This Spring, we are introducing two major platform enhancements designed to provide instructors with greater flexibility and give students deeper insight into their investment decisions. Assignments Engine Update Our largest upgrade this semester is a complete rebuild of the Assignments Engine.The new system delivers a more powerful, flexible, and scalable experience for instructors, with enhancements Read More…
We are pleased to announce a major enhancement to the StockTrak portfolio simulation: the Wealth Wizard, an AI-supported tool designed to help students better understand how to build, evaluate, and manage an investment portfolio. Last year, we introduced an early version of the Wealth Wizard as a rules-based guidance tool to help students think through Read More…
We are pleased to announce the most extensive update ever made to our Assignments Engine — arriving in time for Spring 2026 courses. What Are Assignments? The Assignments system on StockTrak enables instructors to structure and monitor student activity across the platform, including: Assignments allow instructors to define start dates, due dates, and required components Read More…
The Fall semester is already here, and we are excited to share what we have been working on all Summer with instructors setting up their classes! International Bond Trading Our portfolio simulation has always featured a selection of US Corporate and Treasury bonds, but our latest update has also added 100 international bonds from Great Read More…
StockTrak is excited to announce or new full support for our platform across a range of language, starting Fall 2025. While our Portfolio Simulation has historically been available in both English and Spanish, and we introduced a limited translation option in other languages in 2023, our newest enhancement applies platform-wide*, translating our entire curriculum library, Read More…
StockTrak is pleased to announce an exciting enhancement to our bond trading simulation: the addition of International Bonds to help students gain a truly global perspective on fixed-income markets. Previously, StockTrak allowed students to trade a diverse range of U.S. corporate and treasury bonds, depending on the parameters set by the course instructor. With this Read More…
We are pleased to announce a new feature for the Budget Game – Public Transit Mode. In the standard game, car ownership is one of the major recurring expenses. Players who own a car must pay monthly bills such as car insurance and gasoline, and encounter additional expenses throughout the game—such as oil changes, parking Read More…
StockTrak’s Budget Game is an immersive resource to help teach personal finance in classes around the world. One of the strongest features of our game is its immersive play and how each choice players make having long-term impact on how the game plays out – and our Weekend Choices put long-term consequences right at the Read More…
StockTrak is excited to announce an update to our Personal Finance lesson library ahead of the Fall 2025 semester. In addition to our routine annual update of facts and figures across our entire lesson library, we have 3 exciting updates to share: New Financial Math Lessons Our Financial Math selection of lessons has been overhauled, Read More…
We’re excited to share some major updates to enhance your spring semester classes with StockTrak! From new financial math lessons to engaging mini-games and interactive calculators, we’ve made some powerful improvements for your students. Update 1: Comparison Shopping Mini-GameIntroducing our new Comparison Shopping Mini-Game, added to the Personal Budgeting Game! Students will practice their comparison Read More…
Comparison shopping is a crucial skill every consumer should master, but it can be tricky, especially for younger individuals. Balancing package sizes, quality perceptions, and price tags can make grocery shopping a puzzle. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our new Comparison Shopping mini-game in the Budgeting Game! How the Comparison Shopping Game WorksThis mini-game Read More…
Financial math continues to play a vital role in preparing students for real-world financial decisions, and we’re excited to introduce a fresh batch of lessons designed to take your financial algebra classes to the next level. These lessons build on foundational topics in our personal finance curriculum with added complexity and examples. About Each Lesson Read More…
We’re thrilled to announce the latest addition to our Personal Finance Resources – an interactive lesson on Debt Snowball and Debt Avalanche strategies! What are Debt Snowball and Debt Avalanche?Debt Snowball and Debt Avalanche are two powerful techniques for accelerated debt repayment. Both methods can save individuals thousands of dollars in interest and help them Read More…
We’re excited to kick off the new year with a collection of powerful new calculators for your finance classes! These tools, available as part of our Financial Literacy Resources, are designed to help students dive deeper into key financial concepts, from compound interest to loans and debt repayment. About the CalculatorsEach calculator is part of Read More…
