Investor 101
Top 101 links for Investment Research and Analysis.
Communication / News – best online resources for investor’s communication and tracking of news and events.
Charts / Screens – best charting and screening tools
- StockCharts.com – Advanced charts for stocks, commodities, BDI, etc. Amazing feature is charting the ratios between stocks and/or commodities.
- Trade the news – Chartized real-time economic events
- Financial Vizualization – Finviz.com – Chars/Data/Screen/Maps. New 52wk Highs and New 52wk Lows
- Finance Google
General Economic Stats
- Econostats – Decent source of historical values for economic indicators
- Beige Book 2009 from Federal Reserve
Transportation statistics – for tracking the pulse of global trade and economy
- BDI Daily – Baltic Dry Index (BDI) and subindexes daily from Dryships.com
- Hong Kong Port Stats
- Singapore Port Stats
- Shipping research from Transport-Trackers.com
- Harpex Index for tracking containerships
- Association of American Railroads monthly Rail Time Indicators Report and weekly Rail Traffic and Carloading Report. Railway transportation statistics for United States, Canada, Mexico.
- Caterpillar Monthly Dealer Statistics
Commodities – charts and data for tracking global economy
- LME Copper Inventory – Daily table from LME.com.uk
- Copper LME 30 day chart
- LME Aluminum Inventory – Daily table from LME.com.uk
- Aluminum LME 30 day chart
- Oil Market Report (monthly) from EIA. Free detailed stats by OECD countries
- Natural gas futures – from ino.com
- Gold to Oil price chart 3 years from Infomine.com
- Copper vs LME inventory 2 years chart from Infomine.com
- Aluminum vs LME inventory 2 years chart from Infomine.com
- Oil vs Natural Gas vs Coal 2 years chart from Infomine.com
- Molybdenum vs Oil vs Steel Far East 2 years chart from Infomine.com
- Grains, meats, softs, energy futures quotes from AgWeekly
Stock trading data – researching the trading of stocks by institution or insider
- Mutual Fund Facts for researching institutional action
- Institutional Investor Facts for researching stocks
