Useful Investing Resources for Beginners
- Investopedia - Investopedia is a gold mine for the knowledge-hungry. They have excellent articles and tutorials for beginning to advanced traders. They even have a stock simulator you can play with!
- Elite Trader Forums - Great place to talk with fellow traders about ideas and strategies.
- Insider Buying - Find out where the latest insider buying is happening. Also, check out the history of insider buying for your favorite stock!
- Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters
Stock Charts:
- StockCharts -This site is by far the best site out there for viewing your favorite stocks. You can pick from your favorite chart strategies and annotate the charts as well! I like visiting the CandleGlance Groups page, where you can view up to 10 charts of your favorite tickers at once, as well as view some very useful predefined groups.
- Yahoo! Finance - Add various technical indicators and dynamically drag the chart to the date of your choice.
Screeners:
- Trade Ideas - This is one of my favorite stock screeners. They have a wide array of unique screens that I haven’t found anywhere else and you can even construct your own custom screen! (i.e. 5 consecutive down days, 50 day moving average crosses 200 day moving average, etc.).
- StockCharts Screener - Good technical analysis screener with fairly accurate results.
- CNBC Stock Screener - A fundamental analysis stock screener. They have some good pre-defined screens and also let you create your own custom screens.
- Yahoo! Stock Screener - Generic fundamental analysis stock screener. Useful for screening by industry. They also have a bond and fund screener.
- MSN Stock Screener - Similar to Yahoo! Stock Screener, but with fewer variables.
- StockTA - A comprehensive technical analysis stock screener. Only downer is that the search results aren’t as accurate as you’d like.