Teaching investments to college students can be a daunting yet rewarding experience. The subject matter is complex, the markets are dynamic, and student engagement is crucial to success. As an educator, equipping your students with practical tools and real-world experiences is essential. That’s where StockTrak comes in. The Importance of Learning to Invest Investing is Read More…
Teaching college students about investments is a unique challenge that requires balancing theory with hands-on practice. For educators aiming to create an engaging, practical, and impactful learning environment, StockTrak offers the best way to achieve these goals. The Need for Practical Learning in Investment Education In a world where financial literacy is more important than Read More…
We are thrilled to announce the completion of Phase 1 in our integration of artificial intelligence to assist students in building better investment portfolios. This innovative feature, the AI Wealth Wizard, is designed to provide an interactive and educational experience for your students. How It Works To enable this feature, simply select it when setting Read More…
Spring 2024 is already upon us – here at StockTrak we’ve been hard at work bringing the latest and greatest improvements for classes in the new year! Cryptocurrency Updates Our first major change is coming to our cryptocurrency trading pit. For the last several years, we have supported open trading of every “coin” under the Read More…
StockTrak has been allowing students to virtually trade options for years, but we have recently updated our option spread trading pit to now make it easier for students to place these trades with the correct legs. For Fall 2023, StockTrak has completely revamped our Option Spreads trading engine. The Option Spreads trading pit now includes Read More…
As of January 2023… StockTrak is happy to announce the NEW Options Spread Trading page that allows students to easily construct twenty-one different 2, 3, and 4 legged option spread trades. You can access the Options Spread Trading by selecting “Options” under the “Portfolio Simulation” menu. Once you are on the Options Trading Page, click Read More…
StockTrak is looking to ring in the new school year with one of our biggest updates yet! From mobile to budgeting to forex and everything in between, this is all you need to know about our huge pack of new features! StockTrak 6 – Trading Redesign Our first (and biggest) update is a complete redesign Read More…
StockTrak’s Budget Game has already become a cornerstone in financial literacy classes across the United States, and our Summer 2021 update brings the most-requested new features directly to your classroom. Over the Summer, key improvements include: Improved Bank and Credit Card Statements Student’s checking account, savings account, and credit card statements have had a major Read More…
StockTrak’s Assignments engine have become a key tool utilized by professors around the world to assign reading, video, and interactive lessons while students are engaged with our portfolio simulation and budgeting game. This Fall, we are releasing a major update to how student activities are logged to give more insight than ever to your class Read More…
StockTrak has been a leader in online portfolio simulations for over 30 years, and we are excited to announce a whole new revision to our platform coming this Fall! The StockTrak 6 project is a complete re-imagining of our user interface with key goals in mind based on the feedback we have received from tens Read More…
This Summer, the StockTrak team has put a premium on ease-of-use and clarity for students with our major updates to the user interface. The star of our new look is the new Student Dashboard, which brings everything your students need to see in one place. This new Dashboard is just the first step in a Read More…
Beyond StockTrak’s world-class portfolio simulation, our Assignments engine is what really sets our platform apart as an indispensable tool for university finance, personal finance, and accounting classes. This summer, our curriculum specialists have launched our biggest update in years, focusing on our most in-demand topics. Our major update includes: Investing101 Update Our Investing 101 curriculum Read More…
The Sharpe Ratio has been a staple of StockTrak for years, where professors could include Sharpe Ratio calculations and rankings on all of their classes. Over the summer of 2021, our accounting system has updated the Sharpe Ratio calculation to improve its accuracy for all classes. What Has Changed The previous Sharpe Ratio on StockTrak Read More…
We are getting into grading season for the Spring 2021 semester, when your TA can be a real life saver. With that in mind, we are excited to announce the latest improvement to StockTrak’s reporting tools – our TA accounts! How It Works StockTrak traditionally has had a variety of detailed reporting tools for every Read More…
Financial Literacy Is More Important Than Ever Here’s What Your School Can Do, StockTrak Can Help How many students at your school are already in credit card debt? How many know how to manage their student loans after graduation, let alone save up for a mortgage? If you care about making sure everyone graduates with Read More…
If you have used a stock game in your class before, you know the drill – you choose your class’s custom rules and starting cash (usually around $100,000), your students sign in, and they use that cash to build their portfolio that they manage over the course of a semester. This might make sense to Read More…
