If you’ve fancied a flutter on the stock market but have never had the bottle or the financial freedom, why not test your skills with a practice portfolio? They’re free, simple to set up and you can be up and running in a matter of minutes. To get a feel for market machinations and to test your stock picking skills there’s probably no better way than jumping on in. You’ll b...

Share Portfolio Tracker, Equity Portfolio Widget, Stock Market Price Gadget, Share Market Portfolio Plugin? After days of painstaking struggle I still haven’t come up with a cool name for the code I’ve written. I know what it does though! It allows our readers to track their own portfolios on their own websites and it looks a little like what we’ve got going on over there to the ...

First off, let me apologise to all the PC users out there, this post is all about a little piece of software for the Mac known as the Euro Stock Widget. It’s a simple little dashboard widget that allows you to keep track of your portfolio. It uses the freely available Yahoo financial data (as we do for our data at Investor Trader) so keep in mind,  prices are delayed by at least 15 minutes....