The 15 Most Important Investing Blogs For New Investors or Traders

As I mentioned in my last post I had a good year and have done well in my first two years investing. While it may be luck I would like to think that at least part of my success the past two yeas is due to skill. Not my own of course but rather the skills I have appropriated from reading various blogs.

In what has become a semi-annual feature I like to recognize the blogs that I feel have contributed most to my education as an investor and trader. At the end of my first year I posted on the top five blogs I read my first year investing. I followed up with an another top five blogs for the first half of 2007. To recap the first ten are:

1. Gannon On Investing

One of the few bloggers I would actually pay to read.

2. Nodoodahs Investing

Smartest blogger I read.

3. Capital Markets & Social Equity

Best all around site to learn about every aspect of investing.

4. Trader Mike

Short term, long term, chart analysis, book reviews, educational links, reviews of trading tools; you name it Mike seems to provide it.

5. Howard Lindzon: Trends - Find Them, Ride Them, and Get Off

Part Groucho Marx and J.P. Morgan, Howard Lindzon does a great job of discussing, with humor, the underlying businesses represented by stocks.

6. Traderfeed

Read this site and you just may unleash the inner power of your mind to increase market performance while at the same time controlling the destructive mental tendencies we all have that decrease investing performance.

7. Daily Options Report

Great resource for an investor or trader looking to utilize options as a means to enhance market performance.

8. Maoxian

Think of him as the Bo Jackson of blogging. Can do it all and do it well. Insightful market commentary on all time frames and every style of investing and trading.

9. Cheap Stocks

Perhaps the best blog to read on applying the teachings of Benjamin Graham.

10. Abnormal Returns

Provides a comprehensive review, with links, to some of the best investment and economic related posts on the Internet.

Adding to the above ten are the following five blogs that I have found worthwhile reading during the second half of 2007:

11. Chris Perruna's Successful Education Through Investing

Great site that mixes different styles of investing and trading. One of the best things about this blog is that the blog does a good job of explaining why and how to have buy and sell discipline in selecting stocks.

12. Fat Pitch Financials

Great resource for the new value investor looking to learn more about value investing and how it is practiced.

13. Covered Call Writer Blog

The blog is a trading journal of an individual who has a system for writing covered calls. The blog details that system as well as the trades made using the aforementioned system. Good starting point for those interested in options.

14. Reflections on Value Investing

Best site that provides links to the best articles, blog posts, and resources for the value investor.

15. Rising Dividend Investing

Solid site that provides worthwhile market insight from a professional money management firm.

While I read a lot of great blogs, the above fifteen are those that I feel have done the most to advance my understanding of investing and trading.