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Value Line
Value Line is the most trusted and prestigious name in the investment field. For more than a half-century, Value Line has been synonymous with trust, reliability, objectivity, and proven accurate performance and information for investors. Try Value Line risk free for 13 weeks.

B4utrade
Streaming, Real-Time Quotes, tick-by-tick with the market plus all the most robust tools on Wall Street aggregated into one site.
 
ShareBuilder.com
Gives investors a unique and powerful way to invest in the stock market. Rather than buying stock in blocks of shares, you set up a recurring dollar-based investment schedule. There are no account or investment minimums, and the cost of a ShareBuilder transaction is only $3 ($2 for custodial accounts).

OneShare.com

"The Gift of Equity". They provide framed single shares of unfolded stock certificates at the most competitive prices. They also provide custom framing, presentation gift certificates, gift wrapping and many value-added services.

MRI's Daily Market Service by Barchart.com
A comprehensive futures and options site. Featuring over 250 daily contracts with Charts and Statistics in over 100 markets, plus much more. Click here for a 30 day free trial.

10K Wizard
A search engine for SEC 10-K filings. You can set alerts on words, tickers and industries, download filings in word processor form, download financial data schedules in .csv (comma-delimited) format. It's got institutional and insider analysis and its enhanced searching lets you search by things like numbers and middle initials.
 
$tockPlayer
Profiles various companies that they feel have tremendous growth potential.

Armchair Millionaire
"For serious online investors".

Barron's Online
From the publishers of the Wall Street Journal.

BestCalls
Operates the Internet's first and largest public directory of investor conference calls. The BestCalls directory is maintained by the volunteer efforts of its members, who are comprised of investors, investor relations professionals, brokers and media.

BigCharts
Free intraday and historical charts, quotes and research on over 24,000 stocks, mutual funds and indexes.

Bivio
They provide online investment club services such as accounting and member matching at no charge.

Bloomberg Online
World Markets page includes information on T-Bills and other financial instruments.

Bondtrac
Tracks municipal, corporate, agency and treasury bonds.

Briefing
Beyond news: what's important and why. Concise market analysis from experienced professionals.

CBS MarketWatch

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
A U.S. Government agency.

Discover Wall Street
Take a look at emerging growth companies with Morton Downey, JR.

EquityTrader
A service of John Bollinger's Acme Analytics. It is designed to provide investors with a quick and easy method of evaluating the past performance and potential appreciation of equities. EquityTrader evaluates a universe of 3,700 stocks in two dimensions: how they have done in the past and how they are expected to perform now.

Final Bell
The stock investor's arena where you can follow the market, learn how to trade online or fine-tune your skills. From CNNfn.

FindBrokers.com
Commodity Futures Brokers Directory.

Fixed Income Investment Research
215 daily reports for institutional bond investors.

IndexFunds.com
Aims to be a "one-stop, unbiased site about index funds." Has news and commentary, discussion groups, and delves into basic and advanced topics of interest to investors.

Internet Closed-End Fund Investor
Educates about Closed-End Funds, and helps in making investment decisions.

Investopedia
An online dictionary for finance and investing terms. The glossary contains over 2000 investment terms, related links and tips.

Investor's Business Daily
Founded in 1984, Investor’s Business Daily is now America’s fastest growing newspaper boasting a daily readership of over 800,000. Designed to provide both concise and comprehensive coverage of business, financial, economic, and national news.

Kiplinger OnLine
Puts financial events in perspective on a daily basis. Stock quotes, mutual fund rankings, detailed business information, business news, portfolio tracker, interactive calculators, forums and chat are among the site's features.
 
The Light Index
A new investing standard for prudent, informed investing in high technology "New Economy" securities.

Microsoft Investor
Track securities, keep up to date on the market with leading editorial, daily market summaries, and more.

Moody's Investors Service
A leading global credit rating, research and risk analysis firm. Publishes credit opinions, research, and ratings on fixed-income securities, issuers of securities and other credit obligations.

Motley Fool
The Online Financial Forum for the Individual Investor

Mutual Fund Terms
An excerpt from Macmillan Publishing's book for mutual fund newbies: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds, by Alan Lavine and Gail Liberman.

NASDAQ
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. Contains historical quotes and lots of other stock information including quotes for AMEX, NYSE & OTCBB.

National Investor Relations Institute
Professional association of corporate officers and investor relations consultants responsible for communication among corporate management, the investing public and the financial community.

