Intertwined's Stock Market Simulator is the premier investing solution in K-12 and higher education. Intertwined gives you the power to turn your classroom into an investing center, where students learn financial literacy through an immersive simulation, personalizing and gamifying the learning experience.

Intertwined uses real-time data from TradingView and Alpha Vantage, accessing 500+ global exchanges for individual stock data and mutual funds. Because of variability, this data may sometimes be up to 15-minutes delayed.

From the Classes tab, select a specific Class to edit its Stock Market Simulator Settings. These settings include:

Once you are looking at a specific Class, click on the "Student Performance" tab. From here, you will see pill-shaped tabs on the right side of your screen, under the "Student Performance" tab.

The default view is the "Courses" view. Click on "Stock Simulator."

Then, you'll see a Portfolio Performance graph. On its left, you will see a "Trading Dates" boxed section with an "Edit" button that looks like a pencil writing on a square. Click this button. You will see a new page with the title "Stock Simulator Settings." Via this page, you can make the aforementioned settings!

As Intertwined uses real-time data, we use fake money to immerse students in our Stock Market Simulator. On this page, you can edit the default balance. This balance is the fake money students use to place and execute trades, monitor their portfolio performance, etc.

Once this number is set and students begin placing trades, you cannot add or take away any fake money. The recommended Initial Trading Balance is $100,000.

This is particularly useful if you are holding a Stock Market Investment Competition or if you are dedicating an Assignment to begin and end during a specific time period. This is not required, but if you decide to place Trading Dates, students can only execute trades during this time period. Students will not be able to place any trades outside of the dates you've provided.

Similar to the Trading Dates, this is a specific time period during the day that students may place trades. By default, students can place trades at any time of the day, even if markets are closed; this simply places the trade orders in "Pending" category until the markets next open.

This is not required, but a Trading Window allows you to further restrict student trading during a specific time of day. For example, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is open 9:30 am to 4 pm EST. If you decide to place a Trading Window, you can further restrict the time period that students can execute trades. For example, this could be 11 am to 2pm EST.