Top 4 Free Mobile Apps for Investors

Whether you're trading stocks daily or you're looking for the next best mutual fund for your portfolio, no longer do you have to worry about heading to your desktop to do extensive research. Instead, you can take advantage of one of the many investing based apps on the market today.

While there many great apps to choose from, there are many that just aren't worth the downloading and your time. To help you set the best from the rest, here are four amazing free investing apps you may want to consider:

1 Bloomberg

If you're the type of investor that loves to invest globally, then the free Bloomberg app is something to highly consider. Providing up-to-the-minute stock updates, news and quotes for every stock known to man, you can create your own watch list, manage categories and even set up alerts. This is a very easy to navigate app that can give you everything you need to know about a particular investment.

2 WikInvest Portfolio Manager

Investors that have more than one brokerage account may find it hard to manage all of their accounts at once. This is where the WikInvest Portfolio Manager app comes in. As one of the first apps that combines all of your brokerage accounts into one, you can link every account into one place, giving you the power to view your stocks, trade, sell and manage finances. 

Listing over 60 brokerages, there's probably a good chance that yours is on this list. Securely downloading your data directly from the brokerage, you can be assured that your data will always be safe with this app.

3 StockTwits

StockTwits takes a different angle compared to most investing apps on the market. Instead of getting information from just the professionals, StockTwits allows you to dig deep into Twitter to find out what other people are saying.

So if you're thinking about buying that Johnson and Johnson stock, you can get an overall consensus from everyone out there. This app will include tweets from everyone ranging from the guy next door to the journalist working for a powerful corporation.

4 iTrade - Stock Market Simulator

Don't want to spend all of your money on stocks? This is where the iTrade app comes in. Giving you $100,000 in virtual money, it's your duty to spend it how you wish. Trading as if you were using real money, you can keep track of your stocks, progression and compare yourself to the world on their leaderboard.

Aside from the virtual trading, iTrade offers up-to-date news stories, experienced journalist commentary and a hot stocks area showing you what other people are trading for the day.
With so many great investing apps out there, these are four that you should definitely try out.

Keep in mind that some investing apps on the market that are listed here may require you to be a customer of their brokerage. Other than that, by using your smartphone and trading wisely, there's no reason you can't make trading easier everyday!

Tony Brewer

About the Guest Author:

Tony Brewer is a corporate accountant and guest author at Best Accounting Schools where he contributed to the guide to the Top 10 Best Online Bachelor's in Accounting Programs.