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If you’ve registered as a member of a class or group, then your account is setup with the initial cash balance, as well as the dates of the trading period, as specified by your teacher or administrator.
If you’re registered as an individual, then your account is set-up with a virtual $100,000 starting cash balance. With this account you can trade U.S. stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptos. Your account will remain active as long as you login at least once every 90 days.
Features on all Accounts
Regardless of how you joined, all Wall Street Survivor accounts (that verify their email address) can:
- Join other contests
- Create your own contests and invite your friends
- Find Stocks
- Take our FREE courses
Create your own Contests
It’s free to set-up a contest for you and your friends to test out different trading ideas and get practice investing in the stock market. All while using virtual money. There’s no limit to how many contests or how many people you can invite to join.
After logging in, go to the Create Contest Page and customize what securities are included, specify all the trading settings, like will margin trading be allowed. Short selling…
Investing Courses
This is a great opportunity to make all your mistakes before using real money. And if you need some help getting started, we have courses that introduce you to the stock market.
Why start from scratch, and waste time searching through countless articles, blog posts and other resources when you can use our free courses and virtual investing simulation to get first hand experience?
Here is a short list of some of our most popular courses.
- Beginner Investing: 10 Steps to Start Investing the Right Way – Wall Street Survivor
- How to Pay off Debt (wallstreetsurvivor.com)
- Short Selling – Growing Your Portfolio on Falling Prices – Wall Street Survivor
Check out all our courses and discover the different investing strategies that have worked for veterans like Warren Buffet or Peter Lynch.
Getting Stock Ideas
We have a full-service research center with tons of trading ideas and other resources. Click here to view today’s market movers to get started!
If you’re looking for a professional investment research platform to help you screen for the best stocks for your portfolio, we highly recommend Seeking Alpha. You can get a FREE two-week trial of Seeking Alpha here or read our Seeking Alpha review here.
If you’re trying to find the perfect investing app to help you along your investing journey, check out our list of the Best Investing Apps of 2022!
Otherwise, you’re all set and ready to go!
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Rank Stock Newsletter Stock
PicksAverage
ReturnExcess
ReturnPercent
ProfitableMax %
Return1. 
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