Researching stocks online - a beginner’s guide
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The internet is probably the single greatest place to invest, provided you have good knowledge before making your trade. When it comes to information retrieval, the internet has it all. In fact, some might think the internet has too much information. For that reason, you need to condense your data sources down to ones that can really help you. This article will take a look at some good sources of information on the internet.
You can’t miss some of these opinion makers:
- TheStreet.com - the famous Jim Cramer gives his opinions on stock. You can always get a sense of
- Yahoo Finance - The Grand-daddy of them all. You can find tools here for everything you need
- Google Finance - Google’s version of Yahoo Finance with slightly different tools
Don’t forget, the best tools are in your trading account.
You need to make sure to do some research, and most of it can be done from filings. Yahoo or Google always have convenient links to Oscar filings, so make sure to check them out so you can really crunch the numbers. The Standard & Poor’s research tools available in most online brokerage accounts is very useful as well. Do you know of any other helpful tools?
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3 Responses to “Researching stocks online - a beginner’s guide”
Do you know of a good “How To”/FAQ for getting started reading financial statements?
I think there are a lot of us, even those who aren’t scared off by math and numbers in general, who need a bit of help figuring out what the numbers mean.
By Chris on May 25, 2006
Hi Chris,
Off-hand I can’t think of an online one. Are you a big reader of books at all?
By webmaster on May 25, 2006
sure, books are great too. It can be tough to find one that’s not too oversimplified yet not too complex, but if you have one you’d recommend I”d love to hear it.
By Chris on May 29, 2006