Random Stock Ticker

For those looking to either throw “virtual darts” to create a random stock portfolio, or just find new investment ideas. Each time you press the GENERATE button, it creates a random stock ticker and then checks either Google Finance or Yahoo Finance (your choice) to see if the ticker is valid. While you may have to press GENERATE a few times to find a valid ticker, I feel this technique is superior to choosing from a pre-defined list of actives because such a list is always changing. It also leaves you open to coming across other securities besides stocks, such as commodity or bond ETFs, ETNs, mutual funds, etc. The interface allows you to select the number of letters you’d like your random ticker to consist of (between 1 and 5), or set the control to RND to also have a random number of ticker letters.