Stock market simulator
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Stock market simulators are programs or applictions that attempt to reproduce or duplicate some or all features of a live stock market such as the New York Stock Exchange or the Nikkei Index on a computer so that a player can experiment with being a stock broker at no financial risk.
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[edit] Types
Stock market simulators can be broken down into two major categories - financial market simulators, and fantasy simulators.
[edit] Financial Simulators
Some examples of financial market simulators are Investopedia.com's simulator, eInvesting.com's simulator, or Stocksquest, all of which allow you to generate a portfolio based on real stock entries, but with fantasy money.
All of the currently active financial simulators use a delated data feed of between 15 and 20 minutes to ensure that you cannot use their data to trade actively on a competing system.
[edit] Fantasy Simulators
Fantasy simulator examples are The Hollywood Stock Exchange or the TV Stocks Online stock exchange, both of which trade fantasy stocks that represent real world items that would never be a real trading commodity. Hollywood trades stock in upcoming movies, and TV Stocks trades currently airing primetime television shows.
Other simulators that trade in non-real commodities are the TerrorXchange, GolfInvestors, and NewsFutures. TerrorXchange is a predictive system based upon worldwide terrorism probabilities, GolfInvestors lets the user buy and sell professional golfers, and NewsFutures allows the player to buy and sell future news events on the possibility of them occurring. such as The next Ice Age, or chances of an asteroid strike.
Some simulators focus on sports and have been linked to active betting and wager based systems. Some sports related simulators include Jox Stox, ProTrade, and Wagerline.
[edit] Technology and implementation
Most of the online stock simulators run on either Java, JavaScript, ASP or php with a mysql database. Some of them are open source, and others are proprietary with the code being sold as valuable prediction market software.
[edit] Related Links
- Marketwatch's Virtual Stock Exchange
- GolfInvestors is a collection of golf stock markets, both real and simulation (fantasy), where investors can buy and sell shares of professional golfers
- All Stocks Online is a portal that has a large index of fantasy stock simulators listed
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