Thanks to a new partnership with Wiley Efficient Learning™, the top-performing student in all US and Canadian classes using StockTrak.com this Spring with 20 or more students will receive a free CFA, CFP, SIE, Series 7, or CPA Wiley Review Course of their choosing – a value of $130 to $1,600, depending on the course Read More…
StockTrak’s reporting features may be the most useful corner of the site for professors and tournament administrators, which is why we are excited to announce our new set of “Fun Fact” reports for every class! Our Fun Facts reports will have useful summaries of the trading data for your class, both as a quick look Read More…
At StockTrak, we have supported currency and commodity trading for years for a complete derivatives simulation. This Fall, we are excited to announce the addition of Cash Spots as a new security type, available for all classes! What Are Cash Spots? StockTrak previously supported both Futures and Forex trading, giving leveraged options for trading currencies Read More…
We have been the leader in realistic investing simulations for colleges and universities for over 30 years. Beyond the typical Investments, Portfolio Management, Derivatives, and Economics classes, our platform has seen growing numbers of Personal Finance and Financial Literacy classes adopting it as well. After almost 2 years of collaboration with several faculty and many Read More…
Our first major update for Fall 2020 is almost here – and we’re calling StockTrak’s Engagement Update! As the name implies, our Engagement Update is all about getting (and keeping) your classes fully engaged with their StockTrak portfolio throughout the semester. The update is centered on three key components: Assignment Prerequisites, Assignment Rewards, and Badges. Read More…
During these unusual times, we want to let you know that StockTrak.com is fully operational to support our professors and students. With the wild swings in the stock market over the last few weeks, having your students use StockTrak may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them to experience these extreme moves as we navigate through Read More…
Professors, we heard your feedback and requests this past semester, and decided to upgrade our StockTrak site with brand new features to improve your experience on our site. Here is the list of all the new features of our new and improved StockTrak site: 1. Custom Exchanges Tool We created a brand new tool to Read More…
Almost every class on StockTrak restricts the universe of securities that are available for each student’s portfolio – whether by restricting entire security types or just limiting trades to certain exchanges. However, we have received many requests to take this a step further, to allow professors to either restrict certain specific stocks, or to only Read More…
Professors may have already realized there are two separate Rankings pages on StockTrak – the “Live Rankings” (which is visible for students), and the Rank Report (available in your Class Summary Reports). The rank report uses end of day values from the previous trading day, and includes useful tools for managing your class – including Read More…
Professors often ask for our team to reset individual accounts, or even entire classes after a “practice period” at the beginning of the semester. These requests have been getting so popular that we built it right into your admin pages! Starting in Spring 2020, the “Ranking” report in your professor administration tools will have a Read More…
The latest enhancement to StockTrak finally brings to bear our real-time, true-to-life Forex simulation! Our previous currency trading simulation allowed trading on a pure cash basis – students could buy and sell currencies at the real-time FX rates. While this is still very instructive, it missed out on the full nuance of Forex trading with Read More…
We take student data privacy seriously at StockTrak – with constant innovations to keep student data secure. However, we work with more and more schools that have their own restrictions on what kinds of personal information can be gathered, even for administrative purposes. To help make sure that all schools have access to StockTrak, we Read More…
StockTrak is often used as a group project in investments and finance classes, where two or more students jointly manage a portfolio. Until now, all students in a group would need to share a login – making it impossible to track individual activity and performance. Enter StockTrak Teams! How Does It Work? With a regular Read More…
We just held our “New Features” webinar for the Fall of 2019. If you missed it, you can view our recording here:
Reporting might be THE MOST important feature on StockTrak for professors. Our newest update gives every instructor the ability to build their own Custom Reports – so you can see the fields YOU need, exactly as YOU need to see them! How It Works To use the new Custom Reports, go to your “Summary Reports” Read More…
We just rolled out enhancements to our equities trading page, integrating more research, better charts, and an easier-to-read quote box for the Fall semester! Check out the image map below to see the new page – hover over any info element for more information.
