Investor's Business Daily Launches IBD(R) Alerts Plus.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Investor's Business Daily Investor's Business Daily (IBD) is a national newspaper in the United States, published Monday through Friday, that covers international business, finance, and the global economy. Founded in 1984 by William O'Neil, its headquarters are in Los Angeles, California. (IBD IBD abbr. inflammatory bowel disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) Disease in which the lining of the intestine becomes inflamed. Mentioned in: Amebiasis IBD 1. ) launched a new online alerts service, IBD Alerts Plus, to help busy investors easily follow stocks they're watching, make timely buy or sell decisions and get data on potential market leaders as they emerge--all in real time. IBD Alerts Plus can be customized to notify investors about significant stock behavior, such as stocks that hit new highs, outperform Outperform An analyst recommendation meaning a stock is expected to do slightly better than the market return. Notes: Exact definitions vary by brokerage, but in general this rating is better than neutral and worse than buy or strong buy. a major market index, cross a key moving average, and much more. Since busy investors often miss a critical stock move during the day, IBD Alerts Plus is designed to notify them when it happens--whether by their cell phone, or PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). . "Busy investors don't have time to surf generic websites for headlines about random stocks," said William J. O'Neil, chairman and founder of Investor's Business Daily. "They need real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. information on stocks they own now, or might want to own, so they can protect profits and not miss big winners. Timing it right can mean the difference between catching or losing a profit. IBD Alerts Plus gives people what they need when they need it without having to wade through all the noise." IBD Alerts Plus also offers news & event headlines, IBD's Ratings and up-to-the-minute changes in IBD's powerful stock screens, such as the IBD 100 list of top performing companies; Stocks On The Move(TM), a list of companies trading on unusually high volume; and the New America entrepreneurial en·tre·pre·neur n. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. [French, from Old French, from entreprendre, to undertake; see enterprise. companies. IBD Alerts Plus is as much a place for new stock leads as it is a powerful instrument for tracking them, all at a single source. Unique features of IBD Alerts Plus include: * Nearly 40 customizable alert options for individual stocks, major indexes, IBD stock lists and news coverage--putting IBD's unmatched research power in the user's hands. * User-defined stock alert criteria for specific stock behaviors such as simultaneous price and volume action, gaps up or down in price, changes in the IBD SmartSelect Ratings and more. * Real-time intraday Intraday Another way of saying "within the day." Notes: This term is often used for the new highs and lows of a security. For example, "a new intraday high" means a security reached a new all-time high throughout the trading day, but then fell by closing. , daily, and weekly stock charts on-site, complete with historical price/volume data to help users calculate precise alerts on potential breakouts, stop-loss stop-loss, n a general term referring to that category of coverage that provides insurance protection (reinsurance) to an employer for a self-funded plan. points, action around moving averages, etc. * Users can access selections from IBD's most popular stock indexes directly on the site. Alerts can be set up to notify investors of changes on those indexes, such as new stocks added or dropped. * Users can have their favorite IBD articles e-mailed to them on a daily basis, or they can set up ticker-based news alerts to focus on key news relevant to stocks they're watching. For more information on how to subscribe, go to www.IBDalerts.com. ABOUT INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Investor's Business Daily[R], its digital edition eIBD[TM] and the award-winning companion Web site, Investors.com are recognized worldwide for empowering individual and professional investors with cutting-edge research, stock screens and ratings that can't be found anywhere else. Through unique proprietary screening criteria backed up by decades of market research, IBD highlights stock winners and major market turns as they emerge. Some of the most widely used screens include the IBD 100 list of top-performing companies, The 85-85 Index, The New America Index and Screen of the Day, all of which have outperformed the market. Founded in 1984 by leading investor William J. O'Neil, IBD has redefined the way news and financial data are presented. Investors.com, named one of the Forbes "Best of the Web," provides a suite of equally powerful tools and screens for identifying market stars. Both eIBD and Investors.com are available worldwide. In addition, IBD hosts popular investment workshops based on the CAN SLIM CAN SLIM refers to the seven-pronged mnemonic publicized by the American newspaper Investor's Business Daily, which claims to be a checklist of the characteristics performing stocks tend to share before their biggest gains. [R] investing system, which has outperformed major market indexes.* IBD's market writers can be heard teaching the same principles on national television and radio. *The American Association American Association refers to one of the following professional baseball leagues:
Investor's Business Daily, IBD, CAN SLIM and corresponding logos are owned by Data Analysis, Inc., an affiliate of Investor's Business Daily. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion