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 8/31/2010
No results yet available
   
Portfolio Competition
Leaders Year-to-Date
RankOwnerPortfolio NameDescriptionTotal Return
1Bernie T.MLPsMaster Limited Partnerships24.58 %
2anonymousKey StocksEfficient frontier key stocks11.61 %
3anonymousFinance 310Great Tool10.67 %
4anonymousmy stuff 9.65 %
5anonymousLarge Growth EF 8.87 %
   
Weekly Market Roundup - 8/27/2010
NameCloseWeek returnYear returnYear return (US)
Dow Jones Industrials10150.62-0.62 %-2.66 %-2.66 %
S&P 500 Index1064.59-0.66 %-4.53 %-4.53 %
S&P MidCap 400734.30-0.30 %1.05 %1.05 %
Nasdaq Composite2153.63-1.20 %-5.09 %-5.09 %
FTSE 100 (Britain)5201.560.12 %-3.90 %-3.90 %
DAX (Germany)5951.17-0.90 %-0.11 %-0.11 %
Nikkei (Japan)8991.06-2.05 %-14.75 %-14.75 %
Announcements
July 2010 Monthly Results Are In
08/01/2010 - The site has been updated with performance results for the month of July....
2010 Mid-Year Results Are In
07/04/2010 - Congratulations to the leaders so far. We are half way through what has proven to be a tough investing year. Best of luck in the 2nd half!...
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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