New to investing? These five beginner-friendly apps offer education, automation and low-cost trades to get you started.

Alice Hoekstra is a former Content Strategist for Motley Fool Money, where she worked full-time for almost five years. Alice worked on content across a wide range of financial topics, including credit ...

Paper trading in practice accounts (also called "simulated" or "virtual" accounts) allows you to trade stocks, options, and ...

In today’s day and age, more millennial traders are turning to online brokerage apps to invest in stocks. In addition, trading through online platforms is cheaper since most all of them don’t have ...

These brokers offer free paper trading accounts, several types of assets to practice with and $100,000 or more in fake cash. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our ...