Investment (Bonds and Stocks)

American Association of Individual Investors (AAII): Site of this trade association is a very comprehensive site for information on investment with significant coverage of mutual funds discussing types of funds, managing funds, and how to analyze fund performance. http://www.aaii.com/

Avid Trading Company: A commercial site offering technical market opinion on U.S. equities, currencies, debt instruments and world markets: http://avidinfo.com

Bloomberg: This site provides a wealth of information on many different aspects of investing. Includes sections on Markets and Money. It also has easy access to market news and interest rate news. http://www.bloomberg.com/

Bond Market Association (BMA): The BMA represents securities firms and banks that underwrite, trade and sell debt securities including municipal bonds; U.S. Treasury securities; federal agency securities; mortgage and other asset-backed securities, corporate debt securities; money market instruments; and Repos. The site is a wealth of information including research papers, a valuable sent of links organized by type of bond, legislative information investor information, standard dealer agreements, and membership information. http://www.bondmarkets.com/

Bonds Online: One of the few Internet sites devoted to bonds. The site provides excellent links to bond information on the Web with special features for Treasuries, savings bonds, corporate, and municipal bonds, news, and a "Ask the Professor" feature. http://www.bonds-online.com

BradyNet: A site devoted to data and analyses related to Brady bonds. Includes bond prices, ratings, a forum, and information on new issues. http://www.bradynet.com/

CANSLIM E-mail Discussion Group: The site explains the CANSLIM stock-picking method (CANSLIM is an acronym for seven fundamental and technical rules for finding top stocks). Each day the site delivers up to 40 e-mails devoted to CANSLIM stock picking. The archives are searchable back to 1996. http://www.xmission.com/~mcjathan/canslim

Clearstation: This E-Trade-owned stock-picking community invites you to create portfolios. Unlike most free-for-all communities like Yahoo, this site holds pickers accountable by ranking results and inviting others to rate you. Heavy emphasis on charting and everything is color-coded for easy analysis. http://clearstation.etrade.com/

CNN Money: A valuable site providing current information on financial events, small business information, quotes, and other information of general interest. http://money.cnn.com/

E-line Financials: This general interest site provides financial information on 6,000 companies, quotes, Annual reports, and news. http://www.financials.com

Excite: This site can be easily personalized to your portfolio. The site allows you to track stocks, news, and other personal information. Very strong on news features. http://www.excite.com

Financial Engines: This site offers discussions of financial asset allocation principles of modern portfolio theory that emphasize the relationship between risk and return and the importance of diversification. Financial Engines, founded by Nobel Laureate William Sharpe, offered software to money managers via the Internet. http://www.financialengines.com

Financial Times Group: The site of the Financial Times publication. Free registration provides access to news and articles. http://news.ft.com/home/us

Investor Links: This site is devoted to maintaining likes on all facets of investment. Topics include advisors, brokers, exchanges, software, prices, global markets, options, futures, and much more. http://www.investorlinks.com/

Money Central Investor: Microsoft's investment site provides users with the ability to trade and update portfolios with brokerage firms. Site has an excellent "research wizard" to provide definitions of complicated terms. http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/home.asp

Motley Fool: Provides financial news and data. Users can customize for their own portfolio.http://www.fool.com/

Multex Investor: The site's Investing Strategies section is where you will find well-reasoned picks. From its stock screener to its education section, the site packs in everything a self-directed stock picker needs. http://www.investor.reuters.com/StockEntry.aspx?target=/stocks

NASDAQ: The National Association of Security Dealers Automated Quotation service site provides a host of resources including market information, company data, research, reference material, quotes, and individual investor information. http://www.nasdaq.com

Pinnacor: Provides market data, SEC filings, charts, and options prices. There is a useful stock tracking tool. http://www.pinnacor.com/financial/investment.php

Pristine Day Trader: An interesting site with articles on day trading strategies, news, quotes, and links. http://www.pristine.com/

Prudential Securities: This site sponsored by the investment banking firm provides thrice-daily updates on the bond and stock markets, strategies, and news. The site is one of the few good bond sites on the Web. http://www.prudential.com/index/

Standard & Poor's Equity Investor Service: A site profiling the wide range of S&P services. The index and features articles are free. http://www2.standardandpoors.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=sp/Page/HomePg

Stock Research Group: A site providing up-to-date equity information with emphasis on small cap firms on the NASDAQ, VSE, and Alberta stock exchanges. http://www.stockgroup.com/

Stockmaster: A useful site providing stock and mutual fund data, fund quotes, and some very nice charting of prices since 1993. http://www.stockmaster.com

Vanguard Diehards: With over 120,000 posts, Morningstar.com's Vanguard Diehards board is the place to head for discussions about mutual fund issues, and not just those related to Vanguard funds. http://socialize.morningstar.com/newsocialize/asp/coverpage.asp