Bookmarks or Favorites to those clinging to Bill’s apron strings.
Before starting this article I thought it would be easy to select the ten best investing sites I have bookmarked. I soon realised selecting the ten best from my thousands of bookmarks was going to be near impossible. Could you sort through all your bookmarked favorites?

Hence I’ve decided to list ten good websites across three categories; stock analysis, investment research and investing pick ‘n mix. These are good sites which every self directed investor should have in their favourite/bookmark list.

I hope you find these lists useful. If you know other great investing sites please leave a comment with a link.

Stock Analysis

• Seeking Alpha’s Transcripts Free transcripts of many quarterly calls.



• Big Charts Interactive Charts
  For a quick chart view I prefer StockCharts.com
  
• Reuters is excellent for a quick overview of a stock, though the site can be a tad slow.
• Morningstar graphically presents stock data I know a sensational online tool which returns all the M* charts for a company. A poster at The Motley Fool wrote and shared it with the community. Sorry to tease, if you really want it then you should be able to track it down at TMF.
• Edgar Online. It is always best to get the low down straight from the horses mouth. Edgar is the go to site for SEC filings. I’ll be blogging soon on how to get the best from Edgar Online.
• Earnings.com Provides an excellent quick view of past earnings, estimates, dividends and quarterly release dates.
• Info on insider trading from Form4Oracle
  
• Yahoo! Finance http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AKAM and Google Finance http://finance.google.com/finance?q=AKAM&hl=en both deserve a mention. I regularly use both sites.
• Nasdaq Short Interest historical data If you’re interested in short data then use this longer term perspective rather than the latest short data available on Yahoo!
• The Options Industry Council (OIC) provides the best free options quotes around . Their quotes include implied volatility, the greeks and the theoretical option value.

Investment Research and Reading

• Good advice on stock investing for most investors.
• Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters
  
• Damodaran Online is a fantastic resource maintained by Aswath Damodaran. He is a Professor of Finance and David Margolis Teaching Fellow at the Stern School of Business at New York University and has published five books, including Damodaran on Valuation, Investment Valuation and The Dark Side of Valuation.
  Damodaran is not a pretty site, but as Aswath states he has always “wanted the site to stand on its content”. On that score it is an outstanding success.
• Sloan School of Management at MIT and MIT Free Online Economics Course look to offer some fantastic free online investment material. I have yet to dig deep. From the Sloan School of Management these four courses appear very interesting; Business Analysis Using Financial Statements, Investments, Financial Accounting and Behavioral Economics and Finance



• Excellent summary of Seth Klarman’s Margin of Safety. The book is currently changing hands for around $1350, making this summary all the more valuable. I slipped a link to gurufocus.com in there as well, but it is another site worth an explicit mention.
• Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers I’ve been reading Robert Shiller’s work.
• A collection of papers on momentum.
• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre about Jesse Livermore.
• How To Trade In Stocks by Jesse Livermore

Investing Pick ‘n Mix

Portfolio Software

• Free portfolio management Icarra.com
• Manifest Investing provides excellent value for their fee.
• The DRIP Investing Resource Center has an OK free portfolio spreadsheet and other Excel spreadsheets.

Free Investment Courses

• Decision Point Technical Analysis Course
• Fool’s Investing Basics
• Rightside Education Basic Investing Course

Stock Ideas

• Value Investors Club
• TMF CAPS Stock Screener
• Stockpickr

And finally for anyone confused by investing jargon.

• Investopedia dictionary

Thanks for reading and please do leave a comment with your favorites stock investing sites.