Getting Started

Welcome to HowTheMarketWorks

You’ve come to the right place – we are the #1 Free Stock Game for a reason! Over 20,000 high school classes use HowTheMarketWorks every year to teach students about investing, economics, and personal finance. Besides our top-of-the-line stock game, we are also packed full of research tools, video tutorials, short lessons, interactive activities, and much more!

Not a high school teacher? Check out our College version at StockTrak.com, or our Public version at WallStreetSurvivor.com.

 

Here’s How It Works

You can get your class set up in less than 5 minutes, custom-tailored to your students’ needs!

Once you create your free teacher account, all that you need to do is:

  • Click “Create Contest”
  • Choose your session dates, starting cash, and what students are allowed to trade
  • Choose what tutorials and lessons you want to assign your students during the session
  • And share your custom class registration link with your students*!
REGISTER & CREATE CONTEST
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Some of the settings you can choose for your class

  • Trading Dates
    • Align your trading dates with your class dates – as long or as short as needed!
  • Security Types
    • Choose from US and/or Canadian Stocks, Mutual Funds, ETFs, and even Cryptocurrency!
  • Advanced Trading
    • Allow – or bar – trading on margin and short selling!
  • Two Registration Modes
    • *Students can create their own logins via registration link, or teachers can generate annonymous usernames/passwords for each student!
  • Day Trading
    • Allow – or bar – students from buying and selling the same stock on the same day!
  • Portfolio Resets
    • Allow students to reset their portfolio back to their starting position at any time!
  • Trade Notes
    • Require students to write out their rationale behind every trade – visible in teacher reports!
  • Supplemental Lessons
    • Add over a dozen additional investing lessons, videos, and tutorials – using our Assignments system!

Teacher Resources

We also have plenty of extra resources to make sure your class is a success!

 
See our complete teacher guide, with tutorial videos, walkthroughs, and lesson plans!
Get The Guide
 
Teaching Personal Finance? We also have an amazing Budget Game, teaching students how to save and manage credit!
Check It Out
 
Get our stock game without the ads – plus additional customizable teacher reports, innovative game modes, and more!
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Our college version includes over 30 additional markets, options, futures, forex, and more!
See Our College Version