ACCESSING VIRTUAL STOCK EXCHANGE

(speaker) Well, hello again.

This is Greg, and I'd like to show you
in this short tutorial

how you can access
Virtual Stock Exchange

from our D2L website.

Now, Virtual Stock Exchange
is the website we'll be using

to build your stock portfolios

and to see
how your $100,000 performs

over the next eight weeks or so.

To access Virtual Stock Exchange
and to complete this assignment,

we'll click
on the "Assignments" tab

up on the toolbar

and that will then allow us
to click on this,

the Chapter 16:
Initial Stock Portfolio Assignment

with 10 points.

So I'll click on this,

and then you can read
through the instructions here.

They're quite long,
but please read through these carefully.

It'll provide some good
background information.

And once you've read through this,
the next step then

is to actually go
to Virtual Stock Exchange.

And what I found the best way
to do that is,

is simply highlight this URL--
this website.

I'm going to...

copy that.

I'm going to open up a new tab...

and...

go to that site.

So this takes me
to the Virtual Stock Exchange site,

and this happens to be...

our class competition.

And your class competition
might read a little bit differently,

depending on the term,

but we want to do now
is we want to join this game.

So we're going to join
by clicking here, "Join Now."

And, now, if this is your first time--
which I assume it will be--

to use this site,
you will need to register.

So you can register
by clicking here,

up here, "Register,"

and fill out some
of this information.

Please be sure
to write down your-- your password,

and so you can re-access the site.

Once you've done this,

then you can join
the class competition.

Okay, once you've successfully
registered for the game

and you're
in your class competition,

the next thing you'll want to do
is make a trade,

which is taking your cash,
your $100,000,

and buying stocks with that.

So to do that,
we will click on "Trade Now,"

this button down here,

and you're given a list
of companies

in the news here

that you could buy,

or you can type
in the "ticker" symbol.

And again, the "ticker" symbol

is the three
or four letter abbreviation

for the company's stock.

And you might need
to do a Google search

to find up the--
find out the ticker symbol for the firm

that you're interested in.

Let's say I want to invest in Cabela's,
sporting goods store.

So, and I know the ticker symbol
is C-A-B for Cabela's.

I'll type in C-A-B, type search,

and here it is,
Cabela's Incorporated.

And I can see the current stock price
is $63.38 down here.

Okay, so to buy stock in Cabela's
with this platform,

what I simply do
is drag it over here,

drop it in here,

and then,
with this tool down here,

just indicate how much stock
I want to buy.

Here's 476 shares

and so forth.

Five hundred twelve shares,
and that will cost me about $45,000.

So I'm going to
up that a little bit,

use most of my $100,000.

So I'm going to buy 788 shares

at $63 a share.

So I'll click "Submit Trade."

And let's see what happens.

"Your order
was submitted successfully."

Okay. So that order is
in process now

and will be executed
as soon as it's able to.

Now, I will note
if you trade in off hours,

if it's night,
during the weekends,

your trades may not go through

until the markets actually open
on Monday morning.

And the markets generally open
on East Coast time

from 8:30 until 4:30,
East Coast time.

So, in short,
that's how you make trades

at Virtual Stock Exchange.