Thinking of doing some of my own investing since 1) I have time and 2) my advisor is giving me sh1tty advice.

Anyone have experience and a firm or site they like?

I do my own. Fired my guy 19 years ago versus when throwing darts worked better for me. Where you go to look really depends on what exactly you're looking for- analysts reports, raw data, "experts"LOL picks, discussion forums for ideas to investigate etc.

Here are a few places to start. Your bank also probably has an extensive online research for self directed investors. Mine does.

http://www.stockchase.com/index.php

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/my_m...edium=referral
check out "discussions" and their "couch potato" portfolio. I'm working towards it.

http://www.bnn.ca/
check out top picks for a beginning of your own research

http://www.fool.com/
for US perspective

http://fiscalagents.com/toolbox/#tb2
for one of the better calculators

That's awesome, Deane, I really appreciate the info.

No sweat. Best wishes. The TSX or google finance are also good research spots.

Deane listed some really good ones. The Canadian Business MoneySense site in particular has a lot of great articles.

I also like Morningstar, especially for mutual funds: http://www.morningstar.ca/

I use it a lot for researching individual funds, and I also use their portfolio tracker to put all my and on screen at once.

wow thanks for listing all the good sites...i was actually looking into investing

I use Questrade for the actual trading. No point in paying more to any of the other online brokers that are out there.

One thing about Questrade... there isn't a whole lot of "fancy" (often useless, but you're still paying for it) things on their site which someone like BMO would have, but basically what you are missing out can be obtained on the various free sites around the net.

Thanks, Craig. I poked into Moneysense.ca before posting, first time in a while I'd been there. I used to subscribe to the magazine.

My bank (CIBC) does offer online trading with research and analysis available so I'll look into the cost of that versus some others like Questrade.

bank usually charge around 18-29 bucks per trade,. u can try questtrade since they are really cheap compared to what the institutions are charging.