Google Finance! Paper Trading the online way…

If you haven't tried out google finance (http://www.google.com/finance), I suggest you give it a whirl. It has 5 year data on pretty much ever stock and security (along with a few mutual funds) and does a really nice job of putting everything an investor would need (earnings reports, outlooks, blogs, company news, rumors, etc.) right there on the page. Once again google gets kudos for being so darn intuitive that you don't even have to think about it.

Another nice feature is the google portfolio which will allow you to have a "paper trading" or mock account of various stocks and see how their worth changes over time. It's a nice feature and I really like the interface. My only complaint is that it doesn't let you "sell" out of your positions or "short" the market but other than this, a nice tool indeed. Here's a snap with my summer stock pics, they are all based on common sense (no fancy technical anlysis here) but it will be neat to see what they are trading at near the end of the summer.