Perhaps you got a new computer or Internet access for Christmas. Or perhaps your New Year’s resolution was to become Internet savvy. Either way, the following financial related web sites may assist you in navigating the Web and in keeping an eye on your portfolio.

Exchanges

• American Stock Exchange
  www.amex.com
  (where you can go live to the trading floor)



• New York Stock Exchange
  www.nyse.com



• NASDAQ Stock Market
  www.nasdaq.com
  (where you can get stock reports on NASDAQ companies)



• The Chicago Board of Options Exchange
  www.cboe.com

Trading in Cyberspace

There is a plethora of on-line trading firms where, if you know what you want, you can save money in commissions. A few of them are:

• Ameritrade
  www.ameritrade.com



• Datek Online
  www.datek.com



• Discover Brokerage Direct
  http://www.dbdirect.com



• DLJdirect
  http://www.dljdirect.com



• e*Schwab
  http://www.schwab.com
  (starting January 15, Schwab will extend on-line trading privileges to entire customer base of $4.8 million)



• E*Trade
  http://www.etrade.com

For more of such firms, as well as statistics on each one, click here.

On-line Business News Sources/Research

Most of the following publications allow you to search through archived articles - a valuable tool for pinpointing subject matter or specific companies.

• Barron’s On-line
  www.barrons.com



• Bloomberg Personal
  www.bloomberg.com



• Businessweek
  www.businessweek.com



• CNN Financial News
  money.cnn.com



• Forbes
  www.forbes.com



• Ibbotson
  http://www.ibbotson.com



• Investor’s Business
  www.investors.com



• Kiplinger On-line
  www.kiplinger.com



• Money Magazine
  www.pathfinder.com



• Morningstar
  www.morningstar.com



• The New York Times
  www.nytimes.com



• The Wall Street Journal
  www.wsj.com



• Worth On-line
  www.worth.com

Company Information

• Annual Reports Library
  www.zpub.com/sf/arl/
  (over 1.45 million original reports from corporations, foundations, banks, mutual funds and public institutions)



• Dun & Bradstreet
  www.dnb.com
  (concise information on more than 17 million companies around the world)



• Edgar Database
  www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
  (publicly available filings submitted to the SEC from January 1994 to the present)



• StockVibes
  www.stockvibes.com
  (a quote server for pink sheet and over-the-counter company stocks)

Regulatory Information

• Securities & Exchange Commission
  www.sec.gov



• NASD Regulation
  www.nasdr.com



• Colorado Division of Securities
  www.dora.state.co.us/securities/index.htm

Brokerage Firm Web Sites

• A.G. Edwards
  www.agedwards.com



• Dean Witter
  www.deanwitter.com



• Fidelity
  www.fid-inv.com



• Merrill Lynch
  www.ml.com



• Paine Webber
  www.painewebber.com



• Piper Jaffray
  www.piperjaffray.com



• Prudential Securities
  www.prusec.com



• Smith Barney
  www.smithbarney.com

The above sites merely scratch the surface of what is available on the Internet. When you find a site you like, put it in your Favorites folder or bookmark it, so that you can easily return.

Tracy Pride Stoneman is an attorney specializing in investment related complaints. Email her at Tracy@InvestorFraud.com. Preparation of this article was assisted by Douglas J. Schulz, a registered investment advisor and former stockbroker in Colorado Springs.