My Links

Action-oriented Blogs

• Michael Arold (Covestor Swing trader)

• The Kirk Report

  • Chart Show

• Chart.ly

• Options Insider (commentary, unusual activity)

• JAG Notes

• 10Q Detective

• Barron's Tech Trader Daily

• Afraid to Trade

• Leaning Markets - Options Group

• StockBee

• Stockpickr (social)

• Seeking Alpha (social)

• Dividend Growth Investor

• The Clueless Q Trader

• Thomas Bulkowski

• Wall Street Warrior

• Wood Shed Blogger (Technicals)

• Trade Market Info

• HCPG Blog

• Option Runners

• 1Option

• Hamzei Analytics

• The Market Oracle

• Public Chart Lists from StockCharts.com

  • Public ETF charts

• Minyannville

• Crossing Wall Street

• Fully Informed Investor

• AC Investor

• Phil's Stock World (Option Review)

• In the Know

• CNBC

  • CNBC's Options Action

  • CNBC's Fast Money

  • CNBC's Fast Money Portfolio

  • CNBC's Cramer

• ETF Roundup

• Fallond

• dshort

• Investing with Options

• Classic Value

• Fatas and Mihov

• Buy on the Dip

• The Lawyer Trader

• Dragonfly Capital

• Charts Gone Wild

• Center for Economic and Policy Researcg

• Buy on the Dip

• Hedge Analyst

• NYC Trader

• Kelpie Capital (thoroughly researched stock ideas)

• GTOToy

• Oil Traders Blog

• Maoxian

• Think Trader

• Joe Weisenthal

• Todds Trade

• 10Q Detective

• Ask Chris

• Emerging Money

• T3 Blog

• Beezer Notes (Economic commentary)

• Fat Pitch Financials

• WSJ Market Beat

• TraderX

• Tischendorf Letter (blog) (charts)

• Daneric's Elliott Wave

• Daze Trader (penny stock ideas)

Commentary-oriented Blogs

• Between the Hedges

• Bespoke Investments

  • Premium Website

• Birinyi Associates' Ticker Sense

• Capital Context

• The Big Picture (weekly positives/negatives)

• Rational Capitalist Speculator (Weekly bull/bear recap)

• The Big Picture

• CSS Analytics (excellent quant blog)

• Systematic Investor (quant)

• Dynamic Hedge (quant)

• Quanting Dutchman (quant)

• MarketSci (quant)

• Quantifiable Edges (quant)

• Trading the Odds (quant + technical)

• Humble Student of the Market

• Mikernomics (economics)

• Business Insider

• The Capital Speculator (excellent blog about the economy and capital markets)

• Capital Insider

• Mercenary Trader

• Pragmatic Capitalist

• ICoinBank

• No Spin Forecast (economic)

  • Business Cycle Forecasting

• MarketSci (economic)

• Michael Dawson (engineer turned trader)

• Stock Gumshoe

• Michael Hudson

• Brown Brother Harriman (monthly market strategy)

• Slope of Hope

• Tactical Asset Allocation for the Masses

• Green Faucet Traders Talk

• Phil's Stock World (Phil)

• Phil's Stock World (Irene)

• Phil's Stock World (World Market Review)

• FT alpha

• Early Warning (economic commentary)

• Congressional Budget Director

• The Surley Trader

• Ed Yardeni

• The Marco Trader

• Econbrowser

• ThechnologyInvestor

• Simolean Sense

• Veronique de Rugy (economist)

• Infectious Greed

• The Fundamental Analyst

• Zero Hedge

  • Marc to Market (economic)

• Market Montage

• Calculated Risk (economic)

• Ray Barros - Blog for Trading Success (economics)

• Investor Place

• Global Economic Intersection

• Vix and More

• Decline of the Empire

• Musings on the Market (Aswath Damodaran)

  • data & spreadsheets

• Affraid to Trade

• All Star Charts

• Doug Short

• Economist's View

• OptionsHawk

  • Free Daily Update

• EconBrowser

• Morpheus Trading

• All Roads Lead to China (China commentary)

• Mebane Faber (World Beta)

• ETF Outlook

• ETF Prophet

• Horan Capital Advisors (economic commentary)

• Last Chip Standing

• Street Insider

• Six Figure Investing

• Index Universe ETF Blog

• Dr. Duru

• Angry Bear (economic commentary)

• A Dash of Insight

• Contrarian Investing (short-term ideas)

• Go Lever Edge

• Beating Buffet

• WSJ Market Beat

• Economic Postcards

• The Reformed Broker

• Abnormal Returns

• Invest2Success

• Calculated Risk (economics)

• Palantir

• Wall Street Cheat Sheet

• Technically Speaking

• Zero Hedge

• Stock Traders Almanac

• WSJ Real Time Economics

• Random Roger

• Trading Goddess

• Maoxian

• Shadow Stats

• Aleph Blog

• Reggie Middleton

• A Dash of Insight

• Businomics

• E-mini Addict

• Justin Paterno

• Rant about it

• The Aleph Blog

• Trader Eyal

• Day Trading Journal

• Charts and Coffee

• DJ Market Talk

• In the Money

• Contrary Investor

• Financial Sense (Market Observations, Editorials)

