30+ Stock Market Tools & Resources

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With bulls once again controlling the stock market, interest in stock trading is on the upswing again. Here are 30+ sites to help you learn some things about trading and then trying your own hand at it.

Brokers

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Firstrade.com - An online broker that starts you off with 100 commission free trades.

Scottrade.com - A popular online trading house with 320 local branches, low minimum account opening balance of $500.

TradeKing.com - A top rated online trading firm as noted by Barrons and SmartMoney.

OptionsXpress - online options and stock broker, highly rated by Kiplinger's.

Vanguard - one of the biggest boys in the business has its own online brokerage service, too.

Communities

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AnalystsEdge.com - A news aggregator and community for financial information.

BullPoo.com - A community that lets you trade information with others via blogs and discussion.

Covestor.com - Show off your trading skills, track others, even earn fees from allowing people to follow your trades after you've proven yourself.

FelingBullish.com - A social network for investors with analysis and blogs.

PredictWallStreet.com - Use charts, news, and information to help make predictions in this community.

SocialPicks.com - A social community for investors to trade tips and track performance.

SteamStreet.com - Track your portfolio, get investing ideas and discuss them with others.

StockFiend.com - A social network for people looking to learn about stocks, share tips, and make friends.

TheUpDown.com - A social network for investors to share information and try to form more well thought out investing strategies.

Wikinancial.com - A virtual stock market site for you test your strategies and compare them with others.

Miscellaneous

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SaneBull.com - Helps you with your financial news by putting it all in one easy place.

Stocks.us - A start page for anyone interested in stocks.

WallStreetIdol.com - Compete with friends and complete strangers to see who the real Wall Street Idol is.

Portfolio Managers

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Herdst.com - Manage your portfolio online and share it with friends.

Stockalicious.com - Track and evaluate your investments to improve your performance.

StockPickr.com - Enter your portfolio and get suggestions of where else you can look for more investments.

Tools

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CakeFinancial.com - Watch the portfolios and real-time trades of top investors, friends, family, and learn from them.

ChartSetups.com - Offers analysis on stocks, day trading, investing, stock charts and more

ETrade.com - Offers lots of tools to help you maximize your portfolio.

GStock.com - Using an architecture similar to the Seti@Home program, GStock leverages the unused computing power out there in the world to project stocks for up to 10 years.

Investools.com - Offers courses in trading and investing.

Marketocracy.com - A site that attempts to find the best investors in the world and let you track what they do so you can follow along and learn.

MarketSimplified.com - A centralized site for charting, portfolios, risk assessment and more.

MyTrade.com - A source for all your financial news and is fully customizable.

Schwab.com - Get advice from one of the largest financial service providers in the country.

SeekingAlpha.com - Brings together investment advice from blogs, money managers, and investment newsletters.

SmallCapDirectory.com - Search over 18,000 small cap and micro cap stocks.

StockCloud.net - See which companies release the most press releases in a tag cloud like setting.

Tipping Monkey - Learn how to do trades and play the stock market while only risking virtual money.