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Financial News & Commentary

Zecco.com  — Zecco is an online brokerage specializing in free stock trades. However, they also provide a free membership to their community section, which has a wealth of news, commentary, financial blogs, bulletin boards, and tools like quotes, charting, and option chains. Whether you sign up for a brokerage account with them or not, signing up for a free community account is a good idea.

Yahoo

Finance   — A great resource, with news archives for most publicly traded stocks, along with general market news and commentary.

Wall Street

Journal  — A good resource for subscribers. Most features are for paid subscribers only, however.

MSN

Money  — This page features exclusive content from

CNBC.

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Stock Quotes and Charts

Yahoo

Finance — Yahoo has made significant improvements to its charting features recently. Combined with their portfolio tracking tools, it makes for a powerful research platform. And it’s free.

Zecco.com  — Zecco is an online brokerage specializing in free stock trades. However, their free community membership provides a wealth of news, commentary, financial blogs, bulletin boards, and other tools like quotes, charting, and option chains.

BigCharts.com

— A fantastic free charting site. The best hands-down for overseas stocks. Has much more information on international stocks in their native currencies than other free sites.

ChartFilter.com —

ChartFilter is a stock analysis site with a wide range of screening and filtering tools.

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Research and Financials

Be sure to stick with reputable, trustworthy sites when conducting your research.

Morningstar

— Morningstar, known primarily for its ratings of mutual funds, now has expanded to provide coverage on individual stocks.

Seeking Alpha

— A collection of articles and commentary from name financial authors, together with other research resources.

Swing-Trade-Stocks.com

— An excellent site for traders focused on technical analysis and short-term strategies.

The Quite Contrarian Compound Interest Calculator — Our free online calculator for compound interest. Allows you to solve for rate, holding period, principal, or final amount.

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Stock

Screening Tools

Yahoo

Stock Screener — An easy-to-use tool that delivers everything most

investors will need.

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Bond

Information

Yahoo

Finance Bond Center — Rates, prices, and research tools for most publicly traded government and corporate bonds.

CNN

Money Bond Center — Basic bond market news

and yield curve information.

Bond

Market Association — A great resource full of educational materials for beginning bond investors.

U.S.

Treasury Site — The primary resource for federal government bonds.

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Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS)

Reits are an excellent way to diversify into real-estate, and generate dividend income.

National

Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts — The official REIT site. Everything you need to know about REITS can be found here.

The

Real Estate Journal — The Wall Street Journal’s archive or REIT-related articles.

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Options

Chicago

Board Options Exchange (CBOE) — A collection of free self-directed courses on Stock Options from the CBOE, the world’s biggest options exchange.

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Miscellaneous

RonPaulFan.com — News and information about Congressman Ron Paul and his presidential campaign.

Ron Paul 2008 — Official Campaign site.

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