Matt Botcheff’s Stock Market Challenge

Michael Douglas portraying Gordon Gecko in the movie “Wall Street” (1987) 

 Now, that you are about to finish the two-year high-school International Baccalaureate (IB) Economics class, and are packing your bags getting ready for college, might possibly be the best time to embark on a new adventure… 

 In class, time and again, we have mentioned the stock market as a major factor in Economics, as well as a useful investment tool in advanced economies. Statistically, as much as a third of personal wealth is invested there, and therefore, whether one knows much about it or not, it still affects people’s lives and world economies. So, why not take the stock market challenge and apply some (if not all!) of the Economics concepts we had studied all along? While this is just a game, and no money is invested, no actual stocks are traded, and no real gains or losses are booked, please keep in mind that the stock market is a market where fortunes are made or lost, where risk is traded daily and investors’ emotions and computer algorithms intermix and drive the daily gyrations observed and create volatility (seen by some as chaos) to determine investment decisions and make or break business models (along with people’s jobs!) with the respective short- and long-term impact on an extensive variety of stakeholders worldwide. 

 So, whether one relates it to business cycles, or to some basic emotions like fear & greed, get ready for the roller-coaster ride of your life with our stock market game!!! :)

Painting of the Courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the first stock exchange in the world

 MarketWatch Virtual Stock Exchange (VSE) 
Stock Market Game 
(Free) 

Logo of the Dutch East India Company, the first company to issue stock to the public 

 Matt Botcheff's 
Stock Market Challenge 
Jan. 26, 2019 through April 15, 2019 

 "Driven by FEAR or GREED, get ready for the roller-coaster ride of your life… " 

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