twenty great internet investment sites

TWENTY GREAT INTERNET
INVESTMENT SITES
Don Gimpel
August 7, 2010
A site that tracks “Gurus” and
keeps them honest.
http://www.cxoadvisory.com/gurus/#snapshot
CXOAdvisory tracks Guru performance and
reports on how well they do. On the average,
you would be better off flipping a coin than rely
on a Guru’s recommendation.
How much is your home worth?
http://www.zillow.com
Zillow estimates your homes value and the
homes of your neighbors. It also provides
detailed information about your home.
There’s a sample on the next slide:
I may have forgotten to completely
close some bank accounts. Can I
still recover the money?
You betcha! Try:
http://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCPI or
http://www.missingmoney.com or
http://www.unclaimed.org
This is the State of California Unclaimed Property
Department. Try it! What have you got to lose?
I tried it and found that the State owes me $40.00
I’m a fundamental investor.
Where can I obtain a company’s
Balance Sheet information?
http://www.wolframalpha.com
Just enter the company’s code and you
will get important balance sheet
information including key ratios and
much much more.
I want to track the market
during the day?
http://www.adrich.com/
This site provides eighteen useful 15-minute
delayed market charts including the major indexes.
The opinion piece is really worth reading.
Market anomalies?
http://www.investorhome.com/anomaly.htm
What’s the S&P 500 going to
do in the next six months?
http://www.tfc-charts.w2d.com/marketquotes/ZQ.html
Gummy-stuff Excel files
http://gummy-stuff.org/Excel/
http://gummy-stuff.org/Excel-files.htm
Question: What does this site offer?
Answer: Hundreds of Excel investment file
calculators, a real treasure trove of useful
investment information.
How much do we owe?
Try: http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Which option strategy should I use?
This site asks a series of questions and then
recommends an optimum option strategy.
http://www.optiontradingpedia.com/strategy/opti
onstrategyselector.htm
Better yet, send an E*mail to:
[email protected]
Ask for BYOG 12 Option Calculators and Notes
How about Stock Screening?
Fidelity offers the best free Stock Screening
that I’ve seen.
http://research2.fidelity.com/fidelity/screeners/
commonstock/index.asp?page=strategies.asp
Really good calculators!
http://www.FINRA.org/investors/toolscalcul
ators/index.htm
Investing strategies …
For a balanced discussion of investing strategies
try:
http://www.cxoadvisory.com/size-effect/doingmomentum-with-style-etfs
If you are a serious researcher Try:
http://www.ny.frb.org/research/staff_reports/indices.
html
This is a site for serious investors with good math
and economics backgrounds.
Option calculators …
The best set of option calculators that I’ve
seen can be found at :
http://wolframalpha.com/input/?I=option+call
There are calculators for:
Option Spread, Asian Option, Butterfly Option,
Collar, Condor, Diagonal Option Spread,
Diagonal Ratio Option Spread, Iron Butterfly,
Iron Condor, Lookback, Option Ratio Spread,
Option Time Spread, Reversal Option, Straddle
Spread, Strangle Option
For a “Pull no Punches” opinion:
http://www.adrich.com/OPN/Archive/Opn2010
/Jul10.php
A really good reference site.
Try: http://www.investopedia.com
There’s lots of good stuff here like
definitions, information about options,
calculators, technical indicators …