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

Virtual Stock Exchange

Business and Investing Games


Virtual Stock Exchange
From MarketWatch
Online Stock Exchange Trading Investing Simulation Game

Virtual Stock Exchange provides an online finance, stock exchange trading and business game, originally from Marketwatch.com. Players in the Virtual Stock Exchange (VSE) game can set the parameters of their stock trading simulation, invite other players to join in and participate in unlimited stock and business game play. Its genre is stock market financial investing games.

The object of Virtual Stock Exchange is to create a financial portfolio consisting of shares of publicly traded companies, and have a realistic simulation of participation in stock and financial market trading. Players create their own financial portfolios, and then manage the stock and financial portfolio in the business game simulation, with the object of having stock market appreciation and income. This stock trading game is designed to get students and investors interested in stock trading, the stock and bond exchange, and in the news and research services available from MarketWatch or other sponsors.

In order to play, go to the game site for Virtual Stock Exchange (VSE), fill in the registration form, choose or create a new stock trading simulation game and then start setting up stock trading portfolio consisting of New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), NASDAQ, or American Stock Exchange (AMEX) stocks. Players have access to stock market and economic news and research from MarketWatch.

To get started playing Virtual Stock Exchange, players can create their own stock market simulation games by setting starting balances, margin requirements, volume limitations, start date, end date, etc. Alternatively, Virtual Stock Exchange players can join an existing game, or be invited to join a private stock trading game.

Game Data:

Name: Virtual Stock Exchange (VSE)
Category: Online Stock Exchange Trading, and Financial Portfolio Management Business Simulation Game
Ages: Students, Adults
Software: Web Browser
Multiplayer: Yes
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