Wall Street Survivor has launched a major upgrade that contains several new features and improvements that users like you have requested.  Among the many improvements, here are the most significant new features:

1. You will now be able to have multiple portfolios, rename those portfolios, and keep a Trade Diary so that you can record comments and lessons learned with each trade.
2. StockTalk: new discussion boards dedicated for every stock that allow you to voice your opinion, and allow other Survivors to rate your comments.
3. A new Quote Page includes many more research tools including technical analysis, Mark’s Stock Rating, Zack’s Average Broker Rating, SmartStops.net target stop loss points, Survivor Sentiment, and an overall composite Stock Score.

Overall, you will notice that each page has an updated “look and feel,” easier navigation, a universal Search box, and more educational links to help you become a better trader.

Other new features:

• New! Futures Center provides a snapshot view of all markets 24/7 so you can stay on top of indices, currencies, metals, and other commodities on weekends and late at night (that’s for you, “Late Night Crew“).
• New! ETF Center provides a quick analysis of the best performing ETFs, most active ETFs, and a quick search to find the ETFs that track the markets of interest to you.
• New! Currency Center provides a quick analysis of the major currencies, their cross rates, and a handy currency converter.

Here’s a page by page review of what’s new:

Home Page:

• New! WSS on Twitter® shows you our tweets so you can stay informed from the staff at Wall Street Survivor.
• New Best of StockTalk allows you to see the best rated comments made by our community.
• Improved! Your Watch list allows better reporting of the stocks that you are tracking.

Dashboard Page:

• New! Ability to have multiple stock and option portfolios AND name them.
• New! See your portfolio’s performance versus the S&P 500.
• New! StockTwits – Find out what stocks people are talking about on Twitter.
• Improved! Display of open positions.
• Improved! In addition to monthly and weekly rankings, you can now see your lifetime ranking.

Trade Page:

• New! The ability to post comments to your Trade Diary, your Twitter account or to the StockTalk boards.
• New! The ability to read others’ comments on your stocks and rate the quality of the comments as Thumbs-Up or Thumbs-Down
• New! After you buy a stock, we suggest stop-loss price points to help you learn how to protect your investment.
• Improved! Trading pages that provide helpful analysis on your stock purchases as you trade them.

Quote Page:

The stock quote pages provide much more analysis to help you make informed decisions:

• Mark’s Stock Rating gives a score from 1 to 100 based upon our proprietary performance tests to help predict where each stock is going, short-term and long-term.
• A Survivor Sentiment ranging from Bearing to Bullish based on our analysis of the Survivor community.
• Zacks® Wall Street Brokerage Rating shows you how many analysts rate your stocks as a Strong Buy or Strong Sell.
• The Motley Fool CAPS™ rating shows you what Motley Fool users think of your stocks.
• Advanced Technical Analysis from Recognia® helps you time your decisions better based on historical price and volume charts.
• News feeds from Survivor University.
• Recommended Stop-Points from SmartStops® to help you to sell your stocks in a downturn.
• StockTalk message boards to see what others think about their stocks. You can rate messages on StockTalk so that the stronger comments float to the top.

Message Center:

• New! Send private and direct messages to other Survivors.
• Improved! Redesigned message center to help you track your order status, trade executions, dividends, splits, etc.

Edit Preferences:

• New! You can now store your Twitter® username and password
• New! Add new portfolios to your account, rename portfolios, reset portfolios and now you will be able to delete portfolios, too!
• Improved! Inbox / Email  or None: Now you can manage your “message receiving” preferences all in one place.
• Improved! WSS Premium Products: Track which products to which you are subscribed.

Stock Ideas and Premium Tools:

• New! Free stock picks from MSN Top Stocks and Phil’s Stock World.
• New! Premium tools (included with Membership Packages) with stock ideas to help you earn more money!

Let us know what you think!

The Bear market that started back in October 2007 and picked up steam in September 2008 hasn’t died. It has just been hibernating!

Now is the time to start to lock down profits, raise cash and prepare for a resumption in the worst bear market since the Great Depression. Here are the steps to take:

1. Sell all stocks over the next 2-4 weeks.
2. Learn how to short stocks with your account at Wall Street Survivor and see this short selling video tutorial.
3. Get the Bear market game plan and learn How to Prosper in a Bear Market.

The times ahead are going to be rough. What will you do: Wimper or Whomp ‘em? When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Good luck.

Thanks for your patience!

The Wall Street Survivor Team

• Goldman Sachs (GS) profit “soars on trading gains” , July 14th
• Intel (INTC) trounces estimates and shares soar, July 14th
• JP Morgan’s (JPM) profit jumps 38 percent, July 16th
• IBM (IBM) “Blows up expectations” and shares jump, July 16th
• Caterpillar Inc (CAT) beats the Street and lifts outlook, July 21st

This rally which is being led by technology and financial shares started Monday, July 13th and has lifted stocks about 12 percent.

Can the rally in stocks continue?

It will have a new look and feel below (see below) in addition to several new features that you have asked for in surveys:

• New Stock Quote page that integrates stock ratings from Zacks.com, technical analysis from Recognia and stock stop prices from Smart Stops. the page will also contain vital basics like charts, company information, news and, of course, a stock quote.
• New StockTalk feature that creates discussions centered around specific stocks. Rate the best comments and watch them float to the top of the board!
• New Trading Diary that will allow you to keep notes and set alarms about stocks you own. The Diary will integrate with the existing Watch List, Open Positions and Transactions pages.
• New ETF Center that allows you to find hot ETFs!
• New Currency center
• Multi-portfolio capability for each account – no more opening up multiple WSS accounts
• Integration with Twitter! The best from Twitter about your stocks!
• Survivor Sentiment: find out how the community feels about any stock!
• A Message Center so that you can send private, direct messages to other Survivors. The Message Center will also send you brokerage related messages such as dividend notices and alerts to your expiring options.
• And many new bug fixes and new user help features to make the WSS fantasy trading experience even better!

V3 Header, Coming Sept. 2009

We are sorry for the delays. Please bear with us as we work to make WSS faster, bigger, stronger!!!

This new Stock Screener from Zacks has many, many options by which to screen for companies in the 10,000+ stock universe.

FORUM ADDED
ETFs – Exchange Traded Funds that trade like stocks

FORUMS ELIMINATED:
U.S. Housing Market – weak activity
Investing and trading/Read these books – weak activity
Tech Talk – weak activity
WSS weekend games – no longer needed

We at Wall Street Survivor are excited to inform you that we have released a mobile version of WSS! You will be able to trade all the same equities and securities that you can on the web from any mobile phone with an Internet connection. You will have access to all of your portfolios including your 100k contest, permanent and options portfolio. This service will come at no extra charge to you, aside from your existing data package.

In addition to making trades, on WSS Mobile you will be able to check your account balances (long and short), open positions and order history. You can also get updated quote details on your favorite equities including updated price, volume, change and day range. Finally, you will be able to view a market summary giving you details on the NASDAQ, S&P 500 and the NYSE.

We are pleased to announce these features and hope that you will take advantage of them. If you have any questions or comments you can leave them below or you chat with us on twitter at twitter.com/wallstsurvivor!

Imagine getting an email alerting you a top Survivor has just bought Sold, or Shorted some stock. That’s the premise behind a new premium service called “Survivor Spy”.

For a nominal monthly fee (about $19.95), you will be able to get instant emails delivered to your inbox as soon as one of your favorite Survivors makes a trade.

Look for this to arrive later this summer.