Exciting news! SMG InvestQuest introduces a thrilling new Multiplayer feature! Compete head-to-head in an immersive investing simulation with friends, family, or fellow investors. Test your skills over a simulated 5-year period, managing stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Stay informed with market news impacting returns. Engage at beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels. Join the competition now and prove your investing prowess!
Connect students to the global economy
with virtual investing and real-world learning.
What is The Stock Market Game™?
Teachers consistently tell us about the positive influence our programs have on their students. The educational impact of the SIFMA Foundation's Stock Market Game™ is unmatched, with proven increases in student attendance, engagement and class participation, and improved academic performance and financial behavior.
The Stock Market Game trading platform is powered by Broadridge Financial Solutions
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The SIFMA Foundation
An independent 501(c)3 educational organization dedicated to fostering knowledge of the financial markets, serving nearly 20 million students since 1977.
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Stock Market Game™
An online simulation of the global capital markets that engages students grades 4-12 in the world of economics, investing and personal finance and that has prepared nearly 20 million students for financially independent futures.
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InvestWrite®
A national essay competition that serves as a culminating activity for Stock Market Game™ students.
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Capitol Hill Challenge™
A national financial education competition for junior high and high schools that reaches all 50 U.S. states and all members of Congress.
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Invest It Forward™
An industry-wide financial education and capital markets literacy campaign convening volunteers from hundreds of financial firms.
Thank you to all of our supporters.
Bring your classroom to life.
Request a financial industry guest speaker today to bring the world of finance and capital markets to your students through the SIFMA Foundation's Invest It Forward™ initiative.
Grow with your students.
Build a fundamental understanding of investing while providing students with real-world skills and practice in math, English language arts, economics, social studies, and other subjects.
Plan your students' SMG experience using the Teacher Support Center, a searchable library of curriculum resources, lesson plans, assessments, and standards correlations.
Access easy-to-follow instructional guides, suggested lessons, activities, and projects for afterschool and homeschool participants.
Student-centric mobile apps.
Our mobile app works in conjunction with student team portfolios, engaging students in meaningful second-screen experiences. Sync with standard SMG portfolios' current Account Summary, Pending Transactions, Transaction Notes, and market news information. Allow teams to look up ticker symbols and enter trades.
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What would you do if you were given $100,000? EHS students answered this question in a mock stock market game, earning second place in Vt.
May 18, 2023 Read More
Philo Junior High Student Tops in The Stock Market Game
May 13, 2023 Read More
Western Albemarle High students win 2023 Spring Stock Market Game of Virginia
May 12, 2023 Read More
Righetti High team won first for area and fourth state-wide in 2023 Stock Market Game
May 9, 2023 Read More
The Stock Market Game™ works.
We have the results to back it up.
- Engages students and improves academic performance, financial knowledge, and saving and investing habits.
- High school students who participated in a stock market game "did significantly better than other students on the financial literacy exam."
- The "only activity that shows a positive and significant relationship with test scores was participation in a stock market game."
- Teachers who participate in our programs are engaged, committed and readily respond to requests for input to support continuous improvement of our programs.
- Positive influence on the financial decisions of the teachers who used the program with their students.