Frequently Asked Questions

What is this game all about?
A lot of people are fascinated by the stock markets.  The StockNewsGame allows a fun, educating (and hopefully not too addictive) experience for you to gauge your market understanding and get better at it.  The free game presents investors, students or any other financial markets observers a series of company news.  For every such news piece, you'll be asked for the company's price stock change
Why should I play this?
Mainly because it's fun!  But also because we present a unique way to ramp up your markets skill set
How does the StockNewsGame work?
As we answer this question, and throughout the days, we are collecting and sorting thousands of news pieces and stock prices.  Every game round presents a personalized set of questions according to the player
What are the official rules?
  1.  Each game round is a series of as many questions as you'd like
  2.  Each question should be answered within up-to 60 seconds
  3.  A question presents one public news piece on a traded company
  4.  We ask on the market implication by day's the closing bell (end of the trade day)
  5.  Rating can be one of the following: surgeSurge (+2%), upUp (0% to +2%), downDown (0% to -2%) or dropDrop (-2%).
How are the points calculated?
For every question you got it right you're going to get the price difference between the stock price at news issue and the end price.  For example: if the initial stock price was $10.23, the end-price is $12.26 and you picked the right positive outcome you are going to get 203 points!
Unfortunately, for every question you miss we're going to deduct the difference between the end-price and the price you expected :-( 
What are the differences between the different ranking levels?
Junior Analyst Senior Analyst Associate Managing Director
Score up to 1,000 1,000 - 5,000 5,000 - 30,000 30,000
Questions theme Strong market movements Moderate market movements Various Various
Rating options
 2 4 4 4
Historical questions
(previous 60-days)		 + + + +
Live questions
 (during trading hours)		   + + +
Include Penny-stocks       +
Time per question (seconds) 180 120 90 60
30 days stock chart + + + +
Chart with moving average     + +
Why should I sign-up?
  • Firstly, because it's free and we will grant you 1000 points to start with
  • Secondly, we'll allow you to customize the questions per the industries you're really excited about
  • Lastly, to allow you to track your performance and later make a real trader's name
Who's running the StockNewsGame?
A former financial specialist, technology geek and social network-effect enthusiasts. We envision a world of greater transparency and free flow information

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