Electronic Stock Trading System

Electronic Stock Trading System is a stock trading simulator where you buy and sell over 65 stocks across 10 sectors. Its simulated markets respond to financial data, company-specific events and wider events that can affect stock prices.

Market events

The game incorporates economic data from throughout the monthly financial calendar, including Federal Reserve interest-rate decisions, unemployment figures and other releases. Reserve Bank and government policy also affect the market, as do presidential speeches. Natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes can have an impact as well.

Individual stocks can be affected by randomly occurring events. New products and innovations can move their prices, while restructuring and product failures can have negative effects.

Economic calendar

The simulated calendar covers four weeks of daily releases:

• Week 1: Manufacturers Index, auto and truck sales, FOMC minutes, factory orders, mortgage index, trade balance, Service Managers Index, crude and natural gas inventories, job cuts, employment change, initial and continuing claims, nonfarm payrolls, unemployment rate, hourly earnings, average workweek and consumer credit.
• Week 2: Wholesale inventories, mortgage index, export and import prices, crude and natural gas inventories, Beige Book, Treasury budget, job cuts, employment change, initial and continuing claims, PPI, Empire Manufacturing, retail sales, CPI, capacity utilization, industrial production, business inventories and business sentiment.
• Week 3: Interest-rate decision, Fed Governors Report, current accounts balance, housing market index, building permits, housing starts, mortgage index, housing price index, existing and new home sales, crude and natural gas inventories, job cuts, employment change, initial and continuing claims, LEI, durable goods orders and business sentiment.
• Week 4: GDP, 21 City Index, consumer confidence, mortgage index, personal income and spending, PCE, crude and natural gas inventories, job cuts, employment change, initial and continuing claims, pending home sales and construction spending.