Selected references – I. ONLINE INVESTING

This is the first page of four for the Selected References part of the About Online Investing Regulation section of this web site.

Contents of this page:

Australian

• Online Investing Broker (ASX Non-advisory) sites
• Other Online Broker Sites
• General Information Portals
• Financial Data and Newsletters
• Financial Analysis and Trading Software
• Internet Discussion Sites
• Publications and Reports
• General Australian Investing Information Sites

International

• Online Investing Broker sites
• General Information Portals
• Financial Data and Newsletters
• Financial Analysis and Trading Software
• Internet Discussion Sites
• Publications and Reports

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Australian references and links

Online Investing Broker (ASX non-advisory) sites

These web sites are for Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) participating online investment brokers who are categorised by the ASX as not providing advisory services with their transaction processing.

• Amscot Discount Stockbroking
  www.amscot.com.au
• Andrew West Stockbroking
  www.andrewwest.com.au
• Australian Investment Exchange Limited
  www.sanford.com.au
• Avcol Stockbroking Pty Ltd
  www.avcol.com.auhttp://www.rivkinstockbroking.com.au/
• Commonwealth Securities Limited
  www.comsec.com.au
• E*Trade Australia Securities Limited
  www.etrade.com.au
• HSBC Stockbroking (Australia) Pty Limited
  www.hsbc.com.au/stockbroking
• Macquarie Equities Limited
  www.macquarie.com.au
• Morrison Securities Pty Ltd
  www.morrisonsecurities.com
• National OnLine Trading Limited
  www.national.com.au/trading
• Webstock Securities
  www.webstock.com.au
• Westpac Broking
  www.westpac.com.au

Other Online Broker sites

• CommSec Direct Funds
  http://www.funds.commsec.com.au
• Directshares (Dragon Direct)
  http://www.directshares.com.au/
• E-Shares
  http://www.e-shares.com.au/
• Easy Street Financial Services
  http://www.easystreet.com.au/
• Goldman Sachs
  http://www.gs.com.au/
• IC Markets
  http://www.icmarkets.com.au
• IG Markets
  http://www.igmarkets.com.au/
• JB Were
  http://www.jbwere.com.au/
• Man Financial
  http://www.manfinancial.com.au/
• Netwealth
  http://www.netwealth.com.au/
• Quick.Broker
  http://www.quickbroker.quicken.com.au/
• Suncorp Share Trade
  http://www.sharetrade.suncorpmetway.com.au/

General Information Portals

• Money Manager
  http://moneymanager.smh.com.au/
• MSN Money
  http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/home.asp
• Shares Magazine- a portal sponsored by the Fairfax group
  http://www.sharesmag.com.au/
• The Financial Arena
  http://www.thefinancialarena.com.au/
• Yahoo finance Australia and NZ - Australian version of a portal familiar to US readers
  http://au.finance.yahoo.com/

Financial Data and Financial Advice Providers

• Alan Hull
  http://www.alanhull.com/
• Big Charts
  – stock charts, screeners, interactive charting and research tools
  http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/
• Bioshares
  http://www.bioshares.com.au/
• Building Wealth Through Shares, published by Colin Nicholson
  http://www.bwts.com.au/
• Cartwright Brown and Company
  http://www.cbc.com.au/
• Citibank Warrants
  http://www.citiwarrants.com.au/
• Cooltrader.net
  http://www.cooltrader.net/
• Donnelly’s Investing Times
  http://www.donnelly.com.au/
• Ethical Investment Services
  http://www.ethicalinvestments.com.au/
• Fat Prophets
  http://www.fatprophets.com.au/
• George Cochrane
  http://www.cochrane.net.au/
• Guppy Traders, published by Daryl Guppy
  http://www.guppytraders.com/
• Huntleys’
  http://www.aspecthuntley.com.au/licensee/wealthseries/
• Inside Trader
  http://www.theinsidetrader.com.au/
• Investorweb published by IWL Limited
  http://www.investorweb.com.au/
• Invest Smart
  http://investsmart.com.au/
• Lewis Securities
  http://www.fixedinterest.com.au
• Personal Investor
  http://personalinvestor.com.au/
• Rivkin Report
  http://www.rivkin.com.au/
• Shareanalysis
  https://www.shareanalysis.com.au/
• Standard and Poors
  http://www.standardandpoors.com/
• StockWatch Report, published by Warranted Financial Solutions Pty Ltd
  http://www.swreport.com/
• SuperEasy
  https://www.supereasy.com.au/index.asp
• The Australian Investor – The Investment Information Service
  http://www.australianinvestor.com.au/
• The Intelligent Investor published by Intelligent Investor Pty Ltd
  http://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au
• The Intelligent Investor’s Floattank
  – independent news and views on ASX Initial Public Offerings or floats
  published by Intelligent Investor Pty Ltd
  http://www.floattank.com.au/
• Vanguard Investments
  http://www.vanguard.com.au/

