Offering something for everyone, the Investor Toolbox brings together up-to-the-minute data, a multitude of searches and proprietary charts in one place. Beginners appreciate our user-friendly tools that zero in on what's happening in the markets. More advanced investors use our technical indicators to sniff out opportunities and plan their strategies. The product of more than 20 years of technical and user-interface refinements, this award-winning technology and analyst-quality data has enabled more than 450,000 people to become educated investors.
Take a Tour of our Investor Toolbox®—Discover the Ins and Outs
Find out just what makes the Investor Toolbox so valuable for beginning and experienced inves-
tors alike. Open your eyes to a new way of investing based on fact and reason, not rumors.
These are just a few of the features offered in the Investor Toolbox:
Over 50 backtested searches—we've done all the work and testing
Combination of fundamental and technical analysis to select stocks that match search criteria
Scroll-through results that help pinpoint investing opportunities
Corporate Snapshot boils down critical information, including current price, volume, technical indicators and more
Developed by Investools, Prosearch compares 145 criteria to pinpoint stocks and options that are ripe for investment. Prebuilt, backtested or customized searches of 14,000 stocks produce results in seconds. Choosing from the many searches available, our students have put these in the Most Popular list:
Great Earnings, Sales and Cash Flow Growth
Growth Stock Strategy
Lowest Projected Price/Earnings Ratio
Attractive Composite Ranks
High Sales Growth, Strong Return on Sales
Attractive Gross Margin
Big Chart
Our Investing Foundation Course teaches that when looking for excellent stocks, follow the money—because big institutions (like pension funds) tend to invest in certain areas at the same time. Investools' proprietary Big Chart tracks and displays institutional money as it ebbs and flows from different industry groups, showing these movements in bright blocks of green, yellow and red. Red means money is leaving the group, yellow signals a change and green means money is entering it. This makes it simple to focus on uptrending groups and avoid downtrending ones. Features include:
Today's industry highlights
Industry group rate of return
Best- and worst-performing industries
Searches by rank, name, analysis and commentary
Featured industry profiles
Red & Green Arrows
An exclusive Investor Toolbox feature that helps you more accurately time your buying and selling activities based on a stock's technical indicators. Basically, when three green arrows line up on three different indicators simultaneously, it's a good time to enter an investment. But when three red arrows line up, it's time to sit this one out. The red and green arrows show up on these indicators:
Stochastic: Who is winning the daily battle between the bulls and the bears
Moving Average: Tells whether a stock is in an uptrend, downtrend or moving sideways
Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD): Displays the interaction of two moving averages, fast and slow
Searches by rank, name, analysis and commentary
Featured industry profiles
News & Commentary
Besides institutional money, another huge influence on the stock market is the news. When a company announces earnings, launches a new product or becomes the target of a takeover bid, its stock goes up or down—sometimes dramatically. Investools offers a multitude of news feeds, not just one or two, to provide students with a comprehensive, constantly updated view of the market. In addition, corporate events like earnings announcements, stock splits and dividends are updated in real time and integrated across Investools Online. In this section, you'll find:
Featured stories may include everything from geopolitical fallout to who wins the World Series — anything that can affect the markets
Market headlines straight from the trading floors of major exchanges around the world
Strategies and ideas for new investing opportunities, including stocks, options and currencies
Shadow Trader
Listen to fascinating commentary about market trends by the mysterious Shadow Trader, who explains how to use technical indicators and market internals, such as volatility divergences and contrarian sentiment indicators.
Marketcast
This online audio presentation delivers a daily analysis of events, chosen by a team of our most experienced instructors. They talk about stocks, sports and pop culture—anything and everything that can affect today's financial markets. But mere words can't possibly convey the fun and energy of this feature—the only way to experience it is to listen.
What makes Investools stand out from all the rest is our integrated solution. After signing in to Investools Online, students can do just about anything they want to do—perform a search and create a watch list of stocks, then select a stock symbol to perform technical analysis with ProphetCharts. Click on the paperMoney® icon to practice buying or selling the stock before choosing to execute a trade via the thinkorswim® trading platform—all without leaving the Investor Toolbox or opening a new application. This integration not only saves a lot of time, it also creates a seamless investing experience.
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NASDAQ
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S&P 500
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