What other Internet investment resources do you find useful (e.g. shareware, LISTSERVs, data archives, newsletters, Holts Stock Report)?
I like Holt’s daily market wrap report very much, although I wish he would quit soliciting for donations for that service. I get Tom Petruno’s Market Beat column mailed out a few times a week, I enjoy reading that. But there is astonishingly *little* free software out there related to personal finance. Appears that the commercial software providers have this area pretty well covered, or maybe just that the people who can write the software and would be willing to donate it are not interested in personal finance topics. Maybe they’re all too busy with the GNU project. The academic financial community has started to jump on the net – they have FEN, the Financial Economics Network, run by John Trimble. This is essentially a big mailing list, I think that was easier for those people to get started and push to their members than a bulletin-board news group. I recognize the value of those discussions, but my single micro-economics course and reading of Malkiel’s book (Random Walk) didn’t pre