It takes time to dive into reports on StockTrak, and ensure students are following up with their portfolios as they should. That is why we created our new Activity Report, available for Fall 2019 classes! The new Activity Report shows an interactive graph of your class trading activity over the last 14 or 30 days, Read More…
Stock-Trak was founded in August of 1990 – which means we just celebrated our 30th birthday! We would like to thank the tens of thousands of professors and millions of students we have served over the last three decades for helping us reach this milestone, and ensure that there are many more years to come! Read More…
CashCrunch 101 Expands Company’s Educational Personal Finance Simulations For Immediate Release (Montreal, Quebec) May 8, 2019 – Stock-Trak Inc., the leading provider of virtual stock market trading applications for the education and consumer markets, has recently acquired a personal budgeting simulation (CashCrunch 101) from Fortune and Venture, LLC. “The addition of a customizable personal budgeting Read More…
StockTrak’s assignments feature is a fantastic way to help get your students introduced to the trading platform and follow up with trading. However, remembering your exact settings for each assignment every semester has always been a bit of a burden. Thankfully, our latest update makes this a thing of the past! The new “Duplicate Assignments” Read More…
StockTrak is based on the East Coast, which means our servers operate in New York Time. This conveniently syncs up with trading on American equities exchanges, but not very well for European and Asian exchanges. We also have received some feedback from the (vast majority) of students who do not happen to be in Eastern Read More…
Every class that uses StockTrak is different – some focus on equities, others derivatives, still others on Forex or Bonds. However, all classes have one thing in common: an emphasis on portfolio diversification. StockTrak has supported basic diversification rules for many years. Our “Position Limit” rule puts a cap on how much your students can Read More…
One of the most common requests we get from instructors is if students can see each other’s trades. Well, now they can! One of the most common requests we get from teachers is if students can see each other’s trades. Well, now they can! We added a new contest rule, called “Public Portfolios”. If you Read More…
More international exchanges are now available for your class! We just upgraded our data feeds to accommodate more exchanges than ever – classes now have access to over 40 equities markets in the StockTrak platform. The new exchange include, but are not limited to: Tokyo Mumbai Kuala Lumpur Bangkok Istanbul Milan Auckland Madrid Tel Aviv Read More…
Cryptocurrency trading has arrived on StockTrak! Based on our survey of students and professors in Spring 2018, over 90% of students and over 60% of professors requested we add cryptocurrencies as a new security type, available for trading. You asked and we listened – cryptos are now available for trading! Students can enter values in Read More…
When you set up your class on StockTrak, there are over 50 different settings you can tweak to make the best possible simulation for your class. Unfortunately, 50 settings can be also a bit overwhelming for new professors. To help simplify the process, and make sure every class gets the best settings for the subject Read More…
StockTrak has been the leader for investments simulations over 27 years, but we are also one of the most powerful supplements included with college and university Personal Finance classes. To make our platform the absolute best it can be for Personal Finance classes, we just launched a completely new service level – including a suite Read More…
Full Forex trading has come to StockTrak! Long-time professors may already be familiar with our Spots trading pit – we have allowed students to trade currency and commodity spot contracts using a simplified trading interface, similar to a stock trade. However, with our most recent update, we have introduced our brand-new Spots trading pit, giving Read More…
It is essential that students are able to justify every trade placed while using StockTrak – most professors already require students to write summaries of their trading activities, usually as a final report or presentation of their portfolio. The only downside is that these summaries are always written with 20/20 hindsight – it is hard Read More…
A common request we receive is professors looking for ways to make StockTrak more accessible for students in entry-level classes – students who are first starting to understand the fundamentals of investments and finance, or participating in remote classes with less face time with professors for explanation on how to get their portfolio started. Well, Read More…
One of the most common requests we’ve received from professors is to remove themselves from the class ranking, leaving only student accounts. We have just as many professors who like to leave “benchmark” portfolios for students to compete against, keeping the competitions lively. To accommodate both types of teaching, we are happy to announce a Read More…
The Open Positions on StockTrak have just gotten an upgrade. Now from the “list” view, students can sort their holdings alphabetically, quantity held, price paid, last price, market value, or profit/loss. Simply click the column heading of the value you would like to sort by to instantly re-order your holdings by what matters most.
