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NOTICE: Please select the proper sub-category for your site. If your site is regional in nature it MUST be submitted to Regional. Only one listing will be allowed, so please select your category carefully. Submission of sites using separate URL's is strictly forbidden and is grounds for having those sites excluded from the Open Directory.

Before submitting your site, please review the Guidelines for Submitting a Site.

Any investment related site may apply for placement here. Check subdirectories: Brokerages, Canada, Chats and Forums, Commodities, Companies, Day Trading, Games, International, Investment Guides, Managed futures, Mutual Funds, Options, Organizations, Publications, Retirement Planning, Socially Responsible, Software, Stocks, and so on. Please do not submit your site to more than one category. Please do not try to use different URL's to receive more than one listing.

If you have a site pertaining to venture capital, please submit that to Business: Venture Capital which is elsewhere on Open Directory.

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Brokerages

Brokerage firms that offer services to the public for trading stocks, bonds, and/or mutual funds as well as speculative instruments. Such firms usually charge a commission for carrying out the purchase, sale, trade or disposition of securities or other assets for which they are licensed.

Chats and Forums

U.S. based online discussions, and investment "chats"

Clearing Houses and Securities Depositories

Please submit sites of clearing houses. Stock exchanges should be listed at http://dmoz.org/Business/Investing/Stocks_and_Bonds/Exchanges/ and futures exchanges at http://dmoz.org/Business/Investing/Commodities,_Futures/Exchanges/ .
In some financial markets there are Clearing Houses. These act as central counterparties, and thus reduce or eliminate settlement risk, and often allow netting of transactions.

Commodities, Futures

Websites about commodities, futures, derivitives, and options on futures.

Before submitting your site, please review the Guidelines for Submitting a Site.

The futures markets evolved because of the necessity to control price fluctuations, large differences between supply and demand, and to minimize price risk to producers and merchandisers.

The commodity exchanges bring buyers and sellers together so they can agree on a price. This is done by open out cry, and computerized trading. Bid/Ask information is readily accessible so prices are better able to reflect realistic economic conditions.

Day Trading

Day trading has seen rapid growth in the past few years, especially online day trading. See sites with revolutionary ideas in the online day trading field.

Games

Simulated Investment training sites as well as investing games one can play.

International

Non English sites should be submitted to world/ Sites offering investments or information to a specific geographic area should be submitted to regional/
Companies listed in this category offer investment opportunities to individuals or corporations located outside of their own country.

Investment Guides

Please submit English language sites in this category. Non-English sites should be submitted to the World categories for review.

Also, please try to identify an appropriate subcategory that might suit your website.

Following these guidelines will help speed up reviews of all sites. Thank you.

Sites aimed at instructing, teaching, offering extensive reviews and/or critiques of investing. Includes "How to" invest.

Investment Models

Quantitative approach toward investing using numeric screens to isolate specific variables and relationships.

Money Managers

A Money Manager firm is paid a fee to supervise and make the investment decisions of others. The term is normally used in reference to the asset manager of large institutions such as bank trust departments, pension funds, insurance companies and mutual funds. However, it may also be applied to those firms who manage the investment assets of smaller individual investors as well. Money Mangers may also be known as Investment Managers, Investment Advisers, or Investment Advisors.

Mutual Funds

Investing in mutual funds has expanded in number tremendously throughout the 1990's.

This category is inclusive and if you know of one we have missed, please send the web page location to us.

Thank you, Open Directory Investing Editors.

News and Media

Investment news services or resoures with significant investment news.

Options

Typically, Investment "options" are rights to buy or sell some underlying instrument. The "call" is typically the right, but not the obligation, to buy the underlying instrument and the "Put" is the right, but not the obligation, to sell the underlying instrument.

Except for stock covered calls, this class of investments can lead to the total loss of one's money and therefore, education and experience in investing should be prerequisites for entering option transactions.

Quotes

This category is for Internet sites specializing in current stock market prices and or historical data. If your site is an affiliate or offers a wide range of services please consider a more general category under Business: Investing

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These sites specialize in stock market quotes and historical price data.

Real Estate

This topic is used to help would-be investors learn how to invest in land, houses, condominiums, etc. It is NOT designed to be a listing service for individual property listings. Please use care when submitting to find the most appropriate sub-category for your particular website. Following these guidelines will help speed the editorial review process. Thanks.
Information on Investing in Real Estate.

Resources

Business: Investing: Resources:

Retirement Planning

Businesses which sell retirement planning services or products to individuals. 'Get Rich Quick' or 'Secrets to Retirement Riches' or similar entries are not likely to be listed.

Free advice or information related to retirement planning is best found in Home/Consumers/Consumer_Education/Financial/

Socially Responsible

Please only submit business sites of products and services in the socially responsible investing industry and community. Submit to the sub-category appropriate to your site. Provide a very brief description.

If applicable, indicate the national or other jurisdiction responsible for regulation of your investment business.

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Socially responsible investing (SRI), ethical investing, or sustainable investing, as practiced by individuals and institutions, incorporates social, ethical, and environmental criteria in the investment process. Such criteria may be applied via screening of portfolios, shareowner advocacy or activism campaigns, and community development investing. A sub-set of traditional investing, SRI has matured into a rapidly growing global industry and community over the past thirty years.

Stocks and Bonds

Business:Investing:Stocks and Bonds is intended as a broad category of publicly available equities.

Please see subdirectories herein for where your submitted web site might best be placed.

Women and Investing

Women and Investing was created as a distinct grouping within investing because: (1) While investing prinicples are universal, women have unique investing needs; (2) Financial Service Providers have begun to focus on women as a specific, distinct audience and have, therefore, created sites that are measurably different than "normal" investing sites, and (3) Sites that may critique the issues in (1) and / or (2) would be appropriately placed here.

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