New to Investing Do Trial Runs Using a Mock Portfolio

Various sites such as Yahoo! Finance and AOL allow users to build a mock portfolio online. In a mock portfolio, the user makes imaginary investments in various stocks. These site tools map out the losses and gains on the stock investment of the user, which can later be used for analysis of the investment strategy by the user. It gives an idea of how the investment would have done in the real stock market. [Read more…]