Articles belonging to ‘Sitelight’
Investimonials.com
Saturday, March 23, 2013
by CI Staff
Investimonials.com highlights the best financial products for investors. Its reviews and forums for discussion are a great way to filter through the numerous products on the market and discover ones that will prove the most beneficial to you.
Mint.com
Saturday, March 9, 2013
by CI Staff
Mint.com is a personal finance website that organizes and categorizes your spending habits.
FINVIZ.com
Saturday, February 23, 2013
by CI Staff
FINVIZ.com, or Financial Visualizations, provides key market information and analysis.
ETFDailyNews.com
Saturday, February 9, 2013
by AAII Staff
ETFDailyNews.com is a website that provides users one source for daily headlines and information on exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
SmartMoney.com
Saturday, January 26, 2013
by CI Staff
SmartMoney.com is a personal finance resource which offers a wealth of helpful tools as well as financial news and advice.
Pragmatic Capitalism
Saturday, January 12, 2013
by CI Staff
Pragmatic Capitalism provides relevant news and a forum for authors and readers to comment on markets, public policy and economics.
Real Time Economics
Saturday, December 22, 2012
by CI Staff
Real Time Economics is a website that contains exclusive news, analysis and commentary on the economy, Federal Reserve policy and general economic topics.
Freakonomics
Saturday, December 8, 2012
by CI Staff
Freakonomics.com is a financial and economics blog that reveals "the hidden side of everything," using statistical and behavioral economic models.
FreeLunch.com
Saturday, November 17, 2012
by CI Staff
FreeLunch.com is a comprehensive website featuring continually updated U.S. financial and economic data.
StockFlix
Saturday, November 3, 2012
by CI Staff
StockFlix is an online service that selects stocks based on advanced pattern recognition algorithms.
Stockpickr
Saturday, October 20, 2012
by CI Staff
Stockpickr, founded by Mad Money Host Jim Cramer, combines social networking with stock investment ideas to create a professional, yet incredibly open and useful service.
Wealthfront
Saturday, October 6, 2012
by CI Staff
Wealthfront is an online, SEC-registered, investment adviser that provides its customers with a personalized and diversified investment portfolio that is monitored regularly and rebalanced periodically.
Intrade
Saturday, September 22, 2012
by CI Staff
Intrade is a fascinating website for those who like to speculate. Specifically, Intrade is a prediction market that allows individuals to bet on the outcome of hundreds of real-world events.
BreakpointTrades.com
Saturday, September 8, 2012
by CI Staff
BreakpointTrades.com is a distinct service for both novice and experienced technical analysts.
GuruFocus.com
Saturday, August 25, 2012
by CI Staff
GuruFocus.com is a website devoted to value investing and the idea that individual investors would benefit from selecting stocks that have been researched and chosen by the best investors in the world, such as Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch.
The Truth About Mortgage
Saturday, August 11, 2012
by CI Staff
The Truth About Mortgage is an online blog run by Colin Robertson, a former account executive with a wholesale mortgage lender, that provides the public with valuable mortgage advice.
Portfolio123
Saturday, July 28, 2012
by CI Staff
Portfolio123 is a web-based stock investment service that provides everything from model portfolios to stock screening and strategy backtesting.
Dividend.com
Saturday, July 14, 2012
by CI Staff
Dividend.com is a reasonably comprehensive dividend-oriented website that does everything from educating investors to providing stock recommendations and a dividend stock screener.
InvestorGuide.com
Saturday, June 30, 2012
by CI Staff
InvestorGuide.com is a free, yet incredibly useful, one-stop shop for most of the individual investor’s basic financial needs.
Chartastic
Saturday, June 16, 2012
by CI Staff
Chartastic is a free online charting service that offers ample, easy-to-use features.
MarketInOut
Saturday, June 2, 2012
by CI Staff
MarketInOut is a customizable online stock screener for both traders and investors at any level of experience.
Personal Capital
Saturday, May 19, 2012
by CI Staff
Personal Capital provides individuals with money management and analytical services.
ChartSchool
Saturday, May 5, 2012
by CI Staff
Avid Computerized Investing readers know that StockCharts.com is a CI favorite for charting and technical analysis education. What makes it one of the best charting websites is that it provides a remarkable amount of valuable information for free.
