Award of Excellence

Award of Excellence

• TradingMarkets.com - offers trading commentary, analysis, and education for the stock, futures, and options markets.
• ActiveTrading.com - resources for day traders, including educational material, level II trading tutorials, stock resource center, bulletin boards, and day trading links.
• AlphaTrade - provides online stock quotes, research, and trading.
• America West Archives - researching old uncancelled stock certificates and bonds dating back to the 1800s.
• American Economics Group - provides economic analysis for business, government, and the legal profession.
• Ameritrade Online Investor Index - tracks the daily buying and selling activity of certain online investors who use Ameritrade's online brokerage services.
• Argus Research - offers investment and market research reports and analysis.
• Axiometrics Inc - independent research firm specializing in fundamental research of the apartment REIT sector.
• B4Utrade.com - provides individual investors with institutional research tools, including real-time market quotes, stock screeners, chat rooms, IPO news, and more.
• Bell2Bell Financial Network - stock quotes, portfolio tracking, financial headline news, interactive charts, newsletters, and more.
• BigTrends.com - recommendation and education site for stock and options traders, including weekly email updates, market timing alerts, daily trading information, and monthly newsletter.
• Birinyi Associates - research firm devoted to understanding the psychology and history of the market and the actions of investors.
• Blue Chip Information Corporation - real-time investment advice, personal consultation, options, stocks, bonds, futures, currencies.
• BullTrade - stock newsletter and financial forum designed to help the common investor make educated investment decisions.
• Business Monitor International - specialist analysis and forecasts on global emerging markets.
• Cannex - provides retail interest rates in Canada, United States and Australia. updated continuously 24 hours a day.
• Commodity Systems Inc. (CSI) - vendor of summary world financial market data and futures information that includes, currencies, stock indices, financials, energy and other markets.
• Consensus Economics, Inc. - polls economists monthly to obtain their forecasts and views.
• Creative Investment Research - Washington, D.C. - provides information on banks, thrifts, and brokerage firms owned by women and minorities. Publishes the Minority Bank Monitor. Provides general investment research services.
• CupWatch - offering CANSLIM and cup-with-handle stock market research, charts, and economic indicators used as guides and advice for investors with business daily updates.
• CzechInvest - information source for potential investors in the Czech Republic.
• Daily Prophet, The - custom report on the daily price action for stocks via email.
• Data Shaping Solutions - online trading signals, stock market trends, and day-to-day performance from proprietary strategies with daily updates for all stocks. Also offers various related tools, seminars, and newsletters.
• Datastream International
• Datatron - providing pricing studies, service and sales quality programs, and other market research intelligence to the financial service and banking industries.
• E-Line Financials - offers company profiles and reports, as well as links to other financial services and information.
• Economic Strategies, Inc. - provides a focused advisory service to international financial institutions.
• Economist Intelligence Unit - source of global business intelligence, including briefings on EIU reports and conferences and a comprehensive database of EIU country publications.
• eMecklai - provides information, analysis, and decision support tools to companies who carry risk in illiquid markets.
• Emerging Markets Data Ltd - provides economic, financial and political information to investors in the world's emerging markets.
• eResearch - provides independent research and commentary on publicly traded companies.
• European Investment Review - publication dedicated to asset management and investment research in Europe.
• Fidelity Market News - information and news on products and services offered to personal investors by Fidelity.
• Financial Insight Systems, Inc. - designs electronic financial information systems & services based on databases of investment & financial data.
• Financial Times Information Services - providers of business and specialist financial information; products distributed online, on CD-ROM and through PC-based services and computer readable data.
• Financials.com, The - specializes in the publication and distribution of value-added reports, charts and data for websites, investors, financial service firms, and publishers.
• First Analysis - Chicago, IL - investment research, corporate finance, venture capital management, public equity management, and institutional sales and trading.
• Float Analysis Services - watching for when stocks change ownership.
• Foreign Exchange Analytics - provides live commentary and analysis of the foreign exchange market.
• Four Knights - offers quick reference charts that display common Japanese candlestick patterns.
• Fractal Market Prediction - offers predictions using fractal time series in conjunction with neural networks.
• Freedonia Group, The - industrial market research.
• FTSE International - creates and maintains UK, European, global, and commodity indices.
• G6 Group - six investors sharing their views on Wall Street. Includes information for new investors.
• G7 Report - offers reports on emerging markets, country risk assesment, and other financial information.
• Global Financial Data - provides historical data on stock markets, interest rates, exchange rates and inflation on a monthly basis back to the 1690s for over 50 countries.
• Global Infrastrucure Resources - providing a market research service specializing in emerging markets.
