AAII's Guide to Top Web Sites
| Social Media & Networking |
| Social media and networking sites are based on user participation and user-generated content. These sites allow users to exchange opinions, insights, experiences and perspectives with each other about individual securities, investment practices, etc. Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums or message boards, weblogs (blogs), wikis (user-driven information centers) and podcasts. |
 Motley Fool CAPS |
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caps.fool.com
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Registered users can post predictions of stock performance relative to the S&P 500 over a specified time period. As stock prices change, the site evaluates player predictions. Over time, players receive an accuracy percentage based on how often they make correct predictions. In addition, based on the performance of their picks, players receive a percentile rating indicating the percentage of players they are outperforming. Stocks also receive ratings, which are aggregations of every player prediction for that stock, indicating whether or not players think the stock will outperform the S&P 500. Players with higher ratings have more influence on stock ratings. CAPS screener allows users to screen for stocks with varying CAPS ratings as well as on financial data elements. Though there are competitive websites, CAPS remains the most popular of its kind.
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| wikinvest |
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www.wikinvest.com
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Investment research site allows users to contribute articles and edit content. Covers a variety of investing topics, including individual company reports, which rival much of what can be found from more traditional investing websites. Reports typically offer a background of the company as well as trends that can hurt and benefit the company's financial performance. Charts are easily accessible for many financial metrics. Articles cover investing concepts, commodities, mutual funds and global markets. Contributors must register with the site; as you post or make changes to the wiki, you earn contributor points. This allows users to gauge the usefulness and validity of your posts. Posts are monitored, but as is the case with any social website, the information should be verified via company reports and third-party data sources.
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| Yahoo! Finance |
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finance.yahoo.com
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Where to Find:
Enter a stocks ticker in the quote search box at the top left of the page, then click on Message Boards under News & Info.
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Investment message boards on stocks traded in the U.S., including over-the-counter stocks, are broken down into investment type or sector. Users can rate individual posts and sort posts by rating. Be aware that boards are not monitored closely so spam is a bit of a problem, though offensive posts can be reported and specified posters can be ignored. This forum should be used primarily for discussing stocks with other investors, not for actual analysis.
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