…it depends on how you want to invest.

Tools for Technical Investors

Prefer technical analysis?

TD Ameritrade has a trading tool, called StrategyDesk, that lets you build a trading strategy based on custom criteria you select.

You can even back-test your strategy using historical data to see how it would have performed in the past. Fidelity has a similar tool.

Ameritrade also has an in-house investment strategist that provides weekly market commentary and analysis.

And the company offers a Pattern Matcher tool that helps you identify stocks that meet a particular technical pattern.

TradeKing has a similar pattern recognition tool, and you can set it up to alert you by email when your favorite patterns arise.

Stock Selection Advice From Your Online Broker

Want stock selection advice approximating what an investment expert would offer? You can get that from some online brokers, too.

Charles Schwab offers its proprietary Schwab Equity Ratings service to all customers. Over 3,000 corporations are assigned an A-F rating each week, based on Schwab analysts’own research methodology.

Muriel Siebert offers an All-Star Guru Stock Scorecard, which allows you to see how a particular stock is analyzed based on eight leading stock strategies from gurus like Peter Lynch, Benjamin Graham and Martin Zweig.

Siebert also has a Guru Stock Screener that helps you find stocks these leading experts would buy, again based on their well-documented strategies.

And Fidelity has a unique technology that not only gives you recommendations from leading analysts and companies…

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