Top 5 Investment Sites

Yahoo Finance is the 800 lb gorilla in best investment sites.  Yahoo essentially democratized financial information.  While not the first to do so, Yahoo made it easy for investors to study companies’ balance sheets and income statements.

As Reg FD leveled the investing playing field by prohibiting selective disclosures, new sites have arisen that provide tremendous value in the research process.  These best investment sites, when used properly, can mean the difference between profit and loss and between big gains and little gains.

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1. Expert Community

Expert Communities are comprised of groups of people used to conduct professional research.  We’ve seen a gaggle of new financial sites launched that leverage the stock picks of both professionals and individuals with stellar performance.  These sites plug in to users’ trading accounts to accurately represent performance.  Other users can, in turn, subscribe to top performers and track their trading activity.

Top Sites: Covestor, Wealthfront

2. Piggybacking the Pros

Created by a professional investor and analyst, James Altucher, this site follows portfolio moves of mutual fund and hedge fund managers.  Investors can search for a fund manager and see all the positions held by this investor reported to the SEC.  Users can also search by stock to monitor which professional investors are buying and selling it.

Top Sites: Alpha Clone, Stockpickr, GuruFocus

3. Long Tail Investment Opinion

What began as the mouthpiece of an ex-investment bank analyst blossomed into a full-fledged media company.  SeekingAlpha, as an editorial-driven blog aggregator, actually helped to seed the industry with new analyst-bloggers.  While it’s easy and cheap to begin publishing analysis to the Web, it’s not easy to get your analysis noticed.  SeekingAlpha gave these new power-brokers a soapbox.  SeekingAlpha essentially harvests the research from financial bloggers to provide coverage of the long tail of stocks and currently covers thousands of stocks.

Top Sites: Seeking Alpha

4. Grinding the Rumor Mill

Financial news flows are the waves on which stocks ride.  Rumors dribbled out into the market can have major affects on the movement of stock prices.  Tapping into the whispered expectations for a firm gives investors a view of what Wall Street is prognosticating for a stock.  The Street’s take on earnings reports helps give us insight into interpretation of data.  Briefing.com has uniquely designed services for individual investors and professional traders seeking live analysis of important news events of the day, with insight on what they mean for the market or individual securities

Top Sites: Briefing.com, Fly on the Wall

5. Screening 2.0

Professional investors use screens to filter stocks.  These screens consist of computer programs searching thousands and thousands of stocks for specific parameters.  Websites now provide preset screens that users can use to locate the next big one, without the use of expensive software and services. The Magic Formula, put forth by guru investor, Joel Greenblatt, was discussed in The Little Book That Beats the Market. Joel Greenblatt, Founder and Managing Partner at Gotham Capital put up average annualized returns of 40% for over 20 years.  His website provides a preset screen that lists numerous value stocks that pass.  Greenblatt recommends picking some of those and rebalancing every year.

Top Sites: MagicFormulaInvesting.com, Validea, Finviz, CNBC Pre-defined screens

6. Follow the Inside Moves

Lots of research has been done on the accuracy of tracking insider buying and selling.  Many insiders continue to sell stock at regular intervals and consequently, it becomes harder to track insider selling that differs in volume and frequency from these stock sale programs.  But it can be done and the results, according to the reseach, are good inidicators as to stock price movement.  Most of these services are premium services and subscription based.

Top sites: J3SG, InsiderScore, StreetInsider, EDGAR

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  • bikiassam

    Thank you for the list. All these sites are really good for knowing about investment. I often follow a few of them and I feel surprised how informative they are. Continuous following of these site will definitely help me.

  • Ed

    I found this great site on trading currency, Check it out.

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  • http://www.networkmarketingsuccess.ws mlgreen8753

    You are right, it's easy to get overwhelmed with all the information out there. I will check out your site, it sounds like a good resource for beginning investors. Hopefully, I will be able to get some feedback about Mentor Capital (MNTR), my latest stock interest.

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  • przemek130487

    The best investment portal in the world is: http://www.investportal.eu

  • MichaelHow

    I nominate Macroaxis in category 2 and 3. see http://www.macroaxis.com

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  • danthemanjones

    First off, I looked at MNTR and I'm not really impressed. If you want a company similar to it, check out Knight Capital (NITE). It has wonderful fundamentals. Also, if you would, check out my free investment forum at investmentchronicles.forumotion.net. There's not a lot of info on it yet, but it's I'm in the process of adding content.

  • Frank M

    I've made some big profits following the trades of Gold Stock Bull. I get an email every time they buy or sell, with a detailed explanation of why the stocks is a buy or sell.

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  • http://www.whengeniusprevailed.blogspot.com/ Money Mcbags

    the most entertaining investing site with both great analysis and humor (yes, finance can be funny, just ask Dick Fuld) is http://www.whengeniusprevailed.blogspot,com

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    Morningstar is good for research (even what you get for free just by registering).

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    Good summation of how the investment landscape has been revolutionized in the past few years.

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  • Carol

    Thanks for sharing. And I recommend a startup, Kalengo, in category 4 and 5.
    Please refer to http://www.kalengo.com

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  • Evan

    Benzinga.com would be a perfect fit in both categories #3 & #4, but probably just a bit quicker.

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    Here in Germany this website is extremely popular http://www.bullion-investor.com/

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    yes you r totally right

  • Guest

    I think http://www.iStockResearch.com should be added to the list. It offers the best online tool for estimating intrinsic value of stocks: http://www.istockresearch.com/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roman-Schneider/698122659 Roman Schneider

    Best Investment-Page for me is http://www.bullion-investor.com – a page where you can compare all the bullion dealer prices … who is selling gold and silver cheapest….

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  • Edward

    In my opinion the best, and completely independent investment portal in the world is http://www.investportal.eu that is whyI do not understand why it has not been included in this ranking. I personally find investors for my investment almost fo free!

  • Jay

    You might want to look at http://www.MyPlanIQ.com : a site full of investment plans like 401k with very interesting asset allocation strategies.

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    AlphaNation.com is currently beta testing the next generation of social finapps.  Has some very cool tools to connect with and learn from other top-performing investors

  • Pb

    I strongly advice to use this investment website:  http://www.investportal.eu – European Investment Portal.

  • Ttryk2008

    cool. very useful. I am a fan of value investing!
    I would like to suggest you to add turnkeyananlyst.com. it has many value investing strategies, such as magic formula, asset growth,  long-term E/P and others. And its company report is very good and has many fundamental ratios. Interesting and intuitive blog posts like yours.

  • Ttryk2008

    cool. very useful. I am a fan of value investing!I would like to suggest you to add turnkeyanalyst.com. it has many value investing strategies, such as magic formula, asset growth,  long-term E/P and others. And its company report is very good and has many fundamental ratios. Interesting and intuitive blog posts like yours.

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  • yamini

    you might want to http://asxiq.com for screening ASX listed stocks, it has a backtesting capabilites and about 25 predefined fundamental guru screeners

  • Anuhya

    Theres also a new site you might want to add http://stucrow.com/ its quite good ive used it myself

  • mr.muscle

    hi everyone….i m newbie here….frankly,i m doing my research about investments and fastest and safest way of making money.Some of my friends here in brunei approached me recently and did some presentations regarding online investments….and some of the investments are….speedline ltd,liberty gold,goldex,forex and many bla bla things.
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  • Brandonlene76

    Bitch you best make sure to do your research before you get into investing, You may end up loosing everything if you don’t know how to play.

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    there is a new site http://paststat.com for USA listed securities , a free backtesting portal along with the predifined technical screeners around 400 in total