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  • Online Brokerages

  • Compass Financial -Stock and Futures Brokerage with Economic and Agricultural Research.
  • Lombard Institutional Brokerage - Equities, options, mutual funds, etc. offers free quotes, intra day charts and hist charts.
  • Charles Schwab - This discount brokerage allows investors to do their trading online.
  • Etrade - E*trade allows account holders to trade stocks and options via the Internet.
  • Ceres Securities - Ceres Securities offers deep discount online stock and options trading to account holders.
  • Jack White & Company - This brokerage's Path On-line service allows clients to manage their investment portfolios from their computers.
  • Fin-Atlantic Securities, Inc. - option strategies advice. [corp brochure]
  • Fidelity Investments [corp brochure]
  • Pacific Brokerage Services - Pacific Brokerage Services' Remote Access service allows account holders to trade via the Internet.
  • The Net Investor - Manage your own investments using the Internet. A service of Howe Barnes Investments.
  • National Discount Brokers - NDB Online offers account holders online trading capabilities. 
  • Banking

  • Bank of America - Apply for loans and credit cards online. Take advantage of tools such as a home-buyer's purchase price calculator.
  • Banker's Trust - One of the nation's largest banks offers this informational site.
  • Bank Rate Monitor - Web source for current consumer rates.
  • Bayshore Trust - This site offers online loans.
  • Checkfree - Download software that allows you to pay bills online.
  • First Union - Apply for credit cards and loans online, open and check the status of IRA accounts.
  • J.P. Morgan, Inc. - Informational site from the global financial services firm.
  • Mark Twain Banks - Their e-cash service "is like using a virtual ATM (Automated Teller Machine)."
  • Security First - Perform transactions, such as bill-paying, online.
  • Wells Fargo Bank - Wells Fargo Online allows you to get account balances and recent account history on the internet for free. 

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    Mutual Fund Information

  • The Mutual Funds Home Page - A World Wide Web guide to mutual fund resources.
  • Mutual Fund Magazine Online - Online version of the monthly magazine.
  • Nest Egg - Mutual fund section provides general information on investing in mutual funds.
  • T. Rowe Price - Mutual fund information. 
  • Bonds

  • BondTrac - Provides information on municipal bonds.
  • Daiwa Institute of Research Bond Index - Bond index based on a world-standard calculation method lets investors monitor movement of the bond market.
  • EEBond - Compute the values of Series EE Savings Bonds with their online calculator.
  • Municipal Bonds & Public Finance Weekly Market Chat - A service of Seattle-Northwest Securities.
  • Pivot Market Timer - A market timing letter that specializes in interest rate sensitive markets with an emphasis on bonds.
  • Strategic Investment Consultants - Provider of fixed income investment research. 
  • Futures

  • Compass Financial - Full service Stock, Futures and Options firm.
  • The Computerized Trader - Column that appears regularly in Futures Magazine.
  • Futures Magazine - The online version of Futures Magazine.
  • Jake Bernstein's Futures Market Commentary - Weekly commentary on futures markets.
  • Club 3000 - Tests and reviews trading software.
  • NumaWeb - Derivatives Resource Center - Reference sources for software, journals, courses and conferences. Options strategy expert system.
  • The Master Trader - Site for financial education in world trade through futures trading.
  • Robert's Online Option Pricer - An online option pricer! Use it to learn and price options.
  • The Office for Futures and Options Research (OFOR) 

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    Federal Reserve

  • FRED - Federal Reserve Economic Data 
  • Price Data / Computerized Trading / Charts

  • Daily Stock Prices and Charts - MIT
  • The Stock Room This is a great site for charts!
  • Daily CME Settlement Prices
  • Option strike and month codes
  • Historical Futures Charts - Some with pricing back to 1959!
  • Current and Historical Futures Price Data
  • Quotes from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
  • Latest S&P Average
  • Security APL Market Watch - Mainly US market indices; the page is updated once every three minutes from 8:00am-6:00pm EST monday through friday; the quotes are 20 minute delayed.
  • Holt's Market Report - Provides same-day data from the major U.S. and foreign markets, currencies, gold, interest rates; Holt's Optionable Stocks Volume Report; Optionable Stocks that have reached a NEW HIGH/LOW; (incl. an archive of the past year's reports).
  • INO Charts & Data -Contains hourly, daily, and weekly charts and quotes.
  • QuoteCom - Quotes on options for U.S. stocks, indices, and futures; currently one quote at a time, but will soon provide the ability to do a quote chain. Free users are limited to 5 quotes per day. These may be delayed, intraday quotes on all domestic exchanges. Foreign exchanges are not included. Users who do not subscribe to one of the services may only use the service between the hours of 8:00 p.m. -- 9:00 am Eastern time.
  • Quick Quotes
  • InterQuote - Provides real-time, 15 minute delayed, and end-of-day information on stocks, options, indices, mutual funds, and futures in most U.S. and Canadian exchanges. Registered users are allowed five free quotes per day. Real-time and end-of-day market information is available for a fee. Offers 15 minute delayed futures and futures options data from the CME.
  • Historical Commodity Price Data - Data on about 30 US commodities.
  • TICK DATA INC - Futures, Options, and Indexes - time and sales histories; - One of the largest databases in the world of futures, indexes, and options, including tick-by-tick data back to 1974 and daily data back to 1968. [corp brochure]
  • Knight Ridder Financial Publishing/Europe - historical and end-of-day quotes & news are available in financial and commodity markets covering cash, futures, agricultural, stock indices across 50 exchanges world-wide and over 500 markets; corp brochure. [corp brochure]
  • CISCO - Futures research and data. [corp brochure]
  • Barra - "Provides innovative analytical models, software and services to make superior investment and trading decisions; analyze equity, fixed income, currency and other financial markets.
  • Bob Browning's list of Treasury Software - specialized reference information for IT Professionals and others in the field of Bank Treasury. [Amazingly comprehensive database of over 100 specialist programs].
  • Omega Research - Producer of Tradestation and Super Charts.
  • Wall Street Direct - Adverts from: Equis International; OptionVue; Worden Brothers etc. They also publish the Traders' Catalog & Resource Guide, "the investment community's most complete 'yellow pages' directory". They will send a sample copy on request. [very good selection of many trading programs].
  • Layer Eight Systems - Derivatives pricing software systems. 
  • Domestic Exchanges

