Welcome to StraightStocks.com – one of the web’s most useful financial marketplace resources. Essentially, the site caters to the exact needs of two specific market segments: Investors (or interested readers) and Financial Publishers/Bloggers.

For Investors

For an investor or reader of financial market news, StraightStocks.com is that one resource with everything you need. The key benefit for investors? We aggregate and filter financial content based on…

• Quality and relevance of each article
• Foreign market focus (for example, articles about Israeli stocks are categorized accordingly, enabling visitors to easily find the information about the specific foreign countries/stocks that they seek)

Financial News and Articles

Visitors now have instant access to updated news articles from writers around the globe. We now publish over 50 articles a day by both authorized contributors as well as affiliate partners. Subjects range from individual companies in both the US and overseas markets to exchange traded funds. We have bloggers, investors and writers from around the globe contributing stock market content in many categories, with new categories added as appropriate.

Investing Education Center

This area can be accessed at the top entitled “Lessons“. Included are a variety of up-to-the minute “how to” articles on all aspects of investing.

The bottom line? StraightStocks.com is created for you, and will prove to be an amazing addition to your financial marketplace resources to help you invest more profitably. And, to dissect the often complicated world of stocks, as our logo says, we’re “Setting the Stock Market Straight“.

For Financial Publishers/Bloggers

StraightStocks is structured to allow authorized publishers/bloggers with information, news or tips on investing to contribute content; which our editors scan for quality and compliance. If the article is suitable, our editors then add the content to the website. This model allows for a great deal of high quality content to be added daily, providing users with a truly valuable resource for stock market news.

Many financial publishers/bloggers have created accounts and their content is published on a daily basis. Additionally, more and more investors are using the site each day. Our goal is to create a comprehensive stock market portal to provide our visitors with the most up-to-date and highest-quality financial content available.

What Makes StraightStocks.com Different?

Our growing foreign stock market focus reflects the plain fact that, to be a successful investor, one must seize investment opportunities worldwide. That means going beyond traditional tools like ADR’s and emerging market funds to find truly spectacular investing opportunities. Our content contributors are experts at identifying and analyzing hidden foreign markets and investment sectors.

Why? Declining U.S. market share!

The world market capitalization is ever changing as share and market values fluctuate, and the US share is shrinking.

The US market share has been declining steadily in recent years, while other markets have been increasing. Today, the US market (proxy SPY) has declined to less than 41% from nearly 53% as recently as of 2004, according to the S&P “World by the Numbers” report. In earlier times, the US share was much higher than 53%.

To a more detailed examination of this paradigm shift in global investment markets, see Richard Shaw’s article posted on our site entitled “Changing Country Mix in World Market-Cap“.

Summary

As mentioned above, StraightStocks.com is created for investors by financial publishers/bloggers – through the help of expert bloggers and writers that want to make a difference. Visit our Contribute Page for details about our article contributors and to learn more about how you can contribute financial content to StraightStocks.com. You may also see a List of our authors and link to their individual profiles.

Again, thank you for visiting StraightStocks.com and we hope that you find our resources useful. If you have any comments or would like to make a suggestion, please feel free to Contact Us.

About Jim Musselwhite (http://www.straightstocks.com) Jim Musselwhite is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of StraightStocks.com A long time investor himself, Jim set out to build a truly global resource for investors. His philosophy reflects the belief that, to be a successful investor, one must start by recognizing that Wall Street no longer represents the typical investor's interests. Successful investors must identify hidden investment opportunities in foreign stock markets. That means going beyond traditional tools like ADR's and emerging market funds to find truly spectacular investing opportunities for the long run. StraightStocks.com makes it a point to locate content contributors who are experts at identifying and analyzing hidden foreign markets and investment sectors. Jim has served in a variety of sales and marketing management positions over the last 25+ years with such Fortune 500 firms as Texas Instruments, NCR, AT&T, and more recently as Marketing/Alliance manager with a financial services firm specializing in tax compliance. Jim is currently an independent online publisher. In addition to StraightStocks.com, he owns a number of authoritative website properties. Educated at the University of Virginia (BA) and the University of Tennessee (MBA), Jim and his family now reside in Atlanta, Georgia.