How does an investor determine a company’s economic soundness? Where do you go to follow your investments? Can you track a company’s SEC filings or find out what traders are saying about markets? Is there a site that has general financial information and recommendations? And who is watching out for shady Wall Street dealings? You can access all of this information and more on the websites below.
Seeking Alpha: http://seekingalpha.com/ advertises real-time email alerts with critical information on your stocks.
Google Alerts: http://www.google.com/alerts allows you to monitor the Web for new information on company stocks from the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your queries. Google Alerts are email updates on any query you wish to monitor such as following companies you have invested in or would like to invest in, checking up on a competitor’s company or monitoring the latest industry information.
StockTwits: www.Stocktwits.com organizes conversations around the $TICKER tag (i.e. $AAPL) into “streams,” making it easy to find ideas and information. Search for stocks, explore trending tickers and follow links to the stream of a related stock or an individual user. This is a fast, real-time, free social network for investors and traders.
Market Brief: http://marketbrief.com/ allows you to search across 8,000,000+ SEC filings, Patents, Trademarks and more. It includes up-to-the-minute alerts, insider transactions, startups, IPO filings, the latest patents and stock information in the news.
Yahoo! Finance: www.finance.yahoo.com is an all-inclusive site which is populated by other data sources making it a comprehensive source for financial information. The site posts CNBC News and Analysis, Stock Watch, and a Get Quotes. There are also links to the top 10 stocks, the best dividend stocks, the top penny stocks, the best mutual funds, the best credit card deals, high CD Rates and mortgage refinancing rates.
Traders Life 24/7: http://www.inthemoneystocks.com/traders-life-247 is a site for traders and built by traders. It allows members to post their charts, articles and views on the markets for everyone to see. While only members can register their profiles, post and talk to each other, it is free for anyone to view.
Forbes Real Time: http://www.forbes.com/real-time/ is the Forbes interactive page which allows you to scan the latest activity on Forbes from the past 24 hours. You are able to read the latest posts, register comments on articles and share them via Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
The United States Proxy Exchange: (USPX) http://proxyexchange.org/ is a non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating shareowner rights and confronting Wall Street abuse. Members are individual investors and since funding comes entirely from membership dues, they set their own agenda.
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