Capital Markets Lab: Valuation, Strategy, and Risk Management

High School · Grades 9–12

Students apply economic and financial reasoning to a simulated market. They evaluate price drivers, construct portfolios, assess risk, understand behavioral biases, and communicate an investment thesis.

StockSt uses fictional currency and simulated shares for education only. This is not investment advice.

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Lessons

  1. Markets, ownership, and price discovery
    60 minutes
    Students explain how buyers and sellers establish market prices.
    Open
  2. Fundamental and sentiment analysis
    60 minutes
    Students evaluate a simulated asset using both fundamentals and sentiment.
    Open
  3. Valuation and expected return
    60 minutes
    Students estimate whether a simulated share is relatively expensive or inexpensive and calculate expected return.
    Open
  4. Portfolio construction and diversification
    60 minutes
    Students design a portfolio with explicit goals, constraints, and risk limits.
    Open
  5. Behavioral finance and market psychology
    60 minutes
    Students identify cognitive biases and create rules to reduce emotional trading.
    Open
  6. Risk management and scenario analysis
    60 minutes
    Students quantify downside scenarios and apply position-sizing rules.
    Open
  7. Capstone: Investment committee
    60–90 minutes
    Students present, defend, and revise a portfolio strategy.
    Open

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