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 – just join for free and start trading! You can find the most up-to-date contest information Read More…

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 creator. Next to each user on the page, you have 3 new buttons: “View”, “Reset” Read More…

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 great new features just for you. We call them “Assignments“, and they will make teaching Read More…

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 back to your Open Positions page and look up your final values at any time. Read More…

We’ve added some great new charts to the Open Positions page! Once you’ve purchased any stock or ETF, you can view your portfolio as a series of charts showing each stock’s performance. You can switch between the day’s change, for the last 30 days, or even the whole last year. Best of all, the charts Read More…

After months of development behind the scenes, the new version of HowTheMarketWorks is now live and available for all users to test out! New features we’ve added in this major update: Users can now join as many contests as they like! You are no longer limited to just 3. Trade execution time is much faster Read More…