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Last updated August 16, 2008.
10Q Detective David Phillips digs through the SEC filings so you don’t have to.
Abnormal Returns A blog format that generally presents a dozen or so relevant and timely links from other blogs. Occasionally they even get off the beaten path!
All About Alpha This blog focuses on the world of hedge funds and their quest for alpha, whatever the #$%^&* “alpha” is. These things lose their meaning when they’re thrown around willy-nilly, and outside of a regression function, there really is not good definition. But I digress … Lots of good insight into happenings that are missed by the mainstream media.
The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) is a nonprofit organization that arms individual investors with the education and tools they need to build wealth. From stock investing to financial planning and retirement funding, AAII covers all your needs.
Anarchist Theory F.A.Q. Unlike many observers of history, anarchists see a common thread behind most of mankind’s problems: the state.
Anarcho-Capitalist Bibliography Here is the essential reading on anarcho-capitalism by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
AntiWar.com Dedicated to building an awareness to the globalist and interventionist forces that would enslave us all in a New World Order on which the sun never sets.
The Beacon is the excellent blog for The Independent Institute, whose mission is to transcend the all-too-common politicization and superficiality of public policy research and debate, redefine the debate over public issues, and foster new and effective directions for government reform.
Bob Bauman’s Blog That’s the way it looks from here. Bob writes about offshore asset protection, and despite his somewhat interesting past, the subject matter is worthwhile. Unfortunately if you get on their emailing list, you’ll wind up with a ton of stuff.
Bob’s Stock Picks A blog maintained by an amateur system trader who gets his stock ideas from the day’s big gainers. His analysis including point and figure charts, has some regimented sell and buy rules, and he also does a podcast.
Bull Ringer focuses on simple to understand charts and rationales to get a head start on potentially winning investments.
BZB Trader contains tactical musings, technical/timing indicators, and risk management strategies focused on QQQQ and its derivatives.
CBOE.com Chicago Board of Options Exchange, the definitive source for options trading information.
Controlled Greed The focus is global and typical investments can include net working capital discounts (also known as “net nets”), book value discounts, low P/E ratios, special situations and fallen angels. The name refers to one of Warren Buffett’s qualities for investment success: “You must be animated by controlled greed and fascinated by the investment process.”
Crossing Wall Street is your guide to financial success, by Eddy Elfenbein.
The CXO Advisory Blog These guys take a scientific look at the market and its pundits, especially go seek out their “guru grades” section.
Daily Options Report Learn everything you need to know about options from Adam, because I don’t know squat about them.
A Dash of Insight is where the “Old Prof” applies an analytical approach to the markets. This is a great site for debunking of popular, yet unfounded, ideas.
The dk Report He’s BACK! Daily market analysis returning after an eight-month hiatus.
Dogwood Report The trading diary of a greenhorn trend follower and system trader.
Downtown Trader Short term trading based on technical analysis, attempting to interpret charts in order to gage current market psychology and discover supply and demand imbalances.
EscapeArtist.com Living overseas, international real estate, overseas jobs, expatriate resources, and overseas retirement.
The Essentials of Trading is a site devoted to sharpening the craft of trading, regardless of what is traded.
The ETF Expert is a blog written by Gary A. Gordon, MS, CFP™, the President of Pacific Park Financial, Inc. Among other things, he hosts “In the Money with Gary Gordon” on CASH 1700 AM, San Diego.
The eXileD is banned in Russia! Formerly the Moscow-based, English-language bi-weekly newspaper known as “The eXile.”
Fallond Stock Picks Market commentary and stock picks using technical analysis.
Financial Gauges Gauges corporate financial results of individual stocks in a blog format.
Footnoted Not only does Michelle Leder dig through the SEC filings, she wrote a book to teach you how to.
Foundation for Economic Education The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), one of the oldest free-market organizations in the United States, was founded in 1946 by Leonard E. Read to study and advance the freedom philosophy.
Financial Times The internet edition of the Financial Times newspaper from London, U.K.
FRED II The database for the St. Louis Fed. Good macro data with much of it available in downloadable format.
Fred on Everything Travel with America’s leading expatriate curmudgeon along paths of thought that would have most columnists trembling in fear for their very lives.
Gannon On Investing Value investing blog and value investing podcast influenced by Benjamin Graham, Joel Greenblatt, and Warren Buffett’s value investing model. Geoff isn’t as active as I’d like, but he has a fine archive of articles on valuing companies, so I’m leaving the link up.
Get the Drunk Home! Can you get this poor drunk home?
Howard Lindzon The addicted entrepreneur. TRENDS - Find them, ride them and get off! Stocks, venture and civilization.
HyperStat Online Good resource for statistical knowledge.
I Bank Coin is the new site for The Fly on Wall Street, otherwise known as “Broker A.” I dislike the new site’s layout, so I link to Fly’s direct contributions instead of to the main site. Parental advisory, adult lyrics. Funny as hell.
