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Portfolio Tracking
One of the best features on the Web for investors is the ability to look up
stock quotes and track portfolios online. Gone are the days of paging through
the Wall Street Journal or the local paper to see how your stocks or mutual
funds are doing. Your entire portfolio, together with updated information about
particular stocks, is only several clicks away by using the Web. For those of
you who have not yet tried this, you will be amazed at how much time you save as
well as how much additional information you will have about stocks that you own
or stocks that you are tracking. It seems that every Web site has added features
that provide readers with stock quotes and portfolio tracking. The sites listed
below are among the best.
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Yahoo! Finance
This is probably the best site on the Web to track your stocks and do basic
research. The advantages of this site include ease of use and the breadth of
information that is available. Setting up portfolios of stocks you own and
stocks you want to track is very easy. These portfolios allow you to track a
stock's performance and easily review information relating to that stock such as
news reports, analyst upgrades or downgrades, company research, message boards
and a company profile. The news articles are comprehensive - including articles
from traditional wire reports such as Reuters as well as cutting edge articles
and commentary from TheStreet.com and CBSMarketwatch.com. The fact that news
articles are referenced below all portfolios and individual stock quotes is a
very helpful feature that surprisingly has not been copied by many web sites.
Many sites have imitated or tried to improve upon Yahoo's format, so finding a
satisfactory portal or finance site that provides this information is not
difficult, but this site is the best.
CBSMarketwatch.com
This site provides an excellent portfolio tracking system that can be customized
to meet your needs.
Quicken.com
This site offers a good portfolio tracking system that is similar to the Yahoo!
Quotes site, but not as good. The portfolios are easy to set up and you can
easily customize the layout and type of information that appears in the chart
you create. Included in those features are tools that allow you to track the
annualized rate of return for individual stocks if you input the purchase price
and date. The news section, however, is not very comprehensive.
Motley Fool
A good portfolio tracking system is one of the many attractive features of this
site.
MSN Money
The new quote system is pretty cool.
Google Finance
They're catching up with a very useful site.
Free Real Time Quotes
Most sites now offer this feature. Unless you're a day trader or you need up-to-the-minute quotes because news or the market is moving one of your stocks, you won't have much of a need for the real time quotes feature. Quotes on some sites are delayed by only 20 minutes. These are good sources if you need them NOW!
FreeRealTime.com
This site provides an unlimited amount of free real time quotes for all
registered users. Registration is free.
MarketGuide.com
This general finance site offers up to 50 free real time quotes each day for
registered users (no fee for registration). The rest of the site isn't bad.
E*Trade
This online broker will provide free real time quotes for readers who register
on this site. Registering does not require opening an account. This site is
loaded with additional features for investors.
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