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Michael Cash wrote:
> My make-believe investments are up over 13%
>
> http://simulator.investopedia.com/MyPortfolio/?GID=479
>
> So why are all my real-life investments dropping?

I seem to recall a study where they looked at stocks picked by a monkey
and compared them to the stocks picked by a trained investment manager.
 IIRC the monkey did considerably better then the trained investment
manager.  Maybe you should hire a monkey to manage your RL investments?
 I've heard they work for bananas...