Investing

Follow the steps below to begin your stockmarket project.

• Read Stock Market Basics.
• You have $100,000 to spend. Using the basic information you just read and the resources listed below, choose at least five companies to invest in.
• Get the ticker symbol and the current price from Yahoo Ticker Symbol Lookup.
• Go to InvestSmart Stock Game to purchase your stock using the IDs assigned to you.

Stock Information

• American Association of Individual Investors: Stock Page
• American Stock Exchange
• Big Charts
• Business Week 50 -- top performing stocks.
• CNN Money
• Daily Stocks -- search for information about a company.
• Dow Jones Indexes
• EduStock -- includes tutorials on the stock market and how to pick good stocks. It also provides information on a select group of companies to help you start your research into what stock is going to make your fortune.
• Green Money Online Guide -- List of 185 socially responsible companies.
• Hoover's Online -- the ultimate source for company information. Includes company of the day and spotlight stock.
• Investing for Kids
• Investor Guide -- tons of information.
• Kiplinger Magazine
• Lehman Brothers 10 Uncommon Values -- list of 10 common stocks that have appeared to be unusually attractive.
• Market Guide
• Marketocracy -- investors set up a tracking portfolio and are evaluated over a period of time.
• Morgan Stanley -- the most information on international investing.
• The Motley Fool: Finance and Folly
• MSN MoneyCentral Investor -- includes top 10 stocks of the week.
• Nasdaq
• NYTimes Business
• Online Investor: Company Spotlight
• Quicken Investments -- contains "my favorite stock" and a stock screener.
• Raging Bull
• Research Magazine -- company profiles and fact sheets.
• Reuters Stocks
• Share Builder -- online broker with a list of the top ten requested stocks.
• Silicon Investor (technology stocks)
• StockMaster
• Stock Quotes
• USA Today: Money
• Worth Magazine
• Yahoo Finance
• Zacks -- includes analysts' top picks, stock of the day, and company profiles that indicate brokers' recommendations to buy or sell.

Follow the steps below to begin your mutual fund project.

• You have $100,000 to spend. Using the resources listed below, choose at least five mutual funds to invest in.
• Get the mutual fund symbol and the current n.a.v. from Yahoo Finance. Keep in mind that the symbols have five letters and end in an "X".
• Go to InvestSmart Fund Challenge to purchase your mutual fund shares using the IDs assigned to you.

Mutual Fund Information

• Money Magazine: Mutual Funds
• American Century
• Delaware Investments
• Fidelity
• Fund Alarm -- offers advice about mutual fund selling decisions.
• Janus Funds
• John Hancock
• Jones & Babson
• Morningstar
• Mutual Fund INVESTOR'S CENTER
• Mutual Funds Interactive
• Quicken Mutual Funds
• Socially Responsible Investing
• T. Rowe Price
• Vanguard Funds
• Wells Fargo Advantage Funds
• Zurich Funds

Other Investments

• Investing in Bonds
• Savings Bonds
• Treasury Bills

Last update: 20 January 2008