For those of you trying to invest in oil, gas or mining companies, it can be difficult to find sufficient information on a company in one site. Theres a good tool that I can suggest for quick research is a site called StockResearchPortal It specializes on the mining and energy industries and it has a tool that allows you to compare similar mining/oil/gas companies based on various statistics. It does however, require a quick sign up with email..but after that its free... Anyways, check it out...I think you will find it useful... Cheers!
If you spend most of your time doing research on the Web, you need Zotero, a Firefox extension that helps you manage research sources. With Zotero installed, Firefox is not confined to the Web, and you can use it as a standalone application for all sorts of online and offline research.
Zotero places an icon in the right lower corner of the browser status bar; click on the icon to show and hide the application's main window. Alternatively, you can add the Zotero button to the toolbar by choosing View -> Toolbars -> Customize and dragging the Z icon onto the toolbar.
Zotero's main window consists of three panes. The left pane contains your library, which is a repository of every item you've added, including books, articles, Web pages, and notes. The library can contain an unlimited number of collections, which you can use to sort the items in the library. For example, you can create separate collections for the book, articles, and Web page items. Zotero also lets you create smart folders called "saved searches," which are similar to dynamic playlists in music player applications. Using this feature, you can, for example, create a smart folder that contains all books and articles by a certain publisher. When you add a new item that matches the specified criteria, the smart folder updates automatically. If you right-click on a collection, you can perform several actions, including exporting it (Zotero supports BibTeX, MODS, RIS, Refer/BibIX, and other formats) and generating a bibliography. Zotero not only supports different citation styles, it can also output the final result in several formats, including RTF and HTML.
While these are all useful features, they are not as impressive as Zotero's ability to sense items on the currently viewed Web page. For example, when you are looking at a book on Amazon, Zotero displays a book icon in the Address bar. Click on it, and Zotero adds the book and its bibliographic information to the library. When you are browsing through search results from, for example, Cambridge University Libraries, Zotero displays a folder icon, and when you click on it, you can select the items you want to add to the library. This is an extremely useful feature, but it only works with supported Web sites
I always use the Stock Research Portal. The site is free with an e-mail subscription. The depth of information available will make you a smarter investor.
Research is the basic thing which has to be done whenever we need to go with stock exchange, we cant wait for reply from brokers each time.
