Bank Stock Trading assignment set up guidelines
The Bank stock trading platform is housed at
http://www.howthemarketworks.com/
The site will ask you to register before you can join the contest. You may want to join with a fake email ID to preserve your privacy. Once you register, please join the contest using the following information.
Use the following link to join the contest
http://www.howthemarketworks.com/register/44514
The contest title is bankStock2015
The password needed to join the contest is Banker20152
Trade reporting emails are sent to
Please make sure that the email subject line is set up exactly as follows
FIN460SP15ID:
Followed by the last four digits of your student ID ( NO Gaps)
This will insure that all of your emails are being directed to your unique individual folder in my email.
Please describe your reasons for making the trade in the body of the email. These reasons should be supported by the excel attachment to this email.
The excel sheet is available at your ecampus course content area.
The Link for searching Uniform Bank Performance Reports is
https://cdr.ffiec.gov/public/ManageFacsimiles.aspx/
Insert the bank name and state in the spaces provided and you can access the bank information.
Contest details
Contest Name:
bankstock2015
Group Type:
College Class/Club
Expected Number of Users:
45
Description:
Class assignment bank stocks trading for FIN 460
Currency:
United States Dollar
Initial Cash Balance:
1,000,000.00
Registration Start/End Dates:
Oct 01, 2015
Registration Start/End Dates:
Dec 01, 2015
Trading Period Start/End Dates:
Oct 01, 2015
Trading Period Start/End Dates:
Dec 01, 2015
Public or Private Classroom:
Yes
Password:
Banker20152
Minimum Stock Price for Buying:
5.00
Minimum Stock Price for Shorting:
5.00
Allow Buying on Margin:
Yes
Allow Short Selling:
Yes
Allow Day Trading:
Yes
U.S. Stocks/ETFs
Yes
U.S. OTCBB Stocks
No
U.S. Mutual Funds
No
Toronto Stocks
No
Commission Cost for Stocks:
10.00
Commission Cost for Mutual Funds:
10.00
Position Limit for Stocks:
100