Main Menu

Welcome to How The Market Works!

Join 267,938 members in
our free Game!

Have you ever wondered How the Stock Market Works?

This website was created to help you understand how stock trading works with our game. Hopefully you will be able to begin trading for the first time or simply have a better understanding of what happens behind the scenes. Best of all, this site is completely free!
Symbol Lookup Join a free Stock Contest!

Virtual stock exchange special features include:

New! Practice Forex Currency Trading free, with real-time Forex Quotes and Charts!
Try our free Virtual Stock Exchange. You can practice trading without any risk!
This is also known as a Stock Simulation Game or Fantasy Stock Trading.
Look for answers on our Frequently Asked Market Questions page. If you don't find them there then try our Message Boards.
Do you want to Get Started in the Market but have many questions first?
Try our free Real-time Quotes and Charts.
What affects Stock Prices? What are Penny Stocks?

Stock Market Game/Stock Market Simulator Info

Our game is a Stock Simulator, with the goal of performing like a real brokerage but using virtual money. You can trade virtual stock using real market prices and get the practice you need before trading in real life! You may also want to learn about beginning investing on Survivor University and the stock market on Wikipedia. Our virtual stock market can help you learn what stocks to buy.
* We offer free real-time stock quotes for about 2,000 USA symbols. Learn more.

Teachers - Stock Market

Teachers, sign up 4 or more of your classrooms in Private Classroom stock contests!

It is completely free!
Go ahead and Create a Contest or Learn More first. See the Teacher's Guide

Stock Market - Forums

Latest Forum Posts

Visit Message Boards

	What is everyone doing?? - May 16, 2012 8:28pm - ? I'm so lost...... Read More
	What Great stocks should I ... - May 16, 2012 6:17pm - You missed out on DF. Shorting HEAT will usually net you money, but it recently fell under $5 so you can no longer do it. GOOG also boomed today. Read More

Partners: Small Cap Stocks and Penny Stocks

Forex Quotes

Not sure what to trade?
Try Throwing Darts!

Trading Game

Log In!

Account Summary

Trade Now

Polls

The 2012 market will:

	Go up 10%
	Go up 5%
	Stay flat
	Drop 5%
	Drop 10%
	Not sure

Famous Quotes

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

- Warren Buffet

Stock Game Login:

Main Menu

Info

Resources

Company