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Who We Are
The Demystifiers of Wall Street
Here at Wall Street Survivor, we’re on a mission to demystify investing through interactive and comprehensive education.
Online financial education is typically very dry and full of jargon. It’s like an Investing 101 textbook thrown onto a web page. We believe online investing is fun, challenging and potentially very lucrative. And we want you to share in that fun and excitement. So we don’t just teach investing and personal finance topics by telling you how. We get you doing right away, by competing in virtual stock trading games.
You’ll learn the fundamentals of trading stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures, currencies and options, as well as how to get your personal finances in order.
Jumping head first into the stock market can be scary. Wall Street Survivor turns that fear into fun, while preparing people for a successful financial future with our virtual stock exchange.
What You Get: A Virtual Stock Exchange + Comprehensive Lessons
Wall Street Survivor allows you to get in the driver’s seat and manage your own fantasy stock portfolio while competing risk-free against friends and strangers.
Jargon-free courses, paired with the web’s best stock simulator, allow you to learn and practice trading stocks in a risk-free way.
After the experience and knowledge gained from playing Wall Street Survivor, you will have the skills to take charge of your financial future. You will have earned the training and practice needed to take an active roll in directing your retirement investments, your savings plans, 401(k) company plans, or your mutual fund investments. All the while, you play in highly entertaining contests and participate in a community of like-minded investors.
All of Our Financial Education Sites
After 33 years of business and 10 million users, the Stock-Trak Family of sites continues to grow and now includes:
Targets university business classes and trading rooms. StockTrak.com is now used by more than 1,000 professors and their 70,000 college students each year, including over 80% of the top U.S. Business Schools.
Targets high school business and personal finance classses. PersonalFinanceLab is a unified platform combining our financial literacy course, curriculum and games for high school students. This site is used in many high school personal finance, economics, and business classes.
If you are a high school teacher, you must visit PersonalFinanceLab.com.
Targets individuals looking for the best free investing course for beginners. Investing 101 is an online Investments course that is structured like a college level class with chapters, additional reading, exercises and quizzes to that users can monitor their own progress and move at their own pace.
Targets high school & college students in personal finance, business and finance classes; as well as asults wanting to learn about investing in the stock market. HowtheMarketWorks is now used by 400,000 users each year and features trading of U.S. stocks, bonds and mutual funds. This site also allows any user to create a customized stock market game and challenge their classmates or friends. The site also features over 300 educational articles, videos and assignments aligned to national high school standards.
Targets the general public that wants to learn how to invest in the stock market; includes free courses. Wall Street Survivor® is used by 150,000 individuals each year looking to learn about the stock market and want to use a stock market simulator to trade U.S. stocks and options with a free virtual portfolio. This site also features many concise courses and other helpful pages like best stocks to buy now.
Targets international investors looking for a free stock market game. The Virtual Stock Exchange offers 40+ international exchanges trading stocks, currencies, and commodities in your local currency. Compete with your friends and climb the real-time rankings!
Ranking of Top Stock Newsletters Based on Last 3 Years of Stock Picks as of December 27, 2025
We are paid subscribers to dozens of stock and option newsletters. We actively track every recommendation from all of these services, calculate performance, and share our results of the top performing stock newsletters whose subscriptions fees are under $500. The main metric to look for is "Return vs S&P500" which is their return above that of the S&P500. So, based on December 27, 2025 prices:
Best Stock Newsletters Last 3 Years' Performance
| Rank | Stock Newsletter | Picks Return | Return vs S&P500 | Picks w Profit | Max % Return | Current Promotion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Alpha Picks | 82% | 56% | 76% | 1,583% | January Promotion: Save $50 HERE |
| Summary: 2 picks per month based on Seeking Alpha's Quant Rating; consistently beating the market every year since launch; tells you when to sell and they have sold almost half. See complete details in our full Alpha Picks review. Or get their Premium service to get their QUANT RATINGS on your stocks to better manage your current portfolio--read our Is Seeking Alpha Worth It? article to learn more about their Quant Ratings. | ||||||
| 2. |  Zacks Value Investor | 60% | 40% | 54% | 692% | January Promotion: $1, then $495/yr |
| Summary: 10 stock picks per year on January 1st based on Zacks' Quant Rating; Retail Price is $495/yr and includes 6 different services including those below. Read our Zacks Review. | ||||||
| 3. |  Moby.co | 50% | 16% | 74% | 2,569% | January Promotion: Next pick free! |
| Summary: 60-150 stock picks per year, segmented by industry; consistently beating the market every year; retail price is $199/yr. Read our full Moby Review. | ||||||
| 4. | Zacks Top 10 | 36% | 15% | 71% | 170% | January Promotion: $1, then $495/yr |
| Summary: 10 stock picks per year on January 1st based on Zacks' Quant Rating; Retail Price is $495/yr and includes 6 different services. Read our Zacks Review. | ||||||
| 5. |  TipRanks SmartInvestor | 20% | 9% | 62% | 464% | Current Promotion: Save $180 |
| Summary: About 1 pick/week focusing on short term trades; Lifetime average return of 355% vs S&P500's 149% since 2015. Retail Price is $379/yr. Read our TipRanks Review. | ||||||
| 6. |  Action Alerts Plus | 27% | 5% | 66% | 208% | Current Promotion: None |
| Summary: 100-150 trades per year, lots of buying and selling and short-term trades. Read our Jim Cramer Review. | ||||||
| 7. | Zacks Home Run Investor | 5% | -0.4% | 45% | 241% | January Promotion: $1, then $495/yr |
| Summary: 40-50 stock picks per year based on Zacks' Quant Rating; Retail Price is $495/yr. Read our Zacks Review. | ||||||
| 8. | Dogs of the Dow Strategy | 16% | -1.8% | 43% | 44% | Current Promotion: None |
| Summary: Buy the 10 highest yielding dividends stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on January 1st and sell on Dec 31st each year. | ||||||
| 9. | IBD Leaderboard ETF | 11.4% | -1.8% | n/a | n/a | January Promotion: NONE |
| Summary: Maintains top 50 stocks to invest in based on IBD algorithm; Retail Price is $495/yr. Read our Investors Business Daily Review. | ||||||
| 10. |  Stock Advisor | 34% | -3.9% | 75% | 289% | January Promotion: Get $100 Off |
| Summary: 2 picks/month and 2 Best Buy Stocks lists focusing on high growth potential stocks over 5 years; Retail Price is $199/yr. Read our Motley Fool Review. | ||||||
| 11. | Zacks Under $10 | -0.2% | -4% | -4.3 | 263% | January Promotion: $1, then $495/yr |
| Summary: 40-50 stock picks per year based on Zacks' Quant Rating; Retail Price is $495/yr. Read our Zacks Review. | ||||||
| 12. | Rule Breakers | 34% | -5.1% | 69% | 320% | Current Promotion: Save $200 |
| Summary: Rule Breakers is included with the Fool's Epic Service. Get 5 picks/month focusing on disruptive technology and business models; Lifetime average return of 355% vs S&P500's 149% since 2005; Now part of Motley Fool Epic. Read our Motley Fool Epic Review. | ||||||
| Top Ranking Stock Newsletters based on their last 3 years of stock picks covering 2025, 2024, and 2023 performance as compared to S&P500. S&P500's return is based on average return of S&P500 from date each stock pick is released. NOTE: To get these results you must buy equal dollar amounts of each pick on the date the stock pick is released. Investor Business Daily Top 50 based on performance of FFTY ETF. Performance as of December 27, 2025. | ||||||