Comments on: Stock market simulator

Question: Stock market simulator

antipasta_explosion — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:25:45 -0800

Is there a good simulator for playing the stock market with imaginary money?

I tried Yahoo Finance portfolio, but it requires you to go and look up the trading price (extra steps). Plus when you want to add something on the weekend, you have to wait until Monday morning when the markets open and see what the price is that you'd -really- be getting. Too much work!

So is there a place where I can dump some play money and pretend that I'm doing real selling & buying, with the system taking care of the legwork with the imaginary trades?

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:27:22 -0800

Both OptionsXpress and Marketocracy offer(ed?) this.

By: TeatimeGrommit

TeatimeGrommit — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:35:46 -0800

Direct links: OptionsXpress and Marketocracy

By: antipasta_explosion

antipasta_explosion — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:46:52 -0800

Thanks, I'm trying out Marketocracy and it's about as slow as a nudist climbing a barbed-wire fence. I may give OptionsXpress a try.

By: djb

djb — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:06:01 -0800

The Investopedia Simulator gives you $100,000 to play with.

By: Phire

Phire — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:08:29 -0800

Go go Investopedia. We used that in Business class...

By: ReiToei

ReiToei — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:12:22 -0800

Paddy Power Trader does a good simulated account for financial/US/UK/Irish market spread betting.

By: fogster

fogster — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:22:41 -0800

I played with Hedgestop a while back.

By: pwally

pwally — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:43:11 -0800

There is a new facebook application (no laughing please) that is called fantasy stock exchange and it is very well done. I wholeheartedly recommend it. On a side note... I have made 700,000 dollars in fantasy money which I will spend on fantasy things in fantasy stores. Good luck!

By: Kickstart70

Kickstart70 — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:05:31 -0800

fantasy stock exchange is not accepting new members, which sucks because I wanted to give it a shot.

By: ikkyu2

ikkyu2 — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:52:13 -0800

Motley Fool CAPS is worth a look. No imaginary money, just picking stocks to out- or under-perform the S+P 500.

By: fatllama

fatllama — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:24:42 -0800

In my opinion, Think or Swim is a better suggestion.