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The #1 FREE Stock Market Game

Create a custom stock game for your school or club!
Used by over 10,000 teachers and 475,000 students every year!
Includes student lessons and tutorials, teacher resources, and more!

Teachers – Get Started Here!

What is HowTheMarketWorks?

We offer a free stock market game featuring real-time stock prices and rankings that allows users to learn about the stock markets and practice investing in stocks, ETFs, bonds, and mutual funds.

Register and immediately receive $100,000 in virtual cash and get access to all the helpful lessons and videos in our Education Center. All users can create their own custom contests and challenge their friends, family or co-workers.

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Create Your Own Custom Stock Market Game

Create your own private competition for your class or club. Set the contest dates that work best for your class schedule (have your students trade for one week, one month, one year-whatever works best for you!), choose the initial cash balance, and set other contest rules like commission rates.

To get your class started with our free stock market game, just register now and then follow the links to create your own contest.

Set your own dates
Choose your cash balance
Customize trading rules
Add reading assignments

Teachers, Professors & Investment Clubs

Here are some useful resources to help you get started on setting up your class or contest.

COLLEGE PROFESSORS: Learn more about our college stock market game.

Teacher Starter Guide

Teacher Tutorial Videos

How to Create Your Class

Using our Integrated Lessons

Lesson Plans by Class Subject

Discover our College Version

Available Teacher Reports

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The Only Free Stock Game For Schools!

Finding great resources for economics and personal finance classes can be tough – which is why we are here to help! HowTheMarketWorks is the only free stock game designed for the classroom. Your students can sign up with their own username, or you as the teacher can generate accounts to distribute to your class – requiring no personal information whatsoever!

We are compliant with:

COPPA
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And work with other state- or district-level student privacy agreements!

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Make sure you set up your stock market contest in the right place! We have different version of our platform depending on what type of contest you want to run.