• Global Investment Research Corp. - stock and option educational site focused on risk management strategies. Features investment tools, commentary, and more.
• Global Investor - resource for international investors, including streaming video, online training, financial conference database, and more.
• Global Value Investing with Valuation - helps investors, investment managers, educators, and students learn more about intrinsic economic value and the fundamental way of stock investing.
• Goldman Sachs' Research On Demand - offers subscription and individual purchase access to selected products from the Investment Research department.
• Gotoanalysts.com - offers access to institutional research from US Bancorp Piper Jaffray's senior equity research analysts.
• GreekMarkets.com - with information about Greek shares, mutual funds, bonds, and derivatives. Also features options pricing tools, portfolio allocators, and optimisers.
• GreenJungle - educational resources for investors and extended services for our clients.
• GrowthMarkets.com - information and news about investment funds, bonds, emerging markets, growth markets, and advice for investors.
• Hub Data Inc. - offers investment software users one point of access to data from nine vendors that includes prices, cashflows and more.
• IBC Financial Data - money market mutual fund information and bank deposit data for individual and institutional investors. Includes how to choose a money fund, a guide and news about money funds, and the week's top-ranked money funds.
• IDD Information Services, Inc. - provides financial information services to the professional securities and corporate markets.
• Indian ADRs - offers a listing of Indian companies that are listed on the NYSE or Nasdaq.
• InsiderSCORES.com - rates past insider trading by corporate executives to predict future stock performance. Presented in a fun, sports-themed format.
• InsiderTrader - analyzing the trades made by corporate executives and directors of their own company's shares.
• InSite - offers portability, flexibility and reliability for your market data and investment research needs.
• Instinet Research Redbook - tracks and reports statistics and indicators in the retail marketplace.
• Interactive Data Corporation - provider of securities-related information services to the investment community in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. division of Financial Times Information.
• Interactive Investor - presents free research describing "How the U.S. Stock Market Works."
• Investing for Women, by Women - educational video of financial information designed to introduce women viewers into the basics of wise and profitable investing in today's volatile markets.
• Investkonzult - offering investment research services covering capital markets in the Czech republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Croatia.
• Investor's Research Network - industry profiles, stock quotes, company descriptions, press releases and more. a division of Affiliated Networks, Inc.
• investorgambit.com - offers a digital format multimedia library for investing.
• InvestorPlace.com - offers independent investment advice.
• InvestorWeb - research and recommendations on listed stocks, investment trusts, and superannuation products. Free membership and/or a subscription for additional benefits.
• Invision Inc. - offers qualitative research services including focus groups, triads, dyads, and in-depth interviews.
• IPAnet - online data source for international investors, providing information on investment leads and business and market conditions.
• Iverson Financial Systems, Inc. - offers research-quality technical market data and services to the institutional investment community.
• Jon Peddie Associates (JPA) - monitors and reports on the digital media technology market.
• Kiplinger - puts financial events in perspective on a daily basis. Stock quotes, mutual fund rankings, financial frequently-asked-questions and interactive resources are available.
• KK Research - financial analysis of quoted Swiss companies.
• Latin Source - represents specialist economic and financial advisors for Latin America, with special focus on Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Chile.
• LatinFocus - provides economic and financial analysis for Latin American markets.
• LevelTrader - offers ongoing live audio commentary and instant intraday and swing trade alerts focusing on futures, institutional trading patterns, and technical analysis.
• Macgregor - provides financial institutions with the technology infrastructure and applications required to improve the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of the entire investment process.
• Market Research International - provides financial forecast center for stock idexes, interest rates, prime interest rate, currency exchanges, and the general economy.
• MarketEdge - subscription service with professional data, research and news for the personal investor.
• MarketPlayer - MarketPlayer offers a set of investment tools along with the HedgeHog stock market competition.
• MarketSim.com - build investment and technical analysis skills through historical simulated stock market trading.
• Measurisk.com - provides institutional investors with risk analysis services, including Value-at-Risk (VaR), via the World Wide Web.
• mondus - enables small to medium business users to request or supply quotes or information on products and services and submit orders via an online marketplace.
• MoneyTeq - technical analysis in the foreign exchange market. Features include buy/sell signals, and risk management.
• Monitoring.ru - devoted to Russia-specific monitoring of the media, public opinion, politics, advertising, and market research.
• MSI Global, Inc. - economic research focusing on global investment strategy/implications for bonds, equities and currencies. Country risk analysis also available.
• Multex Investor Network - research for serious investors.
• MultexNet - subscription based financial research library. Delivers graphically complete investment research reports electronically in real-time.
• Nelson Information - provider of e-information and integrated workflow solutions, software, databases and directories to the institutional investment community with a focus on the pension industry.