  • American Stock Exchange (AMEX)
  • Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE)
  • Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)
  • Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
  • Chicago Partnership Board
  • Coffee Sugar & Cocoa Exchange, Inc. (CSCE)
  • Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT
  • Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGE)
  • Mid-America Commodity Exchange (MidAm)
  • New York Cotton Exchange (NYCE)
  • New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX & COMEX)
  • The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX)
  • The Iowa Electronic Market - A real-money, futures market with contracts whose payoffs are based on real-world events such as political outcomes, companies' earnings per share and stock price returns.
  • New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
  • Nasdaq 


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    Investing Advisory Services

  • Avid Trading Company - Online source of technical market opinion.
  • Briefing by Charter Media - Experienced professionals give timely financial market analysis.
  • CDA/Investnet - Daily insider trading activity updates.
  • Conscious Investing - Personal financial planning and investing resource.
  • The Financial Center - Market Mavens News & Views.
  • Investment Strategies for the 21st Century
  • Wall Street Online - Houses several advisory newsletters. 
  • Daily Business News & Information

  • Bloomberg Personal - Business and world news, plus financial analysis.
  • Boston Globe - Online version of New England’s largest newspaper.
  • Business Wire - Source for corporate press releases.
  • Centennial Anniversary - DJIA - Informational site celebrating the Dow's 100th anniversary.
  • The Gate - The Gate offers recent stories from San Francisco’s two daily papers, the Chronicle and the Examiner.
  • Market News Online - News you can trade on!
  • Individual - Newspage - Daily business news categorized by industry.
  • New York Times - The Times ventures onto the Web.
  • The Online News Hour - Online incarnation of the public television news show.
  • Philadelphia Online - A joint venture between two Philadelphia papers: The Inquirer and the Daily News.
  • The Nando Times - The Raleigh News and Observer, offers this robust online newspaper.
  • US News Online - Web-based version of U.S. News & World Report.
  • USA Today - Online version of the national daily paper.
  • WSJ Money & Investing Update - Web-based version of the Journal. 
  • High Tech Business News

  • C|Net - Great source for timely computer industry news.
  • herring.com - Online version of Red Herring magazine, which provides information for the technology and entertainment industries.
  • Interactive Business Overview - Daily telecom-oriented headlines.
  • New York Times Syndicate - Computer News Daily - Timely, full-text articles on the computer industry, from a variety of publications.
  • Personal Technology - Wall Street Journal - A site featuring the writings of WSJ's Personal Technology columnist, Walt Mossberg.
  • Silicon Investor - Specialized investment site focusing on the high tech industry.
  • Web Finance - Electronic magazine of financial services.
  • Upside - High-tech news magazine.
  • ZD Net - Ziff-Davis site provides extensive high-tech information. 

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    Financial Magazines

  • Barrons - Online version of Barrons.
  • Business Wire - The International Media Relations Bureau.
  • Canadian Corporate NewsNet - Canadian newswire provides access to press releases utilizing a powerful search function.
  • The Economist - The Economist offers reporting, commentary and analysis on world politics, business, finance, science, technology and the arts.
  • Financial Planning Online - Web magazine geared for professional financial planners and investment advisors.
  • Fortune Magazine - Online version of the monthly.
  • Futures Magazine - Web-based edition of the magazine.
  • Investing Online Magazine - Monthly newsletter for people who want to use their home computer as an investing tool.
  • Investor's Business Daily - Online edition of the daily newspaper.
  • Kiplinger Online - Business Forecasts and Personal Financial Advice.
  • Money Magazine - Web-based version of the monthly magazine.
  • Moneysaver Magazine - Canadian-based personal finance magazine.
  • The Syndicate - Provides articles on investing, a brokers corner, and advice from investment experts, plus extensive links to financial sites. 
  • Research

