Screening Potential Stock Picks Online

Getting ready to be a day trader, individual investor or to have somebody start making some investments for you? There are some great tools for screening potential stock picks online.

www.growthstockguru.com

This site provides some background on investing, a free download report, and the editor is a self-proclaimed guru in high yield, quick return stocks. Caution: When looking at returns of 241% is 3 days, consider what will happen after that. If you sell, you'll be subject to short-term capital gains, a higher tax rate. If you stay, the stock may react or adjust downward, depending on the reason for the original spike in value.

www.investools.com

At Investools, you have the chance to find a free introductory investing course offered in your area. While this is often a pitch to get you to take a more advanced course, for a nominal fee, the original basic education is useful and allows you to network with other would-be investors.

www.tdameritrade.com

TD Ameritrade wants you as a client, but also has some useful tools, such as a retirement calculator, to give you an idea of what you should be saving and at what rate, tips on rolling over your 401K and where to invest it, and information on your Roth IRA. As with any good evaluation, you need to have your financial goal defined to decide what types of stocks and what type of investment risk you are willing to take.

Ameritrade has a section labeled 'trading tools', which is a proprietary suite of investment software, accessible to clients. It shows trends and opportunities and then allows you to invest from that point.

www.zacks.com

If you are looking for the most information for free, Zack's Investment Research is the site. It even has a tab labeled Screening Education, with articles featuring how to screen, why to use a screener, screening with different criteria. You'll find section on Breakout trading, options trading, stocks to double, profiting from the professionals, information on the leadership of the companies of interest....this site is loaded with good, free information.

www.stocktables.com

Claiming to have one of the most advanced stock screeners, Stocktables.com does not require the downloading of software because everything is functional on your browser. While much of the information is free, you do need to login. This helps to create a portfolio account to save and track your information. There is a market crash index, to watch for the signals, and pertinent detail on over 10,000 stocks. Use the research tools to investigate your own potential investments and look at the recommended picks, as well.

www.marketscreen.com

If you know how to make the most of a free-trial period, try Marketscreen. You can chart patterns, locate trend indicators, learn the fundamentals, and look at information by industry or business sector, just to name a few of the helps. In their investing toolbox are market scan, trendline scan, correlation scan, trade alert and risk keeper. Learn how to use these investing tools for education and investment decisions.

There are lots of sites, with a variety of free and 'for fee' stock screening services. Try some of these listed and/or search the web with keywords, stock screening tools.