Shares / ETFs - your go-to research tools and apps

Please share here your go-to tools, websites and apps for researching and monitoring Shares, ETFs and LICs.

What do you find to be the best tools and approach for determining what and when to buy? ( and for that matter what and when to sell )

Are there any apps that have particularly powerful alert services?

( other than watching this thread What's looking cheap on the ASX? )

My current favourites are:

• Market Index - ASX Shares Prices, Charts & Analysis
• Sharesight™ Share Portfolio Management Software for monitoring my own portfolio and researching historical performance of items in a watchlist

I subscribe to Motley Fool and have had some success from the recommendations I run with.

I'm currently using commsec as my broker.

For ETF research I am currently running a spreadsheet at home with saved links ( for convenience ) to the underlying indices they track.

 

Online brokers have a lot of good info (I use Nabtrade, Commsec should be the same). Google Finance is quick and easy for some things. Cuffelinks is very good for education, I think.

Since I pretty much just invest in LICs and ETFs these cover my bases. I usually just follow the links from these updates to the website of the LIC/ETF for further information.

Ive read stuff on livewiremarkets.com which can have interesting content if you're bored, but aside from the occasional piece from a savvy fund manager, it is pretty much financial porn / entertainment.

 

I've done the same for ETF and planning to do the same for LIC. I am getting all the data from Australian ETF and LIC searchable fund database and then looking at all diversification option from there...

 

Agree, ETFwatch is a handy site. It would be helpful if they indicated which of the ETFs and LICs have DRP as an option. Market index is a great site too. I might send the admin a few suggestions.

I quite like sharesight, however they seem to be very slow to add new features. Proper iOS and android apps have been a long time in their to-do list.

 

My daily/weekly free browsing:

Market Matters: Reports and Analysis on Australian Share Market Trading Advice ASX | Market Matters

Notes on ASX | Australian Stock Market Assessment

redbackmarketreport

Index Investor

Market Updates - Woodhall Investment Research Pty Ltd

BLOG | Trade the Tape

Morgans Blog | Morgans

 

1. For LICs & ETFs:

Complete list of exchange-traded products on ASX. (select relevant tag)

Managed funds market update.

2. LICs:

Wilson Asset Management - Research Reports >>

Monthly LIC Reports. (NTA etc)

3. Not a great fan of ETFs but here are some others:

What are ETFs? How can I invest in ETFs? (Stockspot)

Blog - (Betterwealth)

CANSTAR Guide: Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) - Canstar (not sure how up to date this is but does tell you if DRP available)

ETFs Morningstar

4. And of course (here on the PC forum):

Listed Investment Companies (LICs)

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)

5. You can also set up automated Google Alerts using keywords (eg Listed investment companies) that will give you a list of new stuff posted on the web daily:

Create an alert - Alerts Help

6. For what the trading day ahead might be like:

Premarket Stock Trading - CNNMoney

http://www.asx.com.au/asx/markets/futuresPriceList.do?code=AP&type=FUTURE

 

Well I guess I'm not doing any work for the next hour or two...

Does nobody here subscribe to the AFR?

 

Yep, subscribe to the AFR and The Economist.

Price checking ; Commsec / Google Finance (Intl.)
Research ; Deutsche Bank (used to use Morningstar as well, though not worth paying for the sub anymore).

 

This looks interesting. Thanks

 

This looks like a useful resource. Are there ETFs that track the more specific ASX sectors, like "healthcare", "consumables" and "discretionary spending"?

 

None that I am aware of, for those sectors of the ASX. I'd wager they're perhaps not big enough sectors in the market to warrant ETFs - if its weighted by market cap (size) and there's only a few major players, they would take up huge chunks of the ETF. You need a more diversified mix to fill out an ETF, I'd imagine. There are ETFs for those sectors of the US market and globally, though.

For the ASX i think the main sector specific ones are resources and banks.

 

Thanks, I'm interested in some of the global sector ETFs but it is not necessarily a good time to buy them. I'm also waiting for most of my super to be rolled over so I can start shopping. I was just wondering if more sector-specific ETFs are available locally as I quite like IXI and IXJ.