Active Trading Web Sites
- AboveTrade (Active Trading)
Makes creating and back-testing
trading strategies as easy as watching cartoons. Want
to see how you'd have done if you'd bought and sold
CMGI using a conservative trend-following strategy?
Simply enter the ticker symbol, and click to select
"Dr. Trend." You could have selected "Holden Forever"
or "Consensus Joe." Each name fires up a software
algorithm that uses historical data to paper trade
based on its own set of signals.
http://corp.abovetrade.com/index.html
- Active
Traders Network (Active Trading)
Concise, relevant educational information.
Excellent proprietary source for trading ideas and
strategies, such as how to decide entry points, when
to set stops and targets, and when to take profits
and losses. Daily stock report: $30 a month.
http://www.activetraders.net
- The
Daily Trader (Active Trading)
Continuum Technology's online publication
generates daily short-term or middle-term buy or sell
recommendations. Subscription costs $19.95 a month.
Includes past track record data. Free two-week trial.
http://www.dailytrader.com
- DayInvestor (Active Trading)
Free real-time news and stock alerts.
Nothing fancy, just frequent briefs on market activity
and rumors. Includes ideas and changes in stock ratings.
Check out the message boards and chat rooms.
http://www.dayinvestor.com
- DayPicks (Active Trading)
Day trading tips from unnamed and
undescribed traders using mysterious computer oscillators
to generate short-term trading leads. Email alerts
deliver 6 to 20 stock trade recommendations a month,
depending on market conditions. These methods may
work, but exactly how is never revealed. Subscription
costs $50 a month, or $275 for six months. Free two-week
trial available.
http://www.daypicks.com
- DayTraders
USA (Active Trading)
Home of California investment club
focused on intraday stock, option, and currency trading.
Daily "Market Call" feature, offers tips and ideas
based on stock and sector performance. Find out where
the club will meet next. Admission is $5. Links to
other sites.
http://www.worldwidetraders.com
- DayTrading
International (Active Trading)
Short-term traders can subscribe
here to receive daily email trading recommendations
for $69 a month. Small cap recommendations for $59.
Free two-week trial. Also provides tools such as an
earnings calendar, stock screener, and portfolio tracker
-- all provided by external sources.
http://www.daytradingintl.com
- Daytrader's
Bulletin (Active Trading)
Run by a California couple, this
impressively designed site is home to Bulletin Signals
($104.90 a month,) which provides buy/sell, trade
management, and exit signals for rapid-fire futures
investors. The Overnight Update ($29.95 a month) gives
more long-term market views.
http://www.daytradersbulletin.com
- Day
Traders On-line (Active Trading)
Basic service ($19.95 a month)
includes morning email of daily recommendations and
research as well as updates from a short-term model
portfolio. For an additional $139.95 a month, users
can access online real-time stock information and
breaking news for intraday plays. Free two-week trial.
http://www.daytraders.com
- Daytrader
Toad (Active Trading)
Follow the Toad as he hops in and
out of short-term trades. Receive email updates on
what he's trading for $75 a month. The site provides
current reports, recaps past activity, and explains
strategy.
http://www.daytradertoad.com
- Daytradingstocks.com (Active Trading)
Topnotch directory for day traders,
novice or veteran. Plenty of links for learning as
well as chat rooms, message boards, and a reference
room of online day-trading news. This simple, but
slow-running site, makes it easy to jump from topic
to topic.
http://www.daytradingstocks.com
- Elite
Trader (Active Trading)
Site bills itself as a virtual
gathering place for day traders. Includes free and
paid day-trading tutorials and a stock research tool.
Bulletin boards and chat rooms feature valuable discussions
about tools and tricks of the trade. Recommends and
provides links to trading software.
http://www.elitetrader.com
- theflyonthewall (Active Trading)
This company-focused newswire gathers
trading tidbits that individual investors may love.
The boards are littered with questions about why XYZ
company is down so much or why another has skyrocketed.
While the membership fee is on the high side-$49/month
or $470/ year, many day traders and position traders
will find the cost worthwhile. (A free two-week trial
is available.) Also offered: exhaustive listings and
details of upcoming IPOs.
http://www.theflyonthewall.com
- IntelligentSpeculator (Active Trading)
A friendly, free oasis in the desert
of day-trading sites. IS offers several free high-quality
day-trading chats, as well as a new subscription-based
charting chat that costs $75 a month. Plenty of index
futures and stock option trading discussion. Even
with its links and resources for learning, Intelligent
Speculator, could improve its education offerings.
http://www.intelligentspeculator.com
- MarketExplorer (Active Trading)
Swing traders' stock recommendation
site offers eight portfolios to choose from. You get
open, close, and stop loss recommendations. Costs
$50 a month with two-week trial available. Like many
recommendation sites, tough to know if the picks are
any good.
http://www.marketexplorer.com
- Market
Insider (Active Trading)
Day-trading newswire service gives
ongoing market commentary, plus daily backgrounders
for active traders. This site was still being set
up when we checked. However, information similar to
what's promised here for $299 a month is available
free at day trading sites such as www.realtimetraders.com.
