Can anyone recomdend a site or service where I can get started doing a bit of paper trading without hours of signups or extended cost? What would you all recomend? I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks
It all depends on how serious you take it. I have ambitions to be a daytrader and I feel that papertrading has helped me a lot so far, especially to realize how hard trading is.
This is because my rule is to ONLY go real trading when I am consistently profitable. So obviously there is a reward (real trading) and punishment (waiting before real trading) which makes me feel all the emotions which are also involved in real (day)trading. However, I suppose in real trading these emotions are stronger. Of course if you do not take papertrading very serious then it's not useful. So I guess papertrading is easier so if I am not consistently profitable in papertrading then forget about being profitable in real trading.