Patent ID: 8015093

Claim:
A method of training to help control emotions from financial investment decisions, comprising steps of: setting up a user account on a computer system having a data base including a live account and a demo account, and including a single masked login; depositing real funds in the live account; showing “fake” money in the demo account that is equal to the real funds; providing a randomizer program on the computer system for randomly causing trading in the live and/or demo accounts according to a predetermined percentage; allowing a user to log in; running the randomizer program in the computer system to give the user access to one of the live or demo accounts; allowing the user to place trades/bets without letting the user know if they are trading in the live or demo account; determining if trades/bets on the live and demo accounts do not have similar results; if the trade/bets do not have similar results, forcing the user to continue trading on the accessed account without the randomizer being re-engaged and without allowing the user to know which is the accessed account; upon the user logging out, causing the live and demo accounts in the database of the computer system to sync again to the live account; generating data concerning differences between live and demo accounts; and displaying data to at least one of the user and a system controller.