Buddy Lists
To add a Buddy, click on the icon "add to Buddies" wherever you see a Survivor name. An email will be sent to that Survivor notifying them of your desire to add them to your Buddy List. When a Buddy has accepted your invitation, you will receive an email confirmation. You will also then be able to see them in your Buddy List.
The Buddies tab on the Leaderboard is where you can see how are performing against your friends and peers. Currently, you can see only up to five Buddies on the Leaderboard. In the future, you will be able to create your own private "leagues" or games where you can invite friends and play together.
You will receive an email and you will have a notice in your Profile page. Click the "Accept Buddy" link on your profile page to become Buddies with them.
To find other Survivors, you can always use the Search tool at the top right of every page and type in a Survivor name, First name or Last name. You can then easily add them to your Buddy List from the Search Results.
Every Survivor gets a Buddy List. On it, you can see their photo, portfolio value, and current Contest rank.
Trading
The new Dashboard incorporates two new views to better give Survivors information about their overall Portfolio and details about their individual holdings. To see Overall statistics about your portfolio such as Buying Power, Cash on hand and Sharpe ratio, click on “Overview”. To see detailed information on any stock in your portfolio, like the current price and a current daily chart, just click on the ticker symbol in the list of Open positions.
Starter Portfolios are only available when you open a new account or Reset your Portfolio.
They have all been erased. To ensure your stock picks and trading history are never deleted, use the Permanent Portfolio.
Not yet, but we will soon add access to the Toronto Stock exchange (TSX)
If you don't know the ticker symbol, click on the "Research" link on the top horizontal navigation bar of the Wall Street Survivor site and then on "Symbol Lookup" and enter the company name.
You can also monitor your account's overall ranking and open positions from the Dashboard.
A stock or equity is an investment that represents a share of ownership in a corporation. A "equity" holding in a publicly traded corporation entitles you to part of the company's earnings and assets without any liability risk. The two main types of shares are common and preferred stocks. Common stock gives the owner the right to vote at shareholders meetings and receive dividends if any are declared. While preferred shares typicall don't confer voting rights, they have priority over common shares for earnings and assets. This means when a company declares dividends, preferred shareholders are paid before common ones and have a higher claim to assets if the company goes bankrupt and is liquidated.
An investment portfolio is a collection of investment assets, such as stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds, derivatives, real estate and commodities. Investment portfolios should be constructed after carefully assessing the investor's goals, objectives and portfolio, such as age, growth and income requirements, risk tolerance and liquidity needs
A market order is an order to buy or sell a specified number of shares (or bonds, etc. ) at the best available price when the order is submitted. All orders that don't bear a specific price are considered market orders.
A limit order is an order in which a specific price is set to buy or sell a security. If the price point is hit and there is sufficient volume at that price point or better, your order will be filled.
A stop order is an order to buy or sell a stock when the stock price reaches a specified price, which is known as a stop price. When the specified price is reached, the stop order becomes a market order.
(a) A Sell Stop Order is used by investors and traders long a stock to protect an existing profit or avoid further losses if the stock price drops. A stop order to sell must be placed below the current market price.
(b) A Buy Stop Order is used by investors and traders short a stock to protect a profit or limit a loss if the stock price increases.
A stop order to buy must be entered at a price above the current market price.
An open order, which remains current until it is executed, is an order to buy or sell a security at a specified price. Open orders are usually submitted within a specified time frame (e.g. , 30 days).
A wise investor will always conduct some type of analysis before making an investment. Acting on hot tips or no-brainers or blindly following the crowd rarely pay off. There must be a justifiable reason to buy or sell a stock so prudent investors will conduct a fundamental analysis and/or technical analysis.
A fundamental analysis determines a stock's value through the analysis of the quality of management, financial data, the industry in which the company operates, their competition and other factors that are 'fundamental' to the company's operations. Such an analysis excludes the equity market's overall condition, market psychology and behavioral variables or the market's technical analysis
There are many approaches to a fundamental analysis. Some investors take a "value" approach, which means they focus on analyzing and determining items such as book value, intrinsic value, free cash flow, price/earnings ratio and dividend yield. Other investors are more "growth" oriented, delving instead into issues such as future earnings and revenue growth rates. In addition, differing methodologies and yardsticks are generally used depending on the industry in which the company operates.
Yahoo! and Google do NOT offer real-time Bid/Ask quotes like we do. They only offer last trade prices which are not real-time quotes. Still not clear what the difference is? The difference is like hearing what someone is offering to pay for a stock RIGHT NOW verses what someone paid for it in the past.
My Profile
Under the "Profile" button there is an "Edit my Profile" tab – click on it to edit your profile including uploading a photo. From there, click on "Browse" and find the photo on your computer that you wish to upload. Then click on the "Upload New Image" button.
On your Profile, other Survivors can leave messages for you on your "Wall." You must approve Wall messages from Survivors who are not your Buddies. Messages you’re your Buddies are automatically approved and published on your Wall.
Prizes
"Investors" make 50 trades or less and Traders have made more than 50 trades. There are separate overall prizes for Investors and Traders and you can see the Top 10 of each category on the Dashboard. You can see larger numbers of Survivors and how they rank on the Player Rankings page. To see the current prizes available for Investors and Traders, go to the Prizes page.
Not yet, but they’re coming soon!
Prizes will be awarded within 60 days from the end of the trading period. If you're one of our top performers, we will contact you shortly after the end of the trading period . As a result, you have to make sure your Wall Street Survivor profile is both complete and accurate.
Other
This ticker shows the most recent trades with prices from the Survivor community delayed 20 minutes.
You must Upload a photo to your Profile. Besides this requirement, Survivors of the Day are selected at random.
The old Blogs have been discontinued. However, your Wall, the Forums and the Corporate Blog are all places where your thoughts and opinions are welcome!
Wall Street Survivor is owned and operated by StockTrak Enterprises, Inc. , a publicly traded company (OTCBB:STKGf).
StockTrak also provides white-labeled solutions that cater to corporations, universities, newspapers and other organizations that seek to complement their existing learning or training programs or provide clients with the opportunity to test trading strategies before risking their own money. Contact sales@wallstreetsurvivor.com for more information