Leave Wall Street behind and go Virtual…

August 3rd, 2008

Let’s face it, we all enjoy having money. However, most of us would prefer not having to work a nine-to-five job in order to accumulate a pile of greenbacks. Stock markets all over the world offer financial opportunities beyond our wildest dreams. Buy a few good stocks, sit back, hit the jackpot and the money will come rolling in. While it is true that some people who “play the market” have made millions, the real truth is that the great majority of “players” have lost their shirts.

Look to the Internet

For those who envision a rewarding future but have little or no experience in the stock market, the World Wide Web is the place to be.  The Internet offers a variety of virtual stock market programs for self-instruction on financial markets and financial instruments and provides the trading experience necessary before moving on to the real thing.

Virtual Trading

Online financial stock games are a great way to learn the realities of a capitalist world without suffering through bankruptcy, insolvency, mortgage foreclosures and other Internet stock market games such real world hardships. There are several available Internet stock market games and stock market competitions. Virtual stock markets allow you to practice buying and selling real stocks using imaginary money for the purpose of gaining experience with stock trading.  This is also known as paper trading or fantasy trading. Online stock simulation trading games provide the tools whereby “traders” can build and manage their own portfolio and compete in games against friends, classmates, colleagues or other players risk free. Online investment and trading workshops, seminars, conferences and live events abound, and they are all easily accessible. Many of them are even free! There are also virtual sites offering educational and challenging stock simulation specifically for high schools and college students, preparing them way in advance for the real world ahead.

Many virtual markets include stocks traded on NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX and allow trading at any time, even when the real markets are closed.  They also permit the purchase of unlimited shares of any stock at the Last Price, an action not allowed in real life where shares are limited and certain prices are not guaranteed.
Stock market competitions provide traders the opportunity to speculate on a variety of different financial instruments including stock, options, spreads, straddles, covered calls and even the future of popular blogs!

So put down the Wall Street Journal, warm up your PC and start trading!

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