IBD Index focuses on backtesting ideas for trading CANSLIM-style stocks and tracking the market movement in an index of those stocks.
The Independent Institute, whose mission is to transcend the all-too-common politicization and superficiality of public policy research and debate, redefine the debate over public issues, and foster new and effective directions for government reform.
The Independent Review is the acclaimed interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of political economy and the critical analysis of government policy. Edited by the noted historian and economist, Robert Higgs, it is thoroughly researched, peer-reviewed, and based on scholarship of the highest caliber. However, unlike so many other journals, it is also provocative, lucid, and written in an engaging style.
Information Arbitrage How getting information fast can lead to profits, hence the name.
Insider Monitor Excellent resource for finding lists of stocks with particular insider selling or buying activity. I especially like the “clusters” and top 50 by week or month.
Instructables Making cool DIY stuff!
Investing in Euro is about two things: a project to put “Magic Formula Investing” to work in Europe, and giving people more information on European or Euronext-based stocks, fund managers, etc… in short, all about investing in Europe.
Investing Thoughts by Tim Plaehn is a personal investing blog with a focus on small caps, income stocks, and international opportunities.
Keelix.com is an excellent resource for computerized back-testing of trading systems based on the AAII weekly database.
The Kirk Report One Pro’s view of the stock market. Master of the linkfest post.
Kirzner Fervor analyzes financial markets from the perspective of the market process school.
The Learning Curve by Muckdog is another place to get a calm market perspective from an enlightened amateur.
Lew Rockwell is an opponent of the central state, its wars, and its socialism.
LinkedIn is an online network of more than 14 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. It’s a Facebook for business folk.
Log: Candice Flavored Nonsense In addition to having black magic hardware and software fixing abilities, Candice keeps a log about life in post-apocalyptic New Orleans.
MaoXian The Chairman Mao will teach you about Trading for Dummies, and watch out for the “gratuitous cute chick pic.”
Macro-Man In his day job, Macro Man is a global financial markets trader, and if you really want a global economic Big Picture, this is a good place to go.
Market Rewind Jeff Pietsch is the manager of Maple Park Capital LP, and this is his blog.
The Market Speculator is the diary of a market speculator who trades stocks and commodities using technical analysis, chart patterns and trend following methods.
Market Thoughts Their mission is to educate readers about the stock market and the economy beyond the headlines. I do a writeup for them on a monthly basis.
Market Thoughts Forum This is their excellent discussion forum. Swing traders, day traders, options players, and value investors are all represented. It is neither permanently bullish, nor permanently bearish. Precisely because it is a message board without a prominent bearish tilt (a rarity in today’s world!), it is often considered a bull forum by n00bs.
MarketSci.com offers market timing signals and managed accounts using leveraged funds from ProFunds, Rydex, and Direxion. They also have some interesting market-timing studies available for perusal.
Master of the Universe Ever modest, he’s been around for a while, and trades short-term commodities futures.
Math textbooks, lecture notes, and tutorials Self-explanatory.
Mises Institute The Ludwig von Mises Institute is the research and educational center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics.
Mises Institute Blog This is their blog, and lively discussion is often engendered.
The Motley Fool Mechanical Investing Board is the specific forum for mechanical strategies.
Move the Markets Focusing on short-term and day trading, system design, and market commentary.
MSN Money I use this site primarily for the financial statement information, which provides five years and five quarters in a relatively standardized format.
MustFeed If you Must Feed your need for information. Aggregator that shows only summary feeds, links you back to the providing site, and provides way for readers to rate the source.
MyBlogLog Blog statistics with a social twist.
Naked Shorts Mostly sarcastic and cynical takes on market news. Informative, irreverent, and funny.
Neural Market Trends is using Neural Nets and AI to model trends in the markets.
Noiseless Return wants to separate noise from signal through their quantitative trading signals.
NuclearPhynance is a forum frequented by quantitative finance professionals.
On Power is a site which provides researchers and the general public with a one-stop, selective, bibliographic compendium of both scholarly and popular works and commentary on the domestic and international ill-effects of national “crises,” including preventative, interventionist wars around the world to create a U.S. empire. The result is ever increasing state power, which endures long after each crisis has passed–fostering extensive corporate welfare and pork, raising taxes, and undermining civil and economic liberties and economic growth. Moreover, crises are usually the creation of earlier government interventions and the flouting of constitutional law. Thus, government action begets further government action in an endless “death spiral.”
Peter Duesberg Duesberg’s findings on AIDS have been a thorn in the side of the medical establishment and drug companies since 1987. Instead of engaging in scientific debate, however, the only response has been to cut-off funding to further test Professor’s Duesberg’s hypothesis.
Pinoy Money Talk is a portal and forum primarily for Filipinos who are into online investing and trading.
Piranha a.k.a. Chris Perruna. Successful investing through education, from the founder of MarketStockWatch.com.