Compensating factor: 2-month free trial.
http://www.daytradeonline.com
- The
MomentumTrader (Active Trading)
A hot chat room for the day-trading
crowd, overseen by guru Ken Wolff. Fifty-dollar initiation
fee gets you Wolff's Momentum Investing workbook.
Access to chat area costs $150 a month. Free one-week
trial available. Free online interactive classes overseen
by experienced traders. Essential links for day traders.
http://www.mtrader.com
- MonyWolff
(Active Trading)
Good spelling may not be a prerequisite
to good investment sense, but the folks at MonyWolff
might want to rethink their moniker. MonyWolff is
not easy on the eyes, and the most current market
forecasts ($29/month) are delivered via a recorded
telephone message (huh?). But free intraday market
reports from Alpha Wolff S. Brian Barger are posted
regularly, and the writing can be amusing at times.
Site improvements are in the works.
http://www.monywolff.com
- Online
Daytraders (Active Trading)
Pay $59/month. Follow this site's
stock picks. Get rich day trading. Can it really be
that easy? The site claims picks have yielded 33 percent
monthly returns. Our advice: Paper trade while taking
advantage of Online Daytraders' 2-week trial offer.
http://www.onlinedaytraders.com
- PC
Trader (Active Trading)
Real-time quotes, news, and analysis
for active traders, including feeds from GovPX, Market
News Service, Chicago Board of Trade, Dow Jones, and
others. Services cost from $60 a month to $595 a month,
although a free one-month trial is offered. Also sells
a product geared toward after-hours traders.
http://www.pctrader.com
- Pristine.com (Active Trading)
A portal site for day traders that
leads to a conglomerate of educational materials,
seminars, and training camps -- all of them pretty
pricey. However, you can register for weekly stock
tips and an excellent online course for active traders,
both free.
http://www.pristine.com
- The
Rookie DayTrader (Active Trading)
Great starting point for day-trader
wanna-be's. Good advice and tutorials on what it takes
to day trade or position trade. Heavy emphasis on
the personal and financial risks and rewards of day
trading. Links to useful sites and relevant message
board postings.
http://www.rookiedaytrader.com
- TraderBot (Active Trading)
TraderBot lets you sift through
the market for stocks you want to buy or sell in the
near term. Looking for stocks hitting new highs in
the past 10 minutes on unusually high volume? TraderBot
finds them for you. The site's computers search for
price relationships in real time, so you can pounce
quickly. Pre-loaded searches get you started, though
beginners are likely to be overwhelmed. Can also do
short-term searches for news items based on ticker
symbols or keywords. Portfolio tracker included. 15-day
free trial; after that, $39 a month.
http://www.traderbot.com
- TradersAccounting (Active Trading)
Must-see tax planning site for
traders looking for help dealing with the IRS. Offers
free trade-tracker spreadsheet.Provides tax preparation
and advice for a fee. Preparation costs $75 an hour;
advice and planning run $120 an hour with a minimum
of $30. Will also help you with tax-reduction strategies.
http://www.tradersaccounting.com
- TradingMarkets.com (Active Trading)
Commentary from pro traders Jeff
Cooper and Kevin Haggerty and former CBS MarketWatch
markets editor, Kevin Marder. Other features: proprietary
trading indicators and expert opinions on biotechs,
futures, and credit markets. Educational articles
and coursework, too. A basic subscription costs $12
a month. The pro traders package, featuring a live
traders newswire, is $30 a month.
http://www.tradingmarkets.com
- The
Trading Systems Network (Active Trading)
Lots of valuable free tools, including
realtime quotes(somewhat obscured by wacky, chaotic
design.) Frequently updated list (every five minutes)
of winning, losing, and most active stocks. Lots of
links to news and commentary sites.
http://www.tradingsystems.net
- Trading
Tactics (Active Trading)
Free site includes a moderated
chat room, technical analysis tools, and Java-powered
charts for the short-term investor. Also has useful
currency and exchange historical data in downloadable
Zip files.
http://www.tradingtactics.com
- The
UndergroundTrader (Active Trading)
Site of the enigmatic online stock
prophet Jay Vu, author of The Underground Level 2
Daytraders Handbook. Free morning and evening analysis
of the markets and one-week subscriptions to premium
services.
http://www.undergroundtrader.com
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