Smartmoney.com is a complete financial website with a variety of financial information. Offering exceptional worksheets & tools, financial statement analysis, charts, graphs and stock quotes that keep investors updated with the latest financial news, Smartmoney.com is, in effect, a valuable investment advisor that provides excellent advice on personal finance issues and educates investors on finance-related topics.
The homepage of Smartmoney.com features top headlines with highlighted links under titles such as Investing, Spending, Markets, Most Read, while it also features Stories around the Web, Sponsored Links and major titles from SmartMoney Magazine. Then, by following each and every feature of the website, investors can benefit from insightful articles, portfolio tools, maps, stocks and mutual funds performance, personal finance section and many others.
In particular:
- Articles
Smartmoney.com features writers from the Wall Street Journal who contribute their knowledge to the website providing up-to-date articles on current market activity. The quality and insight of some of the most respected financial journalists in the financial industry is pretty obvious. Featuring simple, straightforward articles that an average investor can understand, Smartmoney.com successfully matches quantity with quality surpassing any other financial website with its exclusive articles. Besides, the Sponsored Links section features excellent articles that guide investors and website visitors on other topics such as politics or online shopping.
- My Portfolio
My Portfolio is a customizable feature that allows investors to setup their own portfolios. After registering for free to Smartmoney.com and creating an account, investors can utilize the portfolio options, which involve tracking their portfolio, receiving daily updates on their stock quotes and following news and press releases about the companies they have invested in. My Portfolio is a comprehensive snapshot of one’s investments and provides information on the price of the each stock, the current stock value, number of shares owned, gains and losses, and the weight of each stock as a percentage of total investment portfolio.
- Tools
The Tools section features expanded options such as setting up a watch list, comparing stocks of different companies, using financial calculators, tracking specific market sectors and using the stock screening tool which enables investors to make well-informed investment decisions and pick good stocks to invest in.
- Maps
Under the Tools section, there is the Map of the Market option that allows investors to get a quick idea of the entire stock market. Featuring an interactive applet that enables them to immediately understand which stock went up (Jerrald Green) and which went down (red), the Map of the Market provides information on stock performance, mutual funds, quotes, charts, financial data, analysts’ ratings and much more. Investors can sort the data based on certain criteria and find securities that match their investment profile.
- Stocks
The Stocks section (under Investing) features stock quotes, stock analysis, market updates, news and commentary, daily prices of Dow Jones, NASDAQ, and S&P 500, top-ten gainers and bottom-ten losers in the stock market, and research tools that help investors choosing their stocks. Besides, Smartmoney.com features excellent charts that display the exact price at any period in time as the mouse moves along the chart line, key statistics, earnings and forecasts, insider trading, key ratios, dividend payments, competing stocks, moving averages, and much more. Maybe the most impressive aspect of all the above is the speed at which they are displayed, almost instantly loaded, because of a Java applet that runs the charting information.
- Mutual Funds
The Mutual Funds section (under Investing) features news and analysis, daily prices of Dow Jones, NASDAQ, and S&P 500, top-ten winners and bottom-ten losers, and top 25 funds for a given time period (thirteen week, year to date, 1 day, 1 week, 4 week, 1 year, 3 years, or 5 years). Mutual funds snapshots match text information that describes the fund with an interactive plot that allo
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