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If you don’t already know how to do this by now, it may come in handy. I’m talking of course about how to create a FREE investment portfolio online for your stock research and tracking. This week, to test performance among the major media companies in the stock market i will create a portfolio on and track the major 7 competing media companies with an inception date of 10/12/12. Therefore, whatever the stock opened at on that day, for the purpose of this experiment I invested in 1000 shares, and we will be able to track performance, compare stats, analyze, and report on these investments.
Two of the easiest to use free online portfolio tracking is CNBC.com and of course the awesome entity Google Finance, my favorite. Google Finance is much more user friendly and self explanatory, not to take anything away from CNBC, because they have a great UI as well, but I prefer Google Finance a hair more, I would say. Here we go:
CNBC.com (see below for screen shots)
1. Create Account if you don’t already have one.
2. Hover mouse pointer over INVESTING, move pointer down to PORTFOLIO
3. Create a New Portfolio
4. Name Portfolio
5. Enter information accordingly
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1. Create Account
2. Hover mouse pointer over INVESTING, move pointer down to PORTFOLIO
3. Create a New Portfolio (upper right box)
4. Name portfolio
5. Enter information accordingly
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Google Finance (see below for screen shots)
1. Sign in/ up Google Account
2. Access Google Finance Application
3. Click Portfolio (left menu)
4. Click create new portfolio (upper right corner)
5. Enter Symbols
6. Edit by clicking ‘Edit transaction’ on menu bar
It should look like this for the current experiment this week, to test performance among the major media companies in the stock market:
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Image Screenshot Sources:
CNBC website screenshots retrieved via CNBC.com on 10/24/12
Google Finance screenshots retrieved via Google.com/finance on 10/24/12
Wow, this paragraph is fastidious, my younger sister is analyzing these
kinds of things, so I am going to tell her.
Thanks for the comment. I hope your sister finds everything she needs. Let me know if she has any questions. Again thanks for the feedback. Do you have a blog?
Hi! I’m at work surfing around your blog from my new iphone 4! Just wanted to say I love reading through your blog and look forward to all your posts! Carry on the outstanding work!
Thanks Layne! I was just up for an upgrade and opted for the iPhone as well…and I don’t know how I ever lived without it! A great application regarding stocks for your phone is Stocktouch. I would love to read your blog if you have one.