Your team number and password must be entered each time you wish to make a trade in order to insure the security of your account. Please remember to keep passwords confidential. The SMS is a wonderful tool for teaching economics, finance, current events, math, social studies, and technology. All of the state councils and newspapers that use our program have developed teacher workshops where teachers are taught to use the web page and offered suggestions for teacher lesson plans. In order to make a trade the first important step is to have your students choose a few companies that they think are going to perform well over the trading period.
Students can get ideas for companies from just about everywhere.
The obvious places are their local newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, the evening news, and the main financial web sites. But students can also get ideas looking around their house, the shopping mall, and their school. Ask your students to think about what goods or services they see everyone using and enjoying. Once your students have chosen a few companies, encourage them to research those companies to make sure you really want to trade their stock. The SMS web site offers a research page to help you research any company.