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With which the stock market is falling and investors are daily waging war on thousands of companies listed on the stock market. That is why, with so much free time, many people have thrown themselves into investing as a way to earn money, lose it, or pass the time. The way in which you invest is up to you but if you are one of those looking to make money we have something to tell you.
Some time ago we wrote an article explaining which were the best applications to learn to invest in the stock market and we even wrote another one with the best brokers for trading.Today, as we want you to continue learning, we are going to explain what are the applications that expert investors use to invest in the stock market. And no, we are not talking about the brokers they use, but about the applications they use to get information and know which shares to buy, which ones not, etc.
Before going through the list, we warn you that to invest in the stock market you need to have a minimum knowledge of English, especially if You are going to invest where the money is, in the American market. That is where most experts invest and that is why some of the applications that we are going to show you below are in English and specialized in this market. In fact, we believe that it is the market that offers the most opportunities, since the majority of innovative companies are there.
What are the best apps to know what stocks to buy and where to invest?
That said, let's move on to the list. We have already told you about some before but this selection of 5 will be really complete and will help you to know where to invest and how to make money.
Google and its specialized part, Google Finance
Google is the foundation of everything. To know where to invest you will need to consult news although the truth is that many of them are in paid media or those that offer content in real time. Google is not an expert in offering real content, but it does allow you to consult all kinds of information from companies and also obtain news from them in specific periods of time.
It will be your great search engine to ask anything and it also has a specialized part, called Google Finance, which allows you to know the value of the shares in real timefor virtually all markets. That is why we recommend Google Finance, for the ability to know the real-time price of the vast majority of markets.That said, let's go with others that may be less known but very useful.
Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha is a great place to get news and analysis about stocks from the American market There are some stocks from other markets, but they are not all. In this application you will find brief news in real time, analysis of market movements from expert investors, alerts, quotes and you will even be able to monitor your portfolio.
Seeking Alpha has a very active community of investors, stock traders, leaders, journalists, etc. and you can even find them on her earnings reports, transcripts and much more. It is a great community and in it you will be able to inform yourself to make decisions.
You will find information on stocks, ETFs, investment funds and even raw materials or cryptocurrencies. The application also has web version and a free version, although if you pay you can have access to exclusive news, investment ideas, signals to invest, performance metrics, and much more…
Download Seeking Alpha on Google Play and App Store
Stocktwits
If Seeking Alpha is the place to go for stock market information, Stocktwits is like the Twitter of the stock market It's a perfect place to Find out about the markets (especially the American one) and also about cryptos. With Stocktwits you will be able to catch up with market trends, create watch lists, follow your portfolio, etc. What many people do to find out what is happening in a company is to consult the information that Stocktwits offers.
In Stocktwits you will find a lot of signals and indicators to know what to invest in. In addition to that, it has a very active community where they are constantly sending messages (some of them nonsense) and others with really important information. You can even check information about companies and much more. It's the place where everyone chats about the stock market and it's really fun to do it.
Download StockTwits for Android or iPhone
Yahoo Finance!
If you ask us for a place to inform you, in a beautiful way, we would recommend the Bloomberg app. However, in this article we have already told you about a couple of options that are in English and for which it is necessary to understand the language a little ( although you can always use the translator). That is why, in the following lines, we are going to show you a couple of applications that are also used in Spanish and that will serve to inform you about world markets .
In that sense, Yahoo! Finance is as if it were the Spanish Bloomberg where you can check news on the stock market and where you can get real-time quotes, investor signals, etc. In Yahoo! Finance you will be able to obtain investment signals ( although not as in the previous ones) and information to know which companies are improving on the stock market It is a professional and reliable platform, where inform you about stocks, currencies, commodities, bonds and much more.
Download Yahoo! Finance for Android or iPhone
Investing
In addition to the Yahoo! Finance, Investing is another great community where you can keep up to date on global financial markets It also has tools to study those companies and do analysis, that's why it is so important and useful.In it you will find real-time quotes for more than 100,000 financial instruments.
Another of its advantages is that there you can create your portfolio and follow it, even with a economic calendar that you can customize according to your personal interests. Thanks to this you will be able to know when companies present results and that type of thing that traders use to know when to invest, with alerts and personalized notifications to your liking.
In the Investing app you will also find news, videos, updates and analysis,as well as information on technology, politics and business, as These last two fields have a significant influence on the company's ability to invest and it is also important to be aware of them. Like all the tools in this article, you can enter their website or use their mobile applications.
Download Investing for Android or iPhone
And if, on the other hand, you were looking for an article with the best applications for investing in the stock market, here are some interesting brokers. We also recommend that you train a lot, and for this one of the books that experts always recommend is: «How to Make Money in Stocks«.
