marketwatch.com
- Sections
- Games
- Find A Game
- Search for "Westlake Stock War"
- Password "thunder" or speak to your instructor.
- Complete Profile
- First Name field "Teacher Initial, Class Period, Space, Students First Name" - OA1 Pat
- Real email address (not school district email address)
- Make up the rest of the information - Company info etc.
- Verify your email and contact
- From the Welcome Page - Click on the "Trading" tab
Instructions for the weekly stock journals
- Find a company by using a search engine to look for the Stock Symbol for a company
- Copy/Type that stock symbol into the search field of the game
- Click on the Stock Symbol for the company
- On the Company Info page read an article, from the past week, about the company.
- Change the chart view to 5 days
- Write a short paragraph that connect the information from the article to the effect of the stock price.
- REPEAT this two times (three company's) each week.
- Then, go the the MarketWatch home page, find an article from the past week regarding the Stock Market as a whole.
- Read and summarize the article.
- Submit all four paragraphs to your teacher.