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.

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 gonna copy that.

I'm gonna 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 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.

512 shares, and that will cost me about $45,000.

So I'm gonna up that a little bit,

use most of my $100,000.

So I'm gonna 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.