This might be the most valuable update to StockTrak yet! Last year, over 80% of students who used StockTrak believed it made them a stronger candidate in the job market, and we take that information seriously. We want to help your students find jobs, and to help, we have launched our new Career Center. The Read More…
If your class includes options trading or derivatives, you have probably covered options, and how to exercise them, in great detail. In the past, StockTrak generally discouraged students from exercising options, since it is generally more profitable to sell the option contract itself and keep the time premium. If students wanted to exercise their options, Read More…
Everything you ever wanted to teach your next investments or finance classes StockTrak Set To Launch A Completely Redesigned Trading Platform The StockTrak Team has been working very hard to offer you the best stock market simulation and virtual trading application. We are proud to officially announce the release of our newly redesigned trading platform Read More…
The Achilles Heel of big class competitions on StockTrak used to be the lag between when your students’ portfolio values updated, and when they moved in the rankings. For big classes, this delay could be over 2 hours long. With this most recent update, your class rankings are now streaming in real time – as Read More…
Using StockTrak could be an exercise of patience for students who day trade – constantly refreshing the Open Positions to see price movements can be draining. Not anymore! With our most recent upgrade, the Open Positions now flashes price updates as they happen – every few seconds, the values will update. It is also color Read More…
This semester we have been working hard at some back-end upgrades to help StockTrak grow into the future. This week we completed a serious upgrade to our webserver space – in short terms, StockTrak is now much faster and more reliable than ever before! Our initial benchmark tests show open positions and class reports load Read More…
Do you have students looking forward to a career as a Stock Broker? They will need the Series 7 certification! StockTrak has partnered with Securities Training Corporation, who has trained over 75% of professionals working on Wall Street today in at least one of their training programs, to offer the new Series 7 prep course Read More…
Options trading on StockTrak just got better with our new Option Payout Diagrams! Now, as soon as a student pulls up a quote for an option, we will also draw the payout diagram showing the break-even points and estimated profit for the option contracts based on the underlying stock price. Just one more way StockTrak Read More…
The new wave of portfolio management is here! With our most recent update, all StockTrak users can view their Open Positions either with the classic list view, or switch to brand-new Charts. The charts can toggle between the performance of each user’s holdings over the last day, month, or year. They are also color-coded: green Read More…
StockTrak is the world’s leading portfolio simulation, but what if you could also include a trading simulation with your class? With TraderEx, you can! What is TraderEx? TraderEx is a way to simulate working as a Wall Street trader throughout a single trading day. The portfolio manager (professor) gives instructions to the traders (students) which they Read More…
New System Messaging has been added to StockTrak! These new system messages appear as a colored bar at the top of the screen – these are used by our team to relay important information to all users, such as market closures or any system announcements all users need to be aware of. This is also Read More…
Using StockTrak in your finance and investing classes just got a lot easier! Starting today, the “Quotes” page on StockTrak has a new suite of professional-grade research tools at your students’ disposal. This powerful new addition brings the StockTrak simulation to a whole new level. These professional investment research tools include detailed information at every Read More…