Financial Resources

[Sachin]

This is a thread dedicated to links for more information about personal finance, investing, etc.

Post any favorite sites here.

I check this site for basic economic and technical info:

http://www.moneychimp.com/

Sachin

[Matt in the Hat]

For me, www.bankrate.com is the class of the industry

[bostonsoccermdl]

www.elitetrader.com

for all sort of trading related topics.

[Hyok]

I like www.fool.com and their radio program on NPR, http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=15

[Karl K]

I think all of you guys should take the plunge and get an online subscription to the Wall Street Journal. It's worth it.

I check it every day.

For free Business News, you can't beat Business Week on line.

http://www.businessweek.com/index.html

I check that once a week.

Easy to navigate, and a wealth of info. Its quick stock search engine

http://prosearch.businessweek.com/businessweek/general_free_search.html?

is great if you want to do a bit of Graham Dodd analysis.

I also love yahoo finance.

http://finance.yahoo.com/

They used to have this great free feature Money Manager that consolidated all of your debts and assets into an on-line networth statment that could be updated daily. Alas, they discontinued that so I think I may have to take the plunge and by Money or Quicken.

I am very much a long-term investor kind of guy, but every once and a while I'll do the options or arbitrage thing.

For the best free info on all the goings on in the M&A world, see TheDeal.com

http://www.thedeal.com

and especially its arbitrage page:

http://www.thedeal.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=TheDeal/Page/TDDArbitrage&c=Page&rendermode=live

The really good stuff, though, costs money.

[bostonsoccermdl]

I think all of you guys should take the plunge and get an online subscription to the Wall Street Journal. It's worth it.


Karl, (or another anyone else that is interested) I have found from an investors point of view, Investors business daily gives you a wealth of knowledge, without the fluff.

I am not criticizing the WSJ, I agree it can be informative, especially if you like casual conversations about business in general, but if you really want to get to the nitty gritty, this resource often highlights the important stuff and is very clear and concise. I think IBD is often overlooked by the average investor simply b/c it isnt as well known.

The online source does cost $$$, but I just opt for the paper. I wont get into it in this thread, but I am in the process of starting a thread on CANSLIM investing which has been developed by William O'Neill, the founder of IBD and author of a popular investing book How to Make Money in Stocks. Dont let the simply name fool you, the book seems very helpful, and a good resource for the intermediate term, (weeks/months) investor.

One of the most helpful things IBD offers is a proprietary ranking system that ranks the top stocks in the list. It gets updated every friday after the close.