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[Stockpickr][1] is new stock market meets social networking venture from the people that brought you [TheStreet.com][2], a site that provides analysis, commentary, and news about the financial world.
Stockpickr calls itself "the stock idea network" and lives up to that claim by blending social networking features with stock portfolios. Stockpickr members can create portfolios and get recommendations based on stocks you're tracking. The recommendations are pulled from other user portfolios as well as top rated funds based on shared stocks.
In additional to the Stockpickr community, you can also view the publicly available portfolios of investment experts like Warren Buffet or George Soros as well as top hedge and mutual funds.
Stockpickr doesn't let actually buy and sell stocks, for that you'll need to either contact your broker or use one of the many of the online services out there.
While overall Stockpickr is a nice site, the more you already know about the market to begin with, the more you'll probably like Stockpickr. The site is not especially helpful for those of us to whom the stock market remains something of a mystery and Stockpickr can at times be overwhelming for the amount of data and jargon it throws out.
I wanted to like Stockpickr, but unfortunately it comes up short in a few key areas. RSS support is lacking, you can subscribe to a number of feeds, but I couldn't find a way to subscribe to individual user portfolios so I could get notified when they add new stocks.
Additionally, the site is riddled with Javascript errors, the biggest of which prevents large portions of the site from showing up in the Safari browser.
Even in Firefox my registration generated an error saying to try again later, however the registration did in fact go through and I received an email confirming it complete with my password revealed in plain text, which leaves me feeling a bit exposed.
[1]: http://www.stockpickr.com/ "Stockpickr"
[2]: http://www.thestreet.com/ "TheStreet.com"
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