Wikinvest Portfolio Manager is a comprehensive website that lets you make the most use of your online investment portfolios. After creating an account on the website you can start creating a new portfolio; alternatively you can link your account with your brokerage and import your portfolio.

The benefits of using Wikinvest include getting real-time market data and obtaining research on companies. The site also provides you with portfolio analytics. Soon email and phone alerts will be added to the site to keep you aware of breaking news.

Features:

• Online investment portfolio manager.
• Lets you maintain and import your online investment portfolio.
• Provides portfolio analytics.
• Provides real-time market data.
• Lets you obtain research on companies.
• Similar tools: Carbonmade and AceProject.

Check out Wikinvest Portfolio Manager @ www.wikinvest.com/account/portfolio/regx/start (by MOin from ThumbPress)

At first glance, StockTwits looks like a stream of Twitter updates from the community. The idea is, since stock trends move around a lot, getting real-time information and advice will help you move in on your investments much faster. For beginners in the stock market, this is a cool resource. For the professionals, this is another source that they can have open to check for latest updates.

StockTwits is also more than a web app. You can also get updates from the desktop, iPad, smartphone, website widgets, browser extensions, and a WordPress plugin. This allows you to use StockTwit in whatever internet medium you choose. This is definitely a great productivity tool for any stock investor.

Features:

• Get the latest stock updates and advice from the investor community.
• Data available in iPad and Smartphone.
• Real time streaming of stock information.
• Ideal for any investor looking for new streams of information.
• StockTwits TV Live also available.
• Similar Tools: Stock Lamp, WeSeed and UpDown.
• Also check related article: 5 Free Website Stock Tickers for Financial Geeks.

Check out StockTwits @ www.stocktwits.com

Stocklamp is a website that gathers all the financial news of the market and presents them to the user after analysis. This is immensely helpful for people who have financial jobs as well as people who are curious and want to stay informed of the financial market’s happenings.

The analysis I mentioned earlier is what helps Stocklamp generate bar charts which are of help to brokers and stockholders.

To take advantage of all of Stocklamp’s features, you must first sign up for an account which is free.

Features:

• Presents financial news of the market in real time.
• Great way to stay updated with the financial market.
• Similar Tools: 5 Free Website Stock Tickers for Financial Geeks.

Check out Stock Lamp @ www.stocklamp.com

The map itself is easy to grasp and visually appealing. The larger the rectangle of the stock, the larger the market cap. If the rectangle is green the stock price is up, if it is red it is down and dark represents neutrality.

If you place your cursor over any rectangle a company name and related information will pop up. The ‘N’ next to a company means that there is recent news. To learn more about a specific company click it’s rectangle and a vertical menu will appear. This menu will lead you to further information about the company including news updates, financial data and historical graphs. The map automatically updates every 15 minutes.

Features:

• Get a visual idea of the stock market status.
• Customize map by a time period and include highlights.
• Latest news, financial data and historical graphs for any company can be also viewed.
• Search for a particular stock.
• Hide the control panel if preferred.
• The map automatically updates every 15 minutes.
• Read detailed instructions here.
• Free, and no sign up.
• Similar tools: WeSeed, SaneBull, CakeFinancial, Stocks.us and also see related article “5 Free Website Stock Tickers for Financial Geeks“.

Check out Map-Of-The-Markett @ www.smartmoney.com/map-of-the-market (by Alex Ainsberg)

Its free to join, no obligations, so anyone can try his luck at investing in the stock market. Currently site has around 375,000 members and growing.

Most successful investors are listed in the “Fund Managers” section, sorted by their portfolio’s 6-month return. Members with the most followers appear on the homepage under “Most Followed Managers”. Managers with consistent high performance can even start making real money by selling investment advice to other members.

Unlike in the real world, everyone’s portfolio on the site is transparent and can be viewed by other members. Successful managers quickly rise to the top of the site’s investing community since everyone can track your stock performance.

kaChing has an investing app on Facebook, which is the most popular in the investing category.

Managers with the highest 6-month return are featured in the Fund Managers section

Features:

• Social investing site where anyone can build a fantasy portfolio, trade stocks and become a star investor
• Everyone’s portfolio is completely transparent to the whole community
• Members can state their own investing styles, write their own company or industry researches
• Managers with consistent high performance can attract followers, appear on the homepage and even start making real money by selling investment advice to other members
• Site is free to use, anyone can join and start trading stocks.

Check out kaChing @ www.kaching.com

To make things easier, the stock market is divided into mini-markets like Construction Stock Market, Energy, Entertainment, Food and so on. Click on a mini-market tab to find related companies in that industry. Alternatively, search to find companies based on what you know and like (chocolate, coffee shops, cars etc).

You can also research companies, read market news, view what other members are buying, read investing tips from experts and watch the value of your portfolio.

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Features:

• Free virtual investing site to learn trading on the stock market for free.
• Get virtual cash ($10,000), buy company stocks and build portfolio.
• Find companies to invest in, based on what you know and like (chocoloate, coffe shops, cars etc) or browse related companies by industry (e.g. Food, Construction, Energy, Entertainment).
• Research companies, read market news, view what other members are buying and watch the value of your portfolio on the right hand side.
• Sign up to get virtual money and start building your portfolio.

Check out WeSeed @ www.weseed.com

In addition to having a live stock market monitor that provides live quotes, real-time news and investment tools, SaneBull has ready-to-integrate widgets for everything from US market indexes to foreign exchange rates to gold futures. Just copy the html code and paste it into your website or blog. If you think that’s too much work, SaneBull has plugins for iPhone, Facebook, WordPress and Mac.

Main features:

• Provides widgets and plugins for real-time monitoring of financial markets.
• Easy to use interface with latest news and investment tools.
• Integrate widgets into your website with a few steps.
• Widgets for US and international financial markets.
• Plugins for WordPress, iPhone, Mac OS X, Vista and Facebook.
• Live news updates from all over the world.

Check out SaneBull @ www.sanebull.com (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

Here’s how it works:

1. Add email to your cell phone or Blackberry’s address book.
2. When you have a question, e-mail email with a command in the subject line (body of the e-mail can be blank)
3. In less than 30 seconds, you’ll receive an e-mail with the information!

And that’s it ! Just make sure you check the various commands so that you can get the maximum information when needed. List of things you can check with Snapask:

• flight status
• traffic
• weather
• dictionary
• local time
• stock quote
• latest news
• Wikipedia entry
• movie showtimes
• yellow pages
• local businesses
• song lyrics
• slang term definitions
• sports scores

For more applications that let you obtain web information in similar way see MakeUseOf’s Ask Questions section.

Check out Snapask @ www.snapask.com [via Labnol.org] ( by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

“Our mission at Cake is to remove the mystery around investing and help you to perform better. We were founded upon the belief that having access to real people and real portfolios is better than relying on a single underperforming and expensive professional.”

Cake Features

• Automatically track your performance across all of your online brokerage accounts.
• Performance Rankings: See where you stand in comparison to other members.
• Buzz: most popular users, top performers, most popular journal posts, most watched stocks, most selling, and more.
• Search CakeFinancial by company name, symbol or screen name.
• Add people to your network and get alerted when they make trades.
• Your net worth, portfolio sizes or the cost basis of positions always remain anonymous.
• Wondering if CakeFinancial is secure? Read more on security and privacy measures here.
• For more details go to CakeFinancial FAQ page.

Go to CakeFinancial [www.cakefinancial.com]

- Update rate: information is updated every 15 minutes.
- Stocks.us tracks all stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq 100, and S&P 500.

Go to Stocks.us www.stock.us (update: no longer online)