the stock market game trading portfolio we'll be highlighting a few important sections and
pages in the student trading portfolio we'll be covering account summary rules of the game
enter a trade transaction notes pending orders and account holdings
let's start with logging into your trading portfolio visit www.stockmarketgame.org
to log in with your id and password if you don't know what your id and password are reach out to
your teacher or parent or guardian once you've logged in you'll arrive at the home page more
commonly referred to as the account summary page the first thing you'll notice is a pop-up message
this pop-up has important information from your stock market game coordinator
as well as alerts from the national help desk make sure your browser doesn't block pop-ups
you can also find the messages here
account info provides information like your team id session date ranking total equity versus s p
500 performance account type margin versus cash and trade types real time versus end of day
you can find out more information about these terms by clicking the i button
account summary is a financial summary of your portfolio the account summary is updated overnight
to reflect transactions you made during the previous business day it does not update in real
time team rankings compares your team's portfolio performance against other participants in your
session region rankings represents your team's performance as compared to other active teams
in your session in your assigned region in most cases regions are determined by grade and location
coordinator rankings represents your team's performance as compared to all active teams
in your session regardless of grade or location news feed provides financial news from cnbc
this is a great source to stay abreast of current events affecting the stock market
along with providing ideas on companies your team may want to research further
again if there's anything you'd like to learn
more about on this page and other pages in the portfolio
you can click the i button you can also click any term highlighted in blue for more information
the rules of the game page can be accessed by hovering over resources
and clicking rules of the game you can view all the national rules for the stock market game here
be sure to also click on local rules to familiarize yourself with the rules
specific to your smg program the rules video will go over the national rules in more detail
the enter a trade page can be accessed by hovering over trade and enter a trade you can enter all
buy and sell transactions here we'll be reviewing this page in the stock research and trading video
the transaction notes page can be accessed by hovering over trade and clicking transaction notes
transaction notes provides information on each of the trades you've entered including whether or not
the trade was executed this page updates in real time for teams participating in a real-time game
stock trades entered during market hours 9:30 am to 4 pm eastern standard time
will be processed immediately and will appear on this page please note that the transaction history
page shows all the activity that has occurred in a team's portfolio including interest dividends and
corporate actions pending orders can be accessed by trade pending orders pending orders is a list
of the trades that you have entered but have not yet been executed this page updates in real time
trades that are entered when the stock exchanges are closed will appear in pending orders
in addition mutual fund and bond trades entered during market hours
will immediately appear in pending orders until they execute at the end of the business day
the next page we will review is the account holdings page which can be accessed by
hovering over portfolio and clicking account holdings account holdings provides information
about the stocks bonds and mutual funds referred to as securities currently in your portfolio the
account holdings is updated overnight to reflect transactions you made during the previous business
day it doesn't update in real time the pie chart highlights your team's current holdings organized
by asset type stocks mutual funds bonds and cash this is a great way to gauge diversification
underneath the pie chart is a chart that lists all the securities in your portfolio
while account holdings displays unrealized gains or losses from securities held in your portfolio
the realize gains and losses page displays the equity gained or lost when a team
sells their securities it also includes interest earned and dividend payments
question to consider what page of the portfolio will you be visiting the most explain why
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