Social Stock Trading: Brokr and Stockjaeger
brokr is a brand new prediction market game for stocks. Each member gets 50,000 Euros virtual money to build a portfolio by buying or selling shares based on the current actual value. Then you can track the performance of your portfolio, but also browse the portfolios of other members. Beginning August 15th each week the user with the best performing portfolio within the last week wins a new PC.
brokr also has basic social networking features – members get a profile page, can send friendship requests or comments to other members. Various charts (winners, losers, top and flop shares) make it a great tool to wet your appetite for investing in stocks, picking up strategies or just observing trends.
If you want you also can include your activites as a widget on your blog or website.
stockjaeger [stockhunter] is another stock trading community which has launched this week in Germany. It is basically a forum about stock trading with some Web 2.0 polishment added. Members get a profile, can recommend stocks and write an analysis, others can join the discussion. The premium memberships for 5 or 15 Euros per month lets you additionally track the recommendations of other members. While it is good to see a revenue model which not solely relies on ads, they probably should not cripple the service right in the beginning and rather focus on giving their users as many ways to create value and connect with each other as possible first.