• Footnoted

• A VC (technology musings)

• Financial Armageddon

• Slope of Hope

• The Street Light

• Alpha Trends

• Slope of Hope

• Random Roger

• Zero Hedge

• Old School Value

• Winter Speak

• Humble Student of the Market

• Trading with Anni

• Wall Street Warrior

• Richard Bernstein Advisors

• Visualizing Economics

• Kathy Lien (ForEx Report)

• Field Check Group (Real Estate)

• Bankstocks.com (Banks and financial services)

• Howe Street

• Market Folly

• FundX Insights

  • MarketSci

• Price Action Lab (ETFs)

• Kevin's Market Blog

• Brad Delong

• Econompic (economics)

• Trader's Narrative

• The Money go Round

• Tech Dirt (technology)

• Michael Covel

• Barry Ritholz

• I Heart Wall Streeet

• Business Insider

• Scott's Investment

Option Education

• Options for Rookies

• Option Trading-pedia

• OptionsXpress Strategy Review

• Uncle Bob's Options Course

• Sheridan Option mentoring ($$$$$) - excellent service if you want to become a serious options trader

Data Sources (e.g., Options & Short Interest, ETFs, etc)

• Asset Class Correlations

• OptionHawk collection of links

  • Optionetics Volatility Scanners and Rankings

  • Options Strategy Finder with Profitability and Probability Sorting—Idea Generation

  • Options Max Pain Calculator (Expiration Trading—Stock Pinning)Options Position Simulator

  • Yahoo Options Center (Volume, Open Interest, Put/Call, Volatility Scans)

  • Option Trade Finder

  • Strategy Scan and Analyze (Finds Stocks for Strategies you Prefer)

  • Intraday Unusual Activity

  • Interactive Brokers Options Intelligence

  • Most Active Options

  • Open Interest Distribution Graph

  • Options Historical Data (Volume, Open Interest, Etc.)

  • Options Clearing Corp

  • Options Industry Council

  • Option Strategies Explained

  • Option Strategy Finder

  • ISEE Sentiment

  • Implied Volatility Calculator

  • Options Calculator

  • 2012 Options Calendar

• Most Active Options

• Unusually High Volume

• Condor Options (ideas)

  • Calcbench (financial data)

• CrimsonMind Options data

  • Open Interest Chart

  • Put Call Ratio graph

• High Open Interest

• Call Price Increase

• Call Price Decline

• Quantifiable Edges

• Estimize (interactive earnings estimates)

• Put Price Increase

• Volatility Futures & Options (commentary)

• Put Price Decline

• iVolatility

• Asset Class performance

• VIX Commentary

• Maximum Pain (calculates a theoretical stock price based on options)

• ETF Ranker (mostly technical signals)

• OptionsXpress Trade Calculator

• NASDAQ Short Interest

• WSJ highest short interest (NYSE, NASDAQ, Amex)

• Short Squeeze

• Investing with Options

• Option Addicts

• Estimize Estimate System

• Learning Markets - Options

• Options columns from major publication

• Index Universe ETF Screener

• Fidelity ETF Screener

  • Fidelity ETF Profile

• Leveraged ETFs

• ETF Stock Lookup (identify ETFs that own a stock)

• ETFdb (alternative to mutual funds)

  • ETF top/bottom lists (expenses, P/E ratio, dividend yield, etc.)

• ETF Correlations

• ETF Performance

• Optionetics Discussion Boards

  • Spreads

  • Calendars

  • Butterflies

  • Straddles

Data Sources

• Yahoo Indicies

• Before the Open (morning commentary, upgrades/downgrades, earnings reports, economic calendar, ETF & Sector charts)

• Weeden & Co Morning Call

• Chart.Ly (realtime charts from users segmented by bullish & bearish)

• DataRoma (updates on holdings of a wide range of investors)

• Barrons Economic and Market Data Calendar

• Earnings Reports (and sell-side comments)

• Federal Government

• Economic Data Releases

• Market Technicals (num stock making new highs, etc.)

• Interactive Brokers (options scans)

• Option Pundit (collection of links)

• Wall Street Sheet (News aggregator)

  • Wall Street Sheet (Technology News)

• Wall Street Watchdog (basic data plus comments on Twitter and from pundits)

  • Links to company IR and press releases (by sector)

• The Chart Store ($$)

• Cara Communications (industry charts and member statistics)

• DailyFX

• NASDAQ After-hours Trading

• Ken French Portfolio Returns (by market cap and growth/value)

• Now and Futures (broad range of interesting charts)

• Economic Predictions

• $The Chart Store

• Consumer Metrics Institute (consumer data)

• CNBC Stock Screeners

• GuruFocus screeners ($$)

• Mutual Fund Screener

• Dow Jones Hedge Fund profiles

• WREN Market Data

Economic Data

• Holtz's Big Picture (excellent weekly economic positives and negatives)

• Crestmont Research (excellent economics and stock data)

• International Monetary Fund

• Weekly Economic Recap

Podcasts

• Bloomberg

• NPR On Point

Other

• Stocks & Commodities magazine ($$) - trading articles and related software code

• Options Strategies

• Bubble Meter (Real Estate)