RESOURCES AND WEBSITES

This page includes helpful websites and tools to help you make investing a bit easier. This list includes sites and tools that are both free and subscription based. I personally recommend that you take a look at all the sites and see if they fit your style of building wealth.

American Association of Individual Investors      Betterinvesting.org

Seeking Alpha    Google Finance    Yahoo! Finance    Marketwatch

MSN Money   Investors.com   Stock2own.com   EarningsWhispers

Dripinvesting.org       Magic Formula Investing      F.A.S.T. Graphs 

Portfolio123     Paybacktime     Dripinvestor     Dividend.com 

The Motley Fool     Bloomberg     GuruFocus     CNBC    Finviz

MarketSmith    Validea   Investopedia    StockMapper    Stockpickr

InvestorGuide.com    StockRover    AOL DailyFinance   Quote.com

ValueExplorer.com
                                         
Below I have included free stock chart sites that focus exclusively on creating and building stock charts.

Zignals    wikinvest    FreeStockCharts.com     StockCharts.com

Big Charts    FreeCharts.com     ChartFacts      Barchart

YCharts

Here is a list of online brokers. Please take a look at the many choices and decide for yourself whether or not the cost and service features are up to your standards.

Fidelity Investments    Charles Schwab    TD Ameritrade

E*TRADE     Scottrade     TradeKing     OptionsHouse

tradeMONSTER     Zecco Trading      MB Trading

TradeStation         Interactive Brokers  

Invest in great companies without paying a fee through SoFi Invest.

Create a portfolio of stocks or ETFs using M1 Finance.

Many investors use Direct Investment Plans (DRIPs) to invest in stocks of companies that they consider long-term holdings. Below I have listed transfer agents for these types of plans. In addition, I would also recommend checking out the Money Paper's Direct Investing website for more information on DRIP investing. Also check out great tools for dividend stocks at Dividend-stocks.comLongrundata.comBuyupside.comDividata.com and   Mhinvest.com.

Computershare     Sharebuilder-ING Direct

Want to be the banker? How about lending money to people who need personal loans and collect the interest by using Peer to Peer lending through Prosper.com.

Speaking of banks, are you having trouble saving? Maybe using the automatic saving system that is provided by Digit that analyzes your spending and savings habits and manages to save small sums of dollars automatically.

Over the years friends and family have asked me where they can find information about interest rates on credit cards, certificates of deposit, and mortgages. The only site that I ever recommend them is Bankrate, they have all the info and tools to find the right mortgage, credit card, etc.

Through the years I realized that the most important resource that I ever relied on was the written word. I have included a montage of books that have been instrumental to making me the person I am today. Some of these books may have only had one important chapter, but I have learned that even that one chapter may change a life. Please take note that when you click on any book it will lead you to Amazon's website where you can continue your journey on finding the book that may inspire you. Read and learn and you will find true wealth.