INVESTMENT SIMULATION SOFTWARE

This year a Trinity Christian College SIFE team member, Steve Verhagen, wrote and developed investment simulation software for the SIFE team to use to teach young adults and highschoolers about the stock market in an investment competition. This program allows participants to “buy and sell” any stocks they choose with fictitious money, while getting real time stock quotes from Yahoo Finance. Throughout the competition, users can see their progress per stock and their portfolio performance as a whole. They can also see how their simulated investment experience ranks against any other member in the competition. In Trinity’s competition, the program was set up to give each team $100,000 fictitious dollars and four weeks to achieve the highest portfolio value. The simulation is a great way not only to learn about the stock market, but also to give people opportunities to understand how the market works, to use investing tools and research, and apply what they are learning in SIFE lectures without the risk of any financial loss.

This Investment Simulation Software is available for download by any SIFE team that wants to use this program as a teaching tool. There are two programs:

First: The Investment Software - This is the basic program. Download the Investment Server program here.

Second: The Investment Server Admin Tool - This tool allows anyone to modify and build on the Investment Server. Download the Investment Server Admin Tool here.

A detailed graphical walkthrough of the program is available here.

To read more about the regional SIFE win of the Trinity team, click here.