The best performing stock market this year changes by the month, and most rankings you see quoted are months stale. These five sites track performance close to real time, so you catch the leader while it is still leading.
Check two of them monthly. That is enough to stay oriented.
- Trading Economics: country indicator heatmaps and market pages for a fast performance snapshot.
- Siblis Research: valuation and ratio tables showing whether the leader is cheap or stretched.
- CompaniesMarketCap: per-company market caps with country filters; see which stocks drive the winner.
- CapitalDrift (worldmarketstats.com): free weekly leaderboard of country market-cap movers, so the leader finds you.
- IndexMundi: free country statistics and maps for context around the headline numbers.
Sources: Siblis Research, Trading Economics
Find the leader, then check why it is leading before you chase it.