Seeking Alpha
Saturday, April 21, 2012
by CI Staff
Seeking Alpha is a website that offers actionable stock market opinion and analysis as well as discussion forums.
Business Wire
Saturday, April 7, 2012
by CI Staff
Business Wire has the most comprehensive news and disclosure network in the world, making it the global market leader in commercial press release distribution.
The Motley Fool
Saturday, March 24, 2012
by CI Staff
The Motley Fool is a multimedia financial service website that provides a wealth of invaluable information for investors of every kind.
StockTwits
Saturday, March 10, 2012
by CI Staff
StockTwits is a real-time social network that allows users to share news and rumors about companies, express opinions on investments and investment strategies, and share with or seek advice from other users.
TradingView
Saturday, February 25, 2012
by CI Staff
TradingView is an online technical analysis and charting website that allows users to learn and share trading ideas.
YCharts
Saturday, February 11, 2012
by CI Staff
The most useful feature of YCharts is its ability to chart over 70 different metrics, including revenue growth, market capitalization and dividend yield, for over 5,000 companies.
Jemstep
Saturday, January 28, 2012
by CI Staff
Jemstep is a free online portfolio guidance and management system designed for individual investors. According to Jemstep, the website uses technology to provide objective, transparent ratings for more than 20,000 mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Jemstep takes into account your objectives, goals and risk tolerance and identifies recommended investment options. In addition, Jemstep is able to track your holdings.
MarketRiders.com
Saturday, January 14, 2012
by CI Staff
MarketRiders.com is a unique online portfolio management program that offers certain features typically found at full-service wealth management firms.
Credit.com
Saturday, December 24, 2011
by CI Staff
Credit.com provides consumers with educational resources and information on credit products and services. The site offers users a free credit report card and allows you to compare credit cards and loans according to your individual credit score.
Briefing.com’s Daily Analyst Recommendations at NASDAQ.com
Saturday, December 10, 2011
by CI Staff
NASDAQ.com provides a section that aggregates daily analyst recommendations from a variety of research firms, investment banks and other financial institutions.
TheStreet.com Investment Research
Saturday, November 19, 2011
by CI Staff
The Investment Research area of TheStreet.com is a comprehensive, free research resource with several useful features.
Dinkytown.net
Saturday, November 5, 2011
by CI Staff
Dinkytown.net provides over 350 Java-based financial calculators, including calculators for mortgage and loan payments, investments, savings, taxes and personal finance.
J3 Information Services Group
Saturday, October 22, 2011
by CI Staff
The J3 Information Services Group website is designed to track and report timely information regarding insider activity on over 10,000 companies.
Trading Economics
Saturday, October 8, 2011
by CI Staff
Trading Economics provides historical data on economic indicators, exchange rates, stock market indexes, and government bond yields for over 200 different countries.
InvestorWords.com
Saturday, September 24, 2011
by CI Staff
InvestorWords.com is one of the premier financial glossary websites on the Internet.
MyMoney.gov
Saturday, September 10, 2011
by CI Staff
MyMoney.gov is a U.S. government website dedicated to teaching the basics of financial education. The site has three separate sections—Life Events, My Resources and Tools. Each provides useful features and articles that assist with financial decision-making. The site organizes financial education resources from over 20 different federal websites in one place.
Kiplinger Tools
Saturday, August 27, 2011
by CI Staff
Kiplinger is a personal finance and business forecasting website featuring several useful tools that can help individual investors with their investment decisions.
Investopedia.com
Saturday, August 13, 2011
by CI Staff
Investopedia.com is a financial website that has become increasingly expansive over the past several years. Originally, the website was designed as a resource for students and educational professionals, housing investment formulas and a complete dictionary of terms. The website now has the look of a comprehensive investment website, with news articles and fundamental stock data.
