With bulls once again controlling the stock market Wall-Street-Crash, interest in stock trading Bear-Stearns-Troubles 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
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
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
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 Wall-Street-Layoffs Idol is.
Portfolio Managers
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
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. (via)