Political Spectrum Quiz This test is based on a true political spectrum of anarchy (no government) on one end, and total authoritarianism on the other.
The Quant Investor is a full-time trader, recently retired from a day job as a quantitative programmer at an investment bank in order to focus on managing his assets full time.
Quantifiable Edges assesses market action with indicators and history. He also sells a newsletter.
Quantitative Trading Systems is an excellent book by Howard Bandy, and the site is the author’s home page. I reviewed the book in September 2007.
Quantnotes.com Quantitative finance website that aims to provide you with quality articles and publications on some of the more exotic financial instruments.
Regimenia is a blog by Tom K., where he tracks his trading system picks.
Resources for Economists Pretty self-descriptive.
Schaeffer’s Research Excellent research on options and stock market sentiment.
The Shark Report has excellent intraday updates and summaries of market action, as well as some slightly longer-term viewpoints and insights.
Shitting Alpha just happens to be the PERFECT name for a hedge fund, IMO, but it’s a blog.
SINLetter Blog Blog from the SINLetter stock investment newsletter and the creator of the MustFeed aggregator site.
Skill Analytics is a blog dedicated to discussing system-based trading strategies.
Stat 30x Notes Class notes for 300-level statistics from Texas A&M – I’m not an Aggie, but the notes are excellent.
Statcounter.com Tracking stats for your web site.
Stock Logic iio was testing an earnings-based decision model in a simulated account, where he took long/short positions in an attempt to triple the Nasdaq’s return. It looks like he’s migrating to writing about his own (real) trades. Good for him!
Stock Picks by Noiseless Return provides daily picks and market commentary based on their proprietary quantitative systems.
Stockbee Blog from Pradeep Bonde, a system trader who uses scientific research and market anomalies to identify opportunities.
StockCharts.com Simply the web’s best financial charts.
StockTickr Blog Their blog. The series of interviews with active traders is just awesome!
Stockweb is all about how to make money in Eastern Europe.
Sum of Some tracks the performance of market experts and stock screen picks, calculating performance scores in a variety of manners, including lifetime performance, recent performance, and performance in a bull or bear market. The site also delivers posts focused on financial education, entertainment, and other market commentary.
Taz Trader Get an education in swing trading.
Technology, Investing, Politics and Random Musings from Born2Code, a frequent commenter and now a blogger in his own right.
A Trade A Day A source for trading ideas.
Trader Eyal blogs from Thailand about life and trading.
Trader Mike is a day trader whose blog is a resource for many active traders all over the net, and an inspiration to me.
TraderFeed is Brett Steenbarger’s trading blog, with many posts focusing on the psychology of trading.
Trader’s Roundtable This is a forum for mechanical systems traders (primarily in the futures markets), put together by one of the Original Turtles. If you are interested in system trading, this should be your first stop!
The Trading Digest is where Dave backtests trading strategies.
Trading Goddess Not safe for work, market-related humor and trading blog.
The Trend Trader He’s BACK! While he’s got a lot of money invested long-term in value-style positions, he makes his daily pocket money with short-term trading of stocks and futures, based on trends.
U.S. Newspapers Online A fairly comprehensive list of U.S. newspapers that have an online presence. Excellent resource for news that the majors miss. Click through for county results that show all papers, colleges, radio, and television stations in the county.
Ultimi barbarorum is difficult to translate; English lacks a proper vocative case. We can best think of it as “O ultimate barbarians,” or “you are the greatest of barbarians.” I think of the site as being a more literary and European version of “trading, investing, politics, whatever.”
Value Blog Review A blog devoted to helping new investors figure out what blogs, websites, and other resources are helpful in providing clarity to what may sometimes seem a murky field.
Value Discipline A former portfolio manager for institutions, he now works mostly with individuals and places an emphasis on value investing.
Very Smart Investing provides frequently updated market commentary and news.
VIX and More Why an entire blog dedicated to the VIX? Why, indeed.
Wall Street Fighter Mindless blog. All over the place but financially based humor and a bit of trading.
WallSt Radio does podcasts, multimedia, and other exposure of investing and financial topics.
Wallstrip A video blog on the stock market, examining the non-market trends behind the market trends. Interviews, humorous features, “man on the street,” and more.
Weather Underground My preferred source for weather and astronomy information.
Woodshedder’s Technical Analysis This is the new location for Woodshedder’s TA-based short-term trading blog.
World Beta This blog focuses on a worldwide beta asset allocation program, whatever the #$%^&* “beta” is. These things lose their meaning when they’re thrown around willy-nilly, and outside of a regression function, there really is not good definition. But I digress … The blog also tracks global alpha (see above) portfolios comprised of ETFs, mutual funds, and closed-end funds. Lastly, it follows portfolios based on the top value and activist hedge fund managers through their 13F filings. Good stuff, grounded in research.
Yahoo! Finance My finance “portal” of choice.
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