Seeking Alpha Earnings Center
Saturday, July 30, 2011
by CI Staff
Seeking Alpha’s Earnings Center provides earnings call transcripts. Most investors are satisfied with the annual reports that are available on company websites, but some will prefer the added explanations that top executives make on earnings calls with analysts.
footnoted.com
Saturday, July 16, 2011
by CI Staff
Accounting scandals of the past have brought to light a number of companies with questionable accounting practices. Although the issue is not as prevalent as it was during the days of Enron, there are still companies that engage in aggressive accounting, pay out excessive compensation, and practice questionable self-dealing. footnoted.com, now a part of Morningstar, takes a closer look at companies’ financial statements and routine SEC filings to find this buried information so that investors can be well informed.
adr.com
Saturday, July 2, 2011
by CI Staff
It should come as no surprise that international investing is beneficial to the portfolios of individual investors. Modern portfolio theory tells us that there is an efficient frontier, which plots the highest return investors should be able to achieve at each level of risk. Theoretically, international investments expand the efficient frontier further than domestic-only holdings do. This means investors are effectively able to generate higher returns at each level of risk or bear less risk for a given return.
Select Sector SPDRs
Saturday, June 18, 2011
by CI Staff
The Standard & Poor’s depositary receipts (SPDRs) offered at Select Sector SPDRs are a useful investment for individuals looking to round out their portfolio. These SPDR exchange-traded funds (ETFs) divide the S&P 500 into nine sectors (consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, financial, health care, industrial, materials, technology and utilities) allowing investors to quickly and easily gain exposure to certain sectors that their portfolio may be lacking.
Financial Calculators
Saturday, June 11, 2011
by CI Staff
When it comes to making sound financial decisions, it helps to know your projected cash outflows, your future net worth and the answers to common financial questions such as how much will be needed for retirement and how inflation impacts retirement spending needs. Fortunately, a website is available that helps you make numerous personal financial calculations.
Economagic
Saturday, June 4, 2011
by CI Staff
Economagic.com provides access to a wealth of economic data, the majority of which is for the U.S. The real value of the website is found in its database, which stores historical economic data going back to 1949.
United States Department of Commerce: Economics and Statistics Administration
Saturday, May 21, 2011
by CI Staff
The Economics and Statistics Administration, a part of the United States Department of Commerce, is responsible for several key roles, including providing timely economic analysis, disseminating national economic indicators and overseeing the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Financial Board Central
Saturday, May 7, 2011
by CI Staff
Financial Board Central is a superb website designed to aggregate stock news and information in one area to save investors time and effort.
ClearStation
April 2011
by CI Staff
ClearStation, a website from E*Trade, targets investors who are looking to use more technical analysis in their investment approach.
Buxfer
March 2011
by CI Staff
There are a bevy of high-quality personal finance websites available on the Internet, and Buxfer is one of the best.
BillShrink.com
February 2011
by CI Staff
BillShrink.com is unlike the websites usually featured in our Sitelight area. As the name suggests, the site attempts to provide you with the best rates on credit cards, savings accounts and CDs, as well as help you lower your bills for gas, wireless and television.
StockSpotter
January 2011
by CI Staff
StockSpotter.com is a website that provides daily buy and sell recommendations for stocks. It is meant to be followed with minimal effort on your part.
DailyFX
December 2010
by CI Staff
Foreign currency trading has always been one of the more esoteric disciplines of investing (or trading) and, as a result, useful information can be hard to come by. DailyFX, a part of FXCM, provides current news and analysis of major currencies around the world.
Kalengo.com
November 2010
by CI Staff
Kalengo.com not only provides users with portfolio tracking tools, but offers simple portfolio optimization capabilities as well.
MyBankTracker
October 2010
by CI Staff
MyBankTracker provides free, transparent information to help consumers make informed banking decisions.
DRIP Wizard
September 2010
by CI Staff
Website of dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP), stock, and mutual fund investment management program also offers free DRIP screener.
FundReveal
August 2010
by CI Staff
Covestor
July 2010
by CI Staff
Covestor is a social networking site that gives users the ability to track their own accounts and to mirror trades of other users. Individuals using the free tracking service can add and track portfolio holdings and share them with others. The site pulls data directly from your brokerage firm.
MoneyStrands
June 2010
by CI Staff
MoneyStrands is a free online personal financial service that automatically gathers data from your various financial accounts (savings, checking, loans and credit cards) to provide an up-to-date and unified view of your finances.
Find answers to Social Security and Medicare questions at Social Security Online
May 2010
by CI Staff
Find answers to Social Security and Medicare questions at Social Security Online
