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Thursday July 24, 2008 |
Suppose
you wanted to know exactly what was happening in the stock market
today and why? You could check our Moving the Markets or
Research Online tabs, both sections could point you in the right
direction. But if you want to delve deeper you have come to
the correct place. In this section we scour the Internet to
find the most imaginative financial tools available
anywhere.
- CBS
MarketWatch
Of all of the pages posted on financial websites the CBS
MarketWatch summary is far and away the best. Everything
is exactly where is ought to be. A true
"market-at-a-glance" experience.
- SmartMoney
SmartMoney has always been a tremendously deep website and no
other page is a better illustration of this fact than the
SectorTracker. The page begins by analyzing the price
performance of the ten major averages but that is just the
beginning, click on one of these sectors and SmartMoney opens
the door to a quantitative Land of Oz.
- Barchart
Where SmartMoney begins with broad sectors,
Barchart takes a different approach. The website uses a
proprietary formula to rank of the major sectors -- and we do
mean all of them. One click below is almost any stock
you can imagine. This is truly the best application of a
broad top-down approach to stock selection.
- ThomsonFN
There are lots of sites that do a very good job telling
readers what stocks have been upgraded or downgraded by the
major Wall Street trading firms that day but ThomsonFN goes
one step further. How about analyzing the actual change
and timeliness of the new rating -- was the change a large
departure from the previous ranking and is the stock near a
new high or low?
- StockCharts
A number of sights now feature so-called "maps of the
market". The idea is that you get a grid of what stocks
are moving. Green is up and red is down. The best application
of this technology can be found at StockCharts. You'll
want to check this link during the trading day.
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