Once you synchronize your brokerage and retirement accounts to FutureAdvisor it tells you if you are on track to retire at your desired age and how your portfolio would fluctuate if market performance changes. You also get tips on how to diversify your portfolio, save money by investing in similar lower-fees mutual funds and build a portfolio customized to your exact needs. FutureAdvisor also lets you work out different scenarios for an early or late retirement.

Features:

• Get personal investment advice.
• Helps to optimize your investment portfolio.
• Get tips on asset allocation, cost savings and good investments.
• See an in-depth analysis and forecast based on your needs.
• Completely secure synchronization to your investment accounts.
• Get tips to retire early with smart investment strategies.

Visit FutureAdvisor at www.futureadvisor.com [Via LifeHacker]

Its free to join, no obligations, so anyone can try his luck at investing in the stock market. Currently site has around 375,000 members and growing.

Most successful investors are listed in the “Fund Managers” section, sorted by their portfolio’s 6-month return. Members with the most followers appear on the homepage under “Most Followed Managers”. Managers with consistent high performance can even start making real money by selling investment advice to other members.

Unlike in the real world, everyone’s portfolio on the site is transparent and can be viewed by other members. Successful managers quickly rise to the top of the site’s investing community since everyone can track your stock performance.

kaChing has an investing app on Facebook, which is the most popular in the investing category.

Managers with the highest 6-month return are featured in the Fund Managers section

Features:

• Social investing site where anyone can build a fantasy portfolio, trade stocks and become a star investor
• Everyone’s portfolio is completely transparent to the whole community
• Members can state their own investing styles, write their own company or industry researches
• Managers with consistent high performance can attract followers, appear on the homepage and even start making real money by selling investment advice to other members
• Site is free to use, anyone can join and start trading stocks.

Check out kaChing @ www.kaching.com

To make things easier, the stock market is divided into mini-markets like Construction Stock Market, Energy, Entertainment, Food and so on. Click on a mini-market tab to find related companies in that industry. Alternatively, search to find companies based on what you know and like (chocolate, coffee shops, cars etc).

You can also research companies, read market news, view what other members are buying, read investing tips from experts and watch the value of your portfolio.

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Features:

• Free virtual investing site to learn trading on the stock market for free.
• Get virtual cash ($10,000), buy company stocks and build portfolio.
• Find companies to invest in, based on what you know and like (chocoloate, coffe shops, cars etc) or browse related companies by industry (e.g. Food, Construction, Energy, Entertainment).
• Research companies, read market news, view what other members are buying and watch the value of your portfolio on the right hand side.
• Sign up to get virtual money and start building your portfolio.

Check out WeSeed @ www.weseed.com

“Our mission at Cake is to remove the mystery around investing and help you to perform better. We were founded upon the belief that having access to real people and real portfolios is better than relying on a single underperforming and expensive professional.”

Cake Features

• Automatically track your performance across all of your online brokerage accounts.
• Performance Rankings: See where you stand in comparison to other members.
• Buzz: most popular users, top performers, most popular journal posts, most watched stocks, most selling, and more.
• Search CakeFinancial by company name, symbol or screen name.
• Add people to your network and get alerted when they make trades.
• Your net worth, portfolio sizes or the cost basis of positions always remain anonymous.
• Wondering if CakeFinancial is secure? Read more on security and privacy measures here.
• For more details go to CakeFinancial FAQ page.

Go to CakeFinancial [www.cakefinancial.com]