Free News, Analysis and Charting

You can easily find free charting packages, analysis tools and financial news feeds online.

Major investment banks tend to house big stock research teams and these teams cover stocks and their economic performances in great detail. In fact, investment banks are often your best choice to acquire information for budget online stock trading.

At times, you can find their researches for free. If you are interested you should contact the research team’s representatives from the investment banks to be included in the analysts’ mailing list (i.e. subscribe to their mailing lists / newsletters) as not all such reports are available for open online access.

For charting, you can also find charts free of charge as well as financial tools that will allow you to do technical analysis with the charts to assist you in your research efforts.

To get free real-time quotes you can look for real-time ECN (Electronic Communications Networks) Quotes which are real-time quotes from participating ECNs, but the quotes do not always represent the best ask or bid in the marketplace. ECNs are electronic marketplaces that match sell and buy orders with each other and include REDIBook, Instinet, Island, Knight, INET and Archipelago.