Curious to hear what resources (sites, apps, APIs, etc) HN users use when researching stocks they are interested in purchasing.<p>I've only recently started to invest more actively, and find myself making decisions based on what friends are talking about, news articles, and Wikipedia (to gain an understanding of what the company is actually working on/building). This is along with more typical resources like Yahoo Finance just to see the daily price and graphs.
The only right answer is “As a retail investor, I’m not picking individual stocks.”<p>Accept that I don’t have, you don’t have, and with a very few exceptions, an individual for whom this isn’t an all-consuming more-than-full-time occupation basically will never have, proprietary knowledge (an “edge”) that’s not already priced in.<p>Spend an hour reading Matt Levine, then subscribe and read his new posts for a few months. Start with this one:<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-09/retail-voters-and-insider-traders" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-09/retail-vo...</a><p>While reasonable people can debate index funds vs. actively-managed funds, essentially all thoughtful market participants have realized that the days when hobbyist investors could add alpha have passed.<p>If you’re asking for good sites to investigate ETFs, Yahoo Finance is, miraculously, still great.
I first started investing in crypto in college then ETFs for my 401(k). For crypto I used Coinbase and GDAX for trading and <a href="https://www.worldcoinindex.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.worldcoinindex.com/</a> to see how various cryptocurrencies were doing. I used /r/ethtrader/ and /r/ethereum for news on ethereum. For ETFs I compared their 5-yr, 3-yr, 1-yr, and 3-mo performance percents. I started looking into individual stocks, and I've mostly used Morningstar, but it's pretty overwhelming and hard to compare stocks and know what to invest in using all that data. I also don't know how they rank stocks. Am I supposed to just trust them? Feels wrong. I don't have a good strategy on how to invest in stocks wisely, so it kinda discourages me.