• NetResearch - provides financial research, valuation, and advisory services with a focus on the technology, media, and telecom industries in Korea and the Asian region.
• Old Company Research - researches old companies to find out whether stock and bond certificates dating as far back as 200 years have value.
• Online Intelligence - analyst opinions and recommendations, charts, economimc data, IPO filings and more.
• Perfect Information - provides access to UK company information including financial documents and RNS announcements; Asian and Australasian corporate information; ISMA Bonds and EDGAR SEC filings.
• Pink Sheets - offers news, data feeds, research services, and price quotes for OTC markets and securities.
• Polyconomics, Inc. - analyzes the impact of political decisions on financial markets and real economies in the U.S., Japan, and emerging markets in Latin America/Asia.
• Portfolios Direct - offerse quotes, graphs, online portfolio management, email and pager updates, market indicators and more.
• Precious Metal & Gem Connection, The - real time precious metal quotes, dealer directory, bullion spreads, exotic metals, interactive conferencing, and diamond price guide.
• Precursor Group, The - research includes communications and technology sectors, as well as industries affected by the Internet and electronic commerce.
• Prime Interest Rates - updates lending rates and provides commentaries on current market conditions.
• Professional Investment Tools Ltd. - offering investment for market timing, investing style, and global asset allocation in foreign currency, government bond, and stock markets.
• QSAOnline.com - provides online proprietary equity research.
• Quantech Research Group - providing performance-focused research and consulting to institutional and pension money managers in the US, Canada, and Latin America.
• REIS Reports, Inc. - provider of real estate data, analytics, trends, and news for residential and commercial properties in U.S. metropolitan areas
• REIT Analyst, The - offers research and analysis of Real Estate Investment Trusts.
• Research: - information on stocks, mutual funds, charts, corporate profiles, research reports, Wall Street analysis, retirement planning and shareholder news.
• Rimes Technologies - distributes historical databases in developed and emerging financial markets.
• RJ Falkner & Company, Inc. - investment research and financial communications firm which seeks out undervalued small-cap stocks.
• Schaeffer's Investment Research - offering the Option Advisor Newsletter, which provides market analysis and commentary, sentiment research, option quotes, online services, trading tools, and more.
• Securities Research Company - offering private investors unbiased investment information and advice. We also publish newsletters.
• Stock Market Round-Up - trading information, news, charts, analysis, company profiles, and quotes.
• Stock Patrol.com - features information and articles on stocks, investments, and brokers.
• Stock Trader Information - offers quotes, news, and tutorials.
• StockCharts.com - offers stock charts, quotes, and technical analysis of the major financial markets.
• Stockhaul.com - offers information on buying more stock using the same amount of money.
• StreakingStocks.com - offers stock trading recommendations and technical analysis for short-term stock traders.
• SwanFactor.com - offering advice for the online investor including daytrading, position and option trading, penny stocks, and more.
• Synergistics Research Corporation - provides secondary, banking, multi-client consumer, and small business marketing research for the financial services industry.
• Teikoku Databank - provides information on Japanese companies.
• Telemet America, Inc. - provides real-time stock quotes, charts, and news to professional and private investors.
• TheStreetPros.com - subscription-based news and commentary for financial professionals and active market traders.
• Thomson Investors Network - offers portfolio tracking, charting, an investment finder, stock and mutual fund research.
• Topline Investment Graphics - custom graphics and historical research of investment markets, including demographics, stocks, bonds, currencies, precious metals, commodities. home of the Topline Encyclopedia of Historical Charts.
• Tradeworx - investment search engine where users can create custom search profiles, company research graphs, and lists.
• Trendvest - market ratings analyzing investment markets, common stocks and mutual funds.
• Value Line - provides investment research on stocks, mutual funds, options and convertables, and offers a family of no-load mutual funds.
• ValuEngine - offers tools and models to analyze stocks and portfolios.
• Van Hedge Fund Advisors - offers a database of hedge fund performance information.
• Vestor - online research service offering weekly buy/sell advice, based on fundamental and technical investment analysis.
• WallSt.com - offers research reports on publicly traded companies.
• Web Financial Network [webfn] - provides extensive daily business and financial news, quotes, and charts as well as personalization, a newsroom, trading floor, and more.
• William O'Neil + Co. - investment management and research firm providing securities research for major institutional clients.
• Wilshire Associates Incorporated - consulting and asset management firm for pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, and endowments.
• Wm Smith & Company - investment research company specializing in fundamental analysis of companies where there has been a strong informed buying.
• WorldWide Emerging Markets - offers analysis of global emerging banking and securities markets.
• WR Hambrecht and Company Research - focuses on emerging growth companies including the Internet, communications, software, and branded consumer sectors.