Stock Market Game
The goal of the Stock Market Game is to invest a virtual $100,000 in stocks, and track the performance of the stocks to understand their value to investors, and to learn how the markets work. You will work with an investment group to determine which stocks to invest in and to make and track the trades.
Each group is going to be given a $100,000 in virtual cash to invest in companies they believe will make the most money over the coming weeks. The groups will also be able to buy bonds and mutual funds, but it will make the most sense to stick to stocks initially. Each group will need to work as a team to make the purchases.
The first step is to take the pre-test, and to understand the rules.
The next step is to meet with your team, decide on team member roles and decide where to invest the money. You will be creating a tracking portfolio in Excel. The online game will track your progress and show you how everyone else is doing.
Researching a company to find out if it's worth investing in is definitely worth the time. You can go to the company website and look for the "investor" page, or look up the company on one of the research sites, as listed below.
Some helpful websites for finding parent companies are:
• ZoomInfo - http://www.zoominfo.com/
• Hoovers - http://www.hoovers.com/
• Yahoo! Finance - http://finance.yahoo.com/
For example, your team may want to invest in the Tropicana company because it makes a lot of your favorite juices and drinks. However, you cannot find its ticker symbol (the one to five character set that stock exchanges use to identify companies). This is because Tropicana is owned by Pepsico (its parent company). To invest in Tropicana, you would find the ticker symbol for Pepsico (PEP).
Once your team gets started, we will be working more in the classroom on the terms and background of the stock markets. http://www.stockmarketgame.org/
The goal of the Stock Market Game is to invest a virtual $100,000 in stocks, and track the performance of the stocks to understand their value to investors, and to learn how the markets work. You will work with an investment group to determine which stocks to invest in and to make and track the trades.
Each group is going to be given a $100,000 in virtual cash to invest in companies they believe will make the most money over the coming weeks. The groups will also be able to buy bonds and mutual funds, but it will make the most sense to stick to stocks initially. Each group will need to work as a team to make the purchases.
The first step is to take the pre-test, and to understand the rules.
The next step is to meet with your team, decide on team member roles and decide where to invest the money. You will be creating a tracking portfolio in Excel. The online game will track your progress and show you how everyone else is doing.
Researching a company to find out if it's worth investing in is definitely worth the time. You can go to the company website and look for the "investor" page, or look up the company on one of the research sites, as listed below.
Some helpful websites for finding parent companies are:
• ZoomInfo - http://www.zoominfo.com/
• Hoovers - http://www.hoovers.com/
• Yahoo! Finance - http://finance.yahoo.com/
For example, your team may want to invest in the Tropicana company because it makes a lot of your favorite juices and drinks. However, you cannot find its ticker symbol (the one to five character set that stock exchanges use to identify companies). This is because Tropicana is owned by Pepsico (its parent company). To invest in Tropicana, you would find the ticker symbol for Pepsico (PEP).
Once your team gets started, we will be working more in the classroom on the terms and background of the stock markets. http://www.stockmarketgame.org/