Trade After Class

Explore investing and market decisions with a virtual portfolio.

What it is

Trade After Class is a stock-market simulator in development for students. Its virtual portfolio creates room to research companies, consider risk, and respond to changing conditions without investing real money.

Research, risk, and changing market conditions are explored with virtual funds, separate from real-money investing.

Who it is for

Students exploring markets and financial literacy.

The approach

Virtual funds and portfolios keep the experience separate from real-money trading.
Company research and market events make risk and trade-offs part of the exercise.

Trade After Class, explained

Build a fictional portfolio, apply a disclosed event and compare the reasoning behind different allocations. The aim is to understand uncertainty, not to make real trades or promise returns.

1. Build a fictional allocation
Decide how to divide fictional funds among labeled synthetic holdings. Check the total and the model before advancing an event.
Start with
An authored fixture containing 100 fictional value units.
What happens
Allocate 60 units to Holding A and 40 to Holding B in this example.
Result
The full 100 units are allocated, with the starting concentration visible.
Two holdings are used only to explain this fixture, not to announce the product’s selected activity rules.
Fictional scenario: allocation before event
Holding A
60 fictional units, or 60 percent of the starting total.
Holding B
40 fictional units, or 40 percent of the starting total.
Allocation check
60 + 40 = 100 fictional units. Nothing is deposited or purchased.
Authored event rule
Multiply A by 0.8 and B by 1.1 once. These fixed assumptions are not forecasts.
No real money. Holding A and Holding B are synthetic labels, not securities or live market positions.
2. Apply a disclosed event
Advance the authored event explicitly. Read how each holding changes and how those changes combine into the modeled total.
Start with
The 60/40 allocation before the event.
What happens
Apply the disclosed multipliers once to each holding.
Result
The modeled total becomes 92 fictional units, 8 fewer than the starting total.
The event is authored, not a market feed. There is no real ticker, current price or prediction here.
Fictional scenario: inspect the arithmetic
Before event
Holding A: 60. Holding B: 40. Total: 100.
Disclosed event
A: 60 × 0.8 = 48. B: 40 × 1.1 = 44.
After event
48 + 44 = 92 fictional units. Total change: 92 − 100 = −8.
Interpretation
B’s modeled increase does not offset A’s modeled decrease at this allocation.
Exact arithmetic for this fixture needs no rounding. A different model would need its own disclosed calculation rules.
3. Compare the same event
Change the allocation but keep the starting total and event fixed. That makes the effect of concentration inspectable rather than presenting a winning strategy.
Start with
The same 100-unit starting total and the same authored event.
What happens
Compare an alternative allocation of 40 units to A and 60 to B.
Result
The alternative becomes 98 fictional units; compare its 2-unit decrease with the first allocation’s 8-unit decrease.
Neither allocation is an investment recommendation. Reopening an actual attempt must not silently apply the event again.
Fictional scenario: same event, different allocation
Alternative before event
A: 40. B: 60. Total: 100 fictional units.
Same event
40 × 0.8 = 32; 60 × 1.1 = 66; 32 + 66 = 98.
Compare the change
First allocation: −8. Alternative: −2. Different exposure explains the difference under these assumptions.
Return to the station
Review the reasoning, then leave with the actual activity’s replay and save limits understood.
A bounded comparison, not an optimal portfolio, profit ranking or promise of future performance.

Fictional portfolio values are not money or reward points. They cannot be deposited, withdrawn, exchanged for real assets or transferred to Runstr. Results are practice, not investment advice, eligibility or a student record. This page does not provide trading or a playable activity.

Research

What supports the proposed Trade After Class model, and what remains untested?

Financial education has a credible general evidence base, but a brief allocation exercise is a distinct intervention. A historical school program provides encouraging evidence about a package of simulation and instruction.

Read the research