For preferreds, it used to be that the site CDX3 was the place to go.

I bought his earlier book and subscribed (it wasn't ugly then) for a year. After the year, I'd learned everything he had to teach--he was starting to repeat himself--so the recommended preferreds he included were no longer worth the cost of the subscription, so I unsubscribed. I still get his weekly email containing his current recommendations; some of those remain useful to me when I'm looking to replace a called preferred. I looked through his summary of his latest book, and that edition just seemed to have added bells and whistles, but nothing of added substance. That made the latest edition not worth the cost to me.

I also use QuantumOnline (quantumonline.com: QuantumOnline.com - Preferred Stocks, Common Stocks, Exchange Trade Securities (ETFs) and Convertible Securities Information ) for its extensive database of preferreds. Sourceforge used to have a program (Preferred Stock Search Application) that sorted through that database, but the writer got tired of keeping it up with Yahoo!'s games (because he included current prices in the sort) and hasn't supported it for some years. I'm not programmer enough to excise the current price parts of the code, so I grunt through a manual search--copy/paste the database into notepad/Excel--and go through the process, most of which is formatting the download so a decent search can be done.

Eric Hines