The 10 Most Innovative Online Financial Analysis Tools For Investors
Financial investors should have the ability to assess the attractiveness or performance of investment decisions that have made, or intend to make, through structured and robust financial modeling and analysis. What are some of the online analytical tools that enable investors to do this - and add more analytics and rigour to their financial investment decisions?
Financial Modeling Guide’s take on the 10 most innovative online financial analysis tools for individual investors are featured here. We have selected these sites as they have each managed to come up with a cutting edge, innovative product that enables financial analysis or discussions with other investors around all types of asset classes, including stocks, bonds, forex and funds.
Ultimately, this benefits the individual or self-directed investor, who can use these sites to perform financial modeling and analysis better than the are already able to do using other services available in the market today.
Each of the 10 online financial investment analysis tools have developed one or more of the following features:
- Real-time (or near real-time) financial data, information or intelligence about investment opportunities.
- Interactive tools and applications that allow investors to quantitatively assess the viability of new or existing investments.
- Ability to connect and network with other peer investors to exchange investment analysis tips and advice.
- Ability to compete, either for real money or virtually, with other peer investors to better hone their financial investment analysis skills.
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This is an excellent article. Thanks for compiling this list of sites, very useful for any individual investor, beginner or expert.
I agree, this is a great list. I wanted to add one more thing about www.updown.com. We have just launched a great feature called Contests, which enables users to create their own public or private investment contests.
User can determine the length of the contest, and approve members.
Go here to learn more about it.
http://www.updown.com/all-contests.do
You missed the best of the group with Stockhouse.com They have a reputation system similar to Ebay for investors and thousands of contributed stories from the community.
One new site to consider for next time:
www.valuecruncher.com
A free DCF valuation tool for listed companies (S&P500, TSX Composite, FTSE350, ASX200 and NZX50).
We quietly launched a couple of months back.
Jun 25th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
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