• Guide to Trading at Marketocracy -- Trading Basics
• Guide to Trading at Marketocracy -- Understanding Marketocracy Virtual Trading
• Guide to Trading at Marketocracy -- Analyzing Your Fund's Performance
• Guide to Trading at Marketocracy -- Staying Connected
• How to post to your Strategy Lab Open blog
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Here’s How gives Strategy Lab Open participants a step-by-step, do-it-yourself guide to successfully navigate our site and utilize our tools. Not sure how to make trades in your Strategy Lab Open portfolio? This is the place to learn the ins and outs of managing a Marketocracy portfolio. Wrestling with getting started using the Movable Type blogging platform? Get step by step instructions on how to log in and start posting, along with tips and tricks for more advanced Movable Type users. This section is where you’ll find technical information, useful tips, and resources for our SLO users in efforts to stay connected.

Please visit Here’s How regularly to check for the latest updates and new information.

Guide to Trading at Marketocracy -- Trading Basics

We're hearing that some people still have questions about managing their Marketocracy portfolio for Strategy Lab Open. This four part guide should be a valuable resource for helping you learn the ins and outs of managing a Marketocracy portfolio.

Part 1: Trading Basics

How do I look up the symbol for the stock I want to buy?

1. From the top menu, select "my funds" > "make a trade".

2. Under the "make a single trade" header, change the default lookup from "Symbol" to "Name".

3. Enter the first word in the stock name, then click "Quote".

How do I enter trades?

How do I make a quick trade? In the upper right hand corner of most pages on the site, there is a link labeled "quick trade". Click the link, and a popup will appear. This will allow you enter a market buy/sell trade for a single stock in a single fund.

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Guide to Trading at Marketocracy -- Understanding Marketocracy Virtual Trading

Part 2: Understanding Marketocracy Virtual Trading

What exchanges can I trade on? At this time, registered participants may select equities for their funds from those traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), American Stock Exchange (AMEX), and OTC market (NASDAQ). We do not currently support trading on any foreign exchanges or the trading of bonds or options. What type of equities can be traded?

Can we buy options or bonds? No, Marketocracy currently only offers trading in equity securities.

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Guide to Trading at Marketocracy -- Analyzing Your Fund's Performance

Part 3: Analyzing Your Fund's Performance

What is attribution analysis? Attribution analysis is a popular tool amongst institutional money managers seeking a way to better evaluate the investment talent of portfolio managers. Simply put, this type of analysis segments investment returns into 4 categories: Returns due to 1) style allocation, 2) sector allocation, 3) stock selection, and 4) activity.

Where can I find an Attribution Analysis report for my fund? Simply log-in to the website with your username and password, and then hover over the menu at the top of the page labeled "My Funds". Scroll down the list under "My Funds" until you come to "Attribution". Another sub-menu will pop-out to the right allowing you to select an Attribution report "by Sector" or "by Stock".

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Guide to Trading at Marketocracy -- Staying Connected

Part 4: Staying Connected

Marketocracy offers several ways learn more about the Marketocracy system and to develop excellent trading skills.

Marketocracy Member Support

How do I contact member support? Send us an email at help@marketocracy.com .

What types of issues or problems can Member Support help me with? Marketocracy Member Support offers members assistance with using the Marketocracy trading system; fixing errors in funds; reporting corporate action issues or errors; and handling symbol addition requests. Member support cannot offer investment advice.

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How to post to your Strategy Lab Open blog

We've heard that some Strategy Lab Open participants are still a little unsure about how to access their blogs. Here is a step by step tutorial that we hope will help.

Go to: http://www.investorplaceblogs.com/cgi-bin/mt.cgi You will see a page that looks like this:

Type in your username and password and click the Login button to submit. If you can't remember your password, click on the "Forgot your password?" link under the Login button. All you have to do is type in your username and your password will be reset and a new password will be sent to the email address you gave us when you registered for Strategy Lab Open. You do not have to enter a password recovery/word phrase if you have not logged in and set one up.

When you log in, you will be taken to a page that looks like this:

All you have to do to start posting is click on the button that says "Create a new entry on this weblog"

That will take you to a page like the one shown below:

To create your post, type a title in the Title field, and type the rest of your copy in the Entry Body box. If you want to put copy in bold font, highlight it with your mouse and click on the little "B" button at the top of the Entry Body box. Clicking "I" will allow to italicize copy, and "U" will underline it. To link to another webpage, highlight the copy you want to make a link and then click on the symbol that looks like this: ∞. It will pop up a window that will let you type in the URL you want to share with your readers.

Once you have finished writing, make sure the Status window says "Published," and then hit save. The Movable Type system will build your blog entry and a message will appear after a few seconds letting you know your post has been published to your blog. Clicking on the View Site link in the upper right hand side will take you to your blog. You can also access your blog by adding your username to the end of your url: http://www.investorplaceblogs.com/users/YourUsernameHere
Example: http://www.investorplaceblogs.com/users/toma47/

Happy posting! We look forward to reading all about your stock picks.