Stock Market simulation

Unlike other stock market games, GoVenture Stock Market is not connected with the real stock market, and instead uses fictitious companies and markets. This offers several benefits for introductory and classroom-based learning.

Stock market games and simulations that are tied to real-time stock market activity, although realistic, have several significant drawbacks that make many learners and instructors reluctant to use these systems. GoVenture Stock Market solves these challenges while providing  the foundation needed to encourage learners and instructors to participate in real-time stock market activities or simulations.

Flexible Scheduling

Online simulations often have fixed deadlines, startup dates, and schedules of participation. They often require many weeks or months of participation to complete one simulation exercise.

GoVenture Stock Market condenses time into "virtual" weeks, simulating years of economic and market activities in a condensed timeframe. You can start a new simulation at any time, pause it, save it, and return to it later.

Designed to Educate, Not Overwhelm

Many simulations are linked to real stock markets, posing a highly complex challenge which can overwhelm learners and instructors alike.

GoVenture Stock Market provides an educational challenge in a simulated environment: a limited number of companies; time condensed and matched to the learner's pace; and company profiles, news, and economic effects in manageable quantities.

Experience Economic Cycles

Simulations tied to real market activity, in real time, are limited to a narrow window of fluctuations and do not reflect the full potential of economic swings over a long period of time.

GoVenture Stock Market condenses virtual time and economic cycles to provide the realistic effect of markets in different conditions. In a few hours of play, you can experience years of economic variation. Start a new simulation, and you can have totally different conditions challenging you.

Flexible Learning Styles

Simulations linked to real stock markets often do not meet different learning style needs. Others are designed as games, and lack structured educational pedagogy. Some learners give up if they don’t have early success, while others do better without direct competition. And some stock market simulations are over by the time learners understand the concepts.

GoVenture Stock Market is designed as an educational tool to meet a wide range of learning styles. It is designed to be used as a learning program on its own, or to complement other learning materials, courses, programs, and curricula. It can provide a valuable learning opportunity for an individual or an entire class, within a single hour of use – or over an extended period.

Differing Technology Resources

Some classrooms and students may not have computers or reliable Internet access required for online simulations.

GoVenture Stock Market can be run on a stand-alone computer, or over a network without any Internet access.