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Introduction:


The virtual stock market game is free of cost and enables you to be a part of this fast paced marketplace with the exception of using real money. But the risks and the returns remain the same as for any other investor in the stock market. The game is designed in a manner to provide you with online quotes from the stock exchange as well as current market trends and top companies in the markets.

Analyzing stocks does not follow any set patterns or rules. Whatever rules and methods are used by analysts are the closest ways of predicting the future of the markets based on past experience, practice and outcome.

Consider weather forecasting as an example. The weather is forecast by observing patterns in the weather charts. Similarly then, analysts' efforts will be focused on analyzing patterns in stock charts. If this is done successfully, then it circumvents the need to analyze company data sheets that researchers normally do to determine a clear picture of the company.

In order for an observed pattern to bear any significance on our understanding of a system, there must be some underlying effect in place. Returning to the analogy with weather forecasting, we see that the weather is defined by fundamental physics. When we make an observation, we can follow these physics principles and estimate what might happen in 24 hours for example. The reason we cannot predict the weather with 100% certainty is because of a little annoyance known as chaos.

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