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I came across this site when I had the urge to know more about investments out there after my course structure touched briefly on it. Investopedia.com is a site that offers uncountable tutorials and articles on different methods of investing, technical jargons on investments and so on.

It basically focuses on the condition of the US market, but that does not mean that it's totally useless for Malaysians, since the articles and tutorials provided are of course mainly relevant to the Malaysian equity market, and even other market environments around the world.

If you can't find a term or are still confused about a situation or term you came across in your trading experiences, the site offers a 'Ask Us' function, in which your questions will be answered by their experts.

Apart from all those investment tips that you can get from Investopedia.com, what I like about the site is the Stock Simulator, which provides a training base for aspiring or experienced investors to test out their money making skills. The simulator offers a wide range of investment choices for members and with a huge sum of $100,000 virtual cash for your investment needs. Competiton with the other 2 million investors or friends and family members is then made possible with public and private groups for you to join. It varies from bullish and bearish stocks trading, options trading and shorted stock trading. It has all the charts, numbers and margins that typical investors might need.

It has all the goods, however it still has a few shortcomings that I'm not quite satisfied with. In the simulator, stock feeds provided are actually 20 minutes later than the actuals one and due to this, trading might be delayed and the stock you are eyeing might be going 'the other way' right after you made up your mind. Since getting actual stock feeds in simulators are near impossibe on the Net (I can't find any), Investopedia.com is still the best choice.

Other than that, the site frequently experiences server problems during the period of time when US market closes (US market trades from 9am-5pm, which is 9pm-5am in Malaysia). For those who are in other time zones that can't actually monitor their stocks during the 9pm-5am, they can buy or sell their stocks first when the market is closed and when it reopens, the transactions will be carried out after the market opens.

Well, a last advice for all those who want to excel in the simulator, they can use Google Finance as a more accurate guidance and for those who are speculating the trends, the graphs are more accurate as well.

Till my next review, happy investing and I hope more and more "Warren Buffet"s will appear...

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