Stock-Trak Releases Global Virtual Trading Website for Teachers & Classes Worldwide

(Montreal, Quebec) – Stock-Trak, the leading provider of educational virtual stock market trading websites, has expanded its family of sites to include its first free global stock market game site:  http://www.Virtual-Stock-Exchange.com.  This global virtual stock exchange site is free, features equity trading from 30 global exchanges, and allows teachers, professors, and individuals to create custom trading contests for their classes or friends.
 
“We have seen a growing interest in our virtual trading websites from around the world.  Since our most popular sites are U.S. focused, this site will allow teachers and professors from around the world to register for free, create a custom stock market game for their class in their local currency, and then trade stocks local to their country or their region,” said Mark T. Brookshire, Founder and CEO of Stock-Trak, Inc..
 
The Virtual-Stock-Exchange.com site is totally free for all users.  When users register they can select the currency of their practice account and start trading global equities immediately.  Any user can also create a custom virtual stock market trading game for his/her class, club or friends. 
 
When setting up a custom stock trading game, users choose the currency of their portfolios, the trading dates, the stock exchanges they want to include, and the commission structure.  The eligible exchanges include the NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ, Toronto Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, Euronext, and many other global stock exchanges.  “These unique features will appeal to teachers and professors from around the world that teach Economics, Personal Finance, and Introductory to Business classes,” Mr. Brookshire said.
 
Stock-Trak provides a variety of virtual trading applications for the both the corporate and the academic educational markets.  Stock-Trak offers individual accounts at StockTrak.com, site licenses to StockTrak.com, university-branded virtual trading websites for larger universities with trading rooms or finance labs, and fully customized applications for the banking, brokerage and financial services industry.
 
StockTrak.com ( http://www.StockTrak.com ) is the #1 portfolio simulation for university finance classes and trading rooms.  Stock-Trak is used by over 1,000 professors each year and their 60,000+ students.  So far, over 30 universities have taken advantage of Stock-Trak’s university-branded virtual trading websites.  Stock-Trak allows professors to customize a trading period for their class by selecting trading dates, initial cash balance, commission structure, position limits, and other trading parameters.
 
 
Stock-Trak also operates and markets another virtual trading site called HowTheMarketWorks ( http://www.HowTheMarketWorks.com ), which is a free virtual trading site that allows users to trade U.S. equities and mutual funds.  This site also allows users to create custom stock market game contests for their class, clubs or friends.  The HowTheMarketWorks.com site was used by over 240,000 individuals in the last 12 months to learn How The Market Works and to practice trading.
 
Stock-Trak’s Investing 101 site ( http://www.Investing101.net ) is a popular education site for individuals that want a more structured learning program.  This site is structured like a college course with 10 chapters on Introductory Investments topics, quizzes, reading lists, and glossary words.

 About Stock-Trak, Inc.
Stock-Trak Inc. is the leading provider of stock market simulations, stock market games, and stock trading contests for the high school, university, corporate and consumer markets.  Our family of virtual trading and stock market education sites (StockTrak.com, HowTheMarketWorks.com, NationalSMS.com, Investing101.net, Sanebull.com) helps hundreds of thousands of students and adults each year learn how the stock market works and become more confident in their investing decisions.  Our robust virtual trading platform can also be customized to meet the needs of banks, brokerages, media companies, and other financial websites to enable them to offer their clients a virtual stock trading experience.  Founded in 1990, our virtual trading platforms and websites have helped over 3,000,000 individuals learn about the markets and practice their trading skills.

Contact Information

Mark Brookshire

Founder

StockTrak.com

(1) (770) 337-7720

Mark@stocktrak.com