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 2/28/2010
RankOwnerPortfolio NameDescriptionTotal Return
1anonymousLarge Growth EF 8.07 %
2anonymousKey StocksEfficient frontier key stocks7.17 %
3anonymousKaren's Bounty 5.57 %
4anonymousmy stuff 5.29 %
5anonymousMy Portfolio 5.28 %
   
Portfolio Competition
Leaders Year-to-Date
RankOwnerPortfolio NameDescriptionTotal Return
1anonymousPortfolio1 6.54 %
2Bernie T.MLPsMaster Limited Partnerships6.00 %
3anonymousKey StocksEfficient frontier key stocks5.36 %
4anonymousMy Portfolio 2.91 %
5S.A.Specialty ETFsEfficient Frontier recommended specialty ETFs2.19 %
   
Weekly Market Roundup - 3/5/2010
NameCloseWeek returnYear returnYear return (US)
Dow Jones Industrials10325.262.33 %1.32 %1.32 %
S&P 500 Index1138.703.10 %2.12 %2.12 %
S&P MidCap 400770.474.35 %6.03 %6.03 %
Nasdaq Composite2326.353.94 %2.52 %2.52 %
FTSE 100 (Britain)5599.764.58 %3.45 %3.45 %
DAX (Germany)5877.364.98 %-1.34 %-1.34 %
Nikkei (Japan)10368.962.40 %-1.68 %-1.68 %
Announcements
2009 Portfolio Competition results are in
02/01/2010 - Congratulations to the portfolio winners for 2009 with some outstanding results....
January month end results are in!
02/01/2010 - The month end closing prices are in and you can review your portfolio performance results for January 2010....
New securities have been added
12/06/2009 - Over 200 new securities requested by our users have been added to the InvestorCraft Database. Thank you for your requests!...
November 2009 results are in
12/01/2009 - The month end closing prices have been updated for November. You can now review your most recent performance data for last month and year to date....
October 2009 results are in
11/01/2009 - The month end closing prices have been updated for October. You can now review your most recent months and the portfolio competition scores to date for this year....
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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