Best Videos Tools for Investing

Chaikin Analytics

Chaikin Analytics centers on the Power Gauge rating and combines stock and ETF research, market analysis, newsletters, and model portfolios. PowerFeed email commentary and 3 limited stock ratings daily are free with signup. Deeper ratings, screening, and portfolio features depend on the paid publication, whose price must be checked through its own checkout.

Charles Schwab

Charles Schwab combines a U.S. brokerage, research, screeners, tax workflows, thinkorswim, paper trading, alerts, market data, and Trader API access. It suits investors who want one regulated account for long-term investing and active trading. It is a broker, not an open market-data API.

ChartMill

ChartMill is a browser screener and charting service for U.S., Canadian, and European stocks and some ETFs. It supports technical and fundamental screens, swing-trading ideas, watchlists, alerts, dashboards, ratings, and strategy templates. It is still a research tool, not a broker or full portfolio ledger.

Dune

Dune lets users query decoded blockchain data with SQL and turn it into dashboards, APIs, alerts, uploads, and agent workflows. Free access is view-only; executing queries needs a trial or paid plan.

EPSMomentum

EPSMomentum focuses on earnings momentum and entry timing. It combines estimate revisions, post-earnings drift, timing signals, scanners, AI analysis, and market dashboards for U.S. stocks and ETFs.

ETF Action

ETF Action is a professional ETF research and model-building service. It covers classification, look-through holdings, overlap, flows, model portfolios, 13F screens, exports, and enterprise data workflows. It is for teams that need more than a free quote page.

ETF.com

ETF.com combines an ETF screener with editorial research. Search and compare U.S. ETFs, inspect flows and holdings, save watchlists, use Portfolio Builder, and follow launches, closures, and fund education.

In Practise

In Practise is a qualitative research library of executive interviews, transcripts, surveys, and company series. It adds operating detail, customer and competitor views, and management perspective to filings and valuation work. Sampling is limited on the free plan; full access and private interviews are paid.

InsideArbitrage

InsideArbitrage combines special-situation research with screens, calendars, newsletters and tracking tools. Its main subjects are merger arbitrage, insider trades, spinoffs, buybacks, CVRs, tender offers and activist campaigns.

Khan Academy (Economics & Finance)

Khan Academy Economics & Finance is a free learning hub for economics, finance, markets, financial literacy, personal finance, and basic investing. Lessons, videos, articles, and exercises suit beginners, students, educators, and onboarding. It does not provide market data, screens, portfolios, trading, or professional credentials.

LIQN

LIQN, or Liquidation Nation, is a factor and theme research app. Earlier hands-on review found factor maps, flow and short-interest context, crowd and podcast signals, events, thesis prompts, and custom baskets; current access requires sign-in.

LuxAlgo

LuxAlgo combines market pages, technical indicators, screens, natural-language strategy generation, and AI Backtesting. Its paid algos integrate with TradingView, while generated strategies can use webhooks on compatible external platforms.

MarketSurge

MarketSurge is Investor's Business Daily's paid platform for growth and swing traders. It combines IBD ratings, charts, screens, buy zones, sell signals, curated lists, earnings, estimates, institutional demand, and Dow Jones news. It suits users committed to IBD or CANSLIM methods more than casual investors or tax-aware portfolio users.

Orion Advisor Tech

Orion Advisor Tech is enterprise infrastructure for RIAs and wealth firms covering accounting, billing, reporting, tax-aware trading, CRM, planning, compliance, risk, client portals, APIs, and data. It is not a self-serve tracker, consumer research app, discount broker, or low-cost individual tool.

RetailRoadshow

RetailRoadshow hosts SEC-compliant electronic roadshow videos and prospectus materials, mainly for IPOs and registered offerings. It lets investors hear issuer presentations during active deals, subject to availability, registration, and sometimes deal-specific codes.

Smartkarma

Smartkarma is a paid investment-intelligence platform for professional investors, asset managers, banks, and accredited users. It provides independent research, specialist analysts, data tools, watchlists, and alerts. It is not a retail screener, broker, portfolio ledger, or low-cost news site.

Stock Rover

Stock Rover combines fundamental data, portfolio analytics, dividend tracking, valuation tools, reports, ratings, broker-linked portfolios, and alerts. Coverage centers on North American securities. It does not provide trade execution or full strategy backtesting.

Stock Spinoff Investing

Stock Spinoff Investing is a niche site and newsletter for spin-offs and related special situations. The free calendar covers upcoming and completed events; Premium adds ideas, updates, video Q&A, Discord, and archived newsletters. It is not a broad terminal, broker, or substitute for filings and valuation.

The Motley Fool

The Motley Fool publishes market commentary, education, watchlists, portfolios, and paid stock recommendations. It suits investors who want editorial and model-portfolio guidance rather than raw data, APIs, or custom valuation. It is not a broker, tax tool, or portfolio manager.

Tickeron

Tickeron uses AI for screens, stock signals, pattern detection, paper trading, robots, and short-horizon ideas across stocks, ETFs, funds, crypto, and forex. It is for active idea generation, not guaranteed returns or a substitute for a broker.

USAspending

USAspending.gov is the U.S. government's free source for federal awards, contracts, grants, loans, recipients, agencies, spending categories, maps, downloads, and APIs. It can add contract and government-demand context to company research, but it is not market data or a valuation service.

Validea

Validea applies published guru and factor models to stocks through screens, reports, portfolios, and model strategies. It is for investors who want rules-based idea generation and backtests, not brokerage execution or a general market-data terminal.