  • Alex Brown, Inc. -This investment banking firm provides wide ranging research.
  • Hoover's - Hoovers provides extensive company research.
  • Wall Street Net - Info on corporate debt and equity financings, plus archival data, including SEC filings and prospectuses on transactions.
  • Tradeline Investor Center - Mutual fund and equity performance information.
  • The Phantom's Financial District
  • Remedies
  • Small Stock News Network - This site focuses on small stocks.
  • StreetNet - Streetnet offers unique industry research as well as brokerage research
  • Zacks - Zacks Web site provides a wide array of investment research 

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    International Business News & Information

    Asia
  • AsiaOne - AsiaOne provides links to Asian newspapers and business publications.
  • Asia Inc. - Online version of the Asian business magazine.
  • Business Times Singapore - Rich site that features daily Asian business news, as well as company news, shipping news, and business columnists.
  • Business World Online Edition - This English-language paper features Southeast Asia’s breaking news.
  • The Chinese Finance Association - A group of concerned academics and business people that publishes a weekly newsletter on the Chinese economy.
  • Hong Kong Standard Financial Review - Excellent source of business news from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
  • Indonesia Business Center Online - Indonesian business news.
  • The Joong-Ang Ilbo - A leading Korean newspaper, in English and Korean.
  • Nikkei Net - Information on business in Japan and the world, supplied by The Nihon Keizai Simbun and The Nikkei Weekly.
  • Thailand Business Day - Business-oriented Thai daily.
  • Central & Eastern Europe

  • Internet Securities - Cntrl & Eastern Europe - Database providing financial, market and industry information.
  • Great Britain

  • Business Monitor - Topics include Economic Analysis, Corporate Finance, Corporate Profiles, & Offshore Finance.
  • Financial Times - Daily highlights from the print version of the Financial Times.
  • The Irish Times - Features local and international stories, sports and business. Provides an extensive searchable archive.
  • Electronic Telegraph - Source for British & world news, also offers a "NetLife" section.
  • Moneyworld - Personal finance Web site from Great Britain.
  • The Times of London - Internet edition of the London daily.
  • India

  • The Hindu Newspaper - The online version of one of India's premier newspapers.
  • Israel

  • The Jerusalem Post - This English-language paper of Israel provides local and international news, and a thorough business section.
  • Mexico

  • NOVEDADES DE QUINTANA ROO,MEXICO - Daily Mexican newspaper discussing news, weather and tourism in Mexico.
  • New Zealand

  • New Zealand - The Press (Christchurch) - The Online home of New Zealand's 2nd largest newspaper.
  • Russia

  • The St. Petersburg Press - Online version of a leading Russian newspaper.
  • South Africa

  • Electronic Mail & Guardian - Web-based version of the South African daily.
  • Financial Mail - South Africa - Internet edition of the South African journal of financial news and comment.
  • Independent Online News Service - South Africa - Business Headlines from South Africa.
  • General International

  • Business Monitor - Provides global coverage of legislation, corporate & offshore finance, market & economic analysis, consultants, and worldwide business news.  
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    International Bonds

  • BradyNet 
  • International Banking

  • BankNet (Secure Trust Bank - United Kingdom)
  • Raiffeissen Banking Group (Austria)
  • The World Bank
  • Qualisteam - A clearinghouse for info on global banks, stock exchanges, bonds and other financial resources. 
  • International Exchanges

  • African Stock Exchange Guide
  • Australian Stock Exchange
  • London International Financial Futures Exchange
  • London Stock Exchange - AIM
  • Madrid Stock Exchange
  • Oslo Stock Exchange
  • Rio De Janiero Stock Exchange
  • Russian Exchange
  • Santiago Stock Exchange
  • The Singapore International Monetary Exchange
  • South African Futures Exchange - Information regarding the South African futures market.
  • Stockholm Stock Market
  • Vancouver Stock Exchange
  • Zagreb Stock Exchange 
  • Related to Agriculture

  • AgriBiz - A free information resource for the global agricultural community.
  • ProFarmer Online
  • Progressive Farmer Online
  • Agriculture Online - News and information for the successful farmer.
  • USDA Home Page
  • Foreign Agricultural Service 

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    Weather

  • The Weather Channel
  • Midwest Agricultural Weather Service Center
  • Intellicast: - A real net weather service.
  • National Weather Forecast
  • Drought Severity Index
  • Freese-NotisWeather
  • Current US Weather Map
  • Harris-Mann, Inc. - A service that specializes in medium to long-range weather forecasts for U.S. & International Agriculture.

  • News Groups

  • Usenet - misc.invest.futures
  • Usenet - misc.invest.stocks
  • Usenet - misc.invest.tech - Descussions mainly about trading programs and data sources.
  • Usenet - misc.invest
  • Usenet - UK.finance


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    If you wish to contact a broker directly about opening a trading account or you'd like additional information on futures markets and trading futures, please send e-mail to futures@compassfinancial.com or phone 800-577-3600 (972-680-8080 in the Dallas area).

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