The Stock Market Game

Business and Investing Games

The Stock Market Game
Online Educational Stock Market Trading and Investing Simulation Game

Continuing with our series on investing, finance and business games, here we review a valuable interactive educational program that takes place over ten weeks - called The Stock Market Game. It is designed for students from Kids to Teenagers to learn the principles of financial and business investment in a business and stock market simulation game context. A small registration fee may be required and the front page is shown in the picture.

The skills taught in The Stock Market business and stock market investing simulation game include:

• Mathematics: including calculation and estimating skills, amounts of money, stock graphs, and charts.



• Economics: including financial markets and institutions, such as the stock exchange and bond market, principles of business supply and demand, profit and loss, opportunity cost, and the operation of stock and capital markets.



• Personal Business and Finance: financial budgeting, investing, financial and business decision-making



• Social Sciences: including economics, government, world history, U.S. history, geography, and current events



• Business Education: including decision-making, overview of the securities markets and industry, business organization, financial and business record-keeping, investing, marketing, finance, financial statements and stock market simulation.



• Technology: including computer skills, Internet for online research, data entry, email, keyboarding skills, financial and investing simulation and online trading.

Game Data:

Name: The Stock Market GameCategory: Educational business simulation, stock market simulation, investing games.
Instructor Materials: Yes
Ages: Students
Multiplayer: Yes
Cost: Fee

Hot Shot Business

Business and Investing Games

Disney's Hot Shot Business
Online Business Simulation Game

Hot Shot Business is an online business simulation game from Disney.com. Players pick among different businesses to start and play to success online. Examples are a pet shop online business, a skate park business, a comic shop business and a skate park business, as shown in the screen picture.

Game Data:

Name: Hot Shot Business
Category: Online Business Simulation Game
Ages: Kids-Teens
Software: Web Browser
Multiplayer: No
Cost: Free

PerfectCompetition.Net

Business and Investing Games

PerfectCompetition.net Online Business Simulation Game.

Perfect Competition is a multi-player interactive online game. In a sense, the PerfectCompetition.net business game is a MMORPG, or massively multiple multiple player online game simulation. Players simulate business and stock trading success. The PerfectCompetion.net online business game is played via a browser. Players can create the business, and operate it or hire and fire managers, executives, CEOs, all of whom are other players in the game. It is like Donald Trump’s Apprentice, but in which the players are Donald Trump himself – hiring and firing managers, getting financing, setting prices, choosing suppliers, choosing business or real estate locations, buying and selling real estate, taking out business loans to finance the business, such as from banks.

Players of the PerfectCompetition.net online business game also can invest a extra cash in stocks and bonds. The PerfectCompetion.net business game has a share trading system that functions like a real stock market. Sellers offer stock shares for sale on the stock market and buyers bid on the stock shares, setting the price for the stocks. In other words the stock prices fluctuate depending upon demand, just like in the real stock exchange.

After each round of online game play, the PerfectCompetition.net game system ranks the players. For example, in one competition, the winner made $38,000,000 in play cash. In another round, the winner had $214,000,000 in cash.

The PerfectCompetition.net online business game was designed via consultation with entrepreneurs and economists. All aspects of real business are simulated, including economics, competitive game theory, accounting, finance, investing, business administration and marketing and human resources management. Among the functions are:

• Create a company


• Manage the company as CEO


• Manage the company as a manager


• Manage employees


• Hiring


• Firing


• Creating new business units


• Closing business subsidiaries


• Inventory control


• Choosing goods


• Running Research R&D


• Buying and selling real estate


• Transportation management


• Running an apartment real estate business


• Choosing suppliers


• Setting prices for the business or setting rents


• Marketing and Product branding


• Paying taxes for the business


• Monitoring the economy


• Investing


• Corporate Finance


• Stock market investing, stock and bond trading on the stock exchange


• Analyze financial statements

Game Data:

Name: PerfectCompetition.net Business Game
Category: Online Business Simulation Game
Software: Web Browser
Multiplayer: Yes
Cost: Low

Sesame Street Games

Sesame Street Games

What better place to start than the good free Sesame Street online games?

There are two great sites to find them at, and if you have kids (or are a kid), they will love them. These games primarily are for ages 1-7 years. At the upper end of that range, kids start tiring of these characters, to move on to the likes of Arthur, princesses, Superman and Spiderman. For this opening article on this site, I thought I'd go for the old standby Sesame Street.

The first great site for Sesame Street online games is the Sesame Workshop website. As you might expect, that's the site with everything you ever wanted on Sesame Street, and more. Be sure to have your computer's sound turned on, to hear the familiar Sesame Street tune greeting you. The site is indexed based on character. Click on the character you want to play their games, from Bert Games to Elmo Games to Cookie Monster Games to Oscar-the-Grouch games to Zoe Games ... you get the idea!

Let's use the Cookie Monster games as an example. Click on Cookie Monster at the bottom of the screen and you are taken to Cookie Monster's world. His games are in the scroll window. You also have the options of clicking on stories, art and mail. When done with Cookie Monster, you can click on any of the other characters and go to their pages.

Another great site for Sesame Street online games is the PBS Kids site. This site has a more limited offering. Click on the character you want and go to their games. One favorite is Baby Bear painting.

There also is Noggin.com for Sesame Street games online. First you enter your name on the opening screen, or of course your child's name. Then you click through to the animated menu. Six click icons are on the right side of the screen for the six Sesame Street games offered. Some of them I found pretty engaging. The Bert's Pigeon Patter game can be addicting. The pigeon sounds also can be kind of creepy to humorous for an adult, but probably not for kids. After all Noggin is a kids game site.