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Welcome to the ON-RAMP finance orientation page.
Here
are some suggestions and a couple links to get you started in finding
the wealth of financial information available here on the net.
First is a
suggestion that you get your start by setting up a remote email
address.
Go to yahoo.com or, mail.com or
any of the other free providers on the net. Then set up an
alternate
remote email address that you can use, free, to store your entire email
specific to your financial interests. This will allow you to
control
your time and view your financial information when you are ready to
concentrate or learn.
Many of the
financial sites on the Internet provide a free newsletter. I like
the free ones from CBS Market Watch
and TechNews, sponsored by the
Washington Post. They both require you to complete a free
registration.
You can also
subscribe to the 'online' edition of the Wall Street Journal. They provide a free two-week trial and then it is $79
per year.
My favorite stock
market guru is at Trendfund.com.
They offer a free email alert that is generated whenever they feel like
it. You might like his free style and loose approach. Their
style
does not follow the majority of the market advisors. You will
need to
do the research and find what works best for you.
If you are just
finding an interest in the investment world several sites have pages
designed to help you learn. Here is one Motley Fool.com.
Go ahead, become a "fool", I did years ago. They also have an
excellent newsletter that you can have sent to your remote email box.
An excellent
finance site is also at yahoo.com.
In the upper left quadrant of their opening page is a link titled
simply "finance" click on it and a new page follows. About one
third
of the way down the page on the left side will be another link titled
"education", click on that link. There you will find many links
to
both long and short articles that will help you learn about
investing.
They offer lots of real information also. Here are some sample
links
from their finance page:
Stock Research
Reports, Screener, Financials...
Financial News
Business Week, Smart Money, Forbes, FT.com...
Each of these
links will take you to another page full of links and information.
Once you have
selected a stock to watch you need to find a site that will let you
watch the action, so to speak. Try freerealtime.com. They do
require you to register but they are free and have much additional
information.
For a broker look
at Ameritrade.com and Scottrade.com/.
These guys are only good if you want to make your own choices and not
be swayed by the broker/salesmen of the big box houses. The cost
of
doing trades is also very manageable here.
Here
are some additional links for you to follow to more information that
you can use to find your own investment information sources.
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