What are the Best Trading/Investing Websites and Blogs?

This is our categorized list of the best trading/investing books, sites, blogs, videos, etc.

Please note that sites may appear in multiple categories and that links will open in a new tab.

General
Articles
Blogs
Books
Brokers
Charting / Trading Software
Education
Education – Courses
Forums
Magazines / Newspapers
News
Research
Scanners
Tax & Accounting
Trading/Chat Rooms
Videos

 

General

StockTwits.com
Benzinga.com
SeekingAlpha.com Lots of great articles
MarkDCook.com Website of market wizard Mark Cook
Profit.ly This website was created by Timothy Sykes and offers trade alert services and educational resources. Also, the software can login to your broker and generate trade statistics, you can also see other traders’ statistics.
InvestorsBusinessDaily Great newspaper for stock research
Investimonials Reviews on trading services, trading rooms, and courses.

Articles

Mark Cook’s 7 Rules of Trading
VWAP explained by Mike Bellafiore of SMB Capital

Blogs

Nine Transitions Price action blog
Paracurve.com Blog of a professional trader
PeterBrandt.com

 

Books

Price Action Series by Al Brooks. 3 volume set on price action trading; it’s like a graduate level course on how to trade price action; lots of information but not the easiest reading.
Understanding Price Action by Bob Volman. Shorter and more readable than Al Brooks but not as comprehensive. Volman focuses on trading the EUR/USD 5m chart.
The Logical Trader by Mark B. Fischer. A famous oil trader shares his trading system that he developed over many years.
Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas. Considered by many to be the best book on trader psychology.
Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns by Thomas Bulkowski. Actual statistics on the probability of certain patterns working in the stock market.
How to Make Money in Stocks Complete Investing System The updated classic from William O’Neil, founder of Investors Business Daily
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre. One of the all-time classic trading books, this book covers the life and lessons of Jesse Livermore who made and lost multiple fortunes trading stocks in the early 1900s.
Market Wizards by Jack Schwager. An updated version of another classic that profiled some of the greatest traders on Wall Street.

 

Brokers

E-Trade
TD Ameritrade
TradeStation
Charles Schwab
Interactive Brokers
Merrill Edge
Fidelity
Ally

Charting/Trading Software

FinViz
StockFetcher Programmable web-based scanner
TradingView
MultiCharts Especially good for automated trading, but good for manual trading also. You can buy a lifetime license.
NinjaTrader
TradeStation
E-Signal
Market Delta
MetaTrader Free forex software, compatible with most forex brokers
ThinkOrSwim This is owned by TDAmeritrade. This platform is great for options traders.

Education

Bulkowski’s Chart Patterns

Courses

YTC Price Action Trader by Lance Beggs
Brooks Trading Course by Al Brooks (see our review)
PriceActionTradingSystem by Mack

Forums / Message Boards

We created a more complete and categorized list here: What are the Best Trading Forums?

Futures.io: Formerly called BigMikeTrading. Heavily moderated, and you have to be a premium member to access some information. They occassionally host some very good webinars which are archived on their Youtube channel.
TradeToWin.com
EliteTrader.com
TradersLaboratory.com
Reddit.com/DayTrading
Reddit.com/Trading
ForexFactory

Magazines / Newspapers

Futures Magazine
InvestorsBusinessDaily Great newspaper for stock news and research
Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities
Barron’s Well known investment magazine
Wall Street Journal The Newspaper for Wall Street

News

StockTwits
Benzinga
MarketWatch
CNBC
InvestorsBusinessDaily Great newspaper for stock news and research

Research

Yahoo Finance
Google Finance
FinViz
InvestorsBusinessDaily Great newspaper for stock research

Scanners

MarketChameleon.com – Some good free scans, including implied volatility rank. some premium features require a subscription.
StockCharts.com
MarketInOut.com
FinViz.com – Probably the best free scanner. Great for looking at multiple charts at once.

Tax and Accounting

TradersAccounting.com
GreenTraderTax.com

Trading/Chat Rooms

Investors Underground Nathan Michaud’s chat room; some famous traders are moderators here such as Tim Grittani (kroyrunner). See our review
Simpler Options John Carter’s trading room
Trade On the Fly Michele Koenig’s room. See our review

Videos

Best Trading Videos – Our youtube playlist of the best trading videos we’ve found in the last several years.
Best Investing Videos – Our playlist of the best investing youtube videos.