Want to improve your instincts on the stock market and how each news piece influences prices, but don’t want to actually invest to gain this knowledge? StockNewsGame allows you to make predictions on how you think various news stories influenced specific stock prices by means of a game. Players are given a minute to analyze a piece of company news, view their 30 day stock chart, and then make a decision as to what that news did to affect the company’s stock price by the end of the trading day. You can choose between a surge of 2% or more, up just a bit between 0 and 2%, down a bit between 0 and 2%, or a drop of over 2%. Based on your prediction, you gain or lose points. If you are correct, you gain points that amount to the price difference between the stock price at news issue and the end price. If you are incorrect, you end up losing the amount of points based on the difference between the end price and what you expected. You continue to make predictions, hopefully improving your skill as you see how different kinds of news hit the market, till you rise in level of analyst to harder questions of different themes you can control. If you are looking for a fun way to improve your market instincts, StockNewsGame is a way to do it without having to put your savings on the line.
"A lot of people are fascinated by the stock markets. The StockNewsGame allows a fun, educating (and hopefully not too addictive) experience for you to gauge your market understanding and get better at it. The free game presents investors, students or any other financial markets observers a series of company news. For every such news piece, you'll be asked for the company's price stock change"
The game is easy to play and you can check it out without ever having to create an account. It’s fun to see how good you are at making predictions and see your points accumulate. There are different levels, which will give people reason to keep coming back to play the game. Being able to choose the theme of the questions and companies will also be appealing to people interested in studying a specific area of the market.
Could they create more of a social feel for the game, so that there’s more of a feeling of competition? Could they give beginners a little extra time to check out the news and graphs while they’re learning than is currently given, or give some sort of pointers as a kind of taking off point?
