Top Investment Resources

An investor, regardless of the fact that he is new or well versed with the stock market, will first and foremost need access to a variety of information time and again to keep up with the market and to know where to best make investments. However the advantage while in the stock business is that the industry has been around for a long time and will continue to be around for a while so an investor has years to work on his skill. Strategies that were used a decade back can still be as effective.

The easiest source that now a large amount people go to, after the invasion of the Internet, is off course, online sites. There are number of sites that are popular with investors and tend to be visited rather regularly.

Prophet.net is a site that boasts of superior results. With apps that can track and compare performances of different industries and market sectors, one can track from a time frame of 2 days to 5 years. Displaying ranks as well as rank changes of stocks and sectors, it provides quick-scan charts of every company from about 214 industry groups. Then there are others like BigCharts.com, EquityTrader.com, and Clearstation.com that offer all kinds of features and information; from top 10 lists of best and worst performing industries and stocks, ranking current and ‘potential’ performances of these stocks and industries as well as tracking their performances.

There are sites like that give fundamental and technical analysis of stocks and companies that are doing well or that may be doing poorly. For instance, StockCharts.com and Yahoo Analyst Estimates claim to be some of the best sites to provide such analysis.

StreetInsider.com evidently provides stock market breaking news. Highly recommended, it gives news alerts regarding IPO’s, analyst comments, insider trades, economic data etc.

In addition to these, there are social news sites that also have a stock or finance feature along with other features. For instance, Tip’d — “A community for financial news, ideas, and tips” has categories like business, currencies, economy, personal finance, and stocks along with others. Other such few sites to name could be, Value Investing News, Stock Twits, PF Buzz, Motley Fool CAPS, Wikinvest and Covestor.

Off course then there are those that go back to the tried and tested method and habit of reading, the traditional resource for research. There are a various number of highly recommended books for this section of people as well.

The Intelligent Investor, perhaps the most significant and influential book that was ever written about proper value investing. It was originally published in 1934 by Ben Graham and can now be found easily in all reputable bookstores near you.

Then there is One Up On Wall Street, the next books that should be read to understand market and making money. It was written by famed mutual fund manager Peter Lynch.

A few others to name could be The Essays of Warren Buffet, Security Analysis, How to be a Billionaire etc.