For finance faculty

Teaching guides for trading simulations

Turn a class period into a live market your students remember past the final exam. These classroom-ready playbooks show you how to make risk, leverage, and market reaction land in the room — written for professors, free to use, no sign-up required.

How to run a trading simulation in class

Run a memorable, defensible-to-grade session your first time out — with a minute-by-minute run-of-show, the news shocks that make the lesson land, debrief questions, and a rubric that survives a grade dispute.

8 assignment ideas for finance courses

Add experiential weight to any unit — from efficient markets to behavioral finance — with drop-in assignments you can grade, each tied to a clear learning objective.

Teaching options & derivatives

Make Greeks, hedging, and futures margin click by letting students feel them, with two ready-to-run exercises mapped to learning outcomes.

Choosing a classroom simulator

Pick the right tool without the trial-and-error — the six things that actually move the needle for a college course, and the ones that don't.

Try the simulator behind the guides

MockXMarket lets you run these sessions exactly as written: direct the lesson by injecting news and setting the pace, and grade from built-in risk analytics. Set up in minutes with no IT, flat pricing, no per-student fees.

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