Trading Day

Are you a high school sophomore or junior interested in the stock market?

Participants of Trading Day prepare for instructions


The School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology has run the Trading Day competition for 10th and 11th grade high school students for the past two years.

The trading competition portion of this program is structured as a trading game, which allows students to learn about investing in the equities markets in a fun interactive way. Each student will create a mock portfolio using the Dow Jones MarketWatch Virtual Stock Exchange, an easy-to-use trading simulator which provides real time market data, news, and historical pricing information on indexes, listed and OTC securities. Participants will receive $1,000,000 in play money to invest and build their portfolios. Over 1200 high school students from around the world registered and participated in the virtual trading competition over the last two years. Additionally, every student that registers and participates in the trading game and learning modules is encouraged to add this program to their future college applications.

Each year, the 25 students with the top performing portfolios at the end of the month-long virtual investing competition are invited to our campus, located in Hoboken, New Jersey, for a live trading competition which is held in our Hanlon Financial Systems Center trading labs. At this event, students also hear directly from our finance faculty about the latest trends in the financial industry, take a “Bloomberg 101” tutorial, receive a campus tour and get the opportunity to utilize the 24 Bloomberg terminals that we have in our trading labs.

This is a free* program, open to domestic and international students who are in their sophomore or junior year of high school.

Important Dates

  • December 1, 2024 - Registration Opens

  • January 20, 2025 - Registration Deadline

  • February 1, 2025 - Virtual Trading Competition begins

  • February 28, 2025 - Virtual Competition Ends

  • March 28, 2025 - Live Trading Competition Event

Last Year's Winner

Stevens School of Business Trading Day 2024 winner

Arjun Arya - West Windsor Plainfield High School

If you are interested in more information about the School of Business at Stevens, please contact Assistant Director of Undergraduate Outreach and Reputation
 Lindsay Hartelius here to schedule an appointment or email any inquires to lharteli@stevens.edu. 

*While our educational program is free, if you are invited to Stevens, you will be responsible for your own travel costs.

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