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Oh, come on! Next thing you'll be telling us that the free Daily Reckoning and Money Morning newsletters are a sales pitch too. :p

I use the free Yahoo7 finance portfolio manager to track the 16 shares I monitor.

You have entered a marathon by investing in blue chip stocks, not a sprint. There is no need to evaluate performance after each single step you take. Wait until the mile markers (big dips or rises) at least.

You just buy and sell them through a stock broker like you do with normal stocks. I use NAB Trade online and all my buys have been enacted and confirmed within a couple of minutes of placing the order. I haven't sold any yet, but I can't see why the process would be any different.

The main reason people lose big on the share market with a quality blue chip portfolio is that they sell when the entire market gets spooked (ala GFC) when there is nothing otherwise fundamentally wrong with those blue chip companies. Compared to property, you need to have a strong stomach for...

Income in favour of capital growth. A managed index fund is an oxymoron: if it's indexed to an indice, what exactly is being 'managed'?. ETFs are lower cost (eg 0.15% for VAS) but are slightly more complex to buy as you need a trading account.

I use the VAS ETF too. Vanguard also has a higher yielding EFT (VHY), which is currently forecasting 5.5% @ nearly 90% franked. If you can stomach the volatility of the share indices, which iron themselves out in the long run, these make an excellent low-effort, high-return, tax-effective income...