Pay to Play

I think I missed something. I found what looks like an innocent online stock trading game, you know the kind where you bet on stocks but not really so as to not lose any real money. However, they want me to pay for it. I looked again and again but sure enough it is a simulator and I have to pay instead of trading real stocks where, they caution me, I might lose money.

Online stock market trading software has become big business. Some of the software for sale purports to teach us everything we need to know about the stock market. Some of it promises to teach us about the stock market by analyzing current and past trends. All of it promises to pick the right stocks to trade. I ran across one ad for online stock market trading software that said if you spend more than five minutes a day in the stock market you’re wasting your time.