Familiarize yourself with the "Investor Protection" sites. Be extremely cautious of any investment site that makes extravagant claims, such as "You can safely double your money in about 90 days or less by writing covered calls." or "Get over 121% a year." Be extremely cautious of any website that tells you what a great record it has had for just a short period of time, such as "our stock picks are on an annualized 104% for the last six months" or "our readers averaged over 101% in March".   Browse through the different category pages to familiarize yourself with what's on that page.

The functions provided by various sites sometimes overlap - for example, linked sites in the categories "Investment Sites", "Research", "Brokers" and "Newsletters" overlap. We attempt to list the site under its predominant function.

Some major sites or subsites are listed under more than one category. Most categories are listed by function, such as "Brokers" or "Newsletters". A few, such as "Foreign Exchange", "Bonds", or "Commodities" contain sites with different functions relating to that category.

We provide direct links to sub-sites of some larger sites so you can bypass the home page if you wish. There are over 10,000 mutual funds. We do not list them individually. We do list many fund families. Plus, each fund page includes sites where you can search for and access a specific fund.