Netstock Direct
Makes direct investing easy for individual investors. Free membership allows you to research companies in a searchable database of over 1600 plans, view a prospectus online or email a company to have one sent in the mail, enroll in plans online, access books, expert commentary, and other valuable information on direct investing.

PRARS - Public Register's Annual Report Service
Free annual reports from over 3,200 companies.

Quote.com
Stock Quotes, Business News, Financial Market Data

S&P Personal Wealth
Recommendations, investment planning from Standard & Poors.

Securities Investor Protection Corporation
Protects customers of broker-dealers registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, thereby promoting confidence in United States securities markets. The protection is against losses caused by the financial failure of the broker-dealer, but not against a change in the market value of securities in customers' accounts at the broker-dealer.

Securities Law Home Page
An online guide to securities law.

Silicon Investor
Specializes in information on high-tech companies.

SmartMoney Interactive
News, pundit commentary, sector tracking, much more.

Stock Research Group
Daily market reports, featured companies, chat rooms, analyst corner, RealAudio feeds.

Stock Smart
Stocks, Mutual Funds, News, Portfolios, Financials, Investments. Lots of nice comparison and analytical graphs.

StockMaster
Stock & fund quotes, high/low for the year, and 12-month tracking.

stockpickoftheday.com
Allows you to register to receive, for free, information on stocks the authors feel have tremendous potential for significant capital gains.

Stockpoint.com
Provides personalized, information-driven financial content and analytic tools for individual and professional investors.

StreetNet
Investment news and information on investment vehicles.

Thomson RTQ
Free real-time stock quotes.

Trendvest Home Page
Provides a sophisticated rating service for projecting the future performance of investment markets, common stocks, and stocks mutual funds.

U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
An independent, nonpartisan, quasijudicial regulatory agency with responsibility for administering the federal securities laws.

W3OTC Investor Network
Resource for Nasdaq, OTC and international stocks. Specialize in covering small growth companies with real revenues,

Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser
About Louis, and information on the program. Also, download a screensaver.

Wall Street City
"Everything you need to make profitable investment decisions".

What Every Investor Should Know
From the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Office of Investor Education and Assistance.

TheWhiz.com
An online community that provides the financial novice with personal finance information through original reporting and expert advice.

wwquote
Real-Time stock and option quotes for all North American exchanges for a subscription fee.

ZDII Inter@ctive Investor
Company, industry, IPO, market information. Message board. Produced by Ziff-Davis.

Brokers

Charles Schwab Online

E*TRADE
"America's Electronic Brokerage(tm)" - very low-cost trades

Registered Representative Magazine
"The leading publication for Stockbrokers"


Games & Simulations

nVestor
Stock market simulation game, sponsored by the League of American Investors.


Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)

Alert-IPO!
An automatic notification system for Initial Public Offerings.

IPO Data Systems
Includes quotes and charts, and company profiles.

EDGAR Online's IPO Express
A comprehensive IPO database including recent filings, upcoming pricings, latest pricings, IPO news and IPO performance.

Mutual Funds - Companies

American Century Funds

Fidelity Investments

First Fund Distributors

Pilgrim Baxter Funds

Scudder Funds


Organizations

Association for Investment Management and Research
A global, nonprofit organization of more than 36,000 investment professionals from over 80 countries worldwide. Through its headquarters in the United States and 87 affiliated Societies and Chapters throughout the world, AIMR provides Knowledge to investment professionals while promoting a high level of Standards, Ethics, and Professionalism within the investment industry.

League of American Investors
founded as a Congressional Lobbyist (1983-1995) and is now an Advocate on behalf of Small Business and Small Investors with the U.S Senate and the House of Representatives. Recently acquired all right, title and interest to the Central Corporate Reports Service (CCRS) program. Public Companies cooperate with the League to subsidize the operation of the nVESTOR $$$$ StockMarket Simulation and thereby offer a FREE Education and Information Program to present and future Investors.

National Assn of Investors
A non-profit, tax exempt organization whose membership consists of investment clubs and individual investors. NAIC was founded in 1951 with a mission to provide a program of sound investment information, education and support that helps create successful, lifetime investors.

National Futures Association
A self-regulatory organization for the U.S. futures industry. Since NFA began operations in 1982, they have been committed to protecting the rights of investors in the futures markets.

North American Securities Administrators Association
The oldest international organization devoted to investor protection.

Stock, Bond, and Commodity Exchanges

American Partnership Board ®
Interactive online auction-based resale system for buyers and sellers of limited partnerships and other illiquid securities.
 
NASDAQ

New York Stock Exchange

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