys, some don't take them seriously at all. They offer free and paid services, I've subscribed to their Rule Breakers and Hidden Gems and Stock Advisor newsletter services at one point or another, and found them all interesting and in some ways illuminating. The forums are great, though they're not free they are free from the spamming of the Yahoo Finance and other free boards. For those who don't like investing or feel intimidated, this is the best place to start -- they make it entertaining and accessible without dumbing it down, and they empower the individual investor without hype or much hyperbole.
Yahoo Finance (finance.yahoo.com). Hands down the most complete free site out there, great for monitoring big lists of stocks in any number of portfolios you might want to track. Good news coverage of all the stocks in your portfolios. Message boards are a real melange -- some are good and have knowledgeable posters, but most are full of chaff, bitter feuds between longs and shorts, and braggadoccio. Good content for each stock, including financials, analyst ratings, sec filings, etc.
Morningstar (www.morningstar.com). The basic info and articles are free, and this is the granddaddy of the mutual fund sites. They have great information about virtually every mutual fund currently on offer, and you can search for funds that match your specific criteria (ie, initial investment of less than $1,000, below average expense ratio, focus on large companies, etc.). Good articles under both the "stocks" and "funds" tabs from their analysts, though certainly drier than the Fool writers and less fun to read. Analysts are very conservative for the most part, which is certainly a good perspective to have.
Those are the three biggies I come back to again and again, though now that I've decided to pretty much leave my fund investments as they are use future funds to focus on individual stocks, I'm going to Morningstar less and less.
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