Links to Free Investing Resources and Tools
This is a list of free sites or sites with an investment tool or resource that is free but which may have an extra pay for element.
USA
ChartMill
A basic technical screener.
Fidelity
https://research2.fidelity.com/fidelity/screeners/commonstock/landing.asp
Fidelity offer a basic set of preset screens, a preferred securities screen for high dividend yields, and ETF and fund screens.
Fintel Screener
Uses its own simple programing language to form a custom screen.
Investing.com
Covers a number of countries and has a number of fundamental factors that are narrowed down using sliding bars that is similiar to the FT and old Google Screener.
Magic Formula Investing
The Magic Formula Investing Screen is produced to support Joel Greenblat’s The Little Book That Still Beats the Market: Your Safe Haven in Good Times or Bad (2010) which is an easy read for a Quant book. Academic studies show that the system over the long term certainly does beat the market. Only for US stocks and requires registration to use.
Market Watch – Free Intraday Stock Screener
http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/stockresearch/screener
A simple stock screener with 12 categories.
Morningstar Stock Screener
http://www.independent-stock-investing.com/Morningstar-Stock-Screener.html
You need to be a registered member of Morningstar to use this basic screener.
Motley Fool Stock Screener
http://caps.fool.com/screener.aspx
A simple stock screener with 39 search criteria mainly based on its Caps picks.
MSN Stock Screener
Covers a number of countries but has only a few fundamental factors to screen with.
Uncle Stock Screener
http://www.unclestock.com
Free stock screener by Peter Nees with eight sophisticated preset screens. However, the data in the screener may be too old to make investments decisions from.
Old School Value
http://www.oldschoolvalue.com/blog/investment-tools/free-value-stock-screen
Old School Value has 14 preset value screens that are apparently updated at least once a week. There is now a pay for Pro version with a custom screener and added features such as Piotroski, Altman Z, Beneish M.
StockFetcher
A technical Screener with its own text based programing language.
Tiingo
A technical stock screener.
Trading View
This is a trading tool that provides charting information about shares, bonds currencies and futures for a large number of countries. Shares can be listed by performance and sector. Each company is given both fundamental and technical information that is converted into a buy or sell. The stock screener has both fundamental and technical factors. The attributes of the share listed by column can be altered and ranked. One problem is that factors such as book value that are not normally charted are frequently missing from the database. Screens can be saved. The advanced charts are excellent and include a programing language to create new technical charts, but unless you are using a number of technical charts to screen stocks or are a specialist day trader you can get by without using the pay for versions.
Canada
Canada Stock Channel
http://www.canadastockchannel.com/stock-screener
List results of its stock screen that is done every month using its Dividend Rank.
TD Waterhouse
https://research.tdwaterhouse.ca/research/public/Screener/Stocks
Customers who use TD Waterhouse as their Canadian broker have access to a basic stock screening service.
TX Money Stock Screener
http://web.tmxmoney.com
A basic screen with a number of presets that will search on all the US and Canadian exchanges.
UK
Investing.com
Covers a number of countries and has a number of fundamental factors that are narrowed down using sliding bars that is similiar to the FT and old Google Screener.
Trading View
This is a trading tool that provides charting information about shares, bonds currencies and futures for a large number of countries. Shares can be listed by performance and sector. Each company is given both fundamental and technical information that is converted into a buy or sell. The stock screener has both fundamental and technical factors. The attributes of the share listed by column can be altered and ranked. One problem is that factors such as book value that are not normally charted are frequently missing from the database. Screens can be saved. The advanced charts are excellent and include a programing language to create new technical charts, but unless you are using a number of technical charts to screen stocks or are a specialist day trader you can get by without using the pay for versions.
Asia-Pacific
Stocks Cafe
A singapore based stock screener that is in the English language and covers a number of Asia-Pacific Exchanges and the US.