Key Benefits:
Overview
Stock Market Challenge is an online, multi-player simulation that allows tutors to illustrate and apply finance concepts in way that closely reflects real-world financial decision-making.
The Dealing Room game enables tutors to simulate the unique intensity and excitement of ‘live’ office-based trading in a learning suite. Players buy and sell as if they are market traders or fund managers on a real stock exchange dealing room.
A unique simulation
Most trading simulations are linked to the real markets and require players to research their investments in real time, so the time-pressured nature of real dealing is lost.
The Stock Market Challenge game environment delivers an authentic dealing room experience i.e. one that is time pressured and interactive. When you add in the competitive dimension, playing against rivals as well as the market, the experience is further enhanced.
Business & Languages
For students studying Business with French or Spanish, and for international students studying Business English, the resource offers a unique approach to applied learning. The Dealing Room game is available in both languages, giving students the opportunity to apply their language skills in an immersive, real-world context.
Graduate Recruitment and Outreach
University marketing departments at Cardiff, Reading, Bangor and Edinburgh, and businesses such as Standard Life, BNP Paribas and Barclays, have used Stock Market Challenge as a tool to engage young people either about university study programmes or jobs in the financial services sector.
Programmes of study
The Dealing Room game is an asset for Business Schools & Faculties, covering Financial Markets, Risk Management and Investments. It also supports Accounting and Finance courses and Enterprise Education across all degree subjects.
Ice-breaker activities and induction days
The Trading Floor game brings out the healthy competitive instincts in players. Played in teams in the ‘open outcry’ style, it offers institutions the opportunity to bring students and tutors together at the beginning of their university life or for an off-timetable enrichment activity.
