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Stock Market Investment Games

Stock Market investment games can be played both for entertainment and education. There are games available based on stock market investments both online and for offline play as well. Players participate in evaluating the potential of a stock when buying or selling it, and discover the advantages of owning the majority of shares in an individual commodity.

National SMS
- The National Stock Market Simulation game at nationalsms.com is a game that can be played by individuals or school classes as a competition. The game teaches basic market transactions such as buying a stock, buying a stock short, selling the stock and selling it short. Commodities, mutual funds and bonds may also be sold in the National Stock Market Simulation game. The game teaches about dividends as well, as certain stocks offer dividends which are added to the student's trading accounts during the game periodically when that company declares a dividend. Students also learn about broker commissions as $25 is deducted from every transaction for a brokerage fee. Students are limited to purchasing $25,000 worth of a single stock during the game, requiring them to learn about diversification of investments.
MyStocks
- MyStocks is a stock trading game that is played online in which each player receives $100,000 to start the game. The trading is based on the various U.S. stock markets with the prices being the real life prices. Contestants can form groups on the website in which they compete against each other. This makes MyStocks a game which can be played for fun, or used as a learning tool for school classes. Unlike the National SMS game, there is no short selling, and players only invest in stocks, not other investments such as bonds or mutual funds.
Pit
- Pit is a card game that teaches how investors can increase the value of their portfolios by "cornering the market." Players compete trying to get a majority, if not all, the shares of certain types of commodities that are traded during the game. Trading is done by offering amounts of one stock for amounts of other stocks. Players announce the shares they are looking to sell or buy, and other players willing to trade with them negotiate the trade. The game continues for a predetermined amount of time, and then players receive points based on how many commodities they have the majority of, with larger bonuses for owning every share in a single commodity.

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