Updates

This is a log of the major revisions we have put in place to HowTheMarketWorks. If you’ve been away for a while, check it out!

New Career Center now available!

Kevin Smith Updates March 26, 2019

Career Development is not just an important part of Personal Finance classes – it is an essential part of what students need to know when they graduate. With this in mind, HTMW is proud to announce our new Career Center, Read More

New Diversification Rules – Keep Portfolios Separate!

Kevin Smith Updates February 28, 2019

Stock market games are an awesome way to introduce your students to investing, but keeping them on the right track can be tricky. Some students want to dive into day trading penny stocks, while others will want to pick out Read More

New Feature – Public Portfolios!

Kevin Smith Updates October 1, 2018October 31, 2018

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 turn on public portfolios for your Read More

Cryptocurrency Trading Has Arrived

Kevin Smith Updates October 1, 2018

One of the most-requested new features in Spring 2018 was cryptocurrency trading, both from students and teachers. You asked and we listened – crypto trading is now available on HowTheMarketWorks! Cryptocurrencies currently share some of the rules from Stocks, such Read More

Videos Page Update!

Kevin Smith Updates September 10, 2018September 10, 2018

With our most recent update, the HTMW videos page got a great new revision – with each video getting a bigger window and better navigation!   This also means if you create a HTMW Assignment, the links to view each Read More

Editing Assignments!

Kevin Smith Updates September 10, 2018September 10, 2018

You can now edit your assignments on HowTheMarketWorks! In the past, once you created an assignment it was set in stone. With the newest HTMW update, you can add and remove tasks in real time, giving you more control of Read More

Trade Notes – Justify Your Trades

Kevin Smith Updates, Using HTMW July 17, 2017July 17, 2017

HowTheMarketWorks is all about education – we want students to learn about investing and personal finance by managing their virtual portfolio with carefully-selected trades. How It Works Every time your students place a trade, they will be prompted to enter Read More

Trailing Stops Have Arrived!

Kevin Smith Updates, Using HTMW April 11, 2017April 11, 2017

If you have ever wanted to protect your portfolio on HowTheMarketWorks from losses, you have definitely used Stop Orders. The biggest downside of stop orders is, of course, the fact that you have to constantly update them as your investments Read More

The Dashboard Has Arrived!

Kevin Smith Updates February 13, 2017

Do your students have a hard time getting started with their portfolio? Do you want a place where you can see all your tools in one place? Us too, which is why we added the new Dashboard to HowTheMarketWorks! The Read More

New items added to assignments!

Kevin Smith Updates November 29, 2016

Update time! HowTheMarketWorks is growing – and the list of great educational articles you can include in your class assignments is growing too! Last week we added 3 new Personal Finance and Investing articles, plus one great new personal finance Read More

Assignments Have Gone Mobile!

Kevin Smith Updates September 19, 2016October 11, 2016

Have you ever been working on a trading assignment on HowTheMarketWorks, only to be frustrated when you want to check your progress on a mobile device? Not anymore! Mobile Assignments Are Here Whether you are trading on an Android tablet, Read More

Real-Time Rankings Are Here!

Kevin Smith Updates June 20, 2016October 11, 2016

Frustrated with the delay between the updates in your portfolio value, and how fast you move on the rankings page? Not Anymore! Real Time Rankings on HowTheMarketWorks In the past, we needed to check everyone’s account and revalue them in Read More

Assignments Get An Upgrade!

Kevin Smith Updates January 25, 2016February 9, 2016

Thousands of teachers have created an Assignment in the last semester on HowTheMarketWorks, and we are happy to report that we’re launching another group of features just for you! Now when you create your custom stock trading game you will Read More

HowTheMarketWorks Goes Mobile!

Kevin Smith Updates December 28, 2015February 9, 2016

Mobile HowTheMarketWorks is now live! You can now easily trade on the go with a completely mobile-optimized interface for trading, managing your portfolio, doing research, and everything else you could want on HowTheMarketWorks! Right now, if you log in with Read More

Streaming Prices On Your Open Positions!

Kevin Smith Updates October 9, 2015February 9, 2016

Streaming prices are here! The “Last Price” on your open positions page is now constantly updating – no more need to keep refreshing the page to get the latest prices! The price will now flash green if the price went Read More

Monthly Trading Contests!

Kevin Smith Updates September 12, 2015February 9, 2016

We have always been firm believers that it is great practice to continue trading even after your classes end, and we’re starting a new program of monthly stock contests to help support that! These contests are open to everyone – Read More

New Administrator Tools!

Kevin Smith Updates September 5, 2015February 9, 2016

You’ve asked, and we listened! With this most recent update, teachers have more tools than ever to manage their classes on HowTheMarketWorks. You can access all these new tools from the Rankings page when you’re logged in as the contest Read More

Assignments are here!

Kevin Smith Updates August 7, 2015February 9, 2016

This is the biggest new feature we’ve ever added! We know that there are tens of thousands of teachers who use HowTheMarketWorks in their classroom every year to teach math, social studies, personal finance, and business, so we’ve added some Read More

Our Old Site Is Now Simvest.com!

Kevin Smith Updates July 27, 2015February 9, 2016

This week we are finally putting our new site to the full domain! You can now access the brand-new version of HowTheMarketWorks at www.howthemarketworks.com. If you have bookmarks saved to new.howthemarketworks.com, they will still work fine. The old site, which Read More

Keep your portfolio when your tournament ends!

Kevin Smith Updates May 25, 2015February 9, 2016

The first set of contests that were created on our new site are starting to come to an end, so this batch of new features is built for you! From this point forward, once your contest ends, you can come Read More

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