Rating System: D - Design | E - Ease of Use | V - Value

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MARKET DATA

Barchart.com
www.barchart.com
Market Research Inc. supplies online commodities charts and data to many major exchanges and brokerages. Go straight to the source and look up stock charts to boot. Customized charts lack the easy interface and interactivity of Big Charts. For investors looking for sophisticated technical charts and analysis. Excellent learning center on chart measurements and their significance. Free registration for stocks; $20 a month for commodities, futures, and options.

D-8 | E-9 | V-9

Big Charts
www.bigcharts.com
A smart new look and added features strengthens BigCharts as a charting leader. The garish visuals are gone, white valued tools remain. Click and compare your favorite companies to other stocks or to a number of different stock indexes. Choose from a variety of chart types. Customize your time frame and indicators. Maintains three data centers to improve reliability. Needs a portfolio tracking tool.

D-9 | E-8 | V-10

Bloomberg
www.bloomberg.com
Web site of market-data upstart includes reams of frequently updated stats, charts, and news reports, plus Bloomberg Radio's news and market reports with pieces updated every 20 minutes or so. Subscribers to Bloomberg Personal Finance magazine can access data and news on 7000 companies and create portfolios of up to 100 stocks.

D-9 | E-8 | V-10

Bridge.com
www.bridge.com
The global market information provider offers free breaking news, data, forecasts, and analysis. Nice content, poor organization.

D-7 | E-7 | V-7

$ Briefing.com
www.briefing.com
Frequently updated market commentaries make this one of the Web's most popular financial haunts. Free services include intraday analysis, quotes, charts, sector ratings and bond briefings. The Stock Analysis package - which brings you constant, day-long info on upgrades and downgrades, splits and earnings - runs $6.95 a month. This deal also provides news summaries, a special focus on tech stocks, and a deep, searchable archive. The Professional package also includes commentary on bonds, indicators, and currencies and runs $25 a month.

D-7 | E-8 | V-10

Bullsession.com
www.bullsession.com
Dynamically updating real-time quote provider. Create an unlimited number of portfolios and see instantaneous profit calculations. Java based - nothing to download. Subscriptions start at $25.95 a month, including exchange fees.

D-8 | E-9 | V-9

$ Datalink
www.datalink.net
Offers an array of data delivery services that notify investors of real-time information via pager. Receive stock and commodities alerts, breaking market and company news, and even alerts from StockRumors.com. Services range from $8.95 to $75 a month.

D-7 | E-8 | V-9

$ DBC Online
www.dbc.com
Data Broadcasting Corp.'s site specializes in real-time data: stock quotes, federal reports, as well as bond, futures, and options prices. Subscribe to agricultural, government and international market news services. Continuous real-time stock feed costs $79. All the trimmings - plus e-mail, pager, and cell-phone alerts - start at $150 a month

D-7 | E-7 | V-8

$ DTN.IQ
www.dtniq.com
Streaming real-time quotes and extensive full-text news feed from Data Transmission Network. Also provides intraday and historical charts. Well-organized package of data features. Pricing starts at $890 a year plus one-time $95 initiation fee.

D-7 | E-7 | V-8

$ eSignal
www.esignal.com
Data Broadcasting Corporation's porterhouse steak of market data. For between $79 and $99 a month (plus exchange fees), you can turn your PC into real-time stock, option, and commodity information delivery systems. Features include news, research, and charts.

D-9 | E-8 | V-9

Free Real Time
www.freerealtime.com
In addition to gratis real-time quotes, now find a real-time news feed from Reuter's, market commentary, and a new look.

D-7 | E-8 | V-10

InfoBeat Finance
www.infobeat.com/cb/cgi/cb_merc.cgi?
Free daily e-mail service sends morning and midday market updates, closing prices, ndws alerts, and currency trading reports for a personalized portfolio. Can be easily imported into Quicken or a spreadsheet.

D-8 | E-7 | V-8

$ InterQuote
www.interquote.com
Lets you subscribe to real-time financial data feeds. Options range from speedy tick-by-tick real-time service ($69.95 a month plus exchange fees) to end-of-the-day price data ($45 a year). Free 30 day trial.

D-8 | E-8 | V-8

Island
www.isld.com
Island give you a free peek at the largest bid and ask prices of Nasdaq companies traded on its alternative stock trading network. The Java applet offers Level II -style quotes in an easy-to-read format, showing you how strong the current underlying demand is - or isn't - for a given Nasdaq stock (A non-Java version is offered too).

D-8 | E-8 | V-9

$ The Morning News
www.mornnews.com
Brokerage Cantor Fitzgerald publishes pre-opening and intraday market commentaries, a daily news briefing, and data from stock and bond markets. Intended for institutional investors but useful to active traders. Monthly sub: $25

D-6 | E-7 | V-7

$ PC Quote Online
www.pcquote.com
Turn your desktop into a financial-data powerhouse. Provides live, streaming real-time quote fees and charting tools for individual or professional investors. Most site features promote paid real-time quote services, which range from $75 to $300 a month.

D-9 | E-7 | V-9

ProphetCharts
www.prophetcharts.com
Java-based charting service hardly matches similar offerings from Stockpoint or WallStreetCity.com. Chief problem: not enough time variables. On the plus side: Zooming allows you to blow a portion of larger chart. Compares two or more stocks, superimposing technical indicators. And print right from your browser.

D-5 | E-6 | V-5

$ QuoteBeep.com
www.quotebeep.com
Sign up to have stock quotes sent to your pager for $6.95 a month. Get quotes at regular intervals, or when stock's price hits preset levels.

D-8 | E-7 | V-8

$ Quote.com
www.quote.com
Bursting with market data, including delayed and real-time quotes and charts on stocks, options, futures, mutual funds, and indices. Monthly subs start t $24.95 and go up to $99.95 - package offer news, earning forecasts, insider trading, company profiles, SEC filings, and portfolio trackers.

D-8 | E-7 | V-10

Quote Central
www.quotecentral.com
From the FinancialWeb network, free real-time quotes (registration required). Look up quotes by symbol search or create a portfolio. Also find day's market movers by highs, lows, gains, losses, and volume. Simple and easy-to use features deliver valuable data.

D-8 | E-9 | V-8

Reuters
www.reuters.com
British media giant's homepage contains sales pitches for market data and news services as well as links to free sites, including MoneyNet for individual investors. Register and get free data from the futures page.

D-7 | E-6 | V-8

S & P Comstock
www.spcomstock.com
Learn how to buy real-time quotes feeds (including Level II) plus news, charting, and other trading and investment tools for $175 to $225 a month plus exchange fees.

D-7 | E-7 | V-8

$ Stock Smart PRO
www.stocksmartpro.com
Lots of data for a reasonable price - $12.95 a month buys you sophisticated portfolio and screening options, extensive company and industry info, searchable market news, mutual fund rankings and analysis, quotes and charts galore, and more. Customized stock alerts cost an additional $5.95 a month.

D-7 | E-7 | V-8


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