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Explore the game screens

Finance Lab Professional: Market, Short & Limit Orders
Finance Lab Professional: Market, Short & Limit Orders
Finance Lab Professional: Limit order activity
Finance Lab Professional: Limit order activity
Finance Lab Professional: Short selling
Finance Lab Professional: Short selling
Finance Lab Professional: Pending limit orders
Finance Lab Professional: Pending limit orders
Finance Lab: Investment Analyst screen
Finance Lab: Investment Analyst screen
Finance Lab: Media Analyst screen
Finance Lab: Media Analyst screen
Finance Lab: Media Analyst screen, news story detail
Finance Lab: Media Analyst screen, news story detail
Game Settings control panel
Game Settings control panel

Finance Lab Professional’s experiential approach to investing delivers authentic, collaborative learning and is a valuable resource for Business Schools.

With the ability to control the market to match your teaching objectives at its core, the dual-screen simulation captures the unique dynamics of financial markets trading.

The combination of risk-taking, strategic thinking, competition and time-pressure delivers an engaging and challenging educational and skills development experience.

The simulation supports teaching in Finance-related courses and modules, and enrichment and outreach activities.

Investors trade in multi-national companies on a global equity market, responding to breaking news and fast-changing price and market data.

The simulation facilitates technical analysis by offering players the option to place buy and sell limit orders. This order data is made available to all investors, facilitating price discovery and enabling investors to assess the potential demand in the market.

The option to short sell enhances the realism of the investing experience, allowing traders to act in advance on negative news and to hedge the downside risk of a long position.

A unique combination of stories is generated for each game from an extensive news database.  Prices are affected by these news stories and by the volume of trades made by investors.  This variability of both price data and news content ensures that the simulation can be repeated with different outcomes.

Finance Lab Professional supports academic, enrichment and outreach work:

  • Finance modules: investments, portfolio construction and management, trading strategies
  • personal development: team building, critical thinking, problem solving
  • analysing and interpreting financial and business news
  • international collaborations and language learning (the simulation is in English and Spanish)
  • student investment societies

Our Investus experiential learning workshop simulates the challenge of managing a fund on behalf of a client.

Working in teams of Investment and Media Analysts, students take on the role of fund managers trading on a global equity market, developing and adapting trading strategies in response to business news, company information and market data. 

In the second part of the workshop the teams design and deliver a digital or poster presentation to their client on the performance of their fund and the strategies they deployed.

Lecturers or local companies can be invited to mentor the teams and sit on the presentation judging panel.

(See the Corporate Learning page for more information.)