Google Finance
By John Schroy, on September 26th, 2010 |

The Google Finance stock screener covers about 7,000 stocks on the NYSE, the AMEX, and NASDAQ. The screener has about fifty selection criteria, each with a high-low limit, plus selection by 12 economic sectors and 3 trading markets.
The Google stock screener has five advantages that distinguish it from some competing screens. It allows maximum and minimum numerical criteria, bar graphs of criteria distribution, and close integration with Google Finance.
Google Finance
By John Schroy, on August 20th, 2010 |

Google Finances is a top-rated tool for investment research of US stocks. It features a smart, well-designed interface for fundamental or technical analysis. For both long-term investors and short-term traders, ease of use puts this tool ahead of Yahoo Finance in the US market. For further articles on Google Finance, sign up for the free RSS feed in the sidebar.
Commonsense Economics:
By John Schroy, on May 16th, 2010 |

Eventually, at some point, without an efficient market, common stocks become mere baseball cards.
Sooner or later, some Baby Boomer, pressed to pay his bills in retirement, will find that one can’t live off the dividends of common stock and that when everyone is trying to cash out their holdings at the same time, market prices plunge to levels that seemed inconceivable for generations. But it will simply be the cost of allowing an inefficient market to flourish for so long.
This article discusses the concept of inefficient markets and the practical consequences.
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