Is there a good forum where I can discuss individual US stocks?
I would recommend looking at The Motley Fool. "If it's an active stock, the Yahoo message boards are inhabited by some clueful people. But the signal-to-noise ratio is relatively low, and there are a lot of ""interesting"" characters who inhabit the boards as well." I've used Wikinvest before and think that's close to what you're looking for - but in Wiki-style rather than forums.  Otherwise, I agree with CrimsonX that The Motley Fool is a good place to check out. I use the forum seeking alpha. http://seekingalpha.com/ The motley fool is one of the best places.  Other good communities are Yahoo Finance, Seeking Alpha, and Investors Place. I also recently created a chat room connected to this site to discuss stocks/funds/etc. with other money.stackexchange users.  http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/263/investing
No, there is no such list, as the other answers mention it is practically impossible to compile one.  However you can see the institutional investors of a public company.  MSN Money has this information available in a fair amount of details.  For example see the Institutional Investors of GOOG Would you also suggest some stock with interesting returns and risks? Because i tried with FB, GS, JNJ, MCD, F and the have low returns in the last 5 years, so when you compare them to commodities you don't see so much difference in stdev and returns. Just reading your comment more it is so far off topic. Investor rationality is so far off topic. The outside  investor made a decision to invest already. The owner is being forced make investment decisions. Noting in the article is talking about taking those choices away.  There should be a separate sub for people like who want to make off topic challenges of capitalism. It's disruptive. I can't make a comment with debating every assumption endlessly. I don't really have anything to add, but I've been looking for a study subreddit for International Business, where people can share resources.  There doesn't seem to be one however, I wonder if that would be something worth starting. /r/InternationalBusiness is currently banned, so we could claim that from the admins if they'd let us, and start a study sub. I definitely want it, all of my cash that i've accumulated goes into my brokerage but I just wanted to check that in can be done.  I just wanted to see if anyone knew anyone personally or anything like that because most of the time it's people e-bragging or bullshitting to make them seem like something.  I also wanted to see if it is still feasible with all of the algo trading and stuff that has been dominating the market versus an individual trader.  Thanks for your reply though, I like the analogy a lot. I use and recommend barchart.com. Again you have to register but it's free. Although it's a US system it has a full listing of UK stocks and ETFs under International > London. The big advantage of barchart.com is that you can do advanced technical screening with Stochastics and RS, new highs and lows, moving averages etc. You're not stuck with just fundamentals, which in my opinion belong to a previous era. Even if you don't share that opinion you'd still find barchart.com useful for UK stocks. "My opinion - this subreddit should be about discussing the industry. This venue should be for those already established in the field - those able and willing to contribute insightful perspectives and notions to the group. We should have dialogues on current events, case studies on previous events, how we were involved in said happenings, what our perspectives were etc. Even a place to share and critique write-ups on investment ideas.   For those that are ""dying to get into the field""..  For 90% of us, I can assure you, we were there. I sure as hell know I was. Finance, or at least investment banking, trading, etc. is one of, if not the most, competitive fields to enter into directly out of college. All of us had a lot of questions. All of us were worried and anxious. Those that succeeded, however, didn't spend time asking anonymous people on the internet if they had a shot. They went out, worked their asses off and did what they needed to do.  I'm 6 months into a full time investment banking gig in one of the most prestigious groups at perhaps the most highly regarded investment bank in the world. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't wonder how in the fucking fuck I got to be where I am at. But this shouldn't be the place to discuss it. There's so many other venues - r/financialcareers, wallstreetoasis, etc -  that cater to such concerns.   Though I don't post much (partly a side affect of working 120 hours a week) Reddit needs a place to discuss the happenings of the financial world. There are a lot of redditors that work in finance. The problem, however, is that there really isn't a place to discuss the field. At least for me, I tend to only visit the subreddit every now and then because I know it will be convoluted with career questions.  Make this subreddit a subreddit about what's happening in finance. Redirect posts about financial careers to the appropriate forum. It's that simple." I would imagine that as a holder you will receive information in the post when it's made public, but I don't think it's been decided yet. This thread on the Motley Fool boards is keeping an eye on them - you might want to keep an eye on the thread. Well, kind of XD. I usually just look through Business Week for the ADRs that are on the OTC market. I don't do anything major, but why I love them is that they have a greater reach than just ADRs on the NYSE or NASDAQ. Like for instance, if I wanted to own Thai or European stocks, many of the larger, more reputable firms are listed on the OTC market. Having said that, most other sites don't have earnings reports laid out for you. Business Week does. The only fancy thing I am interested in are options and options on futures, and Bar Chart is good for the latter. "Wow,  I cannot believe this is a question.  Of course reading the 10Ks and 10Qs from the SEC are incredibly beneficial.  Especially if you are a follower of the investing gurus such as Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Shelby Davis.  Personally I only read the 10K's I copy the pertinent numbers over to my spreadsheets so I can compare multiple companies that I am invested in.  I'm sure there are easier ways to obtain the data.  I'm a particular user of the discounted free cash flow methodology and buying/selling in thirds. I feel like management that says what they are going to do and does it (over a period of years) is something that cannot be underestimated in investing.  yes, there are slipups, but those tend to be well documented in the 10Qs.  I totally disagree in the efficient market stuff.  I tend to love using methodologies like Hewitt Heisermans "" It's Earnings that Count"" you cannot do his power-staircase without digging into the 10Qs.  by using his methodology I have several 5 baggers over the last 5 years and I'm confident that I'll have more.  I think it is an interesting factoid as well that the books most recommended for investing in stocks on Amazon all advocate reading and getting information from 10Ks.   The other book to read is Peter Lynch's one-up-wall-street.  The fact is money manager's hands are tied when it comes to investing, especially in small companies and learning over the last 6 years how to invest on my own has given me that much more of my investing money back rather than paying it to some money manager doing more trades than they should to get commision fees." Investopedia has one and so does marketwatch    I've always used marketwatch, and I have a few current competitions going on if you want me to send the link    They recently remodeled the website so it works on mobile and not as well on desktop    Don't know anything about the investopedia one though "(Note: out of my depth here, but in case this helps...) While not a direct answer to your question, I'll point out that in the inverse situation - a U.S. investor who wants to buy individual stocks of companies headquartered outside US - you would buy ADRs, which are $-denominated ""wrapper"" stocks.  They can be listed with one or multiple brokerages. One alternative I'd offer the person in my example would be, ""Are you really sure you want to directly buy individual stocks?""  One less targeted approach available in the US is to buy ETFs targeted for a given country (or region).   Maybe there's something similar there in Asia that would eliminate the (somewhat) higher fees associated with trading foreign stocks." I have a $2500 Roth IRA that I set up 40 years ago...it is worth about $2600. I keep it around for this exact talking point.  Compound interest at .1% is outstripped by inflation.  I have put away $18k a year in a 401 for 30 years now. It is worth just under $800k.  The bankers took the excess with their 2% fee and the GFC.  Its all in Vanguard now  I cleared +$5m in medium and high end residential real estate in the same period.  The first 18 years was sleeping on floors and having cardboard boxes as furniture.   Sad really. 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