What kind of tools are people people looking for?

[rcasto]

I'm curious what kinds of tools people really want. InvestTools seems kind of expensive and there are a lot of positive and negative comments about them. There are free sites but they don't seem to cover the 4 M's all that well. They do make calculations for MOS but they tend to have really high estimates and your back to entering data manually to get something closer to reality. Are there better tools out there? If not, what would be a great tool? I imagine it wouldn't be free because the data would be really expensive. What should something like this cost?

[rcasto]

Originally Posted by rcasto

I'm curious what kinds of tools people really want. InvestTools seems kind of expensive and there are a lot of positive and negative comments about them. There are free sites but they don't seem to cover the 4 M's all that well. They do make calculations for MOS but they tend to have really high estimates and your back to entering data manually to get something closer to reality. Are there better tools out there? If not, what would be a great tool? I imagine it wouldn't be free because the data would be really expensive. What should something like this cost?

I see that 65 people have viewed this post, but no replies. What kinds of tools would people find most beneficial?

I was looking at a data feed for a tool but it cost $24k per year. Then I found out that the price doubled to $48k per year because they changed pricing for 2008. This is estimates data along with historical data, not live or delayed data. The data is from Reuters and is what the mutual funds and other financial institutions use. With this it would be easy to see what everyone else thought a stock would do. It would also eliminate the need to illegally scrape data from sites like MSN. Any interest though?

[Stockowner]

None, I guess.