Bank Stock Trading assignment set up guidelines

The Bank stock trading platform is housed at

http://www.howthemarketworks.com/

The site will ask you to register before you can join the contest. You may want to join with a fake email ID to preserve your privacy. Once you register, please join the contest using the following information.

Use the following link to join the contest

http://www.howthemarketworks.com/register/44514

The contest title is bankStock2015

The password needed to join the contest is Banker20152

Trade reporting emails are sent to

[email protected]

Please make sure that the email subject line is set up exactly as follows

FIN460SP15ID:

Followed by the last four digits of your student ID ( NO Gaps)

This will insure that all of your emails are being directed to your unique individual folder in my email.

Please describe your reasons for making the trade in the body of the email. These reasons should be supported by the excel attachment to this email.

The excel sheet is available at your ecampus course content area.

The Link for searching Uniform Bank Performance Reports is

https://cdr.ffiec.gov/public/ManageFacsimiles.aspx/

Insert the bank name and state in the spaces provided and you can access the bank information.

Contest details

Contest Name:

bankstock2015

Group Type:

College Class/Club

Expected Number of Users:

45

Description:

Class assignment bank stocks trading for FIN 460

Currency:

United States Dollar

Initial Cash Balance:

1,000,000.00

Registration Start/End Dates:

Oct 01, 2015

Registration Start/End Dates:

Dec 01, 2015

Trading Period Start/End Dates:

Oct 01, 2015

Trading Period Start/End Dates:

Dec 01, 2015

Public or Private Classroom:

Yes

Password:

Banker20152

Minimum Stock Price for Buying:

5.00

Minimum Stock Price for Shorting:

5.00

Allow Buying on Margin:

Yes

Allow Short Selling:

Yes

Allow Day Trading:

Yes

U.S. Stocks/ETFs

Yes

U.S. OTCBB Stocks

No

U.S. Mutual Funds

No

Toronto Stocks

No

Commission Cost for Stocks:

10.00

Commission Cost for Mutual Funds:

10.00

Position Limit for Stocks:

100