Other Interesting Sites

• www.financialmodellingworld.com -- a really good site with lots of links and information
• SEC's Edgar for viewing and downloading financial reports
• FreeEdgar -- helps digest Edgar filings by turning them into text and Excel
• The SP bond info site contains a wealth of information. Also Moody's.  
•  Bonds On-Line gives updated bond prices and yields.  Unique
• J.P. Morgan's site: Will lead you to many interesting things, including RiskMetrics
• Bloomberg

Futures markets and related sites

• Chicago Merc
• Chicago Board of Trade
• Minneapolis Grain Exchange
• Kansas City Board of Trade
• NY Coffee Sugar and Cocoa Exchange. Has links not only to contract specifications, regulation etc. but also historical price information for Coffee, Sugar 11, Sugar 14, Cocoa, Cheddar Cheese, Milk and more in downloadable form (it seems to fit nicely into an Excel worksheet). There are graphs as well.
• a link to all futures exchanges
• Nice introductory materials on trading futures
• Charts and other data from a commodity broker
• Gary Snyder is a trader who reports on how/why he makes his decisions. A lot of pork bellies. Fascinating stuff.
• some material on basis from Sasketchewan
• William Margrabe (former Wharton professor, now in business) has a really amusing and interesting site

Options-related sites

• Global Derivatives :  A stupendous site!  Many Excel programs.  
• Finance Watch has a nice Web site about derivatives.
• A site run by Numa Financial Systems offers on-line pricing models for options, warrants and convertibles. Also a lot of other information and a discussion forum.
• A site run by the Options Council provides links to the various options exchanges
• Implied volatility:  http://www.ivolatility.com .  Wonderful site!

Excel sites

Note: There are a lot of Excel sites! Send me the addresses of neat sites only. Here are some that I've found:

• Anthony Sun has neat stuff on VBA, www.geocities.com/WallStreet/9245/
• xlPrecision is an Add-In that gives 32,767 "significant digits" of precision http://PrecisionCalc.com
• Michael Kishinevsky of Pace University has some very nice stuff!  Look at his home page and the software page
• http://www.prenhall.com/levine/ book about statistics using Excel as a vehicle--great home page
• http://www.stlcyberjew.com/alan/excel/ Alan Barasch's cute Excel page with examples
• http://hal.muhlberg.edu/abe/business/miller/quant~1.html Prof. Holmes Miller teaches a course in Statistics using Excel
• http://www.100folhas.pt/software/excel.html A really extensive Excel resource
• http://www.j-walk.com/ss/ John Walkenbach's page
• http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/thomas_igel/ Thomas Igel's page on Excel (German)
• http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Stephen_Bullen
• Frontline Systems, the creator of the Excel Solver, has an excellent Web page with much technical information about the Solver.
• University of British Columbia has a tutorial on using the Excel Solver
• Craig Holden has some excellent materials, including an interactive "movie" about term structure dynamics.
• Macro systems -- a site full of helpful stuff
• Excel VBA examples
• MathTools provides a library of matrix functions for Excel
• Nathan's Excel page
• http://www.ozgrid.com .  Excel Templates, Add-ins & Training
• Metin Kilic has a really interesting site with Excel applications of various financial engineering applications