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A hedge fund analyst explains his stock research process. Full of excellent links to videos, articles, and books. What is the best stock market simulation there is? I want to test some dividend portofolio's but I can't seem to find a decent simulator which tracks the stock market and also adds dividends to your account.

I just want to start with , fake money and track the performance of my dividend stock theory. Anyone know a good website? I was using investopedia for a while, but lately their login just dies on chrome so I've stopped.

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Yeah I have used that one aswell but it does not seem to add dividends cash to the portfolio I have a portfolio there since march and like you said their login sucks. The MarketWatch VSE is by far the best simulation there is because it uses the actual stocks. You can set any criteria. I used it before diving into real investing, and it saved me a lot of money on silly mistakes I would have made. I used Think or Swim a year ago in one of my school's investment clubs.

It seemed pretty good. I use investopedia also, but I don't worry about dividends.

When I write my own simulator, I'll be sure to include them. The quantmod package for R has some great functions for downloading daily OHLC data from yahoo and adjusting for splits and dividends. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy.

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