Welcome to InvestorCraft. On this site you will find tools and information to help you understand and use concepts in modern portfolio management, such as portfolio diversification and portfolio optimization. Combined with a powerful database, the site's portfolio analysis tools will offer you a unique perspective on your investment portfolios. 

You can use this site to better understand the contributions that individual assets, including stocks, mutual funds, or ETFs, make to a portfolio. Analyze your portfolio with InvestorCraft's portfolio analyzers including the Efficient Frontier Calculator and Correlation Analysis.  Once you've built a portfolio, you can save it and track its performance.

InvestorCraft hosts an on-going portfolio competition. Enter your portfolio in the site's contest to see how your portfolio-building skills stack up against those of other investors.  Finally, you can browse and post in the site's forums to share information with other investors.  Here are some links with instructions and information that will help you get the most out of InvestorCraft:

Getting started
Using this site
Why Diversify?
Using the Correlation Analysis
Using the Efficient Frontier Calculator
Using the Sharpe Allocator


Portfolio Competition
Winners for Last Month - ended 12/31/2011
RankOwnerPortfolio NameDescriptionTotal Return
1anonymousPortfolio1 13.02 %
2anonymoussubic_new year001after new year look see at the portfolios.12.28 %
3anonymousDiv+Bond+Growth+Mining-MarketA mixed of Dividend + Bond + Mining - Market risk6.34 %
4anonymousappl-hsy 5.98 %
5anonymousGroup2 5.97 %
   
Portfolio Competition
Leaders Year-to-Date
No results yet available
   
Weekly Market Roundup - 1/20/2012
NameCloseWeek returnYear returnYear return (US)
Dow Jones Industrials12720.482.40 %4.12 %4.12 %
S&P 500 Index1315.382.04 %4.59 %4.59 %
S&P MidCap 400930.622.65 %5.85 %5.85 %
Nasdaq Composite2786.702.80 %6.97 %6.97 %
FTSE 100 (Britain)5728.551.63 %2.80 %2.80 %
DAX (Germany)6404.394.25 %8.58 %8.58 %
Nikkei (Japan)8782.163.32 %3.87 %3.87 %
Announcements
Year 2011 results are now available
01/19/2012 - Congatulations to subic_winter001 who won the portfolio competition for 2011 with an outstanding 52.4% return. Also, congratulations to Portfolio1 who won both the 4th quarter and December competitio...
Over 250 new securities available in database
08/07/2011 - Thanks to all users for your security requests. Over 250 new stocks, ETFs and Mutual Funds have been added to the InvestorCraft historical database as a result....
2010 Annual results are available
01/23/2011 - Congratulations to Bernie T., the winner of the portfolio competition for the year, with an outstanding annual return of 44.8%....
November 2010 results are available
12/02/2010 - 1 month left this year......
2009 Portfolio Competition results are in
02/01/2010 - Congratulations to the portfolio winners for 2009 with some outstanding results....
2008 Year End Results are in - GoodGuys wins Portf
01/18/2009 - Congratulations to GoodGuys, whose Good Guys Portfolio won the 2008 Portfolio Competition in a tough year for investments. Best luck to all in 2009!...
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