Stock Market Game
Sponsored in Alabama by Sterne Agee--financial advisors at www.sterneagee.com
Spring Session registration closes February 15!
Email SMG Coordinator wandamcabee@economicsouth.org
Call Toll Free: (866) 326-0585
Click here to read the Y'all Street Journal
The Basics
The Alabama Stock Market Game (SMG) is an exciting 10-week, on line stock trading experience. Students begin with $100,000 and may purchase stocks and mutual funds and make any number of trades with their available funds. The teams with the most valuable portfolios at the end of the 10 weeks win their division.
Who plays?
Grades 4-12
Public and private schools, the home schooled, and non-profit youth organizations
4,000 students at 70 schools (2006-07)
Registration:
$15/team but need-based scholarships are available (restrictions apply, limited quantities)
Discounts:
10% OFF for 5 or more teams per teacher
Grade levels:
4-8 and 9-12 in separate divisions
Teams:
One to five students per team, minimum four students per scholarship team
Regions:
State divided into North and South
Cash Prizes:
Top five teams in each division receive cash prizes; top ten teams receive t-shirts.
On-line prizes:
Students and teachers have a chance to win on-line prizes regardless of portfolio value
Training and Curriculum materials:
All free and correlated to Alabama State standards. Lesson plans for every subject and grade level including:
Social studies
Economics
Math
Language Arts
Business
Technology
Home/Consumer Sciences
Gifted
In-classroom mentors:
Available in certain areas from participating local securities dealers.
Sponsor:
Sterne Agee www.sterneagee.com
Coordinator & Trainer:
Wanda McAbee, wandamcabee@economicsouth.org
Toll Free: (866) 326-0585.
ACEE website: www.alcee.org
Benefits to Students:
Learn the securities markets through real-time simulation
Learn economics principles and financial understanding through the securities markets
Work with real variables: actual prices, a fluctuating market, a fee for trades, etc.
Analyze news events and their impact on the market and effects on the economy
Strengthens their Internet and computer skills by making virtual trades online
Work together to make team decisions
Improve writing skills with “InvestWrite”. The InvestWrite National Competition is an essential tool that enhances the Stock Market Game™ program by giving your students a chance to demonstrate what they are learning in the classroom
The Alabama Stock Market Game is the only stock and mutual fund in-school experience approved by The New York Stock Exchange and the Securities Industry Association.
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Rules of the Game
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