MarketWatch

Not satisfied with advertising revenue, now subscription. Very bad move. There are free alternatives.

Spreads false or misleading information and is known to participate in blatant stock market manipulation

Owned by the hedgefund Citadel to use news to control the stock to go up or down in their favor. Uses scare tactics.

Whatever Market watch says to do, do the opposite.
I give one star bacause I cant give it zero. Market watch is a crap rag.

I too was a fan of smartmoney.com until they decided to do some site updates. To my amazement, the tool I most used the service for was first buried in the site and then completely removed. This tool is the real-time stock watch list. I used it to tell me when a stock was getting to a buy or sell price (you pay $108/yr for real-time quotes).

After several emails to technical support and no change to the issue I wrote customer service to cancel my account and refund the balance. They informed me that I was not due a refund as per their contract. I reminded them that they promised to deliver a working web site.

I am still waiting for their answer.

I don't believe their web developers understand what the site is supposed to do.

As for the rest of the site...

Using the stock charts is awkard. First you click on a chart to make it accessable. Then you select the time period and the chart redraws. There is an intraday chart that is useful for watching how a stock is trading. However, when you refresh the chart it goes to default time period (not intraday) so you have to select the intraday time period again. The way I would like to see this tool work is to have the chart update automatically on each new trade.

The site has a nice graphical display of insider trading. They use colored circles on a timeline to record purchases and sales. The size of the circles represent the value of the transaction.

The site has a 'map of the market' graphical representation where you can quickly see what segments are trading up or down. However, I found that I this tool was not useful to me.

Meantime, I found a much better site for real time stock tracking at a cheaper price. Check out advfn.com. They actually understand what an investor is looking for.