Expert Stock Picks
Many Newbie Survivors understand about stocks and the stock market but don’t have any idea of how to find stocks to trade.
As one Survivor, brainiac, wrote on her Blog:
I signed up for the “fantasy stock market” and perused the pages of Google finance. And I have no idea what to do with all of that information! There’s a big search window to “get quotes,” but what am I getting quotes for? I understand the idea of buying and selling shares, but that represents the entire body of my knowledge on the subject. How do I figure out what companies I want quotes for?
So, we have Starter Stock portfolios for anyone who signs up (TIP: they are also available if you reset your portfolio).
OK, then you’ve got about 10 stocks picked by someone. But then what to do?
That’s when we came up with the idea of Expert Portfolio picks! We are going to replace the “Balanced” “Conservative” and “Agressive” starter Portfolios with Portfolios created by some real stock picking experts. One of them we hope will be Peter Navarro, who is an Economics Professor at UC-Irvine and is Harvard educated.
And those experts will then update their picks every week, so that you can get some guidance, some new stock trading ideas and start to understand why these picks are getting made.
Expect this to be on the site in about 2-4 weeks.
Trading Ideas: Served Daily
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Trading Idea, June 27: Buy NFLX
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We’re hooked up with the very smart folks at TradingHistory.com who are providing Survivors with one very good stock trading tip every day.
They scan their enormous historical database of stock prices every day and compare it to patterns that they have observed in the past to make a prediction about one stock. Their accuracy often reaches the 90% level!
It’s really quite elegant and simple. Give it a whirl and then test out their trading ideas with a fantasy stock portfolio!
New Research Pages
In our effort to provide Survivors with research tools on par with Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance or any other web site, we have added three new Research pages:
Financials show valuable stats like Price/Book, Price/Earnings, Return on Equity, Profit Margin and many others. In addition, you can see the latest Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow for a company on a quarterly and Annual basis.
The Company News Releases are the latest happenings like earnings reports and new product announcements.
The Technical Analysis page is great to see what the technical indicators are saying to do: Buy or Sell? There are Price Indicators, Volume Indicators and Trend Indicators all providing their signals to help you, dear Survivor, make sense of the market and develop your own trading style.
New Stock Screener
Our new Stock Screener has launched and gives you the capability to find stocks that match your specific criteria.
Do you want to find a U.S. stock with a share price less than $50, a P/E ratio greater than 10 with Daily volume of at least 100,000 shares? The Stock Screener shows you stocks which fit those criteria:
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| Company Name | Symbol | Exch. | Industry | Share Price ($) | PE Ratio | Latest Volume | ||||||
| AT&T INC | T | NYSE | TECHNOLOGY | 39 | 19 | 120.703 | ||||||
| BANK OF AMERICA CORP | BAC | NYSE | FINANCIAL | 33 | 14 | 117,614 | ||||||
| GENERAL ELECTRIC CO | GE | NYSE | CONGLOMERATES | 30 | 14 | 172,617 | ||||||
| HEWLETT-PACKARD CO | HPQ | NYSE | TECHNOLOGY | 46 | 15 | 110,399 | ||||||
| JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | JPM | NYSE | FINANCIAL | 42 | 12 | 113,630 | ||||||
Try our new Stock Screener now!
Thank you wallstreet survivor. Now I can actually use those weekly prizes towards paying for my tuition fees lol 
