. .       Welcome! StocksQuest is an educational and interactive Web site offering free global stock games, especially for educators and contest organizers. Integrated into this very realistic global stock market simulation are lesson plans, stock guides, and online investing resources. Click the images to pursue the quest To bring Wall Street to the classroom, over 20,000 schools worldwide have been using the Educator, which provides a collaborative learning environment where teachers can create a classroom setting, monitor student progress, and compare notes with teachers and students from other schools globally. "Thanks so much for your site this past semester. Using it in our course was a TREMENDOUS success!!!! We anticipate using it again in our introductory management class at the US Air Force Academy..." Read more about how other teachers use this Web site in the classroom. Special Features: Tim and Tina's Story StocksQuest features two high school students, Tim and Tina, who learn investing through simulated stock market games like StocksQuest and come away with enthusiasm and knowledge in their quest for financial freedom. We hope you have fun exploring the world of investing through our site as you gain a better understanding and insight about the stock market. Once you get a taste of the Global Stock Game (GSG), we are quite sure that you will be hooked, coming back again and again. Click here to watch a short movie about Tim and Tina and click the money shoes on this page and throughout the Web site to follow their footsteps. To learn the story in other languages you can click the name on the left toolbar. The navigation of StocksQuest is easy and intuitive. The main sections of the site are listed on the top toolbar. Clicking on any of the buttons will take you to the corresponding section. Once in that section, you can click on a second row of buttons, leading you to a subsection. To proceed through the contents of the subsection, you can click the name of the topic on the left toolbar or click on the money shoes that appear at the bottom of each page. Also, you can use the search box at the bottom of the page to find related topics on the site. Here is a brief description of the sections offered on StocksQuest: MyStocks is the one-stop place where you first register as a user and then create a group or join a group for the stock game. Click here to see a step-by-step illustration. Educator gives teachers and students instructions on how to create a class or join a class. You can also look at students' portfolios and rankings of each school worldwide. Contests allow investment clubs, a group of friends, investment advisors, and large organizations to set up their own customized stock contests. Some contests may offer prizes to winners. U.S. Market provides you with up-to-the-minute changes of major market indices and share prices of the top 10 U.S. corporations. You will learn about the U.S. stock market and major benchmarks such as the Dow Jones and Standard & Poors, which track overall market performance. World Market will demonstrate to you, in real-time, global stock market activities, including the top 10 corporations in each of these markets. It allows you to explore many ways to invest globally.   Stock Guide will introduce to you the concepts of investing in stocks. Beginning with the basics of stocks, it progresses to how to get started and eventually to strategies of trading stocks and mutual funds. Lesson Plans for the Global Stock Game (GSG) are down-to-earth and easy to use. Through these lessons, students can gain a better understanding of stock trading that will complement the GSG. Online Investing will let you further explore the topics you have learned in the other sections. You will learn how to get access to information and tools on the Web that was once available to only Wall Street professionals.