Promo: With the recent 500 point slide on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, many people want to keep better track of their stocks throughout the day instead of finding out what happened to them at on the late news.

There are sites online that give you a continuously updated free stock tally throughout the day. You can keep track of what your money is doing by checking one site, Yahoo! Finance.

On Yahoo! Finance, you can find an economic and treasury calendar so you can keep up with the market manipulators and a glossary index for understanding all the new finance and investment terms.

You can check financial news at a glance, check messages boards for rumors and opinions, or just chat directly with others interested in investments.

What makes Yahoo! Finance so powerful is its portfolios. After setting up a free account, you can create a portfolio. From here you get complete information about the indices, stocks and mutual funds that matter to you. For example, you can compare Dow Jones Industrials to Texas Utilities or the Nasdaq Composite to Microsoft. You can also track mutual funds like Fidelity Magellan.

Since you control which stocks and funds are shown, it is personalized to your interests. You can even enter the number of shares you own and price paid so you can quickly see how much you have gained or lost.

With a single click, all the information can be expanded to see graphs and more details.

Check ranges, earnings per share, volume, and charts in a variety of time periods. You can also look a news specifically related to your chosen stocks.

Each stock also has even more information behind it. For example, you can look at the research, Profiles, news, and even actual SEC files, whether that be the latest 10Q, 11K or S-8.

So no matter what your financial interests are, check the Internet for the most up-to-date information and start managing your money even better.

From age 6 to 96 and beyond, there is something on the Internet for everyone. I'm Jack Nelson, The Internet Tutor.