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InvestorIdeas.com - Due Diligence

InvestorIdeas.com has added this due diligence section in response to incoming questions from investors. It is our experience, based on feedback, that some individual investors only consider due diligence after they have purchased shares in a company! We recommend that all investors complete due diligence prior to investing. Please be aware, that upon completion of in-depth due diligence there is still a risk factor in all forms of investing.

Before You Invest - Investigate! For an article on how to complete due diligence, click here.

Forms of Due Diligence Investors Have Access To (This is only a partial list as an example)

AMEX: www.amex.com
Edgar at the SEC: http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm
OTCBB : http://www.otcbb.com/
Pink Sheets: http://www.pinksheets.com/index.jsp
NASD - Public Disclosure: http://pdpi.nasdr.com/pdpi/disclaimer_frame.htm
SEC Filings: http://www.Sec.gov
S.E.C: short selling - SHO regulation - http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/keyregshoissues.htm
Sedar filings: http://www.sedar.com/
TSX: www.tsx.com
Investor Protection and Regulation for Pinks sheets: http://www.pinksheets.com/otcguide/investors_protection.jsp

SHORT SELLING COMBINED WITH FRAUDULENT STOCK MANIPULATION

http://www.advancedsmallbusiness.org/positionpaper.htm
The Short And Distort - Stock Manipulation - By Rick Wayman
More info on illegal short selling tactics: http://www.yp.com/stocklemonade.html
What is an 8K filing?

Company Websites

Please note not all company websites are updated on a regular basis so you should use additional content sources to ensure accuracy.

Company IR and PR Contacts

Please be aware the IR contacts can only disseminate and distribute publicly disclosed information.

Yahoo! Finance

Yahoo! Finance is an excellent source of information on public companies, but they cannot assure 100% accuracy. Yahoo! relies on other content source providers including Reuters and some public company information is not updated or accurate.

Hoovers

http://www.hoovers.com/

News Wire Services

Third Party Content

Investor Web portals including InvestorIdeas.com - Please read all disclosure and disclaimers to be informed if the site is being compensated by any of the public companies on the site: www.InvestorIdeas.com/About/Disclaimer.asp

News Sources / Media (Partial List)

American Banker, Bloomberg, CBS Market Watch, CNET, CNN FN, DBusiness, http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/home.asp, New York Times, Reuters, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post. Please be aware that all media articles are based on the journalist's opinion and inclusion of their level of research and due diligence and may vary with each writer.

Investor Chat Rooms and Message Boards

Please be aware that message boards are a venue to express freedom of speech and can be abused by excessive postings, abusive commentary, defamation of character and inaccurate and false information. They are a format for individual investors to post information with an agenda to make a stock go up or down and should be read and considered accordingly. www.InvestorIdeas.com/Resources/InvestorChat.asp
"Lawyers say defamation lawsuits against message board posters by companies wanting to silence their online critics are on the rise." http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50548,00.html

Blogs (Web logs that are updated regularly)

A new media form of information, but are based on, and restricted by, the writer's depth of research and personal opinions. http://www.blogsearchengine.com