Investopedia
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Investopedia is a website devoted to investing education.
The site was started by Cory Janssen and Cory Wagner in June 1999 at the height of the dot-com bubble. It is privately owned and derives revenue from advertising, exam preparation sales, licensing content, and offering stock ideas through its Investopedia Advisor service.
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The website had its beginning as a financial dictionary, separating itself from other dictionaries by offering Investopedia Says, a plain English interpretation of hard to understand terms and concepts. The site now has over 1,500 articles, 5,000 dictionary entries, and 750 pages of in-depth tutorials. Investopedia also has interactive tools, such as the Investing Simulator that allows individuals to set up a pretend brokerage account and practice trading publicly traded stocks and options on the NYSE, NASDAQ, OTCBB, CBOE, and TSX.
For those in the financial industry, the site has textbooks and practice questions on a wide variety of exams such as the NASD Series 6, 7, 63, 65, 66 and Chartered Financial Analyst level 1, 2, and 3.
