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Investment
Research Web-Guide - (Our Favorite Sites!)
Performing investment research, such
as industry and company analyses, without utilizing the Internet
is like traveling from Europe to North America by boat rather than
by plane. The Internet offers an enormous amount of information
but it can take quite some time to find the right information if
one does not exactly know where to go.
The AEF management team hopes that
our favorite sites will lead you to new and useful sites, making
your research experience more efficient and pleasant.
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The
Yahoo Bond Center is the AEFĖs overall
favorite bond-site. It offers the latest composite rates
on U.S. Treasury, municipal and corporate bonds. Besides
the news and analyses sections, the site features numerous
tools, including a bond screener and calculators.
The yahoo
message boards also provide a great communications tool
where ideas and opinions can be shared with the participating
members. The siteĖs educational section pulls informative
articles from other top bond sites and a glossary can
be accessed to help visitors to learn specific terms and
regulations.
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Stockcharts.com
offers great charting and technical analyses tools among
some other very neat features such as the market carpet
and Intra-Industry Comparisons.
Along
with
Stockcharts.com, the best free site
for technical analysis and charting is
Prophet.net.
The site specializes in providing sophisticated tools
for a variety of indicators and focuses on creating a
variety of charts. Especially worth while checking out
are the ProphetĖs Java charts.
Carlos Bazan's Technical
Analysis Site Recommendations
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Technical
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TheStreet.com
and the
Wall Street Journal both offer great
market commentary with daily updated reports written by
some of the industries most eminently respectable specialists.
Both sites offer fee based subscription options but for
the nave investor the free information will be more than
sufficient.
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Our clear
favorite site for company research is the
Multex Investor
site.
From ratio
comparisons, earnings estimates, financial statements
to recent significant developments the site offers great
in-depth information on all basic evaluation categories.
The site is easy to navigate and the data is portrayed
in a very useful and comfortable format.
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The Aztec
Equity Fund has been subscribing to the
Dismal Scientist, a sub-site of
Economy.com, even without a subscription
the site offers over 100 economic indicators in 15 countries
and other useful commentary and data.
FreeLunch.com another sub-site of
Economy.com allows its users to search
over 900,000 economic and financial data series free of
charge, making Economy.com
our first choice when it comes to researching economic
data via the Web.
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Everything
that you always wanted to know about investing but never
dared to ask you will find your answers on the
Motley Fool’s website. The
SEC website is also among our favorites,
it rather focuses on how protect yourself as an investor
rather than giving you the investments 101.
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The two
leading financial newspapers the
Wall Street Journal and
Financial Times both offer excellent Internet
resources for financial news and global market developments.
Other Financial Market
Sites of Interest
Very
Cool Site - Worth Checking Out:
NYSE
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Looking
for basic information that can be accessed fast and easy?
Want to take a quick glance at a company stock chart,
check on financial market indices or find links to more
in-depth market analyses and news,
Yahoo.com will not disappoint you.
The site has great information depth and a very user-friendly
interface.
Also worth
mentioning is
InvestorGuide.com, a very comprehensive
portal for investors to browse through. The site offers
several newsletters and also
InvestorWords.com
one of the most complete investment term dictionaries
on the Web.
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Famous
for its QuickTake reports, a one page summary on a particular
mutual fund, the best site in this category is
Morningstar.com. The site also offers
in-depth research tools, analyst reports and fund ratings.
CNBC on
MSN.com also offers easy accessible
fund research but does not have quite the depth of Morningstar.
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Most investment
sites offer a portfolio tracking function, but few are
very user-friendly in regards to creating, maintaining
and customizing the portfolio. Again CNBC on
MSN.com clearly comes in first place;
watch out for Microsoft…Its portfolio tracker has
a very clean user interface and provides great flexibility
in setting personal decisive factors.
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This category
again is dominated by CNBC on
MSN.com. You can supercharge your search
and download the upgrade to the more powerful, easy-to-use
Deluxe Stock Screener. This screener
allows you to input multiple screening
criteria and the results can be saved or exported into
excel, it is simply awesome.
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