Financial Analysis and Trading Software Vendors

• ABC Trader Software sold by Safety in the Market,
  http://www.sitm.com.au/pgtemplate.asp?page=shop&shop=
  products&cat=Trading+Software+%26+Data&id=Starter+Pack
• Metastock sold by Paritech
  http://www.paritech.co.uk/default-uk.asp
• Quicken ShareAnalyser sold by Quicken
  http://www.quicken.com.au/personalFinance/ShareAnalyser/default.aspx

Internet Discussion Sites

• Comsec
  http://www.comsec.com.au/PublicAccess/default.asp?Page=Chat
• Hot copper
  http://www.hotcopper.com.au/
• Share Cafe (Equity café) part of ‘The Financial Arena’ network
  http://www.sharecafe.com.au/
• OZeStock
  http://ozestock.com.au/
• Trading Secrets
  http://www.tradingsecrets.com.au/

Publications and Reports

• ASIC Survey of Online Trading Websites (August 2000)
  http://www.asic.gov.au/asic/asic.nsf/lkuppdf/ASIC+PDFW?
  opendocument&key=online_trading.pdf
• Kinsky, R, Online Investing On the Australian Sharemarket (2^nd edition, 2005; Wrightbooks).

General Australian Investing Information Sites

• Australian Financial Review
  http://www.afr.com/
• Australian Financial Services Directory
  – essentially a directory that provides information and links to many other financial sites
  http://www.afsd.com.au
• AMP
  http://www.amp.com.au/
• Delisted
  – a site to assist shareholders when companies are delisted
  http://www.delisted.com.au
• Educated Investor Bookshop
  http://www.investment-books.com.au/
• InfoChoice – detailed comparisons of the various online trading services
  http://www.infochoice.com.au/investment/
• Investors Toolkit
  http://investorstoolkit.com.au/
• Moneybags
  http://www.moneybags.com.au/
• Small Companies Big News
  http://www.scbn.com.au/
• Trading Plan
  http://www.tradingplan.com.au/
• Trading Room
  http://www.tradingroom.com.au/
• Trading Secrets
  http://www.tradingsecrets.com.au/
• Wrightbooks
  http://www.wrightbooks.com.au/

International

Online Investing Broker sites

• A Childrens Savings Website (UK)
  http://www.a-childrens-savings-website.co.uk/
• Cheapest Share Dealing (UK)
  http://www.cheapest-share-dealing.co.uk
• Direct Invest (UK)
  http://www.directinvest.co.uk/
• E*Trade Financial (US)
  http://www.etrade.com/
• E*Trade (UK)
  http://www.etrade.co.uk/
• Interactive Investor (UK)
  http://www.iii.co.uk/
• Internaxx (LU)
  http://www.internaxx.lu/
• Square Gain
  http://www.squaregain.co.uk/
• TD Waterhouse (UK)
  http://www.tdwaterhouse.co.uk/

General Information Portals

• AOL Personal Finance
  http://money.aol.com/
• CBS Market Watch 
  http://www.cbs.marketwatch.com/
• Yahoo! Finance
  http://finance.yahoo.com/
• UK Financial Websites – catalog of UK financial websites
  http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/money/
• UK Share Net – Stock Brokers – comprehensive list of UK stockbrokers
  http://www.uksharenet.com/dir_stockbrokers.shtml
• UK Directory: see Finance / Personal Finance / Online Investing
  http://www.ukdirectory.co.uk/ 

Financial Data and Newsletters

• Equis
  http://www.equis.com/
• Financial Times – British, free information about European, US and Asian stocks and markets
  http://www.news.ft.com/
• Fortune – website of the US magazine Fortune
  http://www.fortune.com/fortune/
• Incredible Charts – resource for serious online investors
  http://www.incrediblecharts.com/
• Standard & Poor’s
  http://www.standardandpoors.com.au/
• The Pitmaster
  http://thepitmaster.com/
• The Street
  http://www.thestreet.com/

Financial Analysis and Trading Software

Internet Discussion Sites

• The Motley Fool (US)
  http://www.fool.com/
• The Motley Fool (UK)
  http://www.fool.co.uk/

Publications and Reports

• Unger, L., On-Line Brokerage: Keeping Apace of Cyberspace (SEC, 1999).
  http://www.sec.gov/news/studies/cyberspace.htm
  This was followed up by a report from the staff of the Securities Exchange Commission covering similar issues:
• SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, ‘Examination of Broker-Dealers Offering Online Trading: summary of Findings and Recommendations’ 25 January 2001
  http://www.sec.gov/news/studies/online.htm
• Office of the NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, From Wall Street to Web Street: A Report on the Problems and Promise of the Online Brokerage Industry, 22 November 1999
  http://www.oag.state.ny.us/investors/1999_online_brokers/brokers.html
• Bell, B.A., “Online Brokerages Under Siege for Trading Outages and Delays”, 2(11) Wallstreetlawyer.com 10 (Glasser LegalWorks, April 1999).   
  http://library.findlaw.com/1999/Aug/1/130896.html
• Financial Services Authority, Building Financial Capability in the UK: the Role of Advice, July 2004,
  http://www.fsa.gov.uk/financial_capability/priorities/advice/index.html
  http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/other/role_advice.pdf