Stoxhatch for teachers

A stock market game for your class that does not reward gambling. Students get $10,000.00 of simulated cash and real US market prices, and before any buy goes through they have to write why — which is the part you can actually teach and assess.

Why not the usual simulator

Most classroom stock games rank students by who made the most pretend money over six weeks. Six weeks is far too short for skill to show through luck, so the winner is whoever bet biggest on one volatile stock. The lesson that lands is the opposite of the one intended.

Stoxhatch scores decisions. A group competition weighs the quality of the written reasoning, position sizing, whether the student held through noise or panicked, how well their stated confidence matched what happened, and how consistently they showed up — returns are one part of the score, not the whole of it.

Setting up a class

• Create a group and invite students by link. Groups are private and hold up to 20.
• Students can start playing with no account at all, so a lesson never stalls on signups and confirmation emails. They can save their portfolio to an email afterwards.
• Start a competition over a window you choose, and the leaderboard ranks the class on decision quality for that period.
• The ideas feed is where the teaching happens: a student posts a pick with their reasoning, and the rest of the class — and you — reply to it.

What students can and cannot see

Members of a group see each other's XP, streaks and anything deliberately shared to the ideas feed. Cash, holdings, individual trades and theses stay private. Nobody can join a group without a single-use invite link, and links expire after seven days.

Cost, ages and data

Free. No real money is involved anywhere — accounts cannot deposit or withdraw, and nothing is ever routed to a broker. Stoxhatch is for ages 13 and up, and there is no advertising. If you need something for a whole year group, or a question answered before you put it in front of students, email support@stoxhatch.com.

Try it yourself in a minute without signing up, or read how it works and the